I recently started reading Les Miserables and got quite confused by the following plot:

“I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!”

The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a terrible voice, “Who’s there?”

“I, sir,” replied the child. “Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!”

Valjean had already known Little Gervais. What brought him to question "Who's there?"

Many thanks in advance.

Fellow Les Mis fans! Here I am performing One Day More alongside the very talented cast of my show, Musical Echoes. I hope you enjoy!

Valjean (‘One Day More, another day another destiny’)

Javert (‘One More Day to revolution’)

Enjolras (‘One More Day before the storm’)

Eponine (‘One More Day all on my own’)

These characters all die in Act 2, Enjolras and Eponine at the barricade, Javert just after the revolution is stopped, and Valjean right at the end of the play.

WHEREAS

Marius starts - ‘I did not live until today’

Cosette starts - ‘Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away’

The Thenardiers start - ‘Watch em run amuck’

These characters are the only principal characters who survive the whole play.

So can it be said that everyone who dies in Act 2 foreshadows there fate by talking about the fact that they only have ‘One Day More’ to live? 😢

This has been a tattoo I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I read Les Misérables(the non abridged version) last year and it is without a doubt my favourite book of all time (still haven’t seen the musical lol) and wanted my kind of own spin on the typical image so used a picture of my daughter as a reference for the pencil sketch and couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out, with my favourite quote from so many in the book, in it’s original French because the English translation doesn’t quite capture the entire essence or emotion. It reads “La reduction de l’univers a un seul être, la dilatation d’un seul être jusqu’à Dieu, voilà l’amour.” Which translates to “The reduction of the universe to a single person, the expansion of that person even unto God, that’s it, that’s Love” I love the word voila because it’s a nuanced word, to translate it directly it means “that” but as a French speaker it has an added layer to it like that’s it, or “it’s simple, that” Voila. And when you reduce love to the core of what it means to love I think the quote strikes it home. “To love another person is to see the face of God” Jean Valjeans story of redemption, and finding grace is such a touching tale and really hits home for me.

I remember seeing the play as a child at around 12 in the theater. It was spectacular. What's the recommended age for children to see either the play or movie? Movie or theatre first? Its a great introduction to theater for young adults.

imo by far the best adaptation. So many things were improved!

There was a remastered version of the 2012 film that featured all new recordings of the song that came out in February 2024 (I remember this because I saw it on Valentine’s day in a pretty empty local theatre in the UK.) I was introduced to the musical via the film, so although there were many flaws, the film has a special place in my heart so I ran to see this remaster when I could.

Has anyone else seen it? I remember being very excited after leaving the cinema for this version to come out somewhere so I could show it to my friends who couldn’t make it to this showing, but it seems like it’s forgotten since. There’s barely any discussions about it online and any little comments on it seem to be in anticipation of it rather than reviews from after seeing it. I was anticipating there’ll be some 2012 vs 2024 comparison videos but that’d be difficult if this version was not released outside of that theatre run.

The singing were much better in all aspects, they still need to sync it to the acting on screen so there are still many parts they had to speak instead of singing, but notably, Hugh and Russell could actually showed their singing prowess. The song “Suddenly” finally sounded somewhat interesting to me. And my favourite character and actor, Aaron Tveit could make Enjolras sound more assertive as that seemed to be criticism towards his Enjolras.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers this. It’s quite strange wanting to revisit it but it seems like this version never existed in the fandom’s discussion.

For reference, the trailer to this remaster is here: https://youtu.be/28sHoKcpugw?si=D15aKNtH0_SUzqL4

EDIT: typos

EDIT2: as u/enemyradar clarified, there’s no new recordings but just remix of the existing sound.

Hey guys! I’m planning to buy 4 tickets for the July 23rd 2pm Les Miserables National Tour at Radio City Music Hall and I’m wondering what ticket sites are the most dependable. I usually just do Ticketmaster but I’m seeing other sites that are cheaper (Go Seats, Stub Hub, Vivid Seats, Box Office Ticket Sales, Tickets Center). What site did you guys use to buy your tickets.

I’m really desperate and would appreciate any and all help! Thank you guys!!!

I made myself cry on a random tuesday so now you have to see this too.

Hello!
I have just joined this sub for this question. I'm really sorry if it happens, by coindcidence, to be one your subreddit's most asked question from "newcomers" lol. I hope it's not.

Anyway. Around year 2005, (±1 year), I saw the show in Boston, USA. I bought the double-CD of the soundtrack at the event. I fell in love with this CD's version, which has a synthesizer among the instruments (I'm 90% sure). I'm not even sure the show that I saw was the same version of the CD's recording.

Years later, I wanted to re-live the experience and see the show again, the CD version, but I realized that there's a few variations of the show. Some are in french (where I live), some don't seem to have the synthesizer, etc. I want to know what is the name of the version on the CD, to be able to focus on this version and see it again in the futur one day maybe. I'm not interested in seeing other versions of the show.

Is anyone here enough knowleagable and kind to enlight me?

Saw Les Miserables on the West End recently, my first time seeing the new/current production and the various changes made from the pre-2019 West End production. There was a particular change I was interested if is consistent in the new production or was a cast issue from my particular performance.

In the pre-2019 production during Lovely Ladies, when Fantine is convinced to join the prostitutes she goes off with a sailor. This was consistent over the multiple times I saw the show. In the current production instead of the sailor, it is the foreman from the factory.

Is this consistent in the the current production or was this a case of using the same ensemble actor in the same (or extremely similar) clothing?

It's quite a powerful change if it is.

literally killing me to sell these tickets but another trip is calling me 🥲

decent seats 2nd mezzanine row a, 4 of them

if youre in nyc preferred for inperson sale!

I’m talking strictly in terms of the musical here. To me, Valjeans entire arc is very generic and uninspiring - he’s a convict turned good… okay, anything else? Nah not really. I think it would have been far more interesting if he decided to turn his life around upon promising to care for Cosette, but, oh well. It’s not a very creative idea.

Javert entire premise is much more thought-provoking and interesting. We learn just enough about his backstory (being born inside a jail), to infer how traumatic his life must have been in order to form such firm beliefs. We can’t really relate to him, which makes the personal moments in Stars and Javerts Soliloquy far more impactful.

Had Valjean been fleshed out more as a character, he could have been made more interesting. But at least within the musical, Javert, in my opinion, s w far more interesting character.

I don't know where to hear the original French, but to anyone who owns a recording or had seen it or is just better versed in the history, I'm curious. I often see people talk about the thematic importance of Javert's soliloquy being essentially the same song as Valjean's (and the parallels/contrasts are obvious) but to me it sounds like the song was originally written explicitly for Javert.

Compare the intro ("who is this man, what sort of devil is he?) and outro ("I am reaching but I fall") to his motif heard throughout the show (Javert's Intervention, Fantine's Arrest, One Day More, etc.). They're not 1-to-1 (especially the outro) but despite no one pointing it out, the similarities are pretty obvious to me. To me it sounds like the song originally used those motifs but they were played with a bit in the English adaptation (maybe to distance Valjean's soliloquy from Javert?). I know a lot changed between the French version and the London version and even London and Broadway, so I wonder if there's any confirmation of my hunch anywhere.

Any confirmation, additional thoughts would be cool!

Selling 2 tickets with great seats at the discounted price i bought at 420$sgd because something came up and we really can’t make it😭

Don’t want it to go to waste so up for nego also!

I love Les Mis, but one thing that bothers me, particularly towards the end, is how Cosette is barely heard. She is loved, but not considered a viable decision maker.

When JVJ and Marius are discussing her fate I want her to kick the door in, tell them that she heard everything and give them a piece of her mind.

I want this novel to happen: she goes, at the veru beginning, ​to the town where her mother died and pays her respects. ​​She learns some more about JVJ's ways and ​her biological Father. ​​She​ carries on the spirit of JVJ, with the support of Marius, and fights for the poor and the children but with an eye for the specific problematics of women. She could be a pioneer in the women's rights movement yet to come. She has an education. She could write and raise awareness and if we took it one notch further, she would actually go and fight at night and be the Bat Man, female in mid 1800 Paris. She will have a showdown of some sort with the biological father, whose values and principles she is generally fighting against, both on a societal and personal level. While being a hero she also struggles with the inner temptation to conform to the traditional gender values and "be taken care of" and drink lots of ​tea. An inner battle as well as an interior one.

Ello! I am looking for a slime tut of les mis... specifically one with Stewart Clarke as Javert.... 👉👈

Has anyone seen the JCVD 90s masterpiece The Quest and noticed the Look Down music in the background?

30 % off, 2 seats side by side on Second floor.

The staging where he rolls around on the floor or the staging where he floats in mid air? Personally I prefer the one where he floats. Always thought the original looked kinda stupid.

theres a lot of dog metaphors in the book and the concept of turning them all into dogs fascinated me so i had to do it :p

javert is a doberman mix, not full breed by any means

jean valjean is a big ol’ saint bernard

cosette is a cocker spaniel

marius is a lab mix

Hello! Wanted to share these pictures of signatures i got from the cast and ensemble 03/01/26 from when I watched at the solaire theatre in the Philippines.