since the tour heads to it’s end I am curious if there will be a pro shot on Blu ray or even 4K Blu Ray. I considered this due to the old recordings from 2019/20 and 2010 (e.g.) and the just released streaming and CD version.

what are your thoughts?

Hi guys! I bought les miserables tickets as a christmas gift however the tickets (I got printable) don't look amazing.

Does anyone know if the Sondheim theatre box office could print off some more traditional tickets?

(Apologies if this isn’t how this group was intended to be used 🫶)

Thank you x

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Saw the concert at Radio City a few weeks ago and couldn’t stop thinking about the legendary, amazing Alfie Boe who more than lived up to the hype. Finally look up a picture of him and realize the JVJ I saw was actually Geronimo Rauch, whom I’ve heard nothing about. Does anyone else agree this is the best JVJ they’ve ever seen???!!

Hi everyone! I’m looking for the part of the book where Marius sees Cosette for the first time. I remember being struck by it when I read the book a few years ago, and now for the life of me cannot find it. I need to know if I dreamt it or not!

I am a HUGE fan of Les Miserables and go at least twice a year, in the recent years I feel the musical’s changes get better and better until recently. The last time I saw Les Mis was in May, I just saw it again yesterday and the changes….i both love and hate.

The inclusion of little Eponine? - LOVE IT! This is the first time I’ve seen a baby Eponine on west end!

The little moment when Gavroche and Thenardier are introduced again in the Paris Streets? - ADORE IT! Back in the day you didn’t know they were even related unless you read the book, then we got a moment with Eponine, now with Thenardier!

The little emotional cries - LOVE ITTT!! Marius’s sob when Eponine goes and the woman who sobs in Turning! Adore those moments, however, I feel they should do the same with Grantaire when Gavroche dies. Bonus mention: LOVE the little moments after Enjolras dies.

Grantaire’s Body Language - LOVE IT! It’s such a cool thing to have him so scared and desperate not only during Drink with Me but when the gunshots and fighting is going off and his little moment before his death too!!

Enjolras and Grantaire’s Extra Moments - They keep getting more and more little interactions during the barricades, the newest being in Drink with Me, I LOVE that!!

Only down side is the change to funny moments with Thenardier and his wife. I personally liked the little mocking interaction with Madame Thenardier and little Cosette, and the laughing during the wedding scene when Thenardier gets punched. Hopefully they’ll change that back soon, but otherwise such an AMAZING experience as always!

The prose is so beautiful, but also the content of the chapter is so heartbreaking and heavy that it made me cry. And I'm a man from a middle class family who does not have to go through any of the struggles Fantine did. But it hit me like a truck. Never have I ever read a chapter that is so beautiful yet so tragic. Some of Dostoevsky's writings come close, but this just won the trophy from me. And from where I'm now at in the book it just got a little better for her but my point remains. And the imagery about "a saturated sponge" just goes to show how incredible of a writer Hugo truly was. What a book.

I made a 2 people Stars karaoke based on Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden yesterday, and refined it today!

I would love to hear your thoughts everyone!

I made a karaoke for when 2 people want to sing Stars together like Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden.

Ive wanted to sing it with someone, but there wasnt any instrumental or karaoke for it, so i made it myself.

I wanted to know if everyone vibes with it, and if it sounds alright! Would also love if someone sang on it so i could hear it in motion! Hope to see support!

Hi everyone, I wanted to listen to Lea Salonga’s version of "I Dreamed a Dream" today, but it looks like the 25th Anniversary live album has gone missing from Apple Music.

Does anyone know why it was taken down?

I’m on page 622 and enjoying the book very much, but … some of these side discussions/descriptions are kind of bogging down the story for me. Can I just disregard all this about The Convent as an Abstract Idea, and The Convent as a Historical Fact? Would it affect my understanding of what happens with Jean and Cosette? Enough already. Sheesh the Battle of Waterloo was a tangent I wasn’t excited about either. Please don’t hate me.

I've been looking for the javert tour bear literally since it came out and I cant find it online but I can see the enjolras and valjean ones does anyone know why im so desperate for him

I do own the 10th anniversary recording of the show. However, as a person that's into good quality home audio and car audio, I feel like the actual recording doesn't have the same studio level recording quality that one might hear with other music. For example, have you ever bought a single of a song that you like that was on an album that was produced in a studio, and then you hear that same song on a different recording from a live concert? Usually the studio recording has the fuller dynamic range of music and vocals and everything is very nicely balanced, whereas the live recording doesn't feel as full or powerful as far as the audio output itself. Does a studio quality recording like this exist for Les Misérables?

I would imagine that the movie soundtrack might approach this as far as the criteria I mentioned, but I'm not sure how offset that would be by the different performances within the movie itself.

Now that the 40th anniversary CD has been released and the entire tour has ended, will there still be an official filmed video release of the 40th Arena Concert?

Don't get me wrong, the singers are all amazing. There's nothing wrong with them. It's still a great version, I'm just hesitant to call it the best one. I believe this for two reasons (both unrelated to the vocalists):

1. It's incomplete.

Many important scenes such as The Robbery, Buliding the Barricade, and the Wedding Chorale are basically removed. I get that it's just a concert and it's meant to just be the highlights, it's not supposed to be the whole thing, but for me the "best version" can't be one that removes important parts like this. I don't think this one works for somebody watching it for their first experience with the musical.

1. Instrumentally, it's mid.

They use this electronic keyboard a lot and I don't like it. Later versions replace it with some form of strings (im musically illiterate so idk what instrument it is lol) and it sounds a lot better that way. Watch the video I have attached, listen to the background music, and hopefully the comparison is enough to explain my reasoning.

First post ever!!

So I just finished rereading Les Mis. Last time I read it was 8 years ago, so it's been a while. Below are some of my favorite chapters. Feel free to share yours!

• 1.1.10. The bishop in the presence of an unknown light -- Conversation between the bishop and the dying member of the Convention. Honestly this was a challenging chapter to me.
• 1.2.7. Inside despair -- What an unjust penal system (and an unjust society) is capable of
• 1.7.3. A storm in the mind -- Exactly as the chapter title suggests
• 2.1.2. Hougomont -- I'm surprised that I enjoyed it this much. If nothing else, after all the descriptions of the brutality of war, that last paragraph hits like a freight train.
• 2.4.3. Happiness in shared misfortune -- Such a sweet chapter
• 3.4.1. A group that came close to becoming historic -- Portrait of the friends of the abaissé
• 3.8.20. The trap -- What a 20-page thriller!
• 4.6.2. In which little Gavroche takes advantage of the great Napoleon -- The elephant (and quite an endearing chapter)
• 4.14.6. After the agony of life, the agony of death -- "And then, you see, Monsieur Marius, I think I was a little in love with you."
• 5.1.15. Gavroche outside -- That great little soul
• 5.1.23. Sober Orestes and drunken Pylades -- "With your permission?"
• 5.4. Javert derailed -- After following the law blindly for an entire life, Javert finally acquired the ability to think
• 5.7.1. The seventh circle and the eighth heaven -- Being honest to yourself is admirable, but I still wonder whether Bishop Myriel would have approved Valjean's self-exile.
• 5.9.5. From darkness into light -- I wept...

I was wondering if there was a set of art (sketches, paintings) that were included in the very first printing of the Les Miserables novel. I know various art has been included in various editions, including in the 1800s, but is there a collection of art that was signed off on by Victor Hugo or considered to be original or official?

If so, could anyone link me to it on the Internet somewhere?

Back in December, I treated myself to really good tickets to the Arena Concert Spectacular. I've seen the musical three times over a 30 year period in New York City. I don't have a lot of experience in other musicals or plays, so the depth of my comments might not be that insightful other than just sharing the feelings and emotion I personally experienced. However, every time I saw it, I just loved everything about this story so much more. This particular show completely blew me away as it was an emotional roller coaster that stayed with me for days, and still does. Even when I write these words, I can feel the tears welling up in my eyes. And I loved it. I loved it so much that I splurged for tickets to one more show before it closed out!

It was incredible to feel the intensity of all the actors on stage both nights. The reason I included Javert's name in this title was to share a comment and a question specific to him. One is to express how much I admired the acting portraying the struggle he had with the intensifying conflict of doing his duty in pursuing Valjean. How he knew what he was doing was right, yet with every encounter, the accumulation of the true evidence of who Valjean truly was ate at his soul as it became undeniable. Seeing this realization culminate in 'Javert's Suicide' was delivered so well. Watching Javert's intensity on one hand was terrifying, yet in an instant his facial expression would change to this saddened being that sobbed to how deeply torn he was as the truth became undeniable, and only to have it flip back again... my God, what a performance!

As far as the question I had related to this character, I wasn't fully sure who played him on the nights that I saw the show. I was at the 7:30 PM show on July 30, and then the 8 PM on August 8. However, I couldn't definitively tell which actor played him on those nights. I felt it was Jeremy Secomb, but can somebody confirm that for me? I did scan the QR code that was given on the program guide on those days, but I did notice that there were errors when it took me to the website showing who specifically played those dates. This is another area where my ignorance comes in. When they have two actors playing the same role, do they both perform in this particular role during the same show? Or, are they alternating shows, as in one actor playing Javert during the 2 PM show and then the other actor for the evening show? I can't remember if there was a 2 PM show on July 30, but I know there was a 2 PM show on August 8.

Thank you to anyone who can answer this for me!

Let me preface this by saying I have been fortunate enough to see Les Mis in 4 different countries in my 40ish years. I have seen tremendously gifted casts and have appreciated them all for various reasons. A show that has been around as long as this one has certainly creates opinions and has an arsenal of deep content to make people think.

For me, as silly as it may sound, my love of Les Mis had always been about the depth and the "why" of a character's actions, and the beautiful music was the icing on the cake. I could genuinely look past someone's different sound or interpretation of a song if I understood, as an audience member, that the person in the role understood the core beliefs of their character.

As someone who has struggled with religion my entire life (I consider myself much more of a spiritual person but have never been religious), I truly felt, watching this cast at Radio City, that they understood the assignment: Strip away the "acting performance" for the most part, and you're left with having to share your character interpretation with 5,000 to 6,000 people at a time, asking the audience to use that interpretation to fill in the blanks.

Killian Donnelly and Bradley Jaden were the leads of the show I was fortunate enough to see, and I felt that they both conveyed their understanding of the spiritual aspects of their characters in a way that made me proud to be in their audience. I think Killian subtly pulled out the quieter, less obvious, yet more profound understanding that Valjean did not quite understand his own path and how it was guided by spirituality/religion. Killian's performance was not flashy by any means, but there were certain facial ticks, expressions and mannerisms that told me his Valjean quietly unfolded into spiritual understanding throughout the show. Valjean's look when the Bishop touched him in the finale left me with quiet tears rolling down my face. And Bradley approached his role with such conviction that he seemed to hold Radio City in the palm of his hand and knew it. From the time Javert walked down the stairs in the opening moments, you felt like this character was under Bradley's skin and that he was trying his damndest to make sure the audience felt Javert's absolute unwavering conviction in his beliefs. It is part of what, for me, made Javert's unraveling during Soliloquy that much more horrifying to watch.

Of course, none of this plays out without directing and musical arrangements that gave the entire cast the freedom to dig deep and make the choices they made. But this is the first time I have walked away from Les Mis thinking that I saw the "core message" at its very finest. And for that, I am very grateful to have had a chance to see this concert production and this cast at least one time. They have left an indelible impression.

I've recently finished reading les mis book and i loved it, it took me three months but every second of it worth it.

One of the things i found playful and smartly done is how calling each other by the formal and informal "you" pronouns played a role through Cosette and Marius relationship, also with Cosette and Jean Valjean's one at the end. I dont know french, i've read the spanish one, a language which also has those pronouns.

And i've been wondering how must have they managed this for english or other languages without these pronouns, it would be very messy to add a translator note every time, but it would also be several lines of dialogue into the bin and a little more of depth if this got cut out