Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables is now playing at the newly refurbished Sondheim Theatre in London.
This brilliant new staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed “Les Mis for the 21st Century”. The magnificent score of Les Misérables includes the songs; “I Dreamed a Dream”, “On My Own”, “Bring Him Home”, “One Day More”, “Master Of The House” and many more. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 52 countries and in 22 languages, Les Misérables is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals.
Why ruin it....have some respect ....colm fkn wilkinson....val jean....have some respect and just stand there as he sings ...ffs wow who do u think you are?
Les Misérables. The official international trailer for Les Misérables starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption. Meet the characters: Jean Valjean: Cosette’s adopted father. Valjean is an ex-convict who leaves behind a life of hatred and deceit and makes his fortune with his innovative industrial techniques. He finds fulfillment in loving his adopted daughter and helping people who are in difficult situations, even when it means risking his own life and welfare. Valjean adopts pseudonyms to evade the police and combines a convict’s street smarts with his newfound idealism and compassion. His whole life is a quest for redemption, and he ultimately finds bliss on his deathbed. Javert: A police inspector who strictly believes in law and order and will stop at nothing to enforce France’s harsh penal codes. Javert is incapable of compassion or pity, and performs his work with such passion that he takes on a nearly animal quality when he is on the chase. He nurses an especially strong desire to recapture Valjean, whose escapes and prosperity he sees as an affront to justice. Ultimately, Javert is unable to say with certainty that Valjean deserves to be punished. This ambiguity undermines the system of belief on which Javert bases his life and forces him to choose between hypocrisy and honor. Fantine: A working-class girl who leaves her hometown of Montreuil-sur-mer to seek her fortune in Paris. Fantine’s innocent affair with a dapper student named Tholomyès leaves her pregnant and abandoned. Although she is frail, she makes a Herculean effort to feed herself and her daughter, Cosette. Even as she descends into prostitution, she never stops caring for Cosette. She represents the destruction that nineteenth-century French society cruelly wreaks on the less fortunate. Cosette: Fantine’s daughter, who lives as Valjean’s adopted daughter after her mother dies. Cosette spends her childhood as a servant for the Thénardiers in Montfermeil, but even this awful experience does not make her hardened or cynical. Under the care of Valjean and the nuns of Petit-Picpus, Cosette ultimately blossoms into a beautiful, educated young woman. She finds fulfillment in her love for Marius. Cosette is innocent and docile, but her participation in Valjean’s many escapes from the law show that she also possesses intelligence and bravery. Marius Pontmercy: The son of Georges Pontmercy, a colonel in Napoléon’s army. Marius grows up in the home of his grandfather, M. Gillenormand, a monarchist. Marius has an identity crisis when he learns the real reason for his separation from his father, and this crisis sets him on the path to discovering himself. An innocent young man, Marius is nonetheless capable of great things and manages both to fight on the barricades and successfully court the love of his life, Cosette. Éponine: The Thénardiers’ eldest daughter. Éponine is a wretched creature who helps her parents steal, but she is eventually redeemed by her love for Marius. She proves that no one is beyond redemption, and she ultimately emerges as one of the novel’s most tragic figures. Enjolras: The leader of the Friends of the ABC. Enjolras is a radical student revolutionary. He is both wild and beautiful. Together with Courfeyrac and Marius, Enjolras leads the insurrection at the barricade.
Estrellas Javert En la oscura noche un hombre corre en su desgracia, Huye de mi. Dios, sé testigo, que no cederé Hasta volverlo a ver, hasta volverlo a ver. Su senda es la oscuridad, yo sigo la del Señor. Aquellos que elijan el rumbo a seguir, recompensa tendrán. Pero si caen como Lucifer, en llamas arderán. Hay tantas estrellas, son incontables, Llenan la noche con orden y luz. Son centinelas, y su misión es la noche cuidar, Es la noche cuidar. Sabrán guardar su lugar, su causa y su razón, Y su destino sabrán encontrar siempre sin condición. Pero si caen como Lucifer, en llamas arderán. Y así ha de ser, así está escrito en el libro del Señor Todo aquel que elija el mal, lo pagará. Permíteme Dios volver a encontrarlo, Cumplir con mi honor…No descansaré. ¡Lo juro, Señor!…¡Cumpliré mi misión.!
Ok, so Aaron Tveit's Enjolras is handsome and book accurate too, Ramin Karimloo's Enjolras is hot, but daamn Michael Maguire the OG Broadway's Enjolras. Gosh, these Enjolras. Makes me even sadder why he had to die.
Thanks guys, and well done on getting the job. However, Why is the newly created Sondheim Theatre not performing Sondheim's work? He wrote enough of them, surely.
