Master of the House – Thénardier, Madame Thénardier and Chorus.Castle on a Cloud – Little Cosette and Madame Thénardier.Come to Me (Fantine's Death) – Fantine and Valjean.The Runaway Cart – Onlookers, Valjean, Fauchelevent and Javert.Fantine's Arrest – Fantine, Bamatabois, Javert and Valjean.Lovely Ladies – Fantine, Sailors, Whores, Old Woman, Crone and Pimp.At the End of the Day – Fantine, The Poor, Foreman, Workers, Factory Girls and Valjean.Prologue:Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven – Constables and Bishop.Prologue:On Parole – Valjean, Farmer, Labourer, Innkeeper’s Wife and Innkeeper.Prologue:Work Song – Chain Gang, Javert and Valjean.The lyrics were written by Herbert Kretzmer. The following are songs featured in the English version of the musical. Gavroche, a hotheaded young boy who is adored by the people and aligns himself with their revolution-he is a true symbol of the youth and boldness of the rebellion.
Monsieur and Madame Thénardier, a crooked couple who own an inn and exploit their customers.Marius Pontmercy, a French student and revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette.Cosette, Fantine's daughter, who is abused and mistreated by the Thénardiers but whom Valjean later adopts - she soon grows into a beautiful and kind young woman.Éponine, the young daughter of the sinister Thénardiers who was pampered and spoiled as a child but grows up to be ragged in Paris.Javert, a police inspector, originally a prison-guard, who becomes obsessed with hunting down Valjean to whom he refers as "Prisoner 24601.".Fantine, a single mother who is forced into prostitution in order to pay for her child's well-being.Failing to find work with his yellow parole note and redeemed by the Bishop of Digne's mercy, he tears his passport up and conceals his identity (under the alias "Monsieur Madeleine") in order to live his life again as an honest man. Jean Valjean, a paroled convict, prisoner 24601, and the main protagonist.The picture is based on the illustration by Émile Bayard that appeared in the original edition of the novel in 1862. The musical's emblem is a picture of the waif Cosette sweeping the Thénardier's Inn, usually shown cropped to a head-and-shoulders portrait with the French national flag superimposed. Les Misérables was one of a slew of the British musicals running on Broadway in the 1980s alongside Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon. Les Misérables placed firs in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals" in June 2005, receiving more than 40% of the votes cast. The show was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. A fully re-orchestrated Broadway revival opened on Novemat the Broadhurst Theatre. It is the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history. The Broadway production opened on March 12, 1987, and ran until May 18, 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. 5.7 25th anniversary international tour.On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productions running in the same city: the original show at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary touring production at the original home of the show, the Barbican Centre and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena. In January 2010, it played its ten-thousandth performance in London, at Queen's Theatre in London's West End. It is the second longest-running musical in the world after The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the West End, and the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history. The musical opened at the Barbican Centre in London, England on 8 October 1985. An ensemble that includes prostitutes, student revolutionaries, factory workers, and others joins the lead characters. Set in early 19th-century France, the plot follows the stories of many characters as they struggle for redemption and revolution. The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Les Misérables, or popularly referred to as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a musical based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright, Victor Hugo. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).