I mean, yeah, though it is something that the most iconic musical about revolutionary fervor is about a failed revolution, and nobody seems to acknowledge it.
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(Rumor has it they did want an A-lister for the part, possibly Taylor Swift, but it fell through so they just got the actor who'd played her in the last West End run)
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Oh man I guess they wanted Taylor Swift because she can play skinny and androgynous if you put her in the right clothes But seriously
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She's also a singer, which seems like weighting the dice even more than the rest of it.
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Does Adult!Cosette even get a single significant singing part?!
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And yet, again, Eponine is functionally a lot more of the "actual female lead" of the play than Cosette, whom the musical transparently wants to shove offscreen as soon as humanly possible.
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