her performance is one of the best i've ever seen together with glenn close's. You can feel the butterflies in the character's stomach as she returns to the stage after years. Arrangements are excellent, too.
Salonga can't articulate the words better, can she?! She's heaven for a lip reader! Anyway, she has never played Norma Desmond in a full blown theater play, has she?
@marcosvalenca If she plays Norma Desmond she needs really good aging make-up. Salonga is too young for this marvelous role. But I won't doubt she could do it. I've known her since Disney's Aladdin.
@josjoa Verdade, ambos cantam com o coração, mas dizer que como uma opinião. Eu amo os dois muito, mas eu não diria que ambos são os melhores versões. As versões anteriores foram cantadas por grandes lendas, como Elaine Paige, Patti LuPone, e Betty Buckley. :) Obrigado pelo comentário.
I absolutely love this version...I have to sing this amazing song in a few weeks - very excited !!! If you get 5 mins can you check out my first attempt at a video
She's such a fantastic singer! Words cannot begin to describe the talent this woman has! Personally, while I love both versions, I can't compare this to Chris Colfer's seeing as she has had much more experience. They are both amazingly talented, in my opinion but their talent lies in different levels. :D Thanks for posting this!
@NoKrakana Yep. We know that by heart. No question about that. She's a goddess. But I'm discouraging expressions of comparison such as that. It's going to cause a raucous of arguments. I'm just saying. :D I'm on your side in this idea, though.
@Veniola see... this is exactly what I was avoiding. They were both REALLY good; it's just a matter of who like which one better. Nonetheless, they're both really good. Lea just has more years in her--with that comes experience. But, I don't want this brought up anymore. They're both really good.
@bonbonquest This concert was in Manila, 1992, making Lea 21 years old. She has been singing since she was 8 but professionally, meaning Broadway & West End, just 3 years. This & the Carnegie Hall, imo, are still her best concerts. I still think her Sun & Moon audition even w/ 2 errors w/ Schoenberg on d piano is her best song. Her voice was so pure & innocent. It got her the role of Kim.
@H1delta nope. this was not in 1992. this was in 2002... It could never have been in 1992 since she mentioned the 9/11 incident in this concert... Also, the musical Sunset Boulevard opened in 1993, meaning this song did not exist in 1992... I think you have an earlier concert in mind where the stage had a cool sun ray design and she sang Think of Me and other such songs...
@H1delta and, nope.. not 3 years on West-end and Broadway... she started in 1989 in the West-End and culminated Broadway in 1993.. that makes 5 years for MS alone... plus periodic returns in 1997 still for Miss Saigon (both West-End and Broadway)... also, in 1993, after Saigon Tony, she played Eponine on Broadway... moreover, her 2002 Broadway stint in Flower Drum Song and her 2006 stint as Fantine in Les Miz Broadway, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega...
@julie223783 Well, of all the singers I've heard sing this song, hers is the only one I keep playing over and over. I guess Glenn Close is more to your liking.
I love her voice, I could sit and listen to it for hours and hours. She doesn't have enough songs out there for that though :( oh well repeat, repeat and repeat again :D
I love her voice, I could sit and listen to it for hours and hours. She doesn't have enough songs out there for that though :( oh well repeat, repeat and repeat again :D
lea salonga is my hero! she is the first woman of Asian ethnicity to play eponine and fantine (les miserables) and she is the voice of two of my favorite disney princesses ( Mulan and Princess Jasmine! btw mulan is counted as a princess)
@bakere512 Not only was she Mulan and Jasmine, but she also did two bouts with Les Miserable as Eponine and later again as Fantine, was Eponine in the 10th Anniversary Concert and reappeared again as Fantaine in the 25th Anniversary Concert, was the original Kim in Miss Saigon, and has done numerous shows besides the famous mentioned.
@jemmirox12 yes he did! I almost cried. I can't believe he'll be "graduating" after season 3, along with Lea & Cory. I can do without Rachel & Finn, but I cannot imagine 'Glee' without Kurt. =*(
@siokhian I'd give her first place ex aequo with Chris Colfer... In this kind of songs women always will be better because Chris is working in his falsetto so she is like more natural. But I love Chris voice... it's so clean, like crystal bells :) Look here, it's him: /watch?v=X-z9aaG7ljA
Hey people !! Why not enjoy this beautiful song by the wonderful heavenly- voiced Lea. and please stop making comparison !!!.Just concentrate on the person on the stage.Give credit to someone who deserved it too.and please refrain from discussing about the characters in Les Miserables.Thank you.
Salonga is doing HER own tribute to one of HER favorite songs during HER concert. She's going to sing it at HER key in HER own lovely way! Why the f*ck are some people expecting her to act and sing it like she's on Broadway singing this song??? Glenn Close didn't even sing it at the "original" key because there is no such things as a standard key. The key is adjusted to whoever is selected to play the role! MORONS.
Norma Desmond-lite. Very lite. She sings very beautifully, no question about it, but it’s not a song that suits her vocal or acting strengths. If you want to see this song sung and enacted in a manner that Andrew Lloyd Weber intended, then you’d have to check out a much less proficient singer, but an overwhelmingly convincing actress, Glenn Close.
oh god! lea is so wonderful!! it's a really gorgeous interpretation!! i love ruthie's ideas too - but god, was not expecting to have that reaction!! shes a goddess xx
the first time i watched lea on stage, she was only about 7 years old. lea is so pretty and talented. i am always having goose pimples when i hear her singing.
The Key isn't lowered that much, compared to the original, I actually used the score that she was using for my class in the Australian Conservatorium of Music here in Brisbane a few months ago.
And I posted at the wrong video. Mea culpa, all apologies, please disregard the previous comment. This song is done WONDERFULLY by Lea, I *love* it, and I love her.
Lea is very clearly a Mezzo - and mostly a belter. I love her, she's a goddess, but this song is for a Soprano (or a Mezzo who can go to A5 in legit - look at the context, it's for an OPERA!) and should be sung mostly in legit for the higher notes. Besides, the vocal run at the end (the original run, not the mangled version from the movie) going to the A5 is what MAKES this song, and it's not even in here.
This song is a bad one for her. See Sarah Brightman doing this one.
:o my choir did this for our very last concert T_T this song makes me cry everytime i heard if on my choir tape. this is the first time seeing it on here and its so beautiful
actually, this is a bit lower than the original... even lower than the lowered version..
Patti LuPone's original version back in the West End production was too lofty for Glenn Close when the show moved to Broadway... so it was lowered.. and then everyone else used the lowered key since then..
Isn't it in the original novel of Les Miz, Fantine's daughter is Cosette? Eponine is the daughter of the man who took in Cosette after Fantine died. Have they changed the story?
@MaryJosette80 they didn't change the story... Cosette is still Fantine's daughter while Eponine is the daughter of the Thénardiers... but they didn't take Cosette after Fantine died.. Fantine left her in their care while she worked (so people wouldn't discover that she had a bastard child)... after Fantine died Jean Valjean took Cosette because the Thénardiers were abusive.
@bonbonquest Actually, Fantine asked JV to take care of Cosette in her dying days and JV had to bribe the Thernardiers to take Cosette from them. But you're right. The Thernardiers mistreated Cosette. She was their servant.
I've been a great fan of Lea ever since seeing her performance in the 10th Anniveersary concert version of Les Miserbles. Besides a lovely voice she demonstrates tremendous acting talent also.
I'm a great fan of Dame Shirley, but feel it is unfair to compare her with Ms. Solanga based upon the rendition of one song. Both are accomplished artists, but in two very different performance genres.
Were you also part of the orchestra for her CD "Inspired" ? Did Gerald Solonga also do the orchestrations for the concert? Very musical and correct for Lea's dramatic voice . It's a shame the rich company disbanded the orchestra and chorale in favor of four basketball teams !! I thought that sort of uncreative thinking only took place here.
Whoever put this arrangement together they paced it way too slow. She sounds funny with the lyrics because they are so stretched out. It's like she's talk-singing...
Still, just because it is a shortened version and just because it is in a medley doesn't mean they should tamper with the song's time. I've heard hundreds on medley's where the pace speeds up and slows down depending on which song the artist is singing. She's a great vocalist, but this is just lazy arranging.
An addendum to my reply to goerizal's assessment: I just did survey on YouTube some of the most notable, even legandary, Norma Desmond's such as Patti Lupone, Betty Buckley, and Glenn Close. All of these women, Lea included, bring something different to the piece.
And I want to say what Lea'a performance brings to this piece is not only truly unique to her and NOT FOUND in any of the Lupone, Buckley, et al. performances but it also just works in general.
too much gums and teeth, reasonable singing but no more beyond mere performance, not enough emotion relevant to the intention and setting of the song. she sounds like she never was in the set her character vacated long time ago.
her breath control, her vocal range, her emotion and facial expressions.. her voice! simply phenominal with every single performance. what i wouldn't give to have even the slightest bit of her talent.
lol, it's supposed to be cardboard trees, then painted seas :)) makes me wonder if she realized it, and if she did, it's great that she didn't make it obvious :))
Whoa orchestra calm down, you're drowning her out
AllStevePwrfl 5 months ago
her performance is one of the best i've ever seen together with glenn close's. You can feel the butterflies in the character's stomach as she returns to the stage after years. Arrangements are excellent, too.
ruthiehensh 5 months ago
She is too young to really understand Sunset Blvd. She has a beautiful voice!
greentigereye 6 months ago
Where is that song from?
EponineKim1 6 months ago
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BeauteReine 7 months ago
She is the best!!!!!
sa65cn1 7 months ago
@bluebox0199
Its because its a film studio she is returnng to.
dadeanocode 8 months ago
@dadeanocode @bluebox0199 naah, actually she made a bit of a mistake with the lyrics. but, yeah... It's forgivable.
bonbonquest 8 months ago
My god! The cardboard seas, the painted trees.....! Seriously?
bluebox0199 8 months ago
@bluebox0199 seriously what?
ruthiehensh 5 months ago
@bluebox0199 ... imagination .... think Deep
smallsis222 5 months ago
Salonga can't articulate the words better, can she?! She's heaven for a lip reader! Anyway, she has never played Norma Desmond in a full blown theater play, has she?
marcosvalenca 8 months ago
@marcosvalenca hmmm... Yes, I agree... Yes, I agree... and no, she hasn't played Norma Yet. ^_^
bonbonquest 8 months ago
@marcosvalenca If she plays Norma Desmond she needs really good aging make-up. Salonga is too young for this marvelous role. But I won't doubt she could do it. I've known her since Disney's Aladdin.
marcosvalenca 8 months ago
@marcosvalenca Yep. She really could do it. In fact, she played Grizabella in Cats and the make-up made her believably old. :)
bonbonquest 8 months ago
Não conhecia as versões de Elaine Paige e Betty Luponni, pelo que muito agradeço, aumentando os meus conhecimentos. Agradeço por isso
josjoa 8 months ago
As melhores versões são dela e do Colfer. Ambos cantam com o coração
josjoa 8 months ago
@josjoa Verdade, ambos cantam com o coração, mas dizer que como uma opinião. Eu amo os dois muito, mas eu não diria que ambos são os melhores versões. As versões anteriores foram cantadas por grandes lendas, como Elaine Paige, Patti LuPone, e Betty Buckley. :) Obrigado pelo comentário.
bonbonquest 8 months ago
Truly wonderful!
ShandySteve 8 months ago
Want a duet with Chris Colfer singing it ! Would be awesome.
marlislash 8 months ago
I absolutely love this version...I have to sing this amazing song in a few weeks - very excited !!! If you get 5 mins can you check out my first attempt at a video
Leysin11 9 months ago
She's such a fantastic singer! Words cannot begin to describe the talent this woman has! Personally, while I love both versions, I can't compare this to Chris Colfer's seeing as she has had much more experience. They are both amazingly talented, in my opinion but their talent lies in different levels. :D Thanks for posting this!
xaykocysthesecond 9 months ago
dear replay button, sorry for the damage i caused for you by hitting you madly.
ars23enal 9 months ago 3
i think i just cried.
ars23enal 9 months ago
every hair in my body just stood up..........i love lea salonga, she is brilliant and one of my favorite artists of all time
soccergrl201037 9 months ago
this arrangement is as if it never said goodbye............ um, glenn close anyone?
slytherinnyc 9 months ago
WAYYYY better than Chris Colfer.
NoKrakana 9 months ago 2
@NoKrakana Yep. We know that by heart. No question about that. She's a goddess. But I'm discouraging expressions of comparison such as that. It's going to cause a raucous of arguments. I'm just saying. :D I'm on your side in this idea, though.
bonbonquest 9 months ago 3
@bonbonquest Your point is very valid. No point in starting an argument here. =)
NoKrakana 9 months ago
@NoKrakana :( I thought they were both really good... Lea Salonga and Chris Colfer are my two theatrical idols. :(
Veniola 9 months ago 3
@Veniola see... this is exactly what I was avoiding. They were both REALLY good; it's just a matter of who like which one better. Nonetheless, they're both really good. Lea just has more years in her--with that comes experience. But, I don't want this brought up anymore. They're both really good.
bonbonquest 9 months ago
@bonbonquest This concert was in Manila, 1992, making Lea 21 years old. She has been singing since she was 8 but professionally, meaning Broadway & West End, just 3 years. This & the Carnegie Hall, imo, are still her best concerts. I still think her Sun & Moon audition even w/ 2 errors w/ Schoenberg on d piano is her best song. Her voice was so pure & innocent. It got her the role of Kim.
H1delta 9 months ago
@H1delta nope. this was not in 1992. this was in 2002... It could never have been in 1992 since she mentioned the 9/11 incident in this concert... Also, the musical Sunset Boulevard opened in 1993, meaning this song did not exist in 1992... I think you have an earlier concert in mind where the stage had a cool sun ray design and she sang Think of Me and other such songs...
bonbonquest 9 months ago
@H1delta and, nope.. not 3 years on West-end and Broadway... she started in 1989 in the West-End and culminated Broadway in 1993.. that makes 5 years for MS alone... plus periodic returns in 1997 still for Miss Saigon (both West-End and Broadway)... also, in 1993, after Saigon Tony, she played Eponine on Broadway... moreover, her 2002 Broadway stint in Flower Drum Song and her 2006 stint as Fantine in Les Miz Broadway, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega...
And she started singing in Phils at 7, not 8.
bonbonquest 9 months ago
its a very young voice singing an older part - its not her song...she a fantastic artist but not her song
julie223783 10 months ago
@julie223783 I love Miss Salonga. She is a GREAT STAGE ACTRESS. But I must agree with you. :)
onnabugeisha007 10 months ago
@julie223783 Well, of all the singers I've heard sing this song, hers is the only one I keep playing over and over. I guess Glenn Close is more to your liking.
H1delta 9 months ago
First saw her as eponine in Les Mis - a great girl and great singer
seriphone 10 months ago
Her voice is absolutely beautiful, now if only the song didn't drag so much (the phrasing feels kind of awkward). :-/
GenineY 10 months ago
Prisitne, gorgeous voice!
Patti129able 10 months ago
her voice is perfect
dwd1010 10 months ago
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I love her voice, I could sit and listen to it for hours and hours. She doesn't have enough songs out there for that though :( oh well repeat, repeat and repeat again :D
Crimson4tears 10 months ago
I love her voice, I could sit and listen to it for hours and hours. She doesn't have enough songs out there for that though :( oh well repeat, repeat and repeat again :D
Crimson4tears 10 months ago
musical Goddess, isn't she? :)
mspatrisia92 10 months ago 3
amazing singer. amazing actress. moving performance. goosebumps.
jammin455 10 months ago
lea salonga is my hero! she is the first woman of Asian ethnicity to play eponine and fantine (les miserables) and she is the voice of two of my favorite disney princesses ( Mulan and Princess Jasmine! btw mulan is counted as a princess)
moonlightshadow1122 10 months ago
why does her name sound so familiar? what she mulan?
bakere512 10 months ago
@bakere512 Mulan and Princess Jasmine... =)
bonbonquest 10 months ago 2
@bonbonquest NO WAY!!!!!
bakere512 10 months ago
@bonbonquest just looked her up...shes also pocahontas! WOW!
bakere512 10 months ago
@bakere512 No she wasn't. Judy Kuhn was the singing voice of Pocahontas. However, both Kuhn and Salonga have done Les Mis.
HappinessGuano 10 months ago
@bakere512 she not pochahontas.. Just jasmine and Mulan
greencarnation37 10 months ago
@bonbonquest well the singing voices.
mikko026 9 months ago
@bakere512 , Yes she was the singing voice of Mulan. The speaking voice was done by someone else.
fritzterrific 10 months ago
@bakere512 yes absolutely!!
ryr98 10 months ago
@bakere512 Not only was she Mulan and Jasmine, but she also did two bouts with Les Miserable as Eponine and later again as Fantine, was Eponine in the 10th Anniversary Concert and reappeared again as Fantaine in the 25th Anniversary Concert, was the original Kim in Miss Saigon, and has done numerous shows besides the famous mentioned.
HappinessGuano 9 months ago
@HappinessGuano Fantine*
HappinessGuano 9 months ago
I don't know what's more beautiful, her voice or the woman herself.
HappinessGuano 10 months ago
@HappinessGuano both
H1delta 9 months ago
cris colfer did a beautiful job at this song!
jemmirox12 10 months ago 13
@jemmirox12 yes he did! I almost cried. I can't believe he'll be "graduating" after season 3, along with Lea & Cory. I can do without Rachel & Finn, but I cannot imagine 'Glee' without Kurt. =*(
JackieBorelli 7 months ago 2
@JackieBorelli I agree. Chris is good and all... but no talking about Glee here! Go elaborate on Glee in a Glee video!
bonbonquest 7 months ago
Lea salonga is my HERO.
jemmirox12 10 months ago
@siokhian I'd give her first place ex aequo with Chris Colfer... In this kind of songs women always will be better because Chris is working in his falsetto so she is like more natural. But I love Chris voice... it's so clean, like crystal bells :) Look here, it's him: /watch?v=X-z9aaG7ljA
Naparstnica13 10 months ago
amazing voice-- i wish i could sing like that.
the carboard sea, the painted trees.... ahahaha. she is still nervous enough to flip the lyrics.
beautiful.
caitdo96 11 months ago
Hey people !! Why not enjoy this beautiful song by the wonderful heavenly- voiced Lea. and please stop making comparison !!!.Just concentrate on the person on the stage.Give credit to someone who deserved it too.and please refrain from discussing about the characters in Les Miserables.Thank you.
1419sunnyside 11 months ago
This is truly great singing!
FredONeil1 11 months ago 4
@FredONeil1 you can say that again!
bonbonquest 11 months ago
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i love you miss. lea galing galing mu tlga
mod9199 1 year ago
i love you miss. lea galing galing mu tlga
mod9199 1 year ago
The best female vocalist on the planet!
benagustine 1 year ago
The Fantine Cosette Eponine discussion here is hilarious! Lol!
annief31 1 year ago 2
Salonga is doing HER own tribute to one of HER favorite songs during HER concert. She's going to sing it at HER key in HER own lovely way! Why the f*ck are some people expecting her to act and sing it like she's on Broadway singing this song??? Glenn Close didn't even sing it at the "original" key because there is no such things as a standard key. The key is adjusted to whoever is selected to play the role! MORONS.
aaprato 1 year ago 5
@avesraggiana: Why are comparing a single outing in a CONCERT with Glenn Close's performance, in character, ON BROADWAY??? Duh! Duh! And another DUH!
joshgardell 1 year ago 3
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Norma Desmond-lite. Very lite. She sings very beautifully, no question about it, but it’s not a song that suits her vocal or acting strengths. If you want to see this song sung and enacted in a manner that Andrew Lloyd Weber intended, then you’d have to check out a much less proficient singer, but an overwhelmingly convincing actress, Glenn Close.
avesraggiana 1 year ago
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@avesraggiana :) Yep, Glenn is awesome! However, Andrew explicitly stated that Elaine is his best Norma, :)
bonbonquest 1 year ago
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The origonal by elane paige is the best !
bodboy106 1 year ago
"oh please don't ever make me say goodbye . . . " i can relate to that alot
irisiris4evr 1 year ago
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I like Lea but this is the Disney version of Norma Desmond...
skyechas 1 year ago
@skyechas yeah i can't listen to this without imagining some disney cartoon character. but she's a beautiful singer
Nobody297SRS 1 year ago
Very good version but NO One has topped Babs version!
daveyd25 1 year ago
@daveyd25 try ruthie henshall
Maranedy 1 year ago
oh god! lea is so wonderful!! it's a really gorgeous interpretation!! i love ruthie's ideas too - but god, was not expecting to have that reaction!! shes a goddess xx
catiecop 1 year ago 3
@klaverboy1531 Neeee. dats pia douwes :P ! ookal doet Simone dit liedje toch wel errrrrrg goed.
EliseWhatever 1 year ago
this is the original key.....dumb asses
Saigon10185 1 year ago 5
とっても素敵な音楽、ありがとうございます。
gattin38 1 year ago
Lea Salonga's rendition,seductive voice & beauty,,,the most of us fell captive to her charmes.
maki11able1 1 year ago 4
the first time i watched lea on stage, she was only about 7 years old. lea is so pretty and talented. i am always having goose pimples when i hear her singing.
lourdesstone 1 year ago 4
The Key isn't lowered that much, compared to the original, I actually used the score that she was using for my class in the Australian Conservatorium of Music here in Brisbane a few months ago.
TheDwayneA 1 year ago 4
To Andre Moss:
Cossett was Fantine's daughter. Eponine was the daughter of the Inn Keeper.
I fell in love with Lea the first time I saw her. She is gorgeous as she is talented, what a voice.
scorpion6653 1 year ago 4
And I posted at the wrong video. Mea culpa, all apologies, please disregard the previous comment. This song is done WONDERFULLY by Lea, I *love* it, and I love her.
Loranysv 1 year ago 4
Lea is very clearly a Mezzo - and mostly a belter. I love her, she's a goddess, but this song is for a Soprano (or a Mezzo who can go to A5 in legit - look at the context, it's for an OPERA!) and should be sung mostly in legit for the higher notes. Besides, the vocal run at the end (the original run, not the mangled version from the movie) going to the A5 is what MAKES this song, and it's not even in here.
This song is a bad one for her. See Sarah Brightman doing this one.
Loranysv 1 year ago
:o my choir did this for our very last concert T_T this song makes me cry everytime i heard if on my choir tape. this is the first time seeing it on here and its so beautiful
kagome442 1 year ago
btw ANDREBMOSS
Eponine isn't Fantine's daughter... Eponine is Thenardier's daughter.
Fantine's daughter is Cosette..... ...
Malikorous09 1 year ago
This is not the original key is it? Or does it just sound higher?
MaryBridget12 2 years ago
actually, this is a bit lower than the original... even lower than the lowered version..
Patti LuPone's original version back in the West End production was too lofty for Glenn Close when the show moved to Broadway... so it was lowered.. and then everyone else used the lowered key since then..
bonbonquest 2 years ago
i love u lea!
rUkiAmy07 2 years ago 3
love music drama
christine222444 2 years ago
A beautiful recording. Lea Salonga is certainly a very talented artiste with a wide range of material.
IanScott750 2 years ago 2
yea my mistake I have no clue what I was thinking lol this Les Mis is my favorite musical I just had a moment haha
andrebmoss 2 years ago
She is Fantine's daughter Eponine
andrebmoss 2 years ago
and a couple of years later... SHE PLAYED FANTINE!
bonbonquest 2 years ago 2
@bonbonquest TAC, she was Eponine...I don't think I've heard of a cast version where she's actually played Fantine....
insanemistosingsmore 1 year ago
i think fantine's daughter is cosette and not eponine.
zeck91 2 years ago
no. Fantine's daughter is Cosette.
ifitoldyoutws 2 years ago 3
Eponine is not Fantine's daughter. She's the daughter of the innkeeper and his wife.
aishiteru125164 2 years ago 3
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me254065 2 years ago
Incorrect.
MusicalFan1701 2 years ago
Correct. And Cosette is Fantine's illegitimate daughter.
MusicalFan1701 2 years ago
@andrebmoss Fantine's daughter is Cosette!
ImogenWood 1 year ago
@andrebmoss um, check the facts...Fantine's daughter is COSETTE! I'm sorry, I'm a Les Mis Canon Nit-picker!
insanemistosingsmore 1 year ago
wait ... eponine isn't fantine's daughter, cosette is. but lea did play both eponine and fantine and i thought she played cosette, but im not sure.
64horsegirl 1 year ago
@andrebmoss btw cosette is fantines daughter not Eponine, eponine is the thanadiers daughter...just to but y straight :) x
coolchris12345 1 year ago
@andrebmoss Eponine is Fantine's daughter?
hairspraluva 1 year ago
@andrebmoss Eponine is Fantine's daughter?
hairspraluva 1 year ago
@andrebmoss , Cosette is Fantine's daughter. Eponine is the daughter of the Thenardiers.
WICKEDrocksHL26 1 year ago
@andrebmoss Fantine's daughter was Cosette.. Eponine one of Thenardier's daughters.
HattieRhubarb 1 year ago
@andrebmoss Cosette was Fantine's daughter, not Eponine
onlyalittlewicked 1 year ago
@andrebmoss yoh fantine's daughter is cosette...anyhoo lea salonga is awesome
Cute15tricia 1 year ago
@andrebmoss Eponine is not Fantine's daughter....Cosette is.
draymond1024 1 year ago
@andrebmoss
Isn't it in the original novel of Les Miz, Fantine's daughter is Cosette? Eponine is the daughter of the man who took in Cosette after Fantine died. Have they changed the story?
MaryJosette80 1 year ago
@MaryJosette80 they didn't change the story... Cosette is still Fantine's daughter while Eponine is the daughter of the Thénardiers... but they didn't take Cosette after Fantine died.. Fantine left her in their care while she worked (so people wouldn't discover that she had a bastard child)... after Fantine died Jean Valjean took Cosette because the Thénardiers were abusive.
bonbonquest 1 year ago
@bonbonquest Actually, Fantine asked JV to take care of Cosette in her dying days and JV had to bribe the Thernardiers to take Cosette from them. But you're right. The Thernardiers mistreated Cosette. She was their servant.
H1delta 9 months ago
i think i saw her once in broadway? is that you fantine of le mes?
Elevation023 2 years ago
I've been a great fan of Lea ever since seeing her performance in the 10th Anniveersary concert version of Les Miserbles. Besides a lovely voice she demonstrates tremendous acting talent also.
Republicrat74 2 years ago
shirley bassey beats them all!!!!
ronieweiss 2 years ago
I'm a great fan of Dame Shirley, but feel it is unfair to compare her with Ms. Solanga based upon the rendition of one song. Both are accomplished artists, but in two very different performance genres.
Republicrat74 2 years ago
she's so beautiful
HannahCHAU 2 years ago 4
voice of an angel!!!!
rellihcab2000 2 years ago 19
I've seen her version... wonderful version, too... she's also really, really good!
bonbonquest 2 years ago
I love Lea's voice, but the best rendition I have heard of this song is still Betty Buckley's, at her Carnegie Hall concert.
captainjill 2 years ago
Wonderful concert! i was once a member of this beautiful orchestra
fb0479 2 years ago
yeah... what happened to the orchestra depresses me up to now...
bonbonquest 2 years ago
Were you also part of the orchestra for her CD "Inspired" ? Did Gerald Solonga also do the orchestrations for the concert? Very musical and correct for Lea's dramatic voice . It's a shame the rich company disbanded the orchestra and chorale in favor of four basketball teams !! I thought that sort of uncreative thinking only took place here.
braintreecat 2 years ago
Did no one notice she got the lyrics wrong?
EDAM2 2 years ago
Should have been "The cardboard Trees, the painted Seas"
EDAM2 2 years ago
beautifull
NoelCanino 2 years ago
this is a treasure
JaredPaul54 2 years ago
how i wish i can sing like her..i really adore miss lea sAlonga
hihellven 2 years ago
Great song, beautiful voice. Too slow arrangement, though.
marcosvalenca 2 years ago
she looks a bit like Karen from "Will & Grace"
Beautiful song and she sings it beautifully
WickedHaydie98 2 years ago
Haha Yeah! The Up do and The vest...
popsyturvee 2 years ago
Yeah.. it's way too stretched and too slow paced, hahaha.
Anyway, she's still my favorite!
iMPERiOUS 2 years ago
does anyone else think she's about 20 years too young for this song??
ADProductions21 2 years ago
yeah.. if she would sing it in character... but since it's in a concert, well.. let's pardon her.. hheheeh!
I love her, though...
bonbonquest 2 years ago
Whoever put this arrangement together they paced it way too slow. She sounds funny with the lyrics because they are so stretched out. It's like she's talk-singing...
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 2 years ago
it's shortened version... in a medley... so they had to stretch the song... to make it seem longer...
bonbonquest 2 years ago
Still, just because it is a shortened version and just because it is in a medley doesn't mean they should tamper with the song's time. I've heard hundreds on medley's where the pace speeds up and slows down depending on which song the artist is singing. She's a great vocalist, but this is just lazy arranging.
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 2 years ago
Elaine Paige did it best. Period.
DonLouiVer 2 years ago
Amen!
markthetheatrekid 2 years ago
I agree... hehehe!
bonbonquest 2 years ago
i think maybe one of her best youtube performances... love her acting in this song...
M2deeD 2 years ago
it doesn't look like her.. but it is her:D
kahanima 2 years ago
Beautiful song!!
JerusalemHolyLand 3 years ago
WOW!
7mal5 3 years ago
Beautiful face and beautiful voice.
vidconceptual 3 years ago 2
An addendum to my reply to goerizal's assessment: I just did survey on YouTube some of the most notable, even legandary, Norma Desmond's such as Patti Lupone, Betty Buckley, and Glenn Close. All of these women, Lea included, bring something different to the piece.
And I want to say what Lea'a performance brings to this piece is not only truly unique to her and NOT FOUND in any of the Lupone, Buckley, et al. performances but it also just works in general.
opmik75 3 years ago
too much gums and teeth, reasonable singing but no more beyond mere performance, not enough emotion relevant to the intention and setting of the song. she sounds like she never was in the set her character vacated long time ago.
goerizal 3 years ago
Are you on crack? I was...transported.
So much so that I had to post a response.
(And I *never* post comments on YouTube.)
opmik75 3 years ago 11
thanks... hahhaha!.. we're on the same boat here...
bonbonquest 3 years ago
her breath control, her vocal range, her emotion and facial expressions.. her voice! simply phenominal with every single performance. what i wouldn't give to have even the slightest bit of her talent.
TinyTinkerbell07 3 years ago
the cardboard sea.. the painted trees? errrr... baliktad
totojulius 3 years ago
This song is from "Sunset Boulevard" and this is when Norma Desmond visits the set again.
MacNair 3 years ago
i know this song and i love the part too.. i was referring on lea's interchanging the lyrics
totojulius 3 years ago
teehee. baliktad nga. anyway, my respect for Lea is remains undiminished.
Tetiktetik 3 years ago
teehee. baliktad nga. anyway, my respect for Lea remains undiminished.
Tetiktetik 3 years ago
lol, it's supposed to be cardboard trees, then painted seas :)) makes me wonder if she realized it, and if she did, it's great that she didn't make it obvious :))
Takarachan14 3 years ago
No, the lyric reads, "the cardboard trees, the painted SCENES", referring to the painted scenery on a movie set.
avesraggiana 3 years ago
Actually you're wrong too. Its, "The cardboard trees, the painted SEAS..." I would think someone being such nitpick would get it right themselves...
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 2 years ago
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avesraggiana 2 years ago
I stand corrected...thank you.
avesraggiana 2 years ago
My God, I'm crying.
afhonorguard 3 years ago