Saw this cast that summer in '87, cried like a baby, bought the album, went to grad school the next fall, met a boy who loved the music and sang along with me, fell in love with the boy, we got married a year later, had 3 boys, and took them (as young men now) to see the production right before the pandemic. Still crying! Edit: just celebrated our 32nd anniversary!
What a fab story! I didn't get to see LM until 19 years into its UK run (long story!), Suffice to say I've been seven times since over last 17 years. Would go see it every week if I could.
Your experience was/is wonderful🙂🙂. I saw this show 4 times over ten years or so. First time, I SOBBED as I watched the show. Saw it 2 more times on the road. Took my 17 yr old son to see it on Broadway. Yes, I'm a fanatic about this show. I know every word of the songs. I listened to it on cassette tapes; now on Spotify!
I love how they brought back Colm Wilkinson to play the bishop when they made the Les Mis movie. I thought that was a perfect way to reference the productions that came before the movie.
😍 Watching it in cinema, for some reason it took me until the ending scene to realize this was Colm Wilkinson portraying the bishop and it got me right in the feels! I was tearing up like "Oh my god, he is literally singing to his own parade roll / legacy"! 💕 Half the audience was crying anyway half of that movie ... 😄🤗
I had the Tony Awards on TV in the background while I was doing my ironing one night in Seattle in 1987. After this segment ended, I found myself standing frozen with my jaw dropped and a hot iron held up in mid-air. Within a week, I had booked my first trip to New York along with tickets to my first Broadway show. The original cast was a combination whose magic exceeded the sum of its parts.
Lausanne28 actually Phillip Quast won the Sydney Critics award for actor of the year in 1988 as well as the MO award for male musical performer in the same year. Also this Broadway cast won a Tony award for best musical so that is a full cast award. And the film won multiple Oscars, Baftas and golden globes so, it did win a lot
Yes, he is absolutely astounding. I have been under the spell of his voice for more than 30 years now and have never had the chance to hear him sing live. No other Jean Valjean has ever come close.
I wonder if they knew now that thy we're making history. And that almost thirty years later the legacy of their work would still be changing lives across the world.
Aaron Ford The men who gave their lives at the barricades for the June Rebellion in real life didn't know they were making history as well, they inspired rebellions for the next 16 years and eventually France was finally liberated in the final rebellion of 1848.
Tessa Netting we actually did this show at my high school. If you want to watch the video search up River Dell Les Miserables! -❤️ Sophia Campos #lumos
This original Broadway production of Les Miserables just dominated the Tony Awards, winning 8 categories, including best musical. However, Michael Maguire is the only male actor from Les Miz to ever win a Tony Award. He portrayed Enjoiras. Also Frances Ruffelle is the only actress from Les Miz to ever win a Tony. She played Eponine.
Rarely has an actor been as perfectly matched to a role (nor as deserving of his Tony) as Michael Maguire. No Enjoras i’ve seen has even come close. I wish he still performed. Would also say that Colm and Frances are the gold standards in their roles, but i don’t (always) find seeing other actors in their roles quite as jarring. In general, this production was pure magic
I saw Lea’s On My Own version first, but the moment I saw Frances in this clip, I knew she was Éponine. Her eyes’ expression, her facial, her voice made me thing that. Lea’s On My Own is still great but I think Frances is closer as Éponine to me.
This production is very good, but my favorite was the original 1985 London Cast (the musical) and the 2006 10th anniversary concert featuring the dream cast. It was spectacular. YT has the 4k version which was amazing.
Vocally, he's my favourite Enjolras. Many others look more like him and their voices are amazing but Michael's voice is perfect. I don't know why they decided for awhile that Enjolras was supposed to have had Elvis' hair.
@ugly dog I think during that time unrequited love was more accepted and even celebrated in our society than it is today. That means you could be more over the top about it especially in works of fiction without it being questioned. Nowadays ppl just get on you to "work on yourself, love yourself" and dismiss the whole notion of unrequited love as odd and creepy, but it seems that wasn't the thinking for like hundreds of years of poetry and theater and music and stuff. Almost as if they realized that "work on yourself, love yourself" is not just an automatic cure-all for everyone with this problem.
All of the Eponine's since have basically sounder pretty much the same as Frances. She sounds how she is supposed to sound. Almost all thee other Eponine's have used her as the gold standard.
Debbie Gibson also had an interesting take on the Eponine character. When she sang the songs of Eponine, her voice sounded vulnerable and weak (as if she had been an alcoholic or had a lung problem). Sadly, I can no longer find the audio recording of her Eponine rendition.
@The Pikachu Brothers Nikki M. James? You've got to be kidding me. While her voice might be good for some roles, it definitely does not fit Eponine's character. It's cringe-worthy and disgusting.
Frances Ruffelle is the one and only Eponine. In the first few years or so of Les Mis, everyone after her has tried to imitate her. This is back when broadway singers had emotion in their voice and belted when need be not like today singers that all scream up in the rafters like they are auditioning for American Idol. And I saw Debbie Gibson on Broadway as Eponine and she was fantastic. She actually tried out for the role when Les Mis was heading to Broadway but was deemed too young... then her pop career exploded.
Like many this was a life changing show for me. I saw it within two months of opening in NYC. Friend had seen it and told me it was downer and not good. About poverty in France. I had read the book in both French and English so I new the story. I lost it. Colm Wilkinson was incredible, the voice of God. The morality of the story. I’ve seen it at least 30 times in London, Munich, Paris (in French), Sydney. Auckland, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Buenos Aries. Some shows better than others, none as good as the first night.
Michael Maguire played Enjolras with such power and a magnetism that is missing from many other actors who have played the role. I found this particularly true in the film version. You can understand why Marius and the other students would follow THIS Enjolras into battle!
Also, the guy was like 6'5". He looked like a giant on stage. And when they spun that barricade and he was draped across it hanging upside down dead, Wow!! Bring back the turntable and the giant barricade.
Frances is amazing! People that complain she can’t sing don’t know Frances Ruffelle. They don’t know her theatre shows and they don’t know her solo recordings. Half the time they don’t even know who the hell she is in the video clips. Oh, but, they’re “huge Les Mis fans” 🙄
@@bookemdano7567 I wasn't aware of that; how sad! I would love to hear her sing "Over the Rainbow"; I know that she played Dorothy Gale in one of the first runs of the Royal Shakespeare Company version of the MGM "Wizard of Oz."
MaskedMan66.... She’s awesome as Dinah in Starlight Express and I love her in Children Of Eden! One of my favorite Stephen Schwartz musicals! Stranger to The Rain, from that show is one of my favorite musical songs, both the “show” version and the “pop” version. I wish they had done a recording for Piaf with her. And check out the Christmas song... I Watch You Sleeping....amazing!!
Look you wankers - don't start the best/worst argument. It is a matter of opinion who is your favourite etc. Having said that Frances Rufelle, not Ruffelles, wass instrumental in the the success of Les Mis. Without her, and Colm Wilkinson, Les Mis would not have been the phenomena it is (- and I can explain why.)
The first musical I ever saw. It was the original Canadian cast with Micael Burgess as Jean Val-Jean. RIP Michael Burgess, you have forever made a place in my heart and mind for the love of musicals, especially Les Miserables...
The One True Valjean is Colm Wilkinson, however my favourites are John Owen Jones and Peter Lockyer who is the current Valjean in London, they are both amazing.
How fortunate I was to see the original production years ago and I was mesmerized. What did I just watch? It was Heaven on Earth and I was so moved....who knew many years later that I would have the extreme honor and privilege to perform this AMAZING production with a professional group here in Texas. It was a "love in" every night and cried all the time because of its beauty, heart and soul❤❤❤❤
I'm so lucky to have a mom that introduced me to this when I was barely in elementary school. It's always held a special place in my heart and always will.
Cal No doubt. When he twists back before his final position, he really whips it around. And give credit to the strapping and hot Marcus Lovett who provided a solid set of shoulders for the kid. The unison between him and Enjolras at the very end is impressive too.
As a very naive 25 year old teacher knowing little of musical theatre I went to see Les Mis in 1986 with about 20 colleagues. On the way home all we could talk about was ' the dark haired girl' who blew all of us away. She was simply sensational; you could not take your eyes away from her, a true ' you had to be there' moment. So all you posters comparing all the different Eponines really annoys me; if you haven't see the whole performance you really are in no place to comment. If you don't like her performance, fine but don't start saying ' the best' stick with saying 'my favourite.'
Everyone talks about Colm and Micheal who don’t get me wrong are AMAZING but Terrence as Javert has to be one of the most underrated performances ever imo because almost all videos of him have been lost to time and because of a lack of his videos Phillip Quast often gets the credit who imo Terrence should get
Als ich es am Broadway zum ersten Mal sah, weinte ich den ganzen Weg zum Hotel. Ich habe les Miz noch oft gesehen und es bleibt eines meiner schönsten Theatererlebnisse!!
When I was in college I would drive from upstate NY to Buffalo and the London cast of le mis was what I would listen to driving through Amsterdam to the 90. This musical changed my life. And I only hear y'all's performances
@@andrewbevan4662 That is true, but they probably came away thinking it's cheesy and wondering what the fuss is all about. It's like when people who have only seen the movie of A Chorus Line think it's not very good and why does everyone love it so much.
I wish they had believed in the public enough to build a full broadway cast - a few cameos are fine but it isn’t fair to give a role to someone who hasn’t been trained to do it / isn’t capable. Also the live contrivance just gave them weird restrictions and blocking - it was just a whole ass mess...
One Day More was not part of the original French production. When the show was translated, I think they understood that the expectation of West End and Broadway audiences was for a big summary number at the end of the first act. I’m sure the French consider One Day More to be excessive; but I think we English-speaking audiences agree that this number is the very prototype of what such act-ending numbers ought to be.
I saw the touring company in Cleveland. This is by far my favorite musical! I'm wearing my Les Mis tshirt. I have magnets on my fridge, posters, etc. My friend from grade school, Craig Wells, was in the cast! The show does make me cry, but sometimes I need to have a good cry.
✨that's one of the most beautiful parts in this musical and Jeremy Secomb is good, but I gave my ears and my heart to Philip Quast the first time I heard him, everyone who is there on a stage and performing such an achievement in front of an audience no doubt good, more than good, but right at the top is * Philip Quast as my Javert *✨✨✨
@@CB394 ✨✨✨Yes, I know, but he's definitely not *Javert* for me, he's a great singer no question about it, but I prefer it as *Marius*, even now at an advanced age I like his *Marius parts* much better as for example his *Stars* - of all versions I just love the interpretation of *PQ*, I also heard a nice version from *Anthony Warlow*, but it doesn't come close to *PQ*... maybe that's why that I saw the musical (not the movie) completely for the first time with *PQ* from 1995 *Dream Cast Version*...❤️❤️❤️
Philip Quast has a beautiful voice! His singing of ‘Stars’ in one of the anniversary specials’ gave me goosebumps! Also like Colm Wilkinson. ‘Les Miz’, & ‘PotO’ are the best stage productions’ in the last nearly 40 years’, IMHO. Australians’ Anthony Warlow & the late, great Rob Guest were excellent ‘Phantoms’, but the Crown belongs to Michel Crawford, the original & the best.
I know, but there is something called make up or if it´s not enough just cast someone with a good voice and who can pass for this age, for example Andy Mientus he is older but he looks like 22 or 24 years old. But the ones here are amazing, I can´t think about this Marius with an age under 40 and maybe he is younger.
Because young, undertrained voices can't hold up to the rigorous schedule of a show like this. It's not a high school or college production that gets 5 performances and then they are done. It's 7-10 shows a week for MONTHS, maybe even years. And especially this musical, which is pretty much an opera and requires the vocal stamina of an opera performance, requires mature voices.
@ugly dog You make a good point Michael Ball, the actor who created Marius in London in 1985, was only about 22 when he was cast and completely untrained. He was phenomenal and considered the definitive Marius by most but he had to leave the role early because of voice problems, anxiety and stress. I get the feeling the success of the show overwhelmed him.
Both nominated for Best Actor in a Musical. Both lost. I got to see Terry's return to Les Mis sixteen years later, just before this production closed on Broadway (the show itself didn't stay away for long), and he hadn't missed a beat! If anything, he'd only gotten better. Heck of a nice guy, too.
I first saw LesMiz with the Oreginal Broadway Cast in '87 on Broadway At The Imperial Theater.since then I've seen it 6 times..10 Stars... Colm Wilkinson was very Good.....
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Saw this cast that summer in '87, cried like a baby, bought the album, went to grad school the next fall, met a boy who loved the music and sang along with me, fell in love with the boy, we got married a year later, had 3 boys, and took them (as young men now) to see the production right before the pandemic. Still crying! Edit: just celebrated our 32nd anniversary!
@DeathToMason's Uhhh, there is, and was 6 months ago.
What a fab story! I didn't get to see LM until 19 years into its UK run (long story!), Suffice to say I've been seven times since over last 17 years. Would go see it every week if I could.
I’m jealous!
This just brought a tear to my eye
Your experience was/is wonderful🙂🙂. I saw this show 4 times over ten years or so. First time, I SOBBED as I watched the show. Saw it 2 more times on the road. Took my 17 yr old son to see it on Broadway. Yes, I'm a fanatic about this show. I know every word of the songs. I listened to it on cassette tapes; now on Spotify!
I still think it's hilarious that Michael Maguire played Enjolras, won a Tony for it, and then just peaced out from theater and is now a lawyer
Whaaaaat?! Lawyer? 🥴🥴🥴
Yep! He was touring for a few years, but gave it up and got his law degree and is practicing family law in LA. Good man!
Amazing
@@OregonRailfan83 Reminds me of NFL ref Ed Hochuli haha
That’s actually very in-character of him
Ah, yes. The infamous Les Mis Box Step.
MissyPirata
haha, at first, I was like... why are they all limping? They haven't even fought, yet! =P
It isn't a box step.
I love how they brought back Colm Wilkinson to play the bishop when they made the Les Mis movie. I thought that was a perfect way to reference the productions that came before the movie.
Oh, I just loved that too! And when he comes back at the end to bring Valjean to heaven - I just about lost it. What a wonderful way to honor Colm.
Frances Rufelle, the original Eponine (seen in this video), also played one of the prostitutes. You couldn't miss her voice.
sonoandrea I recognised her voice as soon as she began to sing.
😍 Watching it in cinema, for some reason it took me until the ending scene to realize this was Colm Wilkinson portraying the bishop and it got me right in the feels! I was tearing up like "Oh my god, he is literally singing to his own parade roll / legacy"! 💕 Half the audience was crying anyway half of that movie ... 😄🤗
I love that reference too! A Valjean helping another Valjean.
I had the Tony Awards on TV in the background while I was doing my ironing one night in Seattle in 1987. After this segment ended, I found myself standing frozen with my jaw dropped and a hot iron held up in mid-air. Within a week, I had booked my first trip to New York along with tickets to my first Broadway show. The original cast was a combination whose magic exceeded the sum of its parts.
that is amazing! Thank you for telling us. xx
Awesome
DUDE. COLM WILKINSON. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
And yet he never won an Olivier or Tony Award. Michael Maguire is the only male actor from Les Miz to ever win the Tony or any other award.
Lausanne28 actually Phillip Quast won the Sydney Critics award for actor of the year in 1988 as well as the MO award for male musical performer in the same year. Also this Broadway cast won a Tony award for best musical so that is a full cast award. And the film won multiple Oscars, Baftas and golden globes so, it did win a lot
Yes, he is absolutely astounding. I have been under the spell of his voice for more than 30 years now and have never had the chance to hear him sing live. No other Jean Valjean has ever come close.
Sophie I thank God, and my mother, I saw this cast.
Yassss
It is very sad that both Thenardiers in this video died so young.
I wonder if they knew now that thy we're making history. And that almost thirty years later the legacy of their work would still be changing lives across the world.
Aaron Ford The men who gave their lives at the barricades for the June Rebellion in real life didn't know they were making history as well, they inspired rebellions for the next 16 years and eventually France was finally liberated in the final rebellion of 1848.
Thatperformer387 Liberated....you mean when the dictator Napoleon took control 😂
Cj M ummm... no that was 38 years before this, and Napoleon was a hero
I die from the perfection
Tessa Netting we actually did this show at my high school. If you want to watch the video search up River Dell Les Miserables! -❤️ Sophia Campos #lumos
This original Broadway production of Les Miserables just dominated the Tony Awards, winning 8 categories, including best musical. However, Michael Maguire is the only male actor from Les Miz to ever win a Tony Award. He portrayed Enjoiras. Also Frances Ruffelle is the only actress from Les Miz to ever win a Tony. She played Eponine.
Lausanne28 please calm down
@@Lausanne28 please don't use the word retarded. it's offensive to neurodivergent people and people with mental disorders such as myself.
Rarely has an actor been as perfectly matched to a role (nor as deserving of his Tony) as Michael Maguire. No Enjoras i’ve seen has even come close. I wish he still performed.
Would also say that Colm and Frances are the gold standards in their roles, but i don’t (always) find seeing other actors in their roles quite as jarring. In general, this production was pure magic
Michael Maguire will always be my favorite Enjorlas, just wonderful.
His is Going to be 57 Next Year
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Colm Wilkinson will forever be the standard for Jean Valjean
My god, I love Terrence Mann.
I love Frances as Eponine. She has such a memorable voice. Maybe it’s because I grew up on the original London cast recording.
Me too! But, also, this was a time when singers were unique. Nowadays they all sound the same and generic, no distinction.
She is incredible.
She is my QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!
I saw Lea’s On My Own version first, but the moment I saw Frances in this clip, I knew she was Éponine. Her eyes’ expression, her facial, her voice made me thing that. Lea’s On My Own is still great but I think Frances is closer as Éponine to me.
This production is very good, but my favorite was the original 1985 London Cast (the musical) and the 2006
10th anniversary concert featuring the dream cast. It was spectacular. YT has the 4k version which was amazing.
oldest students ever.
they got held back...
bh5496 I almost scream laughed at this comment. XD I'm trying to keep calm. My parents are asleep.
Michael Minarik Oh no, really, I think they're just as young as the ones on "Head Of The Class", "Grease" and "Beverly Hills 90210) ;)
You haven't watched the last season of "универ: новая общага". That students are really old
Lol
The one and only Michael Maguire
Eponine's voice was nothing I've ever heard before. Effortless.
Frances Ruffelle is a legend.
sHE IS THE BEST.
does anybody else think that the guy leading the students looks like a young gaston from beauty and the beast?????
Yes i do think so.
Well Beauty and the Beast is around the same time period also in France lol
Vocally, he's my favourite Enjolras. Many others look more like him and their voices are amazing but Michael's voice is perfect. I don't know why they decided for awhile that Enjolras was supposed to have had Elvis' hair.
Also Eric from The Little Mermaid.
Also wtf is Eponine doing to Marius?
hmm might be over acting !!!
She's literally clinging to him. She's generally a bit clingy if you haven't noticed. 🤣
@ugly dog I think during that time unrequited love was more accepted and even celebrated in our society than it is today. That means you could be more over the top about it especially in works of fiction without it being questioned. Nowadays ppl just get on you to "work on yourself, love yourself" and dismiss the whole notion of unrequited love as odd and creepy, but it seems that wasn't the thinking for like hundreds of years of poetry and theater and music and stuff. Almost as if they realized that "work on yourself, love yourself" is not just an automatic cure-all for everyone with this problem.
@ugly dog that’s how she is in the novel
Michael Maguire slays
I'll never understand why Frances was so criticized for her voice in this production. She sounded like the child she was supposed to be.
All of the Eponine's since have basically sounder pretty much the same as Frances. She sounds how she is supposed to sound. Almost all thee other Eponine's have used her as the gold standard.
Debbie Gibson also had an interesting take on the Eponine character. When she sang the songs of Eponine, her voice sounded vulnerable and weak (as if she had been an alcoholic or had a lung problem). Sadly, I can no longer find the audio recording of her Eponine rendition.
@The Pikachu Brothers Nikki M. James? You've got to be kidding me. While her voice might be good for some roles, it definitely does not fit Eponine's character. It's cringe-worthy and disgusting.
Frances Ruffelle is the one and only Eponine. In the first few years or so of Les Mis, everyone after her has tried to imitate her. This is back when broadway singers had emotion in their voice and belted when need be not like today singers that all scream up in the rafters like they are auditioning for American Idol.
And I saw Debbie Gibson on Broadway as Eponine and she was fantastic. She actually tried out for the role when Les Mis was heading to Broadway but was deemed too young... then her pop career exploded.
I just hate when other Eponine's try to have that exact same tone while portraying the character! It's so obvious that they're trying to be Frances
FRANCES IS MY QUEEN! Thanks to her I leaned how to sing out and thankfully I've had luck with my voice ever since :)
When the applause starts before they finished singing, it’s a sure fire hit
Like many this was a life changing show for me. I saw it within two months of opening in NYC. Friend had seen it and told me it was downer and not good. About poverty in France. I had read the book in both French and English so I new the story. I lost it. Colm Wilkinson was incredible, the voice of God. The morality of the story. I’ve seen it at least 30 times in London, Munich, Paris (in French), Sydney. Auckland, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Buenos Aries. Some shows better than others, none as good as the first night.
A downer?! Lol , real life ! 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Frances is so great ... the best Eponine ever, though I do like Samantha Barks as well!
I personally liked Eponine here
Michael Maguire is still the best Enjolras..EVER!
Right
Michael Maguire played Enjolras with such power and a magnetism that is missing from many other actors who have played the role. I found this particularly true in the film version. You can understand why Marius and the other students would follow THIS Enjolras into battle!
Also, the guy was like 6'5". He looked like a giant on stage. And when they spun that barricade and he was draped across it hanging upside down dead, Wow!! Bring back the turntable and the giant barricade.
Kyle Scatliffe.
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Frankie Ruffelle is an absolute MARVEL! Her voice soars above all the others in the ensemble singing.
Frances is amazing! People that complain she can’t sing don’t know Frances Ruffelle. They don’t know her theatre shows and they don’t know her solo recordings. Half the time they don’t even know who the hell she is in the video clips. Oh, but, they’re “huge Les Mis fans” 🙄
@@bookemdano7567 I wasn't aware of that; how sad! I would love to hear her sing "Over the Rainbow"; I know that she played Dorothy Gale in one of the first runs of the Royal Shakespeare Company version of the MGM "Wizard of Oz."
MaskedMan66.... She’s awesome as Dinah in Starlight Express and I love her in Children Of Eden! One of my favorite Stephen Schwartz musicals! Stranger to The Rain, from that show is one of my favorite musical songs, both the “show” version and the “pop” version. I wish they had done a recording for Piaf with her. And check out the Christmas song... I Watch You Sleeping....amazing!!
I worked as a dresser on it twice. In Las Vegas. Rags upon rags.
Frances is just utter perfection.
Hooo Javert is the rock star in Critters, i like him!!!
Michael Maguire = absolute perfection
i got more emotional about this one clip than the entire movie combined
Enjorlas... Perpetually underrated.
I love this Eponine. Her name escapes me but she's my favorite of all of them.
Isobel Ramsey Her name is Frances Ruffelles ☺
The Best Éponine is Samantha Barks
Look you wankers - don't start the best/worst argument. It is a matter of opinion who is your favourite etc. Having said that Frances Rufelle, not Ruffelles, wass instrumental in the the success of Les Mis. Without her, and Colm Wilkinson, Les Mis would not have been the phenomena it is (- and I can explain why.)
Asbury Stan the Eighth Lol it’s Ruffelle not Rufelle
@@alematosmusic7498 I definitely agree that Samantha Banks is the best Eponine. She is heartbreaking and real in the film.
Colm kills me every time
Frances Ruffelle - the best Éponine ever!
Lea Salonga for me
This is the cast I saw so many years ago. I still get chills and cry like a baby.
That little boy slayed the ending is chilling
That’s Braden Danner.
The first musical I ever saw. It was the original Canadian cast with Micael Burgess as Jean Val-Jean. RIP Michael Burgess, you have forever made a place in my heart and mind for the love of musicals, especially Les Miserables...
I love the entire performance, but I keep coming back for Frances. Just stunning, unforgettable and the closeup is fabulous!
I have seen Les Miserables four times, I will never forget getting to see the original Broadway production!
The One True Valjean is Colm Wilkinson, however my favourites are John Owen Jones and Peter Lockyer who is the current Valjean in London, they are both amazing.
How fortunate I was to see the original production years ago and I was mesmerized. What did I just watch? It was Heaven on Earth and I was so moved....who knew many years later that I would have the extreme honor and privilege to perform this AMAZING production with a professional group here in Texas. It was a "love in" every night and cried all the time because of its beauty, heart and soul❤❤❤❤
I'm so lucky to have a mom that introduced me to this when I was barely in elementary school. It's always held a special place in my heart and always will.
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this gavroche is more dedicated than any of the students i love it
Cal No doubt. When he twists back before his final position, he really whips it around. And give credit to the strapping and hot Marcus Lovett who provided a solid set of shoulders for the kid. The unison between him and Enjolras at the very end is impressive too.
As a very naive 25 year old teacher knowing little of musical theatre I went to see Les Mis in 1986 with about 20 colleagues. On the way home all we could talk about was ' the dark haired girl' who blew all of us away. She was simply sensational; you could not take your eyes away from her, a true ' you had to be there' moment. So all you posters comparing all the different Eponines really annoys me; if you haven't see the whole performance you really are in no place to comment. If you don't like her performance, fine but don't start saying ' the best' stick with saying 'my favourite.'
Oh, how I love Frances!
matindi umakting ung Eponine na ito. Lalim. Yung mata nya kita mo pagiging obssessed kay Marius and the desperation
oooh Frances Ruffelle!
Everyone talks about Colm and Micheal who don’t get me wrong are AMAZING but Terrence as Javert has to be one of the most underrated performances ever imo because almost all videos of him have been lost to time and because of a lack of his videos Phillip Quast often gets the credit who imo Terrence should get
The marching is very awkward. I'm glad it's usually cut from most productions.
@Nunya Biz I've seen several versions and the awkward marching they do is usually cut, because it looks stupid.
@Nunya Biz I am not new. I know what a revolving stage is, my god. I'm telling you that the marching sequence looks awkward. Now go away lol
That's how it's done people!
I've seen so many different performances of Les Mis over the years and this is (and will probably always be) my favorite cast.
Colm is so young here omg
Als ich es am Broadway zum ersten Mal sah, weinte ich den ganzen Weg zum Hotel. Ich habe les Miz noch oft gesehen und es bleibt eines meiner schönsten Theatererlebnisse!!
I saw this 26 or so years ago in melbourne... Changed my life... Forever i have appreciated beautiful things starting with Les Miserables
These are four minutes that made me fall in love with musical theater all those years ago!
People love to drag Frances, but she killed it here
When I was in college I would drive from upstate NY to Buffalo and the London cast of le mis was what I would listen to driving through Amsterdam to the 90. This musical changed my life. And I only hear y'all's performances
Seeing this makes the movie into an embarrassment
The movie itself, without comparing it to anything else, makes the movie into an embarrassment
The movie was a grave embarrassment- to be polite.
The movie introduced the musical to a huge number of people who wouldn't have had an interest in it before
@@andrewbevan4662 That is true, but they probably came away thinking it's cheesy and wondering what the fuss is all about. It's like when people who have only seen the movie of A Chorus Line think it's not very good and why does everyone love it so much.
I wish they had believed in the public enough to build a full broadway cast - a few cameos are fine but it isn’t fair to give a role to someone who hasn’t been trained to do it / isn’t capable. Also the live contrivance just gave them weird restrictions and blocking - it was just a whole ass mess...
This performance gives me chills every single time no matter how many times I have seen it over the years.
Michael Maguire tho
brollybasher yes wow!
One Day More. A song that will always bring chills and tears to you. Anytime, anywhere.
1:35 lmao that (unintentional) side eye from Cosette @ Valjean : "Shit, daddy's singing to himself again"
One Day More was not part of the original French production. When the show was translated, I think they understood that the expectation of West End and Broadway audiences was for a big summary number at the end of the first act. I’m sure the French consider One Day More to be excessive; but I think we English-speaking audiences agree that this number is the very prototype of what such act-ending numbers ought to be.
omg the girl with the hat is just wow
Eponine
i know the character but sadly not the singer ^^
+Friendlyandcute Frances Ruffelle 😊
Piper Jillian Ty :)
CHILLS! No matter how many times I listen, I get chills!
One of the best shows of all time
Still makes my day brilliant performance.👏👏👏
So want to see this on Broadway sometime!
Michael Maguire- Go Enjolras! 😂
I am so grateful for this video thank you thank you. This is by far the only cast of le mis I connected with
Another breath taking Valjean is Jeong Seong Hwa who played Valjean in Korea in 2013.
Eponine's highlight is on point
I saw the touring company in Cleveland. This is by far my favorite musical! I'm wearing my Les Mis tshirt. I have magnets on my fridge, posters, etc. My friend from grade school, Craig Wells, was in the cast! The show does make me cry, but sometimes I need to have a good cry.
✨that's one of the most beautiful parts in this musical and Jeremy Secomb is good, but I gave my ears and my heart to Philip Quast the first time I heard him, everyone who is there on a stage and performing such an achievement in front of an audience no doubt good, more than good, but right at the top is * Philip Quast as my Javert *✨✨✨
100%! Quast also won Laurence Olivier Award 3 times , a rarity ! Truly a God given voice, sorry but BEST.JAVERT.EVER.
@@CB394 ✨✨✨Yes, I know, but he's definitely not *Javert* for me, he's a great singer no question about it, but I prefer it as *Marius*, even now at an advanced age I like his *Marius parts* much better as for example his *Stars* - of all versions I just love the interpretation of *PQ*, I also heard a nice version from *Anthony Warlow*, but it doesn't come close to *PQ*... maybe that's why that I saw the musical (not the movie) completely for the first time with *PQ* from 1995 *Dream Cast Version*...❤️❤️❤️
@@Ayyeliki ✨✨✨*Sisters in Love For PQ*❤️❤️❤️
Philip Quast has a beautiful voice! His singing of ‘Stars’ in one of the anniversary specials’ gave me goosebumps!
Also like Colm Wilkinson.
‘Les Miz’, & ‘PotO’ are the best stage productions’ in the last nearly 40 years’, IMHO. Australians’ Anthony Warlow & the late, great Rob Guest were excellent ‘Phantoms’, but the Crown belongs to Michel Crawford, the original & the best.
Oops! Michael Crawford……
Les Miserables 187 Tony Awards
One of my favorite musicals . Saw it three times ❤
I thought Marius was 22 years old, not 44. And Cosette 17 not 37
Alejandro David Martinez Matos they typically cast older actors. No idea why
I know, but there is something called make up or if it´s not enough just cast someone with a good voice and who can pass for this age, for example Andy Mientus he is older but he looks like 22 or 24 years old. But the ones here are amazing, I can´t think about this Marius with an age under 40 and maybe he is younger.
Because young, undertrained voices can't hold up to the rigorous schedule of a show like this. It's not a high school or college production that gets 5 performances and then they are done. It's 7-10 shows a week for MONTHS, maybe even years. And especially this musical, which is pretty much an opera and requires the vocal stamina of an opera performance, requires mature voices.
@ugly dog You make a good point Michael Ball, the actor who created Marius in London in 1985, was only about 22 when he was cast and completely untrained. He was phenomenal and considered the definitive Marius by most but he had to leave the role early because of voice problems, anxiety and stress. I get the feeling the success of the show overwhelmed him.
Lol can't tell if they're clapping for Colm's note or aterrence Mann! Personally, I'd clap for both!!
Both nominated for Best Actor in a Musical. Both lost. I got to see Terry's return to Les Mis sixteen years later, just before this production closed on Broadway (the show itself didn't stay away for long), and he hadn't missed a beat! If anything, he'd only gotten better. Heck of a nice guy, too.
Classic! Can't beat it.
The mics aren't picking up everyone singing haha. I enjoyed it though
TERRENCE MANN!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
Only problem with this version is that Michael Ball isn't in it.
Simply perfection!
Damn the dude that plays Enjolras
I first saw LesMiz with the Oreginal
Broadway Cast in '87 on Broadway
At The Imperial Theater.since then
I've seen it 6 times..10 Stars...
Colm Wilkinson was very Good.....
I loved this Javert
omg so beautiful
Javert is Terrence Mann
beautiful songs and singers. such a beautiful song. . .
it’s the chorus and i can understand every damn word!!!!
Amazing
totally agree Brian
I always tear up!
Oh God! That's wonderful! Shivers, shivers...
Les Miserables this is great song
They're such an epic cast
So true😢.Thank you, Mark Lindsay !
Incredible
SHEER PERFECTION.