A student revolutionary, is friends with Éponine, but falls in love with Cosette, and she with him. A streetwise urchin who knows everyone and everything that happens in the slums of Paris. 1. Les Miserables ~ Les Miserables (1985 Original L Amazon.com. [36], The musical opened as a pre-Broadway tryout at the Kennedy Center's Opera House in Washington, D.C. on 27 December 1986. When Thénardier shows him the ring he stole as proof, Marius realises that it was Valjean who saved his life. Thénardier, Barry James as Thénardier, Kaho Shimada as Éponine, Ross McCall as Gavroche, Michael Ball as Marius, Anthony Warlow as Enjolras, Tracy Shayne as Cosette and Marissa Dunlop as Young Cosette.[150]. Only three years after the original run closed, Les Misérables began a return to Broadway on 9 November 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre for a limited run that was subsequently made open-ended. On 8 October 1995, the show celebrated the tenth anniversary of the West End production with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He has no interest in the revolution, and is there because his friends are. Relieved, Fantine succumbs to her illness and dies. The eight-year-old daughter of Fantine. Judy Kuhn, who originated the role of Cosette, returned to the show after twenty years as Fantine, succeeding Salonga. It was like a blow to the solar plexus. "Beggars at the Feast", is shortened, with Thénardier losing a verse, and the song before it, "Wedding Chorale", is excluded entirely although the rest of the wedding remains in place. I have seen the show many times. These included Colm Wilkinson, the Irish tenor who first played Jean Valjean and Roger Allam, the actor from The Thick of It, the BBC television series, who was Valjean’s arch enemy, the policeman Javert. Les Miserables (1985 Original London Cast) by unknown (1998-05-19). Bought for my mum after watching the musical in the West End. Skip to main content.ca Hello, Sign in. An optimist who stands as a sort of ambassador for the "outside", while the rest of the men stand for France. Musical staging was by Kate Flatt with musical direction by Martin Koch. The show was placed first in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of Britain's "Number One Essential Musicals" in 2005, receiving more than forty percent of the votes. [128], Although numerous films of the Les Misérables story have been made, no film adaptation of the stage musical was produced for many years. The army gives a final warning, but the rebels fight to the last man with Enjolras exhorting "Let others rise to take our place, until the Earth is free!". "Helpmann Awards 2015 nominations: Opera Australia dominates as Les Miserables leads charge for musicals", An Archive of Performers from the Original Broadway Run of, An Archive of Performers from the London Run of, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les_Misérables_(musical)&oldid=982996398, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jean Valjean, Farmer, Labourer, Innkeeper's Wife, Innkeeper, Bishop of Digne, "Prologue: Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven", "What Have I Done? Éponine leads Marius to Cosette's garden. The reviewer for the Financial Times wrote that Les Misérables is "the book's hilarious main cultural compass-point".[45]. The cast remained unchanged from the Plymouth run of the show, Peter Corry replaced Michael McCarthy as Javert, John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean) left the cast two weeks before the end of the show's run at the Alhambra, Jeff Leyton (Jean Valjean), Peter Corry (Javert), Carmen Cusack (Fantine) and Alex Sharpe (Éponine), Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean), Michael McCarthy (Javert), Carmen Cusack (Fantine), Alex Sharpe (Éponine), Matt Rawle (Marius), John Kavanagh (Thénardier), Anita Reeves (Mdme Thénardier), Poppy Tierney (Cosette) and David Bardsley (Enjolras), Jeff Leyton (Jean Valjean), Martin Fisher (Javert), Ria Jones (Fantine), Alex Sharpe (Éponine), Adrian Lewis-Morgan (Marius), Jimmy Johnson (Thénardier), Cathy Breeze (Madame Thénardier), Amanda Leigh-Smith (Cosette) and Loren Greeting (Enjolras), Reed 1 (Alto Flute, Alto Recorder, Flute, Piccolo), Reed 3 (B♭ Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, E♭ Clarinet, Tenor Recorder), 2010 Spanish 25th anniversary production cast, This page was last edited on 11 October 2020, at 16:52.