Product Code: L 70255/6
Artist: Various Artists
Origin: Australia
Label: First Night / Festival (1985)
Format: LP
Availability: In Stock
Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
Genre: Comedy/SpokenWord/Other , Soundtracks U

Les Miserables (Original London Cast)

 2LP vinyl with mark across side 1 disc 1, very nice  gatefold cover . Includes inner sleeves with lyrics.

Les Misérables (pronounced /l ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: ​[le mizeʁabl(ə)]), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis or Les Miz (/l ˈmɪz/), is a sung-through musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. Premiering in Paris in 1980, it has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, alongside an English-language libretto with accompanying English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. The London production has run continuously since October 1985 – the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after The Fantasticks original Off-Broadway run.

Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.

A1 Ensemble* At The End Of The Day
A2 Patti LuPone I Dreamed A Dream
A3 Ensemble* Lovely Ladies
A4 Colm Wilkinson Who Am I?
    Fantine's Death  
A5-1 Patti LuPone And Colm Wilkinson Come To Me
A5-2 Roger Allam And Colm Wilkinson Confrontation
B1 Zoe Hart Castle On A Cloud
B2 Alun Armstrong, Sue Jane Tanner* And Ensemble* Master Of The House
B3 Roger Allam Stars
B4 Ian Tucker And Ensemble* Look Down
B5 Ian Tucker Little People
B6 David Burt, Michael Ball And Ensemble* Red And Black
B7 David Burt And Ensemble* Do You Hear The People Sing?
    Love Montage  
C1-1 Rebecca Caine I Saw Him Once
C1-2 Rebecca Caine And Colm Wilkinson In My Life
C2 Rebecca Caine, Michael Ball And Frances Ruffelle A Heart Full Of Love
C3 Ensemble* One Day More
C4 Frances Ruffelle On My Own
C5 David Burt And Ensemble* The Attack
C6 Frances Ruffelle And Michael Ball A Little Fall Of Rain
C7 Clive Carter And Ensemble* Drink With Me
D1 Colm Wilkinson Bring Him Home
D2 Alun Armstrong Dog Eats Dog
D3 Roger Allam Javert's Suicide: Soliloquy
D4 Michael Ball Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
D5 Ensemble* Wedding Chorale
D6 Alun Armstrong And Sue Jane Tanner* Beggars At The Feast
D7 Ensemble* Finale