Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert Cast
- The Anniversary Concert is a double CD by Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. It was released in 2008, as a simpler edition of The Anniversary Box.
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- Les Misérables (literally “The Miserable Ones”; usually), translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims , is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th
- Les Misérables is a 1952 American film adapted from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, Sylvia Sidney as Fantine, Debra Paget as Cosette, Edmund Gwenn as the bishop, Cameron Mitchell as
- Les Misérables is a film version of the Victor Hugo novel released in France on March 12, 1958. Written by Michel Audiard and René Barjavel, the film was directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. It stars Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean.
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- 25 (twenty-five) is the natural number following 24 and preceding 26.
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les miserables 25th anniversary concert cast – Les Miserables:
Fifteen years after the historic 10th anniversary concert, the international musical sensation Les Misérables returned for a 25th anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena in October 2010. Like the previous concert, it presents an all-star cast, this time taken from two different 2010 London productions as well as the original 1985 cast. The singers stand at microphones wearing costumes, backed by a huge chorus and three video screens showing some action that can’t be represented on stage, though the stage is transformed into a set for some key scenes, such as in the Thénardiers’ bar and at the barricade. And as it has for 25 years, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s score vividly captures the passion of Victor Hugo’s epic tale of post-Revolutionary France, combining tear-jerking ballads (“I Dreamed a Dream,” “Bring Him Home”) and rousing anthems (“Do You Hear the People Sing”).
The cast is nearly all excellent, including Alfie Boe as Jean Valjean, Norm Lewis as Javert, Matt Lucas as Thénardier, Jenny Galloway as Madame Thénardier (reprising her role from 1995), and Katie Hall as Cosette. Teen pop star Nick Jonas (of the Jonas Brothers) seems to have been cast as Marius for box-office appeal, however. Though he has the right look and hits the right notes, his voice is weak compared to the rest of the cast and throughout the show he seems to wear the same look of earnest worry, eyes fixed on the horizon as if reading a teleprompter. After playing Eponine in the 1995 concert, Lea Salonga is now Fantine, and while she sings well, the part really calls for more vocal power. Comparing the 1995 concert and 2010, the newer one has superior audio and video, but the earlier one has the stronger cast top to bottom, anchored by many of the legendary performers who helped make Les Mis the sensation it still is today. In acknowledgment of that, after the final scene of the 2010 concert ends, many of the original cast members enter the stage for a thrilling encore. “Bring Him Home” unites original Valjean Colm Wilkinson with John Owen-Jones, Simon Bowman, and Alfi Boe, then Michael Ball, Frances Ruffelle, Alun Armstrong, and others join the cast for “One Day More.” (It’s hard not to be moved when Ball looks around the stage and sings his line, “My place is here, I fight with you.”) Producer Cameron Mackintosh and authors Boublil, Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer all address the crowd before a throng of student performers (appropriate, no?) comes on stage to close the nearly three-hour evening. –David Horiuchi
The Collection
First row: ’25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Aida’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Assassins’ (Broadway cast), ‘Avenue Q’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (original Australian cast), ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (original London cast), ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Blood Brothers’ (original London cast), ‘The Boy From Oz’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Brooklyn’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Cabaret’ (new Broadway cast).
Second row: ‘Camelot’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Camelot’ (movie soundtrack), ‘Camelot’ (1982 London cast), ‘The Capeman’ (songs from…), ‘Carnival’ (original cast), ‘Chicago’ (movie soundtrack), ‘A Chorus Line’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Company’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Evita’ (American premiere), ‘Evita’ (movie soundtrack).
Third row: ‘Evita’ (2006 London cast), ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ (Broadway revival cast), ‘The Frogs’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Godspell’ (songs from…), ‘Godspell’ (2000 off-Broadway cast), ‘Godspell’ (2001 touring cast), ‘Grease’ (1994 studio cast), ‘Hairspray’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Into The Woods’ (original cast), ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ (1996 studio cast), ‘Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’.
Fourth row: ‘Just So’ (Chichester Festival Theatre cast), ‘The King And I’ (movie soundtrack), ‘The Last Five Years’ (original off-Broadway cast), ‘Les Miserables’ (French concept album), ‘Les Miserables’ (original London cast), ‘Les Miserables’ (complete symphonic recording), ‘Les Miserables’ (10th anniversary concert), ‘Les Miserables’ (Japanese; Tetsuya Bessho as Valjean), ‘The Light In The Piazza’ (original Broadway cast), ‘The Lion King (movie soundtrack), ‘The Lion King (original Broadway cast).
Fifth row: ‘Martin Guerre’ (1999 cast), ‘Mary Poppins’ (original London cast), ‘Miss Saigon (complete symphonic recording), ‘Moulin Rouge’ (movie soundtracks 1&2), ‘My Fair Lady’ (movie soundtrack), ‘Myths And Hymns’, ‘Oklahoma!’ 1998 London cast), ‘Oliver!’ (original London cast), ‘Parade’ (original Broadway cast), ‘The Producers’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Rent’ (original Broadway cast).
Sixth row: ‘Rent’ (movie soundtrack), ‘The Secret Garden’ (original London cast), ‘Seussical’ (original Broadway cast), ‘The Sound Of Music’ (movie soundtrack), ‘Sunday In The Park With George’ (2006 London cast), ‘Sunset Boulevard’ (world premiere), ‘Sunset Boulevard’ (American premiere), ‘Sweeney Todd’ (2005 Broadway revival cast), ‘Urinetown’ (original Broadway cast), ‘A Very Merry Unauthorised Children’s Scientology Pageant’ (original soundtrack album), ‘The Wedding Singer’ (original Broadway cast).
Seventh row: ‘West Side Story’ (movie soundtrack), ‘Wicked’ (original Broadway cast), ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’ (new Broadway cast), John Barrowman – Swings Cole Porter, John Barrowman – Reflections From Broadway, Jason Robert Brown – Someone Else’s Clothes, Kristin Chenoweth – Let Yourself Go, Adam Pascal – Model Prisoner, Adam Pascal – Civilian, Anthony Rapp – Look Around, Sherie Rene Scott – Sherie Rene… Men I’ve Had.
Not pictured: ‘Anything Goes’ (2003 London cast), ‘The Capeman’ (original Broadway cast; I think…), ‘Caroline, Or Change’ (original Broadway cast), ‘Company’ (2006 Broadway revival cast), ‘Dreamgirls’ (in concert), ‘Dreamgirls’ (movie soundtrack), ‘The Fix’ (original London cast), ‘Jekyll And Hyde’ (1994 concept recording), ‘Jekyll And Hyde’ (original Broadway cast), ‘The King And I’ (new Broadway cast), ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ (original Broadway cast), ‘South Pacific’ (2002 London cast), ‘Sweeney Todd’ (original Broadway cast), Gavin Creel – GoodTimeNation, Philip Quast – Live At The Donmar, Anthony Warlow – Best Of Act One, Anthony Warlow – Centre Stage, Anthony Warlow – On The Boards. I totally need help. XD
Les Miserables 25th anniversary concert at the O2 Arena London
Cast:
Jean Valjean: Alfie Boe
Marius: Nick Jonas
Javert: Norm Lewis
Thénardier: Matt Lucas
Fantine: Lea Salonga
Madame Thénardier: Jenny Galloway
Cosette: Katie Hall
Enjolras: Ramin Karimloo
Éponine: Samantha Barks
Creatives:
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Author/Dramatist: Alain Boublil
Book & Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyricist: Herbert Kretzmer
Costume Design: Andreane Neofitou
Director: Laurence Connor
Director: James Powell
Set Design: Matt Kinley
Lighting: Paule Constable
Lighting: Patrick Woodroffe
Additional Costumes: Christine Rowland
Conductor: David Charles Abell
Original French Text: Jean-Marc Natel
Additional Material: James Fenton
Sound: Mick Potter
Musical Supervisor: Stephen Brooker
les miserables 25th anniversary concert cast
LES MISERABLES 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT CAST 