Les Miserables 10th Anniversary I Dream A Dream

Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert a.k.a. Les Misérables in Concert is a concert version of the musical Les Misérables, produced to celebrate its 10th anniversary. It was filmed in October 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall and released on DVD and VHS in 1998 and re-released on DVD in North America in 2008. It stars Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean, Philip Quast as Inspector Javert, Michael Ball as Marius Pontmercy, Lea Salonga as Éponine, Judy Kuhn as Cosette, Ruthie Henshall as Fantine, and several others, and was directed by John Caird. The performers were chosen from London, Broadway and Australian productions of the show.

Ruthie Henshall:
She made her mark in London's West End in the late 1980s and early 1990s, appearing in Cats, Miss Saigon (graduating from the chorus to the second female lead), Children of Eden and Les Misérables as Fantine. Her first starring role came in the 1993 trans-Atlantic transfer of the Broadway smash Crazy for You, with a score by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, opening at the Prince Edward Theatre. Her performance earned her the first of four Olivier Award nominations.

In 1994, Henshall starred in She Loves Me, winning the Olivier as Best Actress in a Musical. That same year, she performed a concert of Gershwin songs at London's Royal Festival Hall. She recreated her role of Fantine for the 10th Anniversary Concert performance of Les Miz at the Royal Albert Hall in October 1995. In 1996, she took on the role of Nancy in producer Cameron Mackintosh's hit revival of Oliver! at the famed London Palladium. From 1997-1998, Henshall starred as Roxie Hart in the West End revival of Chicago.

Henshall was cast in the title role of the stage musical adaptation of the Francis Ford Coppola film Peggy Sue Got Married, which opened in London in August 2001 to mixed reviews. Although it closed after a run of just eight weeks, she was once again nominated for an Olivier for her performance.

Henshall has appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, has toured Britain in the revue The Magnificent Musicals, and has performed in Hey, Mr. Producer, a celebration of the works of Cameron Mackintosh. Her solo recordings include The Ruthie Henshall Album, Pilgrim, and Love Is Here to Stay, a collection of Gershwin tunes. She succeeded the role of Marian Halcombe from Maria Freidman in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, from July 2005until February 2006. She played the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. The show opened on 7 May at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, but closed early on 13 September.

Henshall's Broadway credits include Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together and The Vagina Monologues. Her first feature film, a musical version of A Christmas Carol with Kelsey Grammer, aired on NBC in the United States in November 2004 and was released as a commercial attraction to theaters in the UK and Europe. She appeared in the four-part BBC Television series The Sound of Musicals in January 2006.

Early in 2006, a Welsh portraitist named Roger P. Thomas said Henshall had given permission for him to paint her likeness, so that prints could be sold to raise £60,000 for charity.

In 2008 and 2009, Henshall appeared as an Ice Judge on the ITV1 show Dancing On Ice. Her appointment to the panel caused some controversy as she is the only judge with no experience in ice skating.

After Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent in 2009, Ruthie Henshall's rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables has become a YouTube hit with collectively more than three million viewings .

Personal life:
Henshall was born in Bromley, South East London, England. Her father David was a journalist, latterly editor of the East Anglian Daily Times, the Suffolk morning newspaper. Henshall's early ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she lacked the necessary physique. At the age of 19, after studying at the Laine Theatre Arts drama school in Epsom, she earned her first professional credit in the Cascade Review at the West Cliff Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea before taking part in a provincial production of A Chorus Line. Her sister, Noel, died in 2007 of a drugs overdose in the US.

She then met Tim Howar, theatre actor and lead singer of the band Van Tramp; and her male co-star lead in the West End production of "Peggy Sue Got Married". The couple married in September 2004 at Mistley in Essex, and have two children together, both born in Ipswich, Suffolk: Lily Amalia (born 16th February 2003) and Dolly Olivia (born 14th January 2005).They live close to her parents on the Essex/Suffolk border.

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[silencesings]

I was crying like a child when saw and heard this performance. Oh my god...So pure, simple, and beautiful...

[deafsubtitles]

@silencesings REALLY cuts to the heart this song does.

[tdsgnr]

One word to describe this song: beautiful. I'm 16 and maybe at my age most of the people don't like this kind of music but I do. It's way better than actual songs.

[deafsubtitles]

You don't need to apologize for your music taste's. I was into oldies before it became "fashionable." I have an eclectic tatse, not just one or two genre.

Enjoy.

[sophiewill7935]

Team Ruthie!

[ilovejosephriviera]

I'm a huge Lea fan, and I loved her Eponine (best ever!) but I really prefer Ruthie as Fantine! Her voice isn't perfect like Lea's but that's what made her Fantine so utterly believable. Even though Lea was crying her eyes out during her performance as Fantine, it didn't affect me as much as Ruthie's performance. I love how the raw emotion in her voice makes it rough yet... beautiful. :D

[AnnieVesper]

I love Ruthie and her retro-sounding. She's best Fantine for me. I like Lea and Kerry too.

[SoundEnergyVideo]

This version came out the year of my birth, still can't stop listening to it!

[cdciam09]

@darkanuss Ruthie Henshall

[Thenachoscheese]

She's the best Fantine! Such emotion in her voice <3

[gupilen]

Vous avez raison ... c'est un ange.

[111melonhead]

oh my god , how i love this . I'm 15 now but began listening to this when i was 12 , starting with this version og this song . loved it ever since . Sing it my self every time i have the chance . beautiful <3

[JeffUK]

@CarriePont

Yeah I totally agree. Salonga's version was kind of insincere and she was just going for the high notes (regardless of how it made her face look). Henshall's version just touches me on another level that I can hardly articulate.

[missemilyjd]

angelic...beautiful.. -3