I love these performances. Hats off to the first singer, musician or dancer who starts them off - they must be hoping everyone else joins in and doesn't leave them hanging.
Zartam7 He was being sarcastic. Regardless, though, they shouldn't present this as if it were totally random and amazing if it was pre-planned, as it obviously was.
Nicely done. But I am stunned at the number of people who didn't pause to appreciate (or at least acknowledge) the performance taking place. This is happening in Mansfield, OH -- not Times Square. How often do these shoppers get to see something like this? What could be so urgent that some would walk right by the singers and into Macy's? I'm guessing maybe a sale on Duck Dynasty t-shirts. Thank you, TheBarts1992, for posting this.
I agree...shoppers just walking past ignoring what was going on, with little kids no less. That would have been a perfect teaching moment for the arts and music appreciation.
It can probably be attributed to the fact that we the people are too busy being consumers in this Capitalist society. We can't even stop a moment of our shopping to enjoy the moment of music and performance. It's what I call the bystander effect. If I were there I would enjoy every minute of it.
Some people are buzzkilljoys who are actually annoyed by such performances. (It’s really because they’re jealous that they can’t sing and perform, so they must ruin it for others by putting people down.)
People are naturally wary of unknown situations. Which flash mobs certainly are. People passing by could worry they're standing in the wrong place, not sure how long it's going to last, be worried someone will ask them for money, or just generally confused by the whole thing. Easier to move on to whatever they were doing. Street performers know this and will often have a friend or someone start up the audience because people are a lot more willing to stop when they're joining a crowd to do so.
These characters in the play are based on the descriptions in Victor Hugo’s novel of Les Miz. Enjolras is described as being handsome, blonde, a leader and fierce combatant. In the subtext he is half of a gay couple with Grantaire. Fierce fighters, yet united in love. So when selecting the actor/singer to play Enjolras he MUST be handsome. The play descriptor for Eponine is that of a woman whose love is unrequited. She dies saving the life of Marius so that he can have Cosette. In the play’s direction Eponine plays a woman of desperation, a woman of dark beauty and whose voice MUST be stronger than Cosette’s or even Fantine’s! For THAT reason you will find that Eponine has the strongest, most soaring, most deep felt singing. Lea Salonga WAS Eponine in the Broadway play. So YES the strongest female singer is given the role of Eponine. Can you give me ANY play of Les Miz where the strongest singer played Cosette, Fantine, or any other female character??
@@heleneschenbacher8512 Good point. I just saw this musical for the first time at the theatre and the actress who played Eponine was the best female vocalist. Also, Enjolras was handsome and blond!
I think Eponine actresses always stand out because they have one of the well known and best songs on the play compared to Cosette lol. Same with Fantine’s character.
Imagine how confused the aliens disguised as humans are right now. They are trying to fit in, shopping at the mall, and see all these random humans singing in unison, and they are actually in key. Hell, I'd be scratching my head too.
Absolutely wonderful , I felt like my heart was going to burst listening to those beautiful voices. I was astonished to see some shoppers walking into Macy’s instead of stopping to listen. If I’d been there I would have been thrilled to bits and crying with emotion to see such a fantastic performance so unexpectedly.
Wow! In all my years I never thought I would see a flash mob. Thank you TheBarts1992 and performers for putting this up! Marvelous act!! Hope to see more from you guys in the future!!!! -Linda Pines
Look for the flash mob in the movie theater. This song is perfect for a flash mob, because it begins with just one person, and then slowly all the other singers join in.
oh wow.. it was just a simple piece of melody....sang with lalalala voice without lyrics created alone at home by her... now it's improve more and become beautiful sing together... thank you to keep it and sing the melody...
AMAZED that people not stop and take the moment in.. especially after all the trying times we go through daily.. To those that criticize, I truly feel sorry for you.. Great job to try to uplift and bring an experience to shoppers... Id so jump in with the chorus...
Ok, I saw two little girls who were obviously Young Cosette and Young Eponine; but where the hell is Gavroche? I saw no little boy singing AT ALL! He sings in One Day More! Hey may not have a solo in the song, but he does sing!
People of all types, ethnicities, all looking like everyday people, all coming together to just ENJOY each other and the song! Closest we get to peace, I guess!
Just shopping in that mall I wouldn't be able to resist at least running in there and joining in with the ensemble lol
maninthebox0 Same!!!
Sameee
For real
Hell Yeah!
Yes but that would actually be illegal
Wow that Eponine is perfect!
I was thinking the exact same thing!! Also loved Mdm. Thenardier!
TreasonousBastard Right!?
TreasonousBastard YOU READ MY MIND!!!!!!
+TreasonousBastard SHES SO PERFECT!
Replying nearly 4 years later, but I KNOW RIGHT.
The last 45 seconds of this song ALWAYS give me chills...
Hannah Bickford same honestly
Me too!
ikrrrr
Plot Twist:
They're all just normal shoppers brought together by the sound of music
Sound of music.. I see what you did three ;-)
Joe Navarra I wish
The mall is aliiiiive with the sound of musiiiiic
but how do they know the words?
Priest sings halellu
I've been watching these flash mobs all day now
I know, they're addicting, just like the Movie/Musical
Jamesonton1 Exactly!
Same I wanna be in a flash mob so badly
Same here
Same
And I’m supposed to be doing my AP hw.....;-;
The girl singing Eponine's part gives me goosebumps. I love these flash mobs.
what color top is she wearing?
@@pennwood7 she is the second girl coming in
Madame Thenardier's voice topped all voices
I couldn't agree more!
It's so much better with the flag though...
Yep! For sure! Clearly the best!
I love these performances. Hats off to the first singer, musician or dancer who starts them off - they must be hoping everyone else joins in and doesn't leave them hanging.
The girl playing Eponine sounds SO MUCH like Samantha Barks (who plays Eponine in the film)
maidmarian101 is she in the short
She also playes in Les Mis 2010, it's my favourite musical :)
Samantha Barks aka the best Eponine not named Lea, and arguably the best Eponine period.
Woah. That eponine sounded so much like Samantha barks. Bravo.
you kidding me? She's better!
No she didn't .... sorry!
*Brava
@@laurenschung you're her mom right...?? Lol
les macy's
Yesssss
joytato Nice! 😁
It took me like 3 whole mins to understand that joke I'm so dumb 😭😂
joytato 😂
HOW HAS THIS NOT GONE VIRAL YET??? I NO UNDERSTAND.
Because it's staged bullshit.
Inspector Javert What? Are you implying that this was somehow planned?? No way. The guy started singing so strangers would randomly join in.
Jessie Charles Are you stupid? This was planned man
Zartam7 He was being sarcastic. Regardless, though, they shouldn't present this as if it were totally random and amazing if it was pre-planned, as it obviously was.
They did not present this as it was not planned, they just started to sing in the middle of a shopping
Nicely done. But I am stunned at the number of people who didn't pause to appreciate (or at least acknowledge) the performance taking place. This is happening in Mansfield, OH -- not Times Square. How often do these shoppers get to see something like this? What could be so urgent that some would walk right by the singers and into Macy's? I'm guessing maybe a sale on Duck Dynasty t-shirts. Thank you, TheBarts1992, for posting this.
I agree...shoppers just walking past ignoring what was going on, with little kids no less. That would have been a perfect teaching moment for the arts and music appreciation.
It can probably be attributed to the fact that we the people are too busy being consumers in this Capitalist society. We can't even stop a moment of our shopping to enjoy the moment of music and performance. It's what I call the bystander effect. If I were there I would enjoy every minute of it.
Some people are buzzkilljoys who are actually annoyed by such performances. (It’s really because they’re jealous that they can’t sing and perform, so they must ruin it for others by putting people down.)
People are naturally wary of unknown situations. Which flash mobs certainly are. People passing by could worry they're standing in the wrong place, not sure how long it's going to last, be worried someone will ask them for money, or just generally confused by the whole thing. Easier to move on to whatever they were doing.
Street performers know this and will often have a friend or someone start up the audience because people are a lot more willing to stop when they're joining a crowd to do so.
It's Ohio. Alabama with worse weather, food, and of course, football.
Eponine always steals this song!
I wouldn't say always, I think it depends on the actress playing Eponine, but in this case she for sure stole the whole song :)
Please! Let's go altogether! For everyone!
These characters in the play are based on the descriptions in Victor Hugo’s novel of Les Miz. Enjolras is described as being handsome, blonde, a leader and fierce combatant. In the subtext he is half of a gay couple with Grantaire. Fierce fighters, yet united in love.
So when selecting the actor/singer to play Enjolras he MUST be handsome. The play descriptor for Eponine is that of a woman whose love is unrequited. She dies saving the life of Marius so that he can have Cosette. In the play’s direction Eponine plays a woman of desperation, a woman of dark beauty and whose voice MUST be stronger than Cosette’s or even Fantine’s!
For THAT reason you will find that Eponine has the strongest, most soaring, most deep felt singing. Lea Salonga WAS Eponine in the Broadway play. So YES the strongest female singer is given the role of Eponine.
Can you give me ANY play of Les Miz where the strongest singer played Cosette, Fantine, or any other female character??
@@heleneschenbacher8512 Good point. I just saw this musical for the first time at the theatre and the actress who played Eponine was the best female vocalist. Also, Enjolras was handsome and blond!
I think Eponine actresses always stand out because they have one of the well known and best songs on the play compared to Cosette lol. Same with Fantine’s character.
holy shit Eponine is awesome!
An absolutely amazing piece of theatre. So well organised!
Imagine how confused the aliens disguised as humans are right now. They are trying to fit in, shopping at the mall, and see all these random humans singing in unison, and they are actually in key. Hell, I'd be scratching my head too.
Why does this not happen more xD
Ask batman
im just here for your profile picture
+Ramatoulie Tectura ask batman too
Ramatoulie Tectura :) Best online Anime ever?
Why does this don't happen in my country?... Never :(
Once you get past the video... Fantastic voices! This is a really good cast. Especially Eponine.
Shoutout from Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio: We watched this in theatre today and it was amazing! Keep up the good work!
Loved it! Every shopping trip should be like this.
I'm a huge les mis fan so this is awesome
Random Cat Hai!
Absolutely wonderful , I felt like my heart was going to burst listening to those beautiful voices. I was astonished to see some shoppers walking into Macy’s instead of stopping to listen. If I’d been there I would have been thrilled to bits and crying with emotion to see such a fantastic performance so unexpectedly.
FANTASTIC GUYS! Bravo! I've seen it twice on Broadway and wore to LPs out. You did Les Mis proud!!
Wow! In all my years I never thought I would see a flash mob. Thank you TheBarts1992 and performers for putting this up! Marvelous act!! Hope to see more from you guys in the future!!!! -Linda Pines
This is a thing?! I love this thing! I shall now look for more!
Look for the flash mob in the movie theater. This song is perfect for a flash mob, because it begins with just one person, and then slowly all the other singers join in.
oh wow.. it was just a simple piece of melody....sang with lalalala voice without lyrics created alone at home by her...
now it's improve more and become beautiful sing together...
thank you to keep it and sing the melody...
Javert was so off time that it almost threw everyone else off.
It was in tribute to Crowe lol...
@@ticketyboo2456how dare you? Rusty Crowe is raw and full of emotion. He’s gruff. God bless that man.
AMAZED that people not stop and take the moment in.. especially after all the trying times we go through daily.. To those that criticize, I truly feel sorry for you.. Great job to try to uplift and bring an experience to shoppers... Id so jump in with the chorus...
this is the most beautiful thing I've ever had the privilege of witnessing
I think I just cried, amazing performance outstanding vocals, wish I came across this whilst shopping
I find it in incredible that some people can walk straight past this and carry on their shopping as though nothing’s happening!
Let everybody who liked this video find a bunch of people who can sing and do this, too. I want to see this everywhere.
I love when they finished and they just were like let's go back to shopping andd everybody clapping and cheering around them
So very, very proud to call this theatre home. :) The Ren has an extremely talented group of actors and actresses.
Breathtaking! It was so beautiful it brought me to tears :')
I'm usually not overly much for flash mob musicals, but stumbled across this and thought it was brilliant.
Ok, I saw two little girls who were obviously Young Cosette and Young Eponine; but where the hell is Gavroche? I saw no little boy singing AT ALL! He sings in One Day More! Hey may not have a solo in the song, but he does sing!
Kerah Bundy He was probably just sick or something
or they forgot...
hes my favourite character
@Elly Russell Gavs 11-12
Aiden ikr. I CRIED SO BAD WHEN HE DIED ;-; I DIED A LITTLE BIT MORE INSIDE
What a Karen lol... WHERES GAVROCHE????
Wonderful - to love Les Miserables and watch this flashmob
Amazing! Even better that all of them are decent singers! Especially Cosette and Eponine! I would have done anything to be there!
It would take absolutely every fibre of my being to resist joining in with them LoL
the quality of your voices - just incredible!!
Timing was perfect. Voices are good. Blocking was ok. Congrats.
Excellent. Javert sounds very young, wherever he is in the crowd.
Great,seen it 5 times in London,Great voices all of them here,
every single last one of you. Good job. I wept.
This was sooooo beautiful!!!!! I cried :')
Every time I listen to this I get goosebumps, such an AMAZING performance.
I would have loved to have seen that!
Beautiful gives me chills!
Loved it!
You can hear each voice slowly die off on the last note as they all run out of breath.
I'm balling!!! Exceptional performance!!!
This is the best thing Iv ever seen!!!
Love Les Miserables and Flash Mobs...
definitely one of my favorite flash mobs!!! :D
excellent!!! make me cry!! the best story Victor HUGO!!!!
ohh my gasss i really love this cover so much very much! woah! i cant explain y i love this cover OMG! MORE PLS PLSSSSSS MOREE!
I am sticking around for the second act, for sure!
I was having a terrible day...until I saw this :)
Why haven't I seen these videos before! Magnifico
I love that mall especially the pretzel shop in the mall they have great strawberry bananas smoothies
Thank you. This is beautiful
Omg the two little girls are so cute!!!
I really wish one day, a flash mob just, happened in like, Tesco or something. That would make my day
That was brilliant!
That is simply beautiful!
That was awesome, guys and gals.
They were all banned from the mall later that day.
JML Productions oh do u know the reason?
Trần Quang Minh probably something stupid like public disturbance
+Trần Quang Minh Oh no. It was just a joke xD
Rotf!! 😂😂
JML Productions Is that a joke or are you being serious?
Gives me a chill in a good way!
I was just sat there like :O This is amazing - it's put a massive smile on my face! I will now watch this on repeat for ages!
Damn! How come they don't do stuff like this where I live? Would love to see something like this, in action.
I love Les Mis and this was just as good as Les Mis.
素晴らしい！！感動しました。 FROM JAPAN
The best I've seen I think!
This is something my sisters and I would totally do. Haha. We'd be singing along! xD
Breathtaking.
Love les mis seen it eight times in london fantastic.
That voice ! Eponine😍
Wonderful
Simply fantastic :) thank you
*gets motion sickness*
+Dora Lane I was thinking the same exact thing!!!
Poor operation of the camera. ;)
loled at this
I WAS IN THAT MACY'S
And?
Chloë Holt Do you mean that you were in it during the Flash Mob?
:0
Wow that was amazing what talent XXX
THAT WAS JUST EVERYTHING
I'm filipina and I love les miserables
GURL SAME
Great stuff.... good job 👍🏻. I always wonder if they check with the mall staff or security before doing this.
wish I was there ❤
Fantastic, I loved it
i would kill o have seen this live omg it's so good ! 💛💙💜💚
Beautiful.
The thing is if I didn’t know Flash Mobs were planned, I would’ve joined in as a rando but knowing all the words ;-;
Almost made me cry ! Beutiful :)
I'm crying how does this even happen
People of all types, ethnicities, all looking like everyday people, all coming together to just ENJOY each other and the song!
Closest we get to peace, I guess!
I've learned that some of us out in the ether get terribly emotional at groups of people singing.
its amazing and I don't understand how they do it ;~;
beautiful performance
You guys did Awesome I could never do that.
I like flash mobs, and I just thought I should be a part of one sometime. That would be fun.
Let's go altogether, thank you!
I LOVE the Mme Thenadier!
If I went into my mall and began playing this song and singing everyone would yell "Shut up!" and throw the radio into the fountain