timprov was actually complaining because Eponine gets good songs, and he (as a baritone-bass) sings them beautifully, but he'll never get to do it. Then we started working through the question of whether Marius could work in anything like that setting with a gender flip (we thought not because of all the university friend guyishness), and we wound up keeping Cosette and Marius the same and having guy-Eponine pining for a Marius who isn't interested in him that way. Which timprov thought might work beautifully for someone else, but he didn't think he could pull it off himself. Sadly, I had to agree, so he's stuck just singing Eponine songs around the house.