Skip to main content Skip to footer site map. Page: 1. Best Les Miserables Cast Recording? I have a problem with finding a good cast recording for this show. All of the original recordings have awful orchestrations or an awful cast. I like the movie recording for the orchestra, but it isn't a complete recording of the show.

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No doubt assuming that every self-respecting Frenchman knows the book well, the creators did not try to cover the entire plot in the songs they wrote. But when British producer Cameron Mackintosh saw a stage version of the work in Paris, he decided that Les Miz or Les Mis , as it would come to be known the world over, should be translated into English and turned into an epic, through-sung musical that would attempt to tell the full story of the novel. The extra hour and a half contains pages of banal sung dialogue and endless reprises. Les Miz probably would have been much better as a book musical with spoken-dialogue scenes, rather than a sung-through work. That approach would have served the double purpose of allowing more of the plot to be covered in less time while avoiding the repetition of so many melodies with alternate lyrics.
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Not registered? Register here. Fortunately, the sounds of our favourite stage shows have been captured for posterity on a number of brilliant cast recordings, so the music doesn't have to stop. If you're missing visiting the theatre, we've gathered some of the best cast recordings of musicals from throughout West End and Broadway history to keep you smiling. The film soundtrack spent a whopping 70 weeks at number one in the UK album charts. You can almost see her striding about with her guitar case in I Have Confidence or the nuns arguing over what to do with her in Maria.
The original French musical premiered in Paris in with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October , making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is being tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempt to overthrow the government at a street barricade in Paris. In , about six months after producer Cameron Mackintosh had opened Cats on Broadway , he received a copy of the French concept album from director Peter Farago.