Les Miserables

Finrod Felagund · 10-01-2002, 11:42 AM

.DISCUSSION OF THE BOOK, MUSICAL, OR MOVIE(S)

Anyone who knows it...go wild.

I'm doing "Bring Him Home" for my solo in Vocal class at school

Finrod Felagund · 10-01-2002, 11:49 AM

"Bring Him Home" From Les Miserables

God on high, hear my prayer
In my need, you have always been there
He is young, he's afraid
Let him rest, heaven blessed
Bring him home, Bring him home, Bring him home

He's like the son i might have known
If God had granted me a son
The summers die one by one
How soon they fly on and on
And I am old and will be gone

Bring him peace, bring him joy,
He is young, he is only a boy
You can take, you can give
Let him be, let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring...him...home

I did that al from memory...whew!

***azalea*** · 10-04-2002, 10:27 PM

My favorite is On My Own.

I saw it on stage in London.

I also have read the UNABRIDGED version of the book. It took me a really long time. I would actually recommend the abridged version unless you like a real challenge.

Hanza · 10-05-2002, 05:46 PM

My favourite is also On my own. I just love it so much! I haven't seen Les Miserables but would really like to. We used to sing Les Mis at school. My other fave is Castle on a Cloud. i love singing and I feel the lyrics mean something to me sometimes.
......On my own
Pretending he's beside me
all alone I walk with him til morning
Without him I feel his arm around me......

Is that right I haven't sang it for a while?

Finrod Felagund · 10-08-2002, 11:16 AM

If I was a girl I'd sing On My Own

Hanza · 10-08-2002, 01:34 PM

Yeah its a really beautiful song.

.....I know hes only in my mind
Still i say there's a way for us.....
I can understand why u wouldn't sing it but its a really nice song for a girl to sing.
(its quite easy to sing as well!

)

Kallasilya · 10-08-2002, 09:18 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*promptly goes wild*
LES MIS!!!! LES MIS!!!!
*starts singing the whole score of Les Mis off by heart*
ahem. Yes. Well.

Me and Nazgul Queen were in our school production... which ended exactly 5 months and 4 days ago *sobs*. I was grown-up Cosette, and she was Eponine...
"We did not live until Les Mis,
How can we live when it is over?"

*sniffles*
okay, okay, I'll stop... So what if I'm obsessed?!?!?!

Nazgûl Queen · 10-08-2002, 09:20 PM

*worships* I LOVE LES MIS!!!!!!!!

I have the unabridged version of the novel too
I know the entire score off by heart
I own the TAC (video and cd), CSR and OLC
I have read every Les mis Fanfic I can find
I sing it constantly
I own the piano/vocal selections
And....

I PLAYED EPONINE IN A PERFORMANCE OF IT!!!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Nazgûl Queen · 10-08-2002, 09:25 PM

*huggles Finlos*

Stars in their multitudes, scarce to be counted
Filling the backstage with disorder and electricity
You are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch on the stage
Keeping watch on the stage
You know your place in the backdrop
You hold your shine and your glow
And every night you turn on in time, and don't move at all
And if you fall, 'cause somebody steps on you, you create a flame!

And so it must be! For so it is written on the doorway to centrestage
That those who step on the bulbs of glass must pay the price

Lord keep me from them, that i won't break the precious props
I could never pay
Til then, this i swear, this i swear by the stars!!!!

**crickhollow** · 10-09-2002, 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by azalea
I also have read the UNABRIDGED version of the book. It took me a really long time. I would actually recommend the abridged version unless you like a real challenge.

ah, yes. I love the challenge. But by the time the library was about to clean out my savings account to pay the fine I'd racked up, I was still only a third of the way through. It is quite the challenge. Still, it's something of a prestige thing to say that you have read it all. Plus, it'll give you a great lesson on the battle of Waterloo

.

Nazgûl Queen · 10-09-2002, 02:12 AM

Odd... it only took me a couple of weeks to read...

Then again, I can read lotR in a weekend these days without interruptions

Finrod Felagund · 10-09-2002, 11:42 AM

I did my solo today, it went really well!

***IronParrot*** · 10-10-2002, 12:23 PM

Excellent!

As for my thoughts on Les Mis... never read the Hugo novel (intend to fully... possibly even in the original French) but the musical was amazing.

"On My Own" makes me want to cry.

My high school symphonic band actually played a wind ensemble arrangement of many of the tunes in Boubil/Schoenberg's musical, which went excellently well. Unfortunately, we did it late in the year, and never recorded it...

I want to see the show again someday. Only seen it once. What amazes me is that someone has yet to tackle the Broadway musical on film, but I'd hate to see it done shoddily, when it could be an epic musical on the scale of the masterpieces of the mid-'60s. Now, if we could get Robert Wise and Ernest Lehman out of retirement...

Finrod Felagund · 10-10-2002, 01:45 PM

Colm Winkinson was an awesome Valjean (pretty darn good Phantom too if I do say so myself)
I read that Les Mis is going off Broaway in April or May. It's the second longest running Broadway musical in history after Cats.

Finrod Felagund · 01-17-2003, 03:25 PM

My friend Anita and I sang "A Little Fall of Rain" for a duet for our Music and Theatre class show. It was great, people even cried.

Miranda · 01-18-2003, 05:11 PM

Oh Les Mis its soooo beautiful!!! I loved it! I'm notorious for my Fantine and the first song I ever sang in competition was On My Own when I started singing five years ago! I'd have loved to be in it when I was a little younger but now my voice has grown into more of the rock musicals so I'm aiming for Rent, WWRY, Tabooo etc! If the opportunity arose though I wouldn't say no! Hats off to the composers and of course Victor Hugo! Anyone ever seen the film with Liam Neeson in? Where was the end? It just stopped! Mx

Renille · 04-04-2003, 12:32 PM

*Ressurecting this thread from the depths of page 6*

I decided to give this some fresh air just because I just discovered Les Miserables for myself. I went to see the high school version about a month ago because our director was thinking about putting on this awesone production next year!!! Anyway, he told us going in to "Be nice, and don't expect it to be very good. Don't say anything mean anyway." That warning was totally unneeded. Everyone fell in love with the whole production.

Yep...a month later, I have half the songs in my brain all day, and it's a life goal to play Eponine!

I really LOVE "On My Own" "In My Life" and my very favorite *which I can't sing (except an octave or so higher)* "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables."

So I just HAD to share those obsessive little things. Now the thread can sink peacefully to page 6 again...

Ornelírë Mistë · 04-04-2003, 07:27 PM

JAVERT!! God i love javert!! His theme is so excellent. And the guy who played him at my school had this great voice, kinda gawky. And i thought he was cute (im sure no one else did). Stars was good.
My friend pointed out that part of Stars was stolen from Pink Floyd (love them). Something like "on the doorway to paradise"? Might have also stolen some lyrics from the Doors? Not sure.

Belle · 04-06-2003, 04:37 PM

I was in a Les Mis production and On My Own is possibly one of my all time favs, as is I dreamed a dream and A Little Fall of Rain. It's really beautiful music and the show is great too. I think pretty much everyone goes through an 'Eponine' phase, liking someone who doesn't know (altho possibly not ending with getting shot on a barricade). That's why people like it I think.

10-01-2002, 11:42 AM	#1
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	Les Miserables .DISCUSSION OF THE BOOK, MUSICAL, OR MOVIE(S) Anyone who knows it...go wild. I'm doing "Bring Him Home" for my solo in Vocal class at school __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!" Last edited by Finrod Felagund : 10-10-2002 at 11:30 AM.

10-01-2002, 11:49 AM	#2
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	"Bring Him Home" From Les Miserables God on high, hear my prayer In my need, you have always been there He is young, he's afraid Let him rest, heaven blessed Bring him home, Bring him home, Bring him home He's like the son i might have known If God had granted me a son The summers die one by one How soon they fly on and on And I am old and will be gone Bring him peace, bring him joy, He is young, he is only a boy You can take, you can give Let him be, let him live If I die, let me die Let him live Bring him home Bring him home Bring...him...home I did that al from memory...whew! __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

10-05-2002, 05:46 PM	#4
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	My favourite is also On my own. I just love it so much! I haven't seen Les Miserables but would really like to. We used to sing Les Mis at school. My other fave is Castle on a Cloud. i love singing and I feel the lyrics mean something to me sometimes. ......On my own Pretending he's beside me all alone I walk with him til morning Without him I feel his arm around me...... Is that right I haven't sang it for a while? __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

10-08-2002, 11:16 AM	#5
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	If I was a girl I'd sing On My Own __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!" Last edited by Finrod Felagund : 10-10-2002 at 11:31 AM.

10-08-2002, 01:34 PM	#6
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	Yeah its a really beautiful song. .....I know hes only in my mind Still i say there's a way for us..... I can understand why u wouldn't sing it but its a really nice song for a girl to sing. (its quite easy to sing as well! ) __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

10-04-2002, 10:27 PM	#3
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	My favorite is On My Own. I saw it on stage in London. I also have read the UNABRIDGED version of the book. It took me a really long time. I would actually recommend the abridged version unless you like a real challenge.

10-08-2002, 09:18 PM	#7
Kallasilya Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 20	*SCREAMS* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! promptly goes wild LES MIS!!!! LES MIS!!!! starts singing the whole score of Les Mis off by heart ahem. Yes. Well. Me and Nazgul Queen were in our school production... which ended exactly 5 months and 4 days ago sobs. I was grown-up Cosette, and she was Eponine... "We did not live until Les Mis, How can we live when it is over?" sniffles okay, okay, I'll stop... So what if I'm obsessed?!?!?! __________________ Nai hotuluvalve i meneltannar tirien...

10-08-2002, 09:20 PM	#8
Nazgûl Queen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 400	worships I LOVE LES MIS!!!!!!!! I have the unabridged version of the novel too I know the entire score off by heart I own the TAC (video and cd), CSR and OLC I have read every Les mis Fanfic I can find I sing it constantly I own the piano/vocal selections And.... I PLAYED EPONINE IN A PERFORMANCE OF IT!!!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!!!! __________________ Morauko Umrien, Queen of the Nazgûl and Lady of Mordor Mistress of the Night The Nazgûl Queen she was, the Ringwraith, the enemy's most terrible servant; darkness went with her and she cried with the voices of death. Can be found loitering at Fantasy Essentials or her livejournal...

10-08-2002, 09:25 PM	#9
Nazgûl Queen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 400	huggles Finlos Stars in their multitudes, scarce to be counted Filling the backstage with disorder and electricity You are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch on the stage Keeping watch on the stage You know your place in the backdrop You hold your shine and your glow And every night you turn on in time, and don't move at all And if you fall, 'cause somebody steps on you, you create a flame! And so it must be! For so it is written on the doorway to centrestage That those who step on the bulbs of glass must pay the price Lord keep me from them, that i won't break the precious props I could never pay Til then, this i swear, this i swear by the stars!!!! __________________ Morauko Umrien, Queen of the Nazgûl and Lady of Mordor Mistress of the Night The Nazgûl Queen she was, the Ringwraith, the enemy's most terrible servant; darkness went with her and she cried with the voices of death. Can be found loitering at Fantasy Essentials or her livejournal...

10-09-2002, 02:12 AM	#11
Nazgûl Queen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 400	Odd... it only took me a couple of weeks to read... Then again, I can read lotR in a weekend these days without interruptions __________________ Morauko Umrien, Queen of the Nazgûl and Lady of Mordor Mistress of the Night The Nazgûl Queen she was, the Ringwraith, the enemy's most terrible servant; darkness went with her and she cried with the voices of death. Can be found loitering at Fantasy Essentials or her livejournal...

10-09-2002, 11:42 AM	#12
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	I did my solo today, it went really well! __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

10-10-2002, 12:23 PM	#13
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Excellent! As for my thoughts on Les Mis... never read the Hugo novel (intend to fully... possibly even in the original French) but the musical was amazing. "On My Own" makes me want to cry. My high school symphonic band actually played a wind ensemble arrangement of many of the tunes in Boubil/Schoenberg's musical, which went excellently well. Unfortunately, we did it late in the year, and never recorded it... I want to see the show again someday. Only seen it once. What amazes me is that someone has yet to tackle the Broadway musical on film, but I'd hate to see it done shoddily, when it could be an epic musical on the scale of the masterpieces of the mid-'60s. Now, if we could get Robert Wise and Ernest Lehman out of retirement... __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

10-10-2002, 01:45 PM	#14
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	Colm Winkinson was an awesome Valjean (pretty darn good Phantom too if I do say so myself) I read that Les Mis is going off Broaway in April or May. It's the second longest running Broadway musical in history after Cats. __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

01-17-2003, 03:25 PM	#15
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	My friend Anita and I sang "A Little Fall of Rain" for a duet for our Music and Theatre class show. It was great, people even cried. __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

01-18-2003, 05:11 PM	#16
Miranda 'Bohemian princess of Covent Garden Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Mill Posts: 544	Oh Les Mis its soooo beautiful!!! I loved it! I'm notorious for my Fantine and the first song I ever sang in competition was On My Own when I started singing five years ago! I'd have loved to be in it when I was a little younger but now my voice has grown into more of the rock musicals so I'm aiming for Rent, WWRY, Tabooo etc! If the opportunity arose though I wouldn't say no! Hats off to the composers and of course Victor Hugo! Anyone ever seen the film with Liam Neeson in? Where was the end? It just stopped! Mx __________________ There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

04-04-2003, 12:32 PM	#17
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	Ressurecting this thread from the depths of page 6 I decided to give this some fresh air just because I just discovered Les Miserables for myself. I went to see the high school version about a month ago because our director was thinking about putting on this awesone production next year!!! Anyway, he told us going in to "Be nice, and don't expect it to be very good. Don't say anything mean anyway." That warning was totally unneeded. Everyone fell in love with the whole production. Yep...a month later, I have half the songs in my brain all day, and it's a life goal to play Eponine! I really LOVE "On My Own" "In My Life" and my very favorite which I can't sing (except an octave or so higher) "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables." So I just HAD to share those obsessive little things. Now the thread can sink peacefully to page 6 again... __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

04-04-2003, 07:27 PM	#18
Ornelírë Mistë Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 482	JAVERT! JAVERT!! God i love javert!! His theme is so excellent. And the guy who played him at my school had this great voice, kinda gawky. And i thought he was cute (im sure no one else did). Stars was good. My friend pointed out that part of Stars was stolen from Pink Floyd (love them). Something like "on the doorway to paradise"? Might have also stolen some lyrics from the Doors? Not sure.

04-06-2003, 04:37 PM	#19
Belle Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Essex! Posts: 72	I was in a Les Mis production and On My Own is possibly one of my all time favs, as is I dreamed a dream and A Little Fall of Rain. It's really beautiful music and the show is great too. I think pretty much everyone goes through an 'Eponine' phase, liking someone who doesn't know (altho possibly not ending with getting shot on a barricade). That's why people like it I think. __________________ You made me that much stronger Made me work a little bit harder Made me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Made me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

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