We lived for two months right beside the Royal College of Music in London. Listening to all that practicing made me more sensitive to the skills mastered by a first class musician. We had attended some fairly advanced plays during the same days, many of which I didn't understand all that well. I knew that London has one of the finest theater districts in the world and decided that before I left, I wanted to attend a mainstream, very popular play. We saw Les Miserables and it wowed my socks off!
The hero's nemesis, Inspector Javert, finally realizes what a monster he has been, how blind he has been, and commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into a raging river. Ok, here you have a man standing on a wooden stage, in front of hundreds in the audience. How can you introduce a river? Zip! The lights change and the little wooden bridge Javert stands on is revealed to span a wide piece of undulating cloth, the river we all realize. Javert jumps onto a rolling treadmill beneath the cloth, tumbling and somersaulting his body along the "water". No problem! Raging river kills man. I saw it happen.
The hero's nemesis, Inspector Javert, finally realizes what a monster he has been, how blind he has been, and commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into a raging river. Ok, here you have a man standing on a wooden stage, in front of hundreds in the audience. How can you introduce a river? Zip! The lights change and the little wooden bridge Javert stands on is revealed to span a wide piece of undulating cloth, the river we all realize. Javert jumps onto a rolling treadmill beneath the cloth, tumbling and somersaulting his body along the "water". No problem! Raging river kills man. I saw it happen.
