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Aug. 1st, 2021 06:19 pmFor Beth's birthday celebration this year, we dedicated several hours as a household to watching ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti's Blu-ray videorecording of Robin des Bois, the French Robin Hood musical we discovered a few years ago and she has since become moderately obsessed with.
ME, FIFTEEN MINUTES INTO THE DVD: Beth. Beth. Beth.
BETH: .... what.
ME: I have to screencap this show. I have to. I'm compelled. Will you be mad.
BETH: ......... only if you don't make it clear in your post that I GENUINELY LOVE IT AND IT'S FUN AND GOOD.
ME: Yes! Absolutely! It is fun and good! It's also, just, [gesturing at screen],
BETH, LONG-SUFFERING: ... yes. I understand.
So, with Beth's blessing, I have screencapped and summarized the show below for your reading pleasure.
Notes: I am not at all fluent French, but can sort of read it. Beth is pretty fluent in French, and had listened to most of the music of the soundtrack previous to our viewing, but not looked up all the lyrics. We confidently expected the Blu-ray to provide the option of French subtitles; it did not. As a result, it's entirely possible that everything that happens in this wildly entertaining, and deeply mystifying musical would make perfect sense to someone who could actually understand all the words as they were happening and was not simultaneously trying to live-translate to a non-fluent partner, and thus we would not be left asking questions like "wait, is Little John literally an angel, or was that a metaphor?"
( Our story begins in Sherwood Forest, where Maid Marian is now a revolutionary single mom )
If you want a better sense of what the actual dancing and stage presence of this show are like than still images can give you, then I recommend checking out this promo video which combines clips from the show with some very cute backstage backflip footage. If you want more of an experience than that, I recommend catchinggenarti on a day when she feels like spot-translating two hours' worth of Robin Hood musical, which may be easier than you'd think!
genarti's Blu-ray videorecording of Robin des Bois, the French Robin Hood musical we discovered a few years ago and she has since become moderately obsessed with.ME, FIFTEEN MINUTES INTO THE DVD: Beth. Beth. Beth.
BETH: .... what.
ME: I have to screencap this show. I have to. I'm compelled. Will you be mad.
BETH: ......... only if you don't make it clear in your post that I GENUINELY LOVE IT AND IT'S FUN AND GOOD.
ME: Yes! Absolutely! It is fun and good! It's also, just, [gesturing at screen],
BETH, LONG-SUFFERING: ... yes. I understand.
So, with Beth's blessing, I have screencapped and summarized the show below for your reading pleasure.
Notes: I am not at all fluent French, but can sort of read it. Beth is pretty fluent in French, and had listened to most of the music of the soundtrack previous to our viewing, but not looked up all the lyrics. We confidently expected the Blu-ray to provide the option of French subtitles; it did not. As a result, it's entirely possible that everything that happens in this wildly entertaining, and deeply mystifying musical would make perfect sense to someone who could actually understand all the words as they were happening and was not simultaneously trying to live-translate to a non-fluent partner, and thus we would not be left asking questions like "wait, is Little John literally an angel, or was that a metaphor?"
( Our story begins in Sherwood Forest, where Maid Marian is now a revolutionary single mom )
If you want a better sense of what the actual dancing and stage presence of this show are like than still images can give you, then I recommend checking out this promo video which combines clips from the show with some very cute backstage backflip footage. If you want more of an experience than that, I recommend catching
genarti on a day when she feels like spot-translating two hours' worth of Robin Hood musical, which may be easier than you'd think!
