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  • lilsamich47@ Why? What's so special about April 2012?

  • Where was this? The Fox City PAC?

  • I love Rosalind James' On My Own!!!

  • the sound isn't working. anyone else having the same problem?

  • love the way jon robyns walks he was amazing :)

  • i went to see this at the Lowery Theatre and i cried from where Fantine died til the very end! really touched me!

    personally, i thought the whole cast was EXTREMELY strong and Gareth Gates really surprised me with his performance.

  • 2:11 I die of goosebumps

  • is this on DVD???????

  • So, I was in Les Mis this past summer (best experience of my life), and the one thing I didn't like was our lack of a set. Of course, we had an amazing barricade and stuff, but nothing like this. That was amazing.

  • @just1otherfan Well huge fan of the show. Pretty much a les mis nerd, my favourite show. I get the broadway world website newsletter. Don't think they're cutting any songs in particular but you know how the entire show is sung? Well they going to turn most of that into spoken word or cut all together and only the big main songs will be sung. They did quite a bit of that in phantom as well. A lot of the spoken dialogue in phantom was sung in the stage show. Also a fan of the show on facebook so

  • Going on November 13th! I was just in this production and we're going to state competition Labor Day weekend! Can't wait to finally see it professionally done!!

  • its the same sets but different cast...

  • is the the cast in the production going on now in LA?

  • I hope this comes back on uk tour someday. I love Les Miz :)

  • Watched this yesterday in LA. Loved it, though I only wish that they played the full songs instead of cutting some of them D;

  • Watching this tomorrow in LA!! I can't wait!! ♥

  • This production is PHENOMENAL.

  • Is this footage from a live performance or filmed like a movie. Is there a way to watch this on DVD ? not the concert edition but from wherever these bits all came from ? Does anyone know where to find this that would please help ? thank you

  • @just1otherfan not at the moment. However they are making a film of Les Miserables which will begin filming in Feb. Hugh Jackman is the only one cast so far. However they are cutting a bunch of songs down to just spoken word. Apparently singing the whole show as done on stage doesn't work on film.

    Personally I think they should have just filmed the 25th anniversary tour. I'd certainly pay to see it on film.

  • @grania18 oh....bummer. :( thanks anyways. Where'd you find all this out ? Do you know which songs they're cutting ? Will there be any singing at all ? I agree they should've filmed this tour since they already recorded them singing onto CD.

  • The breathtaking,John owen jones,Earl Carpenter, Rosalind James,Madelelana Alberto,Jon Robyns,Katie Hall,Gareth Gates, oh yes, and me Ashley Artus and Lynne Wilmot.xx

  • I nearly died of happiness when i found out i was going to see this in edinburgh, most amazing show i've ever been to! xD

  • I loved every second of it! Dir Laurence connor and james powell,designed by Matt Kinley,Lighting by Paule Constable,produced by Cameron Mackintosh.

  • god i love John owen jones he is so amazing love him ! . xx

  • Gosh. April 2012 cannot get here fast enough.

  • Ashley Artus was a true master of every house.x

  • this was the most increadible show i have ever been to see!!!!!

  • EPIC!

  • my little sister and my mom went to see this show on may day. they love the show.

  • Is there a dvd available for the entire play of the 25th Anniversary of Les Miz tour? Your response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

  • can't wait to see this in june in california, ahhhhhhh <3

  • Epopnine has been played by a black woman several times. I saw this production and she is by far one of the best Eponine's I've had the pleasure of seeing.

  • @musicboy192 i totally agree i saw chasten harmon (eponine) live she is fantastic

  • Fantastic show..best I've ever seen!

  • give me some hope. does anyone think there's any chance that this tour will be in st louis? i can't afford to go to any of these cities to see it. and i really want to!

  • So those two white inkeeper people had a black daughter??

    Rrrrright...

  • @livelongnprosper92 Les Miz has a long history of casting people of different races to play family members. This is hardly a new phenomenon.

  • Wait sense when is eponine black lol

  • @il0vegermany i dont know but she is one bad bitch !

  • @il0vegermany, since when is Eponine Fillipina?

  • loved ashley artus.

  • I saw the west end production around 2 years ago it was amazing O_o I'm currently reading the book too :)

  • seen this cast 3 times :)

    one of my good friends is in it :D

    Ashley artus, jon o-j and jon robyns are the faves

  • Saw it tonight - AMAZINGNESS! This video actually doesn't do the production justice... its even BETTER!

  • saw it last night. simply amazing. i work at the theatre its playing at currently, and the work they put into making it like this, is phenemonal. anyone in the new jersey area, see it!

  • No show in NYC but at least there's one in NJ.. I MUST GO!

  • I don't care who's playing which part! I want to see it again. Saw it in Vancouver win no-name cast. THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

    Years ago, saw it in Los Angeles, and was gob-smacked by that one. This production seems to pull the best out of people!

  • Ashley Artus is the best Thenardier.Full Stop.

  • OMG!!Jon Robyns is absolutly hot in the role of Enjolras!!!

  • John Owen Jones has to be one of the best Jean Valjeans there has every been!

  • epic

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  • @TwilightLover828 the song at 2:14 is "Bring Him Home"

  • @mspinay007 thanks! i have the soundtrack so i knew it but i just forgot the title of that verse!

  • can someone remind me what song it is at 2:14?

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  • Ashley Artus just Genius casting and Lynne Wilmot, what chemistry,what relish, what love, what inspiration, both of them, a theatrical match from heaven.

  • I am getting rather confused, since there are two shows being referenced by the site.

    Am I to understand that the version that will be touring the US in 2011 is different from this version?

    More precisely: Will Josh Owen Jones be in the version touring in the US in 2011?

  • @VBZBII This new production is coming to the US next year, only differences is the cast. Completely different cast.

  • JUST ONE WORD........ WHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAA­AAAA!!!!!!!

  • @pauhil and another one, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

  • JUST ONE WORD........ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!­!!!!

  • Saw the penultimate performance at the Barbican, and it was mind-blowing. Just watching this trailer made me cry beacuse it all came flooding back to me :') Most amazing show!

  • I saw this at the birmingham hippodrome! it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!! never seen anything better before or after!

  • Deosn't hold a candle to the 20th anniversary concert cast.

  • @ExplodingRecycables do you not mean the 10th?

  • @MusicalsFan15 Yes, I do. My mistake.

  • @ExplodingRecycables

    What 20th anniversary concert? Do you mean the 10th?

  • @ExplodingRecycables Don't you mean the 10th anniversary....I totally agree....better cast.

  • @ExplodingRecycables There was no 20th Anniversary Concert. There was a 10th Anniversary Concert whose cast were teriffic though to say the 25th Anniversary Touring Cast were not better would be to be a stick-in-the mud purist. There was also a 25th Anniversary Concert whose cast was a mixed bag, though still pretty good.

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  • ¡SENCILLAMENTE GENIAL E IMPRESIONANTE!

  • whose singing that i dream a dream?

  • @TheHeretor Madalena Alberto.

  • @Linseyap thanks

  • I saw this on stage for the first time and an awesome first time it was too! :D

  • is there a dvd for this particular production

    i went to see it on its opening night and i would love to get a dvd of it!

  • @raitoyagami1992 I think there is one coming out in November but I'm not sure what it contains,just saw it on Amazon. Might be the Concert or the show!

  • i saw it last night for the first time ever at the 25th anniversary and it was so so amazing. The understudy played Jean Valjean instead of John Owen-Jones and he was absolutely fantastic :)

  • This production IS coming to America on Tour !!!!!!

  • Saw this last night in southampton, it was amazing, the Javert was EXCELLENT!! 

  • The song is called 'One Day More' and, well, pretty well the whole cast have a part in it. The character singing in this clip is Enjolras, leader of the student revolutionaries, played here by Jon Robyns. I have seen this show about six times now including once with the great Colm Wilkinson playing Valjean. He was the only one who made me cry, but I think this guy, (is it John Owen-Jones?) just might.

  • OMG I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THIS IN CHICAGO!!!!!!! JOJ FTW!!!!!!

  • @sdrhead Sadly John Owen-Jones will not be in the US Tour of this production as he is returning to the role of The Phantom in the London production of 'The Phantom of the Opera' (since the whole ''Paint Never Dries' debacle ALW has needed a coup to get him back in the Phans good graces). There is a brand new cast for the US tour who begin rehearsals in November.

  • @PuppetsNStuff Getting me more hyper now- in the 25th anniversary concert book it doesn't say '25th Anniversary Tour cast' and then list them it says '2010 Barbican cast' as if they are staying! are they? are they? i hope so! i want to see the new production!

  • @PuppetsNStuff You mean Jonas?

  • Ive met most of this productions cast , ive met Ashley Artus, Lynne Wilmot ( three times ) John Owen Jones, Gareth Gates ( six times ) Earl Carpenter, Beth Davies and a few others. Such a lovely lovely cast and all so so talented and perfect. Gareth is a gentleman and so is John Owen Jones who is very humble and lovely to meet. Ashley is so lovely and has a joke with you as so does Lynne who is another friendly soul. I so so wish that the tour would do a second UK tour with that amazing cast!:)

  • just love Ashley Artus in Master of the house.....so miss this show and love watching this advert. fab.....captures the show perfectly!

  • Ashley Artus and Lynne Wilmot are just aaaaaamazing in this show at: 1:02!

    Met them both and they are the sweetest people you could ever meet bless them!

    Fab production and fab song....mater of the house and beggar at the dance. thanku so much for posting. Love the tour and so so sad that its nearly over....

    all my love to the cast xxx

  • @TyCerrigfarm yes Ashley has such a great face and he puts his heart and soul in to that character..he is the best ever and no one in my opinion can do it better than him. long may he continue in that role with the splendid Lynne Wilmot and the great John Owen Jones who is an angel. great tour advert i must say.please please pray that the tour adds more dates and comes out on dvd with that cast.

  • It was weird to see the new set desing, but on the onther hand IT LOOKS AMAZING!!! Its refreshing and still the same. 5*!

    I saw Les MIsérables 3 times in The Netherlands and i loved it! :D

  • i seen it today in bristol. and it was muuuuuch better than the 10th anniversary, i met gareth gates and hes lovely, the enjolras was owain williams. and he was ammmaazing. such a powerful welsh voice. also in bristol we went round the back and seen all the characters, they will sign your book and take pictures, they are lovely :). and my friend beth davies is in it she had to pull gareth gates out for me, he was abit shy x

  • IM SEEING IT IN SOUTHAMPTON! AHHH

  • This looks amazing! I just wish it were the TAC Dream Cast..I have no doubt these guys will put on a breathtaking show, but the Dream Cast will always be a personal favorite of mine <3

  • I love it.

    Prefer Gareth Gates as Marius....

    

  • because it is not nick jonas as marius?

  • For some reason, Jon Robyns looks like a young Bob Geldof in this video.

  • Sorry to say this but I really don't like it. For me, I think the 10th Anniversary is more better than this. They are not in the same league of those dream cast!!

  • awwh what about javert

  • I saw this last night! I've never spent a night in the theatre so well.... no, it was the best night of my life!

  • Fail

  • @jordi57clark i didn't see you, then. it was a great show =) i was wondering, though, why you kids didn't get to do the bows in the end ?

  • @jordi57clark did you perform for the last show in Paris (it was a sunday, jully, 4th i think) ? =) 

  • still prefer the 10th anniversary cast!. =D

  • @takemeforever2 what i tthought before seeing them live

  • @takemeforever2 But you can't recreate that. You have to move on and accept a new cast

  • @StephenTomlinson100 i know, unfortunatly! but i'm still sad for knowing that i never had the chance to be at the 10th anniversary...and that probably, no cast wil ever be that amazing and professional!!

  • I think I screamed for five minutes.

    JOJ and Earl Carpenter. Too much awesome at once. :D

  • How could two white people have a black daughter? Both the Thernadiers were white. 0.O

  • What is this BEN HUR meets OLIVER? Absolutely dreadful re-conception. The Producer and new creative team should be ashamed of themselves. Then again by this sample they are shameless.

  • @NYCHombre did you actually see the show ??

  • Laughed at Rosalind's face at 1:30. =P

  • 2:12 to 2:35 just brings me to tears!!

  • Lea salonga will be playing Fantine in the anniversary and nick jonas will be playing marius

  • who's playing fantine??

  • i love eponine. she's such an epic character! totally my fav out of every musical.

  • This is the international touring company, not the 25th Special Concert

  • Please can someone tell me what's the name of the song starting at 2.38 and who's singing it? Thanks :)

  • @dididoum That's "One Day More" sung by the whole cast. This particular part of the songs goes with Enjolras and Marius.

  • @Becketts43 That song is right near the end

  • saw this in Paris on 28 May and seeing the last night on 4 July. Fantastic theatre opposite Notre Dame de Paris - great views for dinner before the show and afterwards Ile de la citie all lit up.

    Not a huge fan of the show - seen it in London a few times. And I saw a French version last year in Lausanne. This version seems to be more like the original French version. I even got a little emotional a couple of times!

    It was odd seeing it in Paris with French subtitles though!

  • gareth gates plays marius!

  • did they tinker w/ the orchestrations more? these don't sound NEARLY as shitty as the Broadway Revival orchestrations

  • @Disneydanny Yes they had new orchestrations - I went to see it at the Hippodrome and I loved them, even though I still love the originals. They used more folk instruments like recorders etc. for some scenes and the strings were more isolated and romantic. =]

  • @Disneydanny The Broadway Revival Orchestrations are the same, just this has more instruments.

  • It's coming to Detroit in March, 2011!

  • i don't like the eponine here..

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  • I hate this version. It's like a f***ing cartoon. What is this, a joke?

    The 10th anniversary version in London with Colm Wilkinson is clearly the best. I don't like the new one

  • @dwave08 Please let me know what cartoons you watched as a child as they must have been pretty damn awesome.

  • happy barricade day! (or eve, depending on the time zone)

  • My favourite musical!!Oh my God,i don't know guys where they're going to but definitely not in Greece!!!!!!!that's really bad :( I want to see this musical alive not just on youtube!!!!!!:'(

  • Did anyone see this new version yet? Are we old fans going to be disappointed or is it even better?

    Thanks for your help!

  • @NicoleCollard it was beyond amazing fantastic cast and just mind blowing

  • @NicoleCollard It depends. I'm a fan of the original, and I didn't like the concept or, for that matter, the cast that much. I thought most of it did, indeed, seem like a cartoon version, as dwave08 has called it. Very over the top. There are great moments in there, but overall, it didn't touch me at all. I'm sure it's very impressive for many who see it, but it wasn't for me.

  • @LegsandJump Thanks for your sincere answer... That's exactly what I was thinking about this version. It seems pretty impressive in the video, but I'm very conservative when it comes to this musical and I'm quite afraid, because they're going to bring this version to my country due to the 25th anniversary and I'm not sure about me liking it. :S

    Thanks again. :)

  • @NicoleCollard Don't mean to put you in a quandary but I went and I thought it was exceptional, and I've seen the original London version twice. I thought that the new sets and new orchestrations gave it new vitality, and thought most of the cast were exceptional. However, if your favourite songs are I Dreamed a Dream and On My Own then you may find you don't like them - I found the actresses of Fantine and Eponine had voices that didn't suit the material. Javert and JV were stunning though.

  • @MrBarsty Thank you very much for your answer! I see there are a lot of opinions around. I'm a really big fan of this musical, and I suppose I will be startled by the whole production, anyway. I love 'I dreamed a dream' and 'On my own', but I prefer Javert and Valjean as characters. On the other hand, the actors won't be the same in my country, so I hope they will be well cast. :)

  • @NicoleCollard i only saw that one and i loved it, my mum saw the original and she liked the new one better. to each their own i guess, but i don't think you will be disapointed. and i thought the cast was great, espacially Valjean, Fantine and the Thénardiers

  • seen this in edinburgh was awesome! outstanding performances

  • My cousin was playing Cosette in this

    Soo jealous I love this musical so much

  • God, why don't they come to the US? D:

  • @kanaplz From what I've heard, they're going to come to New York... Or am I mistaken?

  • @Becketts43 The tour is coming to the US. There's a list of places posted somewhere- I know they're going to Utah.

  • @Becketts43 The US tour begins rehearsals in Oct, plays The Papermill in Nov and Dec and then begins touring the US in Jan of 2011.

  • @Becketts43 I thought les mis was already on Broadway? I think the tour finishes soon! would be amazing if that cast did go to Broadway!

  • @Becketts43 According to broadwayworlddotcom it will be at the Papermill Playhouse in NJ before setting out on a US tour.

  • @kanaplz i know they are coming to LA summer 2011. the ahmanson just announced their season, and there was the 25th anniversary tour!

  • @kanaplz they are :P Los Angeles in a year from now :)

  • @kanaplz you guys have the broadway version though

  • @kanaplz They are planning to come to the US!

  • @kanaplz apparently they r in the fall! first stop is papermill playhouse in new jersey, but I'm not sure where else they go... eagerly awaiting it!!!

  • @kanaplz they will go to broadway; just not exactly the same cast, and not right now

  • @kanaplz I wish it would do a second UK tour, we love it. I am so upset that the tour is nearly over. I am sure there will be a tour in the US but it will probably be a different cast. Is the show not on Broadway?

  • @kanaplz they are coming to the u.s...i dont know if its this particular cast but les mis is going to be on tour in the u.s sometime this year or next.

  • Fabulous show, saw it in Norwich. The whole cast were brilliant, but the highlight for me was Gareth Gates as Marius. Other outstanding performances came from Eponine and John Owen Jones as Jean Valjean.

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  • i just watched this in Edinburgh tonight it was amazing! visually the best show i have ever seen the set was unbelievable and well the singing was obviously mind blowing! absolutely flawless you need to see it!!

  • Oh..God..I love Jon Robyns...

  • do they sell posters for this production at the theatres? would really love one when i go..

  • Just saw this last week, it was SO AMAZING. best show i've ever seen, will remember it for a long time. Gareth Gates was fantastic!

  • @forevermeg did they sell posters when you went? would really love one from this production

  • @markjameshowe i'm not too sure. they were selling lots of things though including a CD, i think a poster must have been on sale too.

  • I just saw it last night, one of the best nights of my life. Some awe-inspiring projection work and sets. And of course the performances gave me chills all night. Rosalind James was outstanding as Eponine! I really hope you all get a chance to see it.

  • @respectingopinions they still have their signature revolving stage yes?