Les Misérables - Stage by Stage (1988)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A personal and humble tribute to a great documentary about a most beloved musical.
Les Misérables is the longest running musical show ever. It will complete 32 years next October 8.
I remember watching this on TV with my parents in 1989, and we taped it on VHS. Later I got another VHS copy of it at a video store, then as an extra DVD with the 10 anniversary concert release. We saw it live in Toronto in 1999 and really enjoyed it. We saw it again in Kitchener in 2001.
I watched the original Swedish production back in the 80s and I was obsessed with the musical and read the book at age 11, then I watched the London production twice at the Palace Theatre. Tickets were so cheap back then and I worked and lived in London in my 20s and you could rock up to the theatre and buy really good seats cheaply
I recently saw Les Miz on tour in Tempe, AZ. Nick Cartell as Jean Valjean was astounding!!!
I saw him on Bastille Day in San Francisco. it was as if the last note of "Bring Him Home" followed me home.
I used to watch this in the 90s. Pure nostalgia, and the best book I ever read. Thanks for this.
Simply the greatest. For two and a half hours,it is all that your heart can hold. Emotionally overwhelming and powerful.
I've always felt really close to Eponine, as we both loved someone who didn't love us back, and I've wanted to play her since I was 11.
I heard the French version before the UK version and I fell in love
I saw the touring company of Les mis...it was very emotional and the songs hit your heart and at the end when Valjean is reunited before his death man I got teary eyed.
Remembering "Les Misérables - Stage by Stage" when it first ever aired as part of KPBS San Diego's Festival '90 (March 1990 Membership Campaign), Circa March 15, 1990!!! TV Worth Watching and TV Worth Paying For!!!
Channel 4 showed this on 14th July 1989 (200th anniversary of Bastille Day). I watched it and told my mum I wanted to go down to London and see it. I did, a month later. Last night I sat in the Gielgud Theatre watching the final night of the staged concert as it was broadcast around the country. It was my 102nd time seeing the show.
i saw and heard it for the first time at the Cardiff Millenium Centre just after Christmas. I now understand why you've seen it 102 times!
I saw The Staged Concert at the Gielgud Theatre in London on Saturday 5th October in 2019 and it was amazing and I saw it with Michael Ball, Alfie Boe and Matt Lucas and they were all brilliant
I saw the Live broadcast of The Staged Concert from the Gielgud Theatre at the ODEON Cinema in Lincoln in the UK on Monday 2nd December in 2019 and it was brilliant and amazing
Yes. In fact last weekend I was going through some old boxes and I found a bag full of my old tickets from 1989-1997. And I am now up to 103 :)
I saw the show on the 234th anniversary of Bastille Day in San Francisco.
Vive la France
Happy 35th Birthday Cameron Mackintosh's Les Miserables.
1985 - 2020.
35 Years Of West End Musical Fun Action Adventure And Excitement. X
Agree
Oh Yeah That's Right. I've So Excited For Cameron Mackintosh's Les Miserables The Original Classic West End Musical At London's Wonderful Sondheim Theatre Also Known As The Queen's Theatre In London's Glittering West End In London In England This Year. Wish Me Luck. Thanks Robzap17 Nintendo & Steam Pictures Mate. PS Les Miserables Is A Classic And This Is Before Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera And Disney's The Lion King. X
The composers look so young.
The truth is...if Les Mis was not thrown at us and reviews and fame circulated, the first impression before hearing any of it would be.. what the hell....is this going to be? But it is one if the most extraordinary shows that I have ever experienced. Every number surpasses the one before. It's ingenious. Sorry Cameron, this is a bit more superior than Phantom whether it was eclipsed or not.
ALW never came to write anything as extraordinary as Jesus Christ Superstar, in my humble opinion (and those Tim Rice’s lyrics!). And Les Mis is on a different and higher degree altogether.
The final battle at the beginning, 1830's France + 80's Mullet hairstyle!
1:50 I've Have Seen Sir Cameron Mackintosh's Les Miserables At London's Wonderful Queen's Theatre In London's West End Last Year Back In February 2018 Just Before Tokyo Japan And It Was Super Awesome. Thanks Mate. X
This show is my guilty pleasure. Incredibly bad but I have a lot of nostalgia for it as the first ever Broadway show I saw as a kid.
@@belphegor_dev We surely haven’t seen the same show, since it’s a masterpiece. 😊
Anyway, one thing I must concede: NY production was somehow inferior to London’s (and I saw both many times), just like Chicago, although exactly the same production, was always better in NY. The same goes for the original recordings, and the main singers are the same. Perhaps something about the orchestra, I couldn’t say exactly what.
I remember once, it was perhaps my London’s 5th time. In the end, everyone grabbing coats and scarves, an American gentleman in the row ahead of mine, looked at me and I looked at him. I think we had exactly the same expression, because he said ‘It’s the third time I see this and I always cry like a child!’
The same happens to me, even when I listen to the record.
Thank you for uploading this.
20:29 This Music Is Funky. Thanks Mate. X
Thank you so much for this
I had yet to see such horrific conducting at 06'30 :)
fun fact: just before "Do You Hear The People Sing?" there was an interview with (ITHINK) Claude-Michel Schonberg that was edited out of the broadcast version but was retained for the video & DVD releases.
The critics were right in a way i wanted to leave but i liked the 😀songs and singing
Could you elaborate, please? In what way were the critics right?
Les mis has been running since 1985 in the West end. It's the longest west end musical but not the longest broadway musical
Perhaps the fact that the original book is 1900 pages long in the original French edition (1400) in the English edition. So yes, it is a popularizing of a literary work that had to make some big sacrifices to the story to fit it in a musical (even if it was the longest musical ever at the time). Think about Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and try to put that in a 2 hours+ musical.
Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with such a production because it will introduce many more people to the original story and even if not everybody will pick up the book after having watched the musical, more people will have read the book compared to if they had never seen the musical.
why do the various monsieur thernadiers look like different versions of Mr Bean lololol
Oh my gosh 😭
What's the name of performer @34:32 as Eponine? It does not look like Frances Ruffelle, is it?
Linzi Hateley.
She is amazing. She also was the narrator on the British album of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
@@pumpingfe… she got this role right after Carrie closed on Broadway. She’s amazing!
Where is this lesmiz?
Les Miserables is not the longest running musical in the world. That title goes to The Phantom of the Opera. Just FYI
Phantom of the opera=1987 les mis=1985
McQuax that is true but Les Miserables has been taken off broadway and put back on. Phantom of the Opera has been running without a break for the longest time.
It's world's longest running not broadways longest running it has range continuously in London since 1985
McQuax makes sense. Thanks for letting me know
No problem it can be confusing
Is Rider Strong in this?
Nope.
Where do the sequences dramatising the songs come from, does anyone know?
much of that comes from the London production. One Day More & The Sewers both are from the Oslo ,Norway production. the beginning of "Bring Him Home" is from the Israeli production and some of the singing in "Lovely Ladies" is from a Hungarian production. (i'm not 100% certain if Budapest and Szeged are the same Hungarian production or not.)
The London bits are the 1988 London cast. I know Linzi Hateley (Eponine) came in one Sunday to film her bit.
Master of the House is a mix. Audio and close ups are of the 1988 London Thenardiers (Barry James and Gay Soper) who also sing on the CSR. The wider shots with full company are from the Vienna production in 1988.
@@disneydanny2 the Rock Theatre was a Budapest based company. I saw some of their shows in the early 90's that was played in what looked like a temporary structure next to a railway station. The clip with the Les Miz poster on display outside a theatre shows the outside of Vigszinhaz (Comedy Theatre) of Budapest and Wikipedia states that Les Miz was a joint production between the two companies. They had a large stage so was able to accommodate a show of this size. The Szeged clip is from a summer festival so they must have taken the show down there for the summer when Budapest theatres are closed and also put more people in it to fill the huge stage. I've never come across a Hungarian cast recording for Les Miz, only a couple of songs on a compilation CD from Rock Theatre.
@@disneydanny2 Wow! There’s some knowledge!!