Les Miserables Original London Cast

Various Artists
Label: Red Ink
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Audio CD
Release date:1st June 2004

Cast Recording ^{Audio CD}	$16.75

Cast Recording ^{Audio CD}

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Track Listing

1. Prologue: Work Song
2. Prologue: Valijean Arrested/Valijean Forgiven
3. Prologue: What Have I Done?
4. At The End Of The Day
5. I Dreamed A Dream
6. Lovely Ladies
7. Who Am I?
8. Fantine's Death: Come To Me
9. Fantine's Death: Confrontation
10. Castle On A Cloud
11. Master Of The House
12. Thenardier Waltz
13. Stars
14. Look Down
15. Little People
16. Red & Black
17. Do You Hear The People Sing?
18. Love Montage: I Saw Him Once/In My Life/A Heart Full Of Love
19. Plumet Attack
20. One Day More!
21. On My Own
22. The Attack
23. A Little Fall Of Rain
24. Drink With Me
25. Bring Him Home
26. Dog Eat Dog
27. Soliloquy
28. Turning
29. Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
30. Beggar At The Feast
31. Finale

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This recording captures the 1985 London cast that transformed an obscure French musical based on Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel of pre-Revolutionary France into a worldwide phenomenon throughout the late-'80s and '90s and became one of the best examples of the era's trend of blockbuster musical spectacles. Yes, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's score tends to recycle its themes, but the beautiful melodies and stirring anthems rarely fail to captivate and touch its audience. Colm Wilkinson is the heroic Valjean, Patti LuPone is the tragic Fantine, Michael Ball is the love-struck Marius, and Frances Ruffelle is the despondent Eponine, with Roger Allam (Javert), Alun Armstrong and Sue Jane Tanner (the Thénardiers), Rebecca Caine (older Cosette), and David Burt (Enjolras) filling out the excellent cast. Fans will want to take note that this recording includes some material that was revised when the show crossed the pond to Broadway--"Little People" was lost altogether, while the "Love Montage" was significantly rewritten. Les Misérables sounds especially vivid in its 1998 remastering, and a synopsis and full lyrics are included. --David Horiuchi

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