Les Miserables Live- Prologue 

This is high school? Wow-unbelievable. What talent. I wish I could just carry a tune.

WOW This Jean Valjean should be on Broadway, what a voice

This Javert is seriously stunning. *That* is how you play an antagonist in a musical. Well done, that man. And Valjean is simply dreamy.

This valjean should be cast in some serious productions on/off broadway. That flight shows massive control. (Also looks like a really high quality production right here)

I just gotta say that the guy who plays the bishop.. omg his voice is amazing!!!

I am stunned at the quality of these performers.... I work for Wagner College in NYC which has one of the top Musical Theater programs in the country... i hope to see some of these talented kids here one day

This is a quality production. The performance of Jean Valjean is powerful, and the actor playing Inspector Javert has an incredible voice for this role. The sets provide quality background, lighting and sound are quality, and the orchestra is professional. Every performer shines brightly in their stage presence.

The performer of Javert has a great voice, a big compliment!

Omg tears when he hit that beautiful high note @5:45 whoo! Yes

5:45 it’s the C5! (A note higher then the “Who Am I?” high note😂)

I have been watching these school performances for years... They are insanely good!!!! I'm so excited when a new one pops on my youtube feed... woo hoo!!

How on earth is this high school my performing arts school could never we don’t have the budget or tbh the talent it’s crazy

I freaking love how the sound(s)of the slamming hammers play a part in the actual song. It’s genius!

That Valjean is AMAZING

Me at work pushing carts in the 80 degree heat: THE SUN, IS HIGH! ITS HOT AS HELL BELOW!

HOLY COW THIS IS WHAT I CALL MAJESTIC

Valjean is so good he could legit be on Broadway

I love both JVJ and Javert here. Only 1 little thing: that soft voice of the hardened criminal and convict 24601 is more suitable for his future self. But I like it that he's the guy with the dreams (solos), it´s an interesting idea. Also, the guy playing him looks like a cinnamon roll. And the Javert is quite in the role. I love how both of them sing

5:45 omg. O: O: O: O: He needs to go to Broadway, now

My own question is why give Valjean the solos in the prison? I love seeing your productions, I show them sometimes in my drama classes.

Wonderful. It would also be lovely to see their version of Hamilton!

This is better then the movie!

Fantastic prologue..I wish the " uh huh uh huh " could of been added at the beginning. Please do Sweeney Todd in the future

The orchestra in the actors are so good

The fact that these high school kids can sing better that a cast of famous actors proves how bad that movie was

mr.adam is sooooo amazing omgg!!!

WoW! This is absolutly amazing... Great Job!!!!

This is my second rewatch/listen through I’m loving every single second of it!! Isn’t the guy who played the bishop the same guy who played Captain Smith in Titanic The Musical?

I would pay to watch this on tape like if if you put the whole thing on RU-vid 😂

I am so impressed. Just WOW!!!!

2:50 now that’s how you do it, Russell Crowe

The Bishop's voice is so soft

Val Jean is so amazing here, thank you for posting all the videos of the musical so I can watch!

Incredible

The sets are awesome

Merveilleux!!!!

Oh this great, amazing job for real

Beautiful singing. Well done!!!

Thank you - Great Performance- great Stuff - with love from Germany 💕

I grew up with the musical director, as far as I know, he's still there. David Snyder. He was one of my best friends

So good!!!

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Impressionnant 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Can we know the cast? We'd all really like that. The King's Academy has an extraordinarily talented theater department! Thank you so much for sharing your productions with those of us in the rest of the world!

Came here for the the bishop part~

It’s pretty obvious the only people slightly good at singing are the main characters but the main charecters are really really good

This is a high school? Wow!

AMAZINGGGGG

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" BY JILL SANTORIELLO Like for support/If you agree!!!!!!!

This is my school play this year and I have no idea what it is. But after watching this I get it!

Was the bishop played by one of the twins who played the delancey brothers in Newsies?

Cast list, please?

This... this.. is brilliant! I only recently watched the movie, and this, is near the movie.

0:50 5:50

Costume box

It looks like the guy who played Mr. von Trapp in sound music

ребята достойны +++++ == хотя бы за то--- что исполняют величайшие произведение Гюго

Behind the scenes

How long is the duration of the play?

How old are these kids? This is a high school?

NOW PRISONER 24601

OK, wait, wait a minute....this production is using the original John Cameron orchestrations! How could that be? They went extinct years ago thanks to Cameron Mackintosh's greed and tacky taste, reorchestrating it down to 14 musicians and to something that sounds like a trainwreck with cliches dialed up to 100 and an overall chamber sound that pales in comparison to the lush and beautiful original 22 musician orchestration. Did this school ask to be allowed to use the original orchs or did they do it secretly? Or better yet, has there been a change to the orchestration available for licensing which now has an option for the original? I sure hope it's the latter because I LOVE the original orchestration and miss it so damn much! I can't even watch the show anymore due to the disgusting new orchs they've infected orchestra pits around the world now with the new, mediocre, bombastic orchestration. Anyone who knows what happened here please enlighten me. As far as I know, the original orchs were completely retired at the source (MTI in the U.S.) in 2011 when the new orchs were incorporated into the original London production. They had been unavailable for licensing since, effectively ruining the one element of this musical that made up about 60% of my enjoyment of live performances. Hearing that amazing John Cameron original orchestration performed live right in front of me below in that pit was a real treat that I still haven't accepted I could never experience again. Mackintosh--greedy, self-important, tacky, no-taste billionaire--completely "updated" (don't believe a word he says more like "cheapened") the original production in favor of a really badly designed and directed thing that resembles the original to the general public. It's the only reason it has been accepted but those of us who are well acquainted with the original know it is a masterpiece of staging, directing, and design and with the original orchs was so thrilling! So nice hearing the original orchs here. Would have left out the piano as substitute for the keyboards as it sometimes doesn't gel with the scene and rest of the orchestration and overpowers the rest of the orchestra but not gonna be picky now. I'm just glad to hear a familiar old friend reverberating within an auditorium once again!

Is he a professional performer?

18 Javert in 2021, the slave of the law.

This Jean Valjean is a lot more reasonable.

I’m back ig LOL

Look down, look down Don't look 'em in the eye Look down, look down, You're here until you die The sun is strong It's hot as hell below Look down, look down, There's twenty years to go I've done no wrong! Sweet Jesus hear my prayer! Look down, look down, Sweet Jesus doesn't care I know she'll wait, I know that she'll be true! Look down, look down, They've all forgotten you When I get free ya won't see me Here for dust! Look down, look down Don't look 'em in the eye How long O Lord Before you let me die? Look down, look down, You'll always be a slave Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave Now bring me prisoner 24601 Your time is up And your parole's begun You know what that means Yes, it means I'm free NO! It means you get Your yellow ticket-of-leave You are a theif I stole a loaf of bread! You robbed a house! I broke a window pane! My sister's child was close to death And we were starving! And you will starve again Unless you learn the meaning of the law. I know the meaning of these 19 years A slave of the law Five years for what you did The rest because you tried to run Yes 24601 My name is Jean Valjean And I am Javert Do not forget my name Do not forget me 24601 Look down, look down You will always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave. Freedom is mine. The earth is still. I feel the wind. I breathe again. And the sky clears, the world is waiting. Drink from the pool. How clean the taste Never forget the years, the waste. Nor forgive them, for what they've done. They are the guilty, everyone. The day begins... And now lets see What this new world Will do for me! And now I know how freedom feels The jailer always at your heels It is the law! This piece of paper in my hand That makes me cursed throughout the land It is the law! Like a cur I walk the street The dirt beneath my feet. Come in, Sir, for you are weary And the night is cold out there. Though our lives are very humble What we have, we have to share. He let me eat my fill I had the lion's share The silver in my hand Cost twice what I had earned In all those nineteen years That lifetime of despair And yet he trusted me. The old fool trusted me He's done his bit of good I played the grateful serf And thanked him like I should But when the house was still, I got up in the night Took the silver Took my flight! Tell his reverence your story Let us see if he's impressed You were lodging here last night You were the honest bishop's guest And then out of christian goodness When he learned about your plight You maintain he made a present of this silver That is right But my friend, you left so early Surely something slipped your mind You forgot I gave these also Would you leave the best behind? So, 'sieur, you may release him For this man has spoken true I commend you for your duty And god's blessing go with you But remember this, my brother See in this some higher plan You must use this precious silver To become an honest man By the witness of the martyrs By the passion and the blood God has raised you out of darkness I have bought your soul for god! What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run Have I fallen so far and is the hour so late That nothing remains but the cry of my hate? The cries in the dark that nobody hears Here where I stand at the turning of the years If there's another way to go I missed it twenty long years ago My life was a war that could never be won They gave me a number and murdered Valjean When they chained me and left me for dead Just for stealing a mouthful of bread Yet why did I allow that man To touch my soul and teach me love? He treated me like any other He gave me his trust, he called me brother My life he claims for God above Can such things be? For I had come to hate the world This world that always hated me Take an eye for an eye! Turn your heart into stone! This is all I have lived for! This is all I have known! One word from him and I'd be back Beneath the lash, upon the rack Instead he offers me my freedom I feel my shame inside me like a knife He told me that I have a soul How does he know? What spirit comes to move my life? Is there another way to go? I am reaching, but I fall And the night is closing in And I stare into the void To the whirlpool of my sin I'll escape now from that world From the world of Jean Valjean Jean Valjean is nothing now Another story must begin!

6:17 for me