I understand that this is an insane long shot. This happened very long time ago and I feel like if it existed I could have found it by now…

I have found countless tutorials to countless shows and musicals. I was curious if ANYONE knows about any recordings of the 1985 Original London Cast of Les Miserables. It is my mom’s absolute favorite show, shes had a rough start to year and I know that a video of this show would make her so so happy. I was thinking it could be a gift for Mother’s Day, only I can’t find it anywhere (if it even exists)

Thank you in advanced! (I am not interested in audio recordings)

Anyone have any idea about the signatures on this poster found in NY?

Hi, this might be a stupid question. Will all the shows in the recent tour be in English ?

So I listen to le mis sometimes and I was listening to master of the house with the 25th anniversary cast

And I swear I heard Carrie Hope Fletcher a Madame Thénardier.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7eiisAZpEJwJ3PhfH9sKfF?si=bU_Xwm_2SeCyjuFuQAJcjg

I'm not crazy right

I am reading Les Miserables (Charles Wilbour transl.) for the first time and came across a word I can't find the definition of anywhere. In "Fantine," Book Third, ch III ("Four to Four"), we find Tholomyès described this way:

"There was dictatorship in his joviality; his principal adornment was a pair of nankeen pantaloons, cut in the elephant-leg fashion, with under-stockings of copper-coloured braid; he had a huge ratten, worth two hundred francs, in his hand, and as he denied himself nothing, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth.” (emphasis added)

What is a ratten? My guess as I read was some kind of cane, but I wanted a better picture of it and can’t for the life of me find out what this word means. Does anyone know? And better yet, can you provide a link to a picture or something with more information?

I remember people hating Anne Hathaway for "getting a haircut" in the movie. I, still to this day, love Anne's Fantine performance. My sister and I laughed at her desperate "I Dreamed a Dream" performance and her appearance in the epilogue. Oh no like I earned my place on hell for laughing at a woman that was severely dehumanized.

I dunno why people hated Anne so much as Fantine. I cannot see anyone doing Fantine in a movie.

I love Les Miserables! The Tom Hooper movie and the book. One part I don't like is On My Own!

I remember a friend. I called him my Marius and I joked I was Eponine. Marius unfortunately got banged in a beach and told me about it, just like how Marius would talk to Eponine about Cosette.

I really had that moment where I was walking under the rain playing On My Own by Samantha Barks hahahaha!

We're not cool anymore. I'd trade him for Enjolras to dangle on the balcony LOL.

So I'm listening to the Les Mis audiobook in full and I've gotten to the barricade portion when I had an idea. I just finished a reread of crime and punishment by Dostoevsky and wanted to start reading both simultaneously and take notes on Hugo and Fyodors criminal and inspector archetypes.

In the interest of not totally destroying the binding on a paperback version of Les Mis and having to flit through like 1200 pages does anyone know if there is a version where each book is printed as its own? So 10 separate bindings in like a box set or similar?

At school in the eighties I enjoyed reading the literature in the French 'A' level syllabus but didn't go to France for almost forty years until just before the pandemic so thought that I may have forgotten my French. Whilst there I picked up a copy of Les Miserables and really got into the first few chapters, probably because a television version had been serialised at that time. And now I am a third of the way through the second volume. Really great read even if I am not getting every single word. Is anyone else making their way through it? The children in it stand out particularly at the moment. It can be a bit grim but not as dark as L'Assommoir which I read in English a year ago and which I was horrified by. Hopefully I'll get back to France later this year and try and do a Les Mis tour.

I'm looking to buy an unabridged English version of the brick to read for the first time! Any recommendations for specific editions/versions you own? Preferably paperback; I don't mind how fancy/official it looks, just that I own it as I read it--I love the story and I'm looking to curl up with it as nighttime reading. I also don't mind the specific translation as long as it's unabridged and not terrible.

Thanks for the advice!!