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Oct 18, 2024 · The songs from Les Misérables take us through every emotional twist and turn in this epic story. Here’s a complete breakdown of each number, in order of appearance, and what makes them special. Prologue: Work Song
- “Prologue: Work Song”
- “Prologue: Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven”
- “Prologue: What Have I Done?”
- “At The End of The Day”
- “I Dreamed A Dream”
- “Lovely Ladies”
- “Who Am I?”
- “Come to Me”
- “The Confrontation”
- “Castle on A Cloud”
Our grim introduction to the hero of Les Misérables: Jean Valjean, aka prisoner 24601, among his fellow downtrodden convicts. He’s served hard time simply for stealing a loaf of bread to save his starving family. Valjean thinks he’s finally free, but prison guard Javert will always see him as a convict. So, it transpires, will society. This effecti...
Valjean is immediately arrested for stealing silver from the Bishop’s house. But at his darkest moment comes a ray of light: the Bishop, instead of pressing charges, tells the police that he had given the silver to Valjean. This moment of salvation is a musical reprieve from the punishing misery, too.
This is the major turning point for Valjean. As the Bishop states plainly: “I have bought your soul for God.” Here the lyrics are particularly evocative as Valjean castigates himself for acting like a “thief in the night… a dog on the run”. He decides to begin again — with a new name, a new story, and a new purpose.
It’s now eight years later, and there is still misery and injustice in France – as we hear from the embittered workers. This sets up another key character in the show, Fantine, who is constantly sexually harassed by the factory foreman and mistreated by the other women. Unfortunately, Valjean (now the factory owner and mayor) misreads the situation...
After those impressively efficient opening songs establishing the musical’s setting, plot and ideas, this ballad gives us some breathing space. Fantine confesses all to us: her memories of happier times, and the dream she had for life, all destroyed by the lover who abandoned her. This stirring number transcends Les Mis, covered by everyone from Ne...
Without a social safety net, the now-unemployed Fantine slips easily into prostitution. The inevitability of that is illustrated by the song’s structure: we begin with the prostitutes and their clients, interspersed with Fantine, until she joins their ranks. Her desperation undercuts their faux-cheeriness, and we end with a violent encounter – and ...
Les Misgives Valjean several dynamic soul-searching numbers. In this one, he must decide whether to sacrifice his new life – in which he’s in a powerful position to help others – in order to save the innocent man who is about to serve his sentence. It’s a song full of questions, punctuated by the repeated couplet summing up his dilemma: “If I speak...
It’s too late for Fantine, who is now on her deathbed – but calls out to her daughter, Cosette. Years later, we’ll hear this same haunting musical refrain in Eponine’s “On My Own”, linking the two generations of women. As Fantine dies, Valjean makes another defining promise: Cosette will live in his protection. Their brief duet bonds the two, but a...
We have been building to this, and “The Confrontation” does not let us down. Valjean and Javert face off, furiously articulating their opposing points of view on justice, duty and whether a man can change his ways. Their differences are reflected in the musical counterpoint too: Valjean higher-pitched, lyrical and passionate, Javert lower, plodding...
Meet Cosette, the daughter who Fantine gave everything to protect. Here we see the sad truth that the child is neglected and ill-treated, and, in this vulnerable solo, she too “dreams a dream” of a better life with her mother. But she’s soon interrupted by the vicious Madame Thenardier, who scorns the “ten rotten francs” Fantine sent them – althoug...
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Les Misérables is a sung-through musical based on the 1862 novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It premiered in Paris in 1980 and includes music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, as well as an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.
Prologue: Work Song lyrics. [PRISONERS] Look down, look down. Don't look 'em in the eye. Look down, look down, You're here until you die. [CONVICT ONE] The sun is strong. It's hot as hell below.
What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night, Become a dog on the run. And have I fallen so far, And is the hour so late. That nothing remains but the cry of my hate, The cries in the dark that nobody hears, Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
SUPERIMPOSE CAPTION: The year is 1815. The French revolution is a distant. memory. Napoleon has been defeated. France is ruled by a King again. A1 EXT. TOULON PORT - DAY A1. RISE UP out of the iron-grey surface of the ocean, seething.
Jun 5, 2024 · Les Misérables' songs, performed by a talented cast, have left an indelible mark on musical theatre, with each piece contributing to the narrative's depth and emotional resonance. Experience the grandeur of these songs firsthand as they unfold on stage. Prologue: Work Song.
