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I’ve also thought about this…

They are just fast paced songs. That’s it 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@FutureMeterologist they’re usually a little bit slower though

Seems fast to me as well.

I played this Les Miz production last year and think I can answer this. In the new staged production, the convicts are not carving stones but they are on a huge ship rowing on a stormy sea (and transporting the stones they carved) to shore. They row on the rhythm of the drum that a guard is beating. I thought exactly the same before I saw the new staged version, as if the conductor has to catch a birthday party after the show, but this rhythm makes perfect sense when you see the staging and I really like the driving force of the music which guides you straight into the the scene.

ik hearing michael ball for the first time is so magical

My sister and I saw this at Gielgud Theatre, London, August 28th 2019. A memory for the rest på our life!!

i know right!? I had the privilege of seeing his Javert live in Toronto 10 years ago! Hard to believe he can portray two very different vocal performances so beauitifully!

I think Eric Carpenter is super underrated in general! I always love and appreciate his appearance on screen (whenever they record the stage productions).

Mr Carpenter has a wonderful, clean baritone 🎼🎵🎶🎶🎵

It's on amazon video streaming servise

2019 staged concert

25th anniversary concert version at the O2 arena, 2010

The Staged Concert from 2019 and it was filmed at the Gielgud Theatre in London on Saturday 30th November and Monday 2nd December

@@pontypeterI'm pretty sure its not that one, though that might be the same actor as Jean Valjean

Yeah, it's the staged concert from 2019. The 25th anniversary has Norm Lewis as Javert

The Staged Concert

It definitely is, I was like... Which version is this

@@GA-zx1nh The Staged Concert from 2019 and it was filmed at the Gielgud Theatre in London on Saturday 30th November and Monday 2nd December

Yes

I believe you’re right. This one was so fast. But Michael Ball reminds me of Christopher Jackson in Hamilton. They both mess around with the rhythm, and it isn’t horrible, but it isn’t what’s written either. It’s much different in the first bits of Javert’s Soliloquy where he slows it down.

Hahahahahaha I’ve seen Alfie Boe (he is Val Jean) 3 times and now that you say that… yeah i totally see it and am never gonna unsee it!!

This is The Staged Concert from 2019 that was on at the Gielgud Theatre in London

@@williamfairchild7439 thanks

@@Smith559 you're welcome and it was filmed there on Saturday 30th November and Monday 2nd December 2019

This was in London, was able to attend it. Can’t remember the theatre but it was a small west end theatre (Saying this as a guy from NY Broadway theatres are in general bigger if I’m not mistaken.)

It was either the Gielgud or the Sondheim theatres. This was the concert during lockdown I believe and was staged at both as one of the theatres was being renovated.

I think, looking at it it was the Gielgud, that was where this cast was on as well so that makes sense

Give them a break, I'd do the same thing if it was my only line in the whole show 😂

Heaven forbid singers sing and add flair

It isnt bad, they just are trying new things with the rhythm and pacing due to the fact that this musical has been performed so frequently.

@@edwardjones2129 It's bad.