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⌈ Secret Post #6234 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

The sad thing is, Hugh Jackman is a GREAT singer who HAS starred in live stage musicals before. I've actually seen him give a live concert where he sang his favorite songs for 2 hours, and he was phenomenal.

I have no idea WTF happened in Les Mis movie. He was like a different person.

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NAYRT

I think the director was highly encouraging for "realism" so Hugh Jackman wasn't focused on singing well. He was focused on acting his ass off as he sang his lines.

Like, I get what the movie was going for but I hate it and I'd argue that is missing the point of making a film/play a musical to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Butler's voice was autotuned and otherwise mucked with to even sound as good (lol) as he did.

Iirc the director on Les Mis wanted everything sung on set with minimal post processing (I would guess Crowe got some) which is setting everyone up to suck.

Plus, I have zero musical training, but I would place Jackman as a baritone, iirc his first stage musical role was Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.

But Valjean is famously a really high tenor role, to the point where there's a parody of Bring Him Home that goes "God it's high/it's too high/it's so high/bring it down."

And for whatever reason, whoever was in charge didn't transpose the part down to a range Jackman could handle without just autotuning him up into the stratosphere, and the director didn't want any post processing (which is ridiculous because obviously they had to do some sound mixing and remove set noise and shit anyway.) So you can hear the strain of him trying to falsetto his way through.

And the difference between Butler and Jackman is that Jackman has a range that can handle singing shit more complicated than Row Row Row Your Boat and Butler doesn't. No amount of raising or lowering the Phantom's songs would've found a range where Butler could sing the whole thing.

There have been baritone Valjeans and Eriks onstage where either they had the extension to reach the tenor high notes anyway or their whole part was transposed down, but there was no rescuing Butler.

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+1000

Everything I wanted to say about Jackman and Les Mis, conveniently pre-typed. *lol*

But yeah, he was functionally shouting the whole way through Bring Him Home and it's a crying shame.