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Summary: It was awesome!
Review: I love Les Miserables. It's gotta be the best musical ever made! If you're gonna only see one musical in your life, it should be this one!
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Summary: The Broadway version was better
Review: Now don't get me wrong, Les Miserables is my favorite b'way play, but I watched this video before I went to see the play. I went into the Imperial Theatre in NYC expecting to see people standing in front of microphones. The video left out important songs and details that you need in order to understand the play.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: For those of you who want a straight-to-the-point review of this video, here you go. Orchestra: incredible. Colm Wilkinson: goose-bumpingly good. Philip Quast: too evil (Javert's a cop doing his job, not Satan) but great voice. Ruthie Henshall: heart wrenchingly beautiful voice. Lea Salonga: great voice but too bitter. Michael Ball: adorable, incredible voice as usual. No one can touch him on this. Michael Maguire: sexy face, repulsive voice. Where was Anthony Warlow? Judy Kuhn: sounds better on the Broadway recording. They transposed "In My Life" and it sounds yucky. Jenny Galloway: Incredibly hilarious. Alun Armstrong: Incredibly annoying. Costumes: Beautiful. Sets: none. Anybody who wants to e-mail me and talk "Les Mis", please do.
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Summary: One of the best musical, ever!!!!
Review: I have owned this video some time before I had the chance to see the show in London, and I simple felt in love for it. Although I miss the scenario, this video still holds the musical strengh. I can only describe it as MARVELOUS. See it, buy it... you will not regreat.
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Summary: I love it !It's great!
Review: I have seen parts of it on tv and i try to seeit when it plys but the problem is i always missed the beginning. I loved Colm Wilkinson's part because i think that he looks just like the character of Valjean. Lea is a nice Eponine. Her voice is beautiful. Javert is good but he could be a little colder. Gavroche is nice i like is way of thinking and the way he stands up to Javert. Thénardier is nice but he is a bit annoying!I can't wait to go see the show!
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Summary: Extremely enjoyable, but not perfect
Review: The TAC is frequently called the dream cast of Les Miserables. I do believe that many of the singers do have fantastic voices and are fantastic actors. However, in most cases, it just does not seem to me that the performers have the right voices for their parts, or their dramatic interpretation does not ring true to me. Colm Wilkinson is the obvious exception to this. He is a powerful and moving singer/actor, and people speak correctly when they say this man IS Jean Valjean. Philip Quast is an AMAZING singer. His magnificent voice still blows me away when I listen to Stars or Javert's Suicide. Most of the time, though, I do not feel that he is cold enough to be a convincing Javert. He has a very emotionally expressive voice, and it's beautiful, but it doesn't, to me, seem to be right for Javert. Ruthie Henshall is also fabulous. Her performance is very passionate, more so than any Fantine I have heard or seen. Most of the time I love this, and consequently she is tied for my favorite Fantine with Joan Almedilla. The reason she is only ties is because I wish sometime she would show more of the sadness and poignany of Joan Almedilla's interpretation. I personally cannot stand Alun Armstrong. He is too goony, and does not show the evil side of Thenardier, and his voice bugs the crap out of me, to be blunt. He is not at all scary, he is ridiculous. Jenny Galloway is perfect for the role, IF it was written exactly the way it is in the book. The way the role is written in the musical, I much prefer Gay Soper on the CSR, and I prefer Barry James as her husband as well. I am a bit biased towards Michael Maguire. He was the first Enjolras I ever heard, and Enjolras is my favorite character. I think, out of all the Enjolrati I have heard (Anthony Warlow, David Burt, Michel Sardou, Kevin Earley, and clips of various foreign language ones) he is the least best. But he is still great. He looks the part very well. I wish he could hit the high notes. Michael Ball has a beautiful voice, and I think his dramatic interpretation is very good indeed. However, his voice has always seemed to me to be a bit too mature and confident for the shy Marius. Judy Kuhn is very well. She squeaks a bit, but she is very sweet and lovely, and she was probably even better when she was younger and performing the role on Broadway. Many people do not like Lea Salonga's "pissed-off" interpretation. I do. I prefer Frances Ruffelle's sadder one, but I think Lea's is a perfectly valid one. Don't you think that Eponine *would* be bitter? However, Lea has the most beautiful female voice I have ever heard, and I don't think that is right for Eponine, who should sound a bit rougher and less polished. I believe that is everyone important. I would also like to mention that all the students are fabulous, and many of them are better singers than people who got the main parts, IMHO. But I hope I have offended nobody, please remember this is all my opinion.
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Summary: Les Miserables is da bomb!
Review: I loved Les Miserables the musical. I, too, loved Lea Salonga as Eponine. Her voice is lovely and beautiful. She is my favorite character in Les Miserables. Also, coming from the mouths of the talented singers in the Dream Cast, it doesn't sound old at all! I hope that other kids my age, (11) younger, and older should see Les Miserablrs. It's outstanding!!!
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Summary: An outstanding performance!
Review: This was probably the best performance of "Les Miserables" that I have ever seen! You would think that the actors were actually performing instead of just singing. The orchestra was so great. I truly am very impressed with this video.
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Summary: Simply beautiful!
Review: This version is beautiful. I loved it from the moment it started. The voices are among the most beautiful in the world. They bring so much life to the songs and the characters. Lea Salonga as Eponine is absolutley breathtaking. Her vioce is so fresh and sweet. You can feel the pain of her character in her voice. This musical is emotional in itself, but the power of this version adds to the effect. I absolutley loved it and I wish I couldve seen it live.
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Summary: Wow Wow Wow absolutly spictacular
Review: I am 14. I grew up with my parents raving about it and the CD going at most of our parties. I love the music I absolutly love the music. I knew the basic story line. Last year my family went to Europe. I saw Les Mis in London for the first time. Just WOW!!!! It is great for any age because even if you don't get the story line the music is breath taking. I saw it on TV and it is every bit as good.
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