Hi! This is my second story on this site. I deleted the other one because I have completely lost interest in it and had no ideas for it to go further. I have also change my name because I don't think Nick Jonas is the best Marius ever (although still one of my favorites). I now think Rob Houchen is. If you don't know who he is, he is the current actor playing Marius in London and I was lucky enough to see him play Marius in march for my birthday, along with that I got to meet him at stage door along with Anton Zetterholm (Enjolras), Na-Young Jeon (Fantine) and Tam Mutu (The best Javert ever). I also got to meet Jonny Purchase (Combeferre and 1st cover Marius) through the Les Miz kids club, which I done with 2 of my friends and we got to go on the revolving stage and learn lot of stuff about Les Miz. Although the tour guide kept on getting facts wrong and I had to step in to tell the correct facts.
Sorry for rambling and please leave reviews!
Love, MrsRobHouchen24601
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own Les Miserables, I wish I did. And I do not own Rob Houchen. I wish I did. The only people I own are Mariella and Lauren.
Here I was, sat in same seat I occupied 10 years earlier, when I watched the show for the first time as a 11-year-old child. But now, I wasn't just and audience member, I was a future cast member. I was going to be in the Ensemble, but understudying for the character Cosette. My best friend Lauren sat next to me bawling her eyes out to 'I Dreamed a Dream.' She was going to be in Ensemble too. She would also be understudying Carrie, who plays Eponine.
During out time in rehearsals we had made friends with most of the new cast. Especially Rob, Carrie and Michael, who play Marius, Eponine and Enjolras. The funniest point in rehearsals was when Lauren, Michael and I had to learn how to walk on the revolving stage. We kept on falling and somehow, Lauren got travel sick on it! Don't ask, I don't even know how it happened. And then afterwords to find out Rob and Carrie had been taking pictures on their phones of us failing to walk on the stage was even worse because we had to chase the round the theatre to get their phones and delete them. I was not going to let those pictures get out onto twitter because my brother would use those pictures against me! We decided to see the musical again for 'research purposes.' Basically, Rob managed to get us free tickets to see our favourite musical of all time and to go behind stage to meet the cast that we would be taking over. I cannot describe how exited I am to meet one of my idols, Tam Mutu! I don't know how I'm going to react, I might cry or fain. Shit, if I faint, that'll be embarrassing!
It was a long and hard journey for me to get where I am now. From that time of a 11-year-old girl watching Les Miz, wishing to be on the stage to a 21-year-old woman about to be making her West End debut. In senior school I was an avid member of the drama department and when college came, I done Musical Theatre, Acting and Dance. This was the time when I knew I wanted to play Cosette. We put on the production in college and I played Cosette in it with my at the time boyfriend Darren. He turned out to be gay. It was when I finished college and went to an acting school, when I got my agent and she asked me what roles I would liked to play, I put down Christine from Phantom, Emma from Jekyll and Hyde and Cosette from Les Miserables. During acting school I only got some small jobs like an extra in an advert and chorus members in concerts. But after ending acting school at 20 years old, I finally got an audition.
So now I, Mariella Elizabeth Johnston, am pursuing my dream of being a cast member is Les Miserables.