Les Miserables
Anything in Blue is unreviewed and any grade given to such come
from the trader I got the item from
Official Cast Recorings:
Les Miserables:
Original Broadway Cast Recording – 2 CD's
Les Miserables:
Highlights from the complete symphonic
International Cast Recording.
1 CD.
Les Miserables:
The Dream Cast – Tenth Anniversary Concert at
Royal Albert Hall – 2 CD's
Les Miserables:
The Complete International Symphonic Recording - 3CDS
(Gary Morris, Phillip Quast)
Les Miserables:
The Original
(Colm Wilkinson, Roger Allam)
Les Miserables
Original
Live Audio Recordings:
Colm Wilkinson, Roger Allam, Jill
Washington (Understudy), Frances Ruffelle,
Simon Bowman (Understudy), Rebecca
Caine, David Burt, Zoe Bright (Understudy), Alun
Armstrong,
Clive Carter (as
Grantaire), Zoe Hart (Young Cosette) and Ian Tucker (Gavroche.)
*Note: Not yet reviewed, but this is
what I was told: Not sure which theatre this was at but most likely the
Barbican, before the show moved to the Palace - possibly a preview performance.
Not a brilliant recording as it was made in 1985 (amazing recording for that
date in my opinion!) with a tape recorder - there is a
"stretched-tape" whine/sound/dip in the audio every now and again up
until "At The End Of The Day" - it picks up after that and is definitely
listenable despite the background hiss. Unfortunately a chunk of the
"Confrontation" (the bit from the start to end of the Valjean/Javert
duo) is missed out as the first tape needed to be turned over from side A to B.
Also when the first tape had to be switched for a second tape a bit of "In
My Life" was missed too. Finally, when the second tape needed to be turned
over from side A to B, a bit of "Storming The
Barricade" was missed. Some beats to songs are missed by actors and other
bits were different in the previews - very interesting to see how much it's
changed into today's version and of course into the OLC Recording.
2 Cassettes
Broadway
–
Craig
Schulman (Valjean), David Masenheimer (Javert), Susie
McMonagle (Fantine), Richard Vida (Thenardier u/s),
Gina Ferral (Mme. Thenardier), Ricky Martin (Marius),
Christeena Michelle-Riggs (Eponine), Tamra Hayden (Cosette), Gary Mauer
(Enjolras), Christopher Trousdale (Gavroche),
Kimberly Hannon (Young Cosette)
Noticeable
hiss from the analog transfer, but perfectly listenable. Missing a bit of
“Attack on Rue Plumet” and possibly other minor
things around the flip points. There is an amusing flub in which Michelle-Riggs
sings “I did not even know my name” Probably one of Mauer's last as Enjolras
right before he joined the Phantom cast in October. I've listened to disk two
in its entirety, but not disk one or three yet. I'm already
adoring Mauer's Enjolras . . . not very pleased with Martin's Marius.
Schulman's Valjean is "okay", and I do like Michelle-Riggs' Eponine
so FAR, but I'll reserve final judgement until
hearing "On My Own." The Thénardier's in this audio are a riot.
3
CD's.
Quality: B
Rob Evan, Laurie Beechman,
David Jordan, Katie Fischer
has a BC/EFA speech at the end, cast sings Auld Laung
Syne
2 CD
*Unreviewed*
Broadway,
Robert Marien,
Chris Innvar, Juliette
Lambert, Hana Kitasei, Fuschia Walker, Nick Wyman, Jordan Swiek,
Stephen R. Buntrock, Peter Lockyer, Sarah Uriarte
Berry, Christeena Michelle Rigs.
2 CD's
*Unreviewed*
Cast: Colm Wilkinson, Todd Alan Johnson, Susan
Gilmour, J. P. Dougherty, Sharron Mathews, Jessica Snow – Wilson, Tim Howar,
Regan Thiel, Kurt Kovalenko, Stephen Bishop
Sound is very low, close to inaudible at times,
and I get the feeling it was originally on audio cassette, there's a bit of
analog hiss there. The cast was amazing, Wilkinson as always totally becomes
Valjean (I much prefer him as Valjean than the Phantom) and Snow –
3 CD's.
Quality: B-
Valjean: Simon Bowman, Javert: Paul
Monaghan, Fantine: Rebecca Thornhill, Eponine: Joanna
Ampil, Marius: Niklas Anderson, Cosette: Zoe Curlett, Enjolras: Jason Mc Cann,
Thenardier: David Burrows, Mme Thenardier: Mandy Holliday
3 CD's
*Unreviewed*
Ivan Rutherford (Valjean), Stephen
Bishop (Javert), Thursday Farrar (Fantine),
J.P. Dougherty (Thenardier), Aymee
Garcia (Mme. Thenardier), Stephen Brian Patterson (Marius),
Stephanie Waters (Cosette), Ben Davis
(Enjolras), Diana Kaarina? (Eponine)
*Unreviewed*
Broadway
J Mark Mcvery (Valjean), Terrence Mann
(Javert), Christopher Mark Peterson (Enjolras)
Lauren Kennedy (Fantine) Diana Kaarina
(Éponine), Kevin Kern (Marius), Sandra Turley
(Cosette), Nick Wyman (Thénardier),
Aimee Garcia (Mme Thénardier)
*Unreviewed*
Broadway,
Mike Eldred (u/s Valjean), Terrence Mann (Javert),
Jayne Paterson (Fantine),
Diana Kaarina (Eponine), Kevin Kern (Marius),
Heather Ferguson (u/s Cosette),
Christopher Mark Peterson (Enjolras), Nick Wyman
(Thénardier), Aimee Garcia (Mme Thénardier)
Beautifully clear sound, obviously digital. Oh My
Gosh, WHY was Eldred only an UNDERSTUDY? His Valjean blew me out of the water
when he sang "Bring Him Home." Kaarina's
Eponine remains one of my favorites. Mann is not my favorite Javert.
2 CD's
A
Broadway -
Randal Keith as Valjean, Michael
McCarthy as Javert with Jayne Paterson (Fantine),
Kevin Kern (Marius), Sandra Turley
(Cosette), Diana Kaarina (Eponine),
Christopher Mark Peterson (Enjolras),
Nick Wyman (Thenardier), Aymee Garcia (Mme. Thenardier).
The FINAL Broadway performance.
3CDS.
*Unreviewed*
Live Video Recordings:
Les Miserables
Cast: Erick Buckley u/s, Todd Alan Johnson, Joan Almedilla, Sutton Foster,
The
show itself is pretty well filled, mostly mid-range zooms. It's a little dark
and there's some generation lost. Cast wise, very excellent, I've been looking
for a video of Johnson as Javert, and he did not disappoint! Foster is an
excellent Eponine. Includes bonus footage after the show from the Les Mis Tenth
Anniversary Concert (Clips of On My Own, Little Fall
Of Rain, and Come With Me Finale.)
Quality:
B+
Medium:
NTSC DVD
Les Miserables
Cast: Ivan Rutherford, Stephen Bishop, Joan Almedilla, Sutton
Foster, Regan Thiel
Quality: A-
Some obstruction at times. Low gen loss but a little dark at
times, occasionally due to the lighting there is no picture, but this happens
very rarely (think along the lines of what happens in the title scene of POTO?)
The cast does an excellent job with the music; I was impressed with Eponine and
Valjean's performances. Act one does not fit completely on one disk so the end
of act one and all of act two is on the second DVD.
Medium: NTSC VHS – 2 tapes / NTSC DVD – 2 disks / 3 disk VCD set /
MPEG Data Disks
Les
Miserables
Broadway,
Ivan Rutherford, Shuler Hensley, Jane Bodle,
Nick Wyman, Betsy Joslyn, Peter Lockyer, Sandra
Turley, Catherine Brunell, Christopher Mark Peterson
1 DVD
*unreviewed*
Les Miserables
Broadway,
Cast: Andrew Vavela (u/s Valjean), Joseph Mahowald (Javert),
Jacquelyn Piro (Fantine) Christiana Anlori (young Cosette), Karen Elliott (u/s
Madame Thenardier), Nick Wyman
(Thenardier), Jimmy Walsh (Gavroche),
Diana Kaarina (Eponine), Stephen Patterson (Marius), Stephanie Waters
(Cosette), David Gagnon (Enjolras), David MacDonald (Grantaire)
Quality: B-
A bit grainy and with the beginning of heavy gen loss (snowiness
in the picture, surprising for a video of this age) There are some excellent
close ups, however.
NTSC VHS – 2 tapes
Les Miserables
Cast:
Unknown see
notes.
Quality:
B+
Mostly
wide shots. This is the student edition video I've seen it on a few lists. Overall,
it's is fairly well performed for being done completely by high school
students, but I'm sure there are things that were in the professional stage
show that are not in this one I just
don't know Les Mis well enough to say for sure, but it looks to be the complete
show as staged.
Medium:
NTSC VHS
Les Miserables
London December 11 1999
John Owen-Jones, John Stacey, Gunilla
Backman, Tom Lucas, Jaime Farr (u/s), Jane Horn
(u/s), Mark Powell (u/s), Cameron Blakely, Joanna Mays
Time
to talk about how much I love this video. Filmed from the Orchestra (Stalls) at
The Palace Theatre. Great zooms and color, some heads and sometimes the
conductor’s hands (although that makes for a cool effect) obstruct sometimes,
and the grade is lowered for those reasons. A fantastic video of the show with
the most amazing close-ups in any video I’ve ever seen without any pixelation. Ending instrumental bit of IDaD
and the last bit in the sewers missing. JOJ is as amazing a Valjean as he is a
Phantom and he and Stacey have great chemistry together. Lucas is the best
Marius I have ever seen with an astonishing voice, his
“Empty Chairs” is utterly heart-breaking. My only gripe is the wig. Farr sings
through her nose like nobody’s business and acts like a whiny brat, ugh.
Blakely is far too subdued as Thenardier. And the Gavroche is one amazing kid.
2DVD (A-)