I'd like to thank the camera man who knows the show very well

@kevintweedie

2 ай бұрын

The person who made this video is named Myra. She loved Sutton, so that's why it focuses on her a lot. She also did a lot of Rent videos. She was fearless with her camera (I was with her when we/she did a San Francisco tour video.

@caleb1413

2 ай бұрын

@@kevintweedieoh wow, that’s amazing that you have that connection!

It is good to see this musical in its entirety as most performances only show the shortened version.

@jshbdp6903

8 ай бұрын

I am in complete agreement with you on that. I hate when they edit. And I was delighted to see & hear more on Master of the House, etc...

@aileenteo7027

3 ай бұрын

I agree. Finally. A complete version.

0:05 Prologue/Work Song 4:07 On Parole 7:24 The Bishop 10:38 Valjean's Soliloquy/What Have I Done? 13:45 At the End of the Day 19:10 I Dreamed a Dream 23:29 Lovely Ladies 27:42 Fantine's Arrest 31:56 The Runaway Cart 35:48 Who Am I? 38:41 Fantine's Death/Come to Me 42:19 The Confrontation 44:35 Castle on a Cloud 48:23 Master of the House 54:49 Well Scene 56:11 The Bargain/Waltz of Treachery 1:01:16 Look Down 1:04:23 The Robbery/Javert's Intervention 1:09:07 Stars 1:12:57 Eponine's Errand 1:14:29 The ABC Cafe/Red and Black 1:20:43 Do You Hear the People Sing? 1:22:39 In My Life 1:27:14 A Heart Full of Love 1:29:49 The Attack on Rue Plumet 1:33:39 One Day More 1:37:17 Building the Barricade/Upon These Stones 1:41:13 On My Own 1:45:30 At the Barricade/Upon These Stones 1:47:51 Javert's Arrival/Little People 1:50:10 A Little Fall of Rain 1:53:51 Night of Anguish 1:55:13 First Attack 1:59:47 Drink with Me 2:02:18 Bring Him Home 2:06:06 Dawn of Anguish 2:07:36 Second Attack/Death of Gavroche 2:09:59 Final Battle 2:11:58 The Sewers/Dog Eats Dog 2:19:27 Javert's Suicide 2:23:04 Turning 2:25:18 Empty Chairs at Empty Tables 2:28:11 Every Day 2:30:09 Valjean's Confession 2:33:14 Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast 2:39:12 Epilogue/Finale

@kayr805

Жыл бұрын

God bless you

@xyzzy4567

7 ай бұрын

You’re the best! Thanks for adding this.

I saw this cast! I remember being so incredibly impressed by Sutton - she was the perfect Eponine, you could hear a pin drop during her "On My Own". She has true star quality, it didn't surprise me when she swept Broadway just a few years later.

Wow, this gives me goosebumps. I saw this exact run at Ahmanson theatre and it was the show introduced me to the musical theatre. I watched it 6 times afterwards, and remains my favorite show.

This recording is outstanding! Fine work, whoever you are. Ivan’s probably my favorite Valjean. Thanks for sharing 😊

Thank you for this. I've been looking for this whole show Sutton as Eponine for the longest time.

One of the best I have seen and I have seen a few! Really enjoyed it from the beginning to the end. An excellent cast.

Thank you for posting! Les Mis is my all time fave musical, and I love it all, but especially Jean Valjean's song at 56:35.

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

It's such a beautiful song. Transcends the show, really.

Outstanding production! The first I’ve seen it before they took out the turntable. Everyone did a great job! Thank you again!

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

I saw it a few dozen times around the world before they got rid of the turntable, and this was one of most impressive casts I saw in those years. I'm so glad to be able to share it.

@Reflections-0f-life

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre Thank you very much!! This one is a keeper for sure!

@caleb1413

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre Ooh, which locations/when did you see it?

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

@@caleb1413 Mostly in the 90s at different theaters across the US and Canada, and a few times in London.

@caleb1413

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre Ooh neat! Any particular casts that stood out to you (aside from this one of course)?

Thank you. ❤

i love that you can spot Sutton Foster, Aymee Garcia, and Regan Thiel in the early scenes. Aymee is the Bishop's sister, for example, and if i'm not mistaken the camera zooms in on Sutton during lovely ladies for the last verse

Thank u!!!

Sutton Foster is amazing Eponine as the Villain daughter of the innkeepers

@johnmarkfrederick8245

2 күн бұрын

Marius and Cosette are both Look like The Prince and The Princess

Thank you. 👏👏👏

Hard to beat the 10th Anniversary Special for the best singing!!!

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

That's very true.

@disneydanny2

Жыл бұрын

in one way it *DOES* you *DON'T* hear 2:32:53-2:33:13 in *ANY* concert version.

ORCHESTRA Conductor - David Andrews Rogers Associate Conductor - Lawrence Green Violins - Vladimir Pollmitidi, Cindy Moussas Viola - Diane Gilbert Cello - Chris Ermacoff Flute/Piccolo - Patty Kaufman Clarinet/Alto Sax - Sal Lozano Oboe/English Horn - Jonathan Davis French Horns - Marilyn Johnson, Brad Kintschner Trumpets - Stuart Blumberg, Robert O'Donnell Bass Trombone - Kevin Porter Percussion - Cliff Hulling Drums - John Spooner Bass - David Stone Guitar - Chuck Pierce Keyboards - Michael Gribben, Craig Casper, Lawrence Green, Nick H. Venden

What a terrific production of Les Miz! It was great seeing a young Sutton Foster, but did you notice that whenever she was on stage (even when she wasn't the central character at the time), the videographer zoomed in and remained on her? Maybe her mother shot the video! Whatever, this is a true gem!

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

The person who shot it was a big fan of Sutton Foster and knew that this would be one of her final performances in the show.

@MrThesper

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre Ah, the riddle solved! Thanks for posting this. It certainly adds to the legacy of the show and to hers, too.

@jenniferwalker8788

5 ай бұрын

I saw this production. December 31, 1999. I wanted to rewind that 2 seconds over and over and knew this was a magical person. She is the first modern screlt I ever heard. Between her and Linda Eder it was a shaping of a new type of singer.

@MrThesper

5 ай бұрын

What is a screlt?@@jenniferwalker8788

I actually saw this production with most of this cast a couple months earlier in Salt Lake City. I was shocked when I looked at the program years later and realized Sutton Foster had been in it. Aside from seeing it on Broadway in 2014, this is probably my favorite version that I’ve seen, and was the last time I saw it live with the revolving stage.

@chazofalsa

Жыл бұрын

You literally saw a Broadway legend when she just a duckling before becoming a swan 2 years later in thoroughly modern millie (if that's putting it correctly.).

@kylespeirs6510

Жыл бұрын

So??

Wooh sutten foster as epone wow

Wow this one is so beautiful

Soooo goood, thx

Saw it in Polish, was 3.20h long, best time of my life. Now the goal is to see it in English.

Valjean is incredible! Great voice!

Oh my heart when young cosette starts singing TAT

Enjolras looks so done with Marius- also, when the vuy who plays Grantaire literally climbs Marius: best moment, hilarious

@ripbeckberlynn8376

3 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

I'm surprised they didn't play the Pantages. I remember seeing "Phantom" for the first time at the Ahmanson and thinking the interior felt a bit to modern for "Phantom" it was a stark contrast to the Curran where "Phantom" had moved to and "Les Miserables played it's first SF engagement and a few afterwards. (the 25th anniversary production is playing the Orpheum as I type this)

L une des meilleures arraitation de fantine

Id never heard of Joan Amedilla but WOW

This was a wonderful production! For me, the performance of the Bishop brings to life the real character upon which he is based. Sutton Foster is, perhaps, the best representation of Eponine there has been! The way she bit most of her words and only occasionally sang sweetly - you could hear the life of the character pouring forth just as Hugo wrote her! Miss Foster's acting and her appearance were increcible - such subtlety, sadness, devotion, emotion, and love - she was Eponine come to life! Finally, the kiss was perfect! Lea Salonga and Samantha Banks sang like angels (Miss Banks was a soft and tender version of Eponine on stage and the movie), but Sutton Foster - she _was_ Eponine! It is my good fortune to have seen this! Very many thanks for making it available! ~JL, PhD

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

I'm happy to be able to share. I don't believe I've ever seen a better actor in the role than Sutton Foster.

not quite FULL show, but close to it. The instrumental at the end of "Who Am I' cuts off abruptly.

Ivan Rutherford is a fantastic Valjean

This is brilliant, my mum/dad saw this with the original cast: Colm Wilkinson, Michael Ball, Frances Ruffelle etc.... + still have the London Cast Recording in 1985 + was one of the first CDs they ever bought. Also still have some VHS/Betamax footage of when they were all on TV like on: The news, Wogan, Des O'Connor, Olivier Awards, BPI/Brit Awards, and when they were on radio etc

@caleb1413

10 ай бұрын

Wow, I'm jealous of you getting to see such early days of the show! Out of curiosity do you remember anything in particular that was done differently back then?

@bookemdano7567

7 ай бұрын

No one will ever beat the original 1985 London cast. No one!

"PreTEEEEEEEENding..." Chills

ABC/Red and Black and do you hear the people sing it was heroic

@johnmarkfrederick8245

10 ай бұрын

Good and evil

@johnmarkfrederick8245

10 ай бұрын

Valjean felt betrayed his life and for Eponine and Fantane in the finale

Thank you for posting this! Does anyone know who wrote the songs?

@zephyrchen

5 ай бұрын

the music is by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the english version lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer.

Valjean betrayal is really of finale

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

That means Valjean and Fantine and Eponine are the Villains

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

😱😱😱

Thank you so much for sharing this! I need to ask, does this come from a lower gen/master copy of the digital recording? The reason I ask is because this exact video has existed for years in trading circles as a very high gen copy, clearly from a VHS tape that had been copied many times. As such the quality of the video, which you never would have known was digital based off of the previously existing copy, is significantly lowered. So a lower gen copy has been highly sought after for many years, and you seem to have such a copy based off this upload. Would you be willing to, over email perhaps, share the original files of the copy you own, perhaps trading for it? So the video can be seen the way it was meant to and finally replace the low quality version we've had circulating for years. If not, I totally understand. Thank you so much again for sharing this upload of this amazing video with this brilliant cast!

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

Hi, Brady! The video was filmed by a friend who gave me a first-gen VHS copy of their digital video at the time (in 2000). I transferred that version from VHS to PC years ago. The original audio from their digital master tape was extremely poor. BUT they had borrowed my minidisc recorder and used it to capture the audio from that same performance separately to MD using binaural mics near the stage. I combined the two. That's what you hear in this video. It's *much* higher audio quality than the original digital tape and also has less crowd noise. As far as I'm aware, this version is the only one that has the digital video combined with the MD audio. Believe me, I want nothing more than to preserve these recordings in the highest possible quality! I'm planning to share more similar recordings here in the future. Thanks for the encouragement, seriously. I just want to make sure they're not sitting on some shelf somewhere degrading, or gathering dust.

@bradylove9825

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre Fantastic to hear back from you, thanks so much for taking the time to reply! And thanks for sharing more of the information behind this video recording, a lot of tapers from that era have sort of disappeared so its really interesting to learn a little bit about them. Would you be willing to share your original full quality file of this particular video? I'm a massive collector of Les Mis--I have a huge collection of audios and videos (somewhere above 1,000 total I believe haha...I'm very willing to share as well if you're ever interested in anything), thats the reason for my interest in the full quality file! Perhaps we could shift to discussing via email... You have gotten me VERY eager about what other Les Mis treasures you may have from around the show's "Golden Age" that may have fallen out of circulation! (I consider the show's "Golden Age" to have lasted until 2006 or so...essentially until the closing of the 3NT tour, I feel after this is when so many changes began occurring to the show in regards to casting, and obviously the new orchestrations...)

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

@@bradylove9825 I'm sorry, but I don't really do trading! I sympathize as a collector, though. I will definitely share as much as possible here.

Thank you very much. Could you please name the cast ?

I was fortunate enough to catch one of Sutton’s last shows before Diana Kaarina and Dina Morishita (?) took over 😊

Who is the Javert? I know that's Ivan Rutherford as JVJ

@caleb1413

11 ай бұрын

Javert is Stephen Bishop

14:23

Everyone else is great, but somehow I find that british Mr Thenardiers are funnier. Look at Alun (don't remember his last name) in the 10th anniversary concert

do you think that Julianna Grace LeBlanc would make a great Eponine Thenardier and Jayden Bartels will make a great Cosette if they bring Les Misérables back for a remake

what made Eponine switch sides from Evil to Good

@linnisen

Жыл бұрын

She was never evil

@johnmarkfrederick8245

10 ай бұрын

Eponine actually was evil in finale with Valjean and Fantine

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine made be the Villain that was in of finale

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine is definitely the Villain because she’s jealous of Cosette

@johnmarkfrederick8245

5 ай бұрын

Eponine is definitely evil She is truly the innkeeper daughter

why is M. Thenardier so obsessed with robbing Valjean and Cosette - and cast Eponine aside like she is nothing

1:41:20 on my own

I just saw the trailer in Les Miserables 2012 movie to put the horror version of Cosette

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Cosette is the beloved character of Les Miserables

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

and the horror film of Cosette she became the social killer in that film

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

That gives me the creeps

Eponine is definitely both good and evil

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine protect Valjean house from her evil innkeeper father

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Marius brought Cosette to meet Eponine as sister rival

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine is definitely evil for jealousy with the farewell Latter to Valjean

is Eponine Good or evil

@bcputheatre

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@danielstewart6509

Жыл бұрын

@@bcputheatre does she hate her father and how come she decided to stop her father from robbing Valjean and Cosette and i thought she hated Cosette

@leilamakboul5489

Жыл бұрын

@@danielstewart6509 She's neither good nor bad. She's a product of her circumstances. She is jealous of Cosette, but loves Marius enough to put aside that jealously. I've always believed that she loves her father. He's not a good person, husband, or father; but from their interactions, he does care for her. Also, from her inner thoughts/monologue scene/reactions, she's trying to process how she feels. To come across her father, as Marius is there, as her solo goes, "He'll think this is an ambush, he'll think I'm in it too." She's trying to show that she'll be there for him, and show him that he needs her. For her life experiences, and her family, I would say hate is a strong word. Cosette is definitely a rival, but I don't think there ever was hate. "We were children together, now look what's become of me."

@johnmarkfrederick8245

10 ай бұрын

Eponine is definitely the Villain she is got jealous with Cosette and her life

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

I chose both Eponine is definitely good and evil just like Cassandra betrayal from Tangled series

Eponine is both good and evil she has feelings for Marius and jealousy of Cosette

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Marius chose Cosette as his true love

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine got jealous of both Marius and Cosette

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Marius sent farewell Letter to Eponine and send her away

@johnmarkfrederick8245

7 ай бұрын

Eponine felt betrayed herself and sings on my own

Enjorals is definitely look like Donald Trump to rally the hero’s of Revolution

@johnmarkfrederick8245

5 ай бұрын

That was iconic

@johnmarkfrederick8245

5 ай бұрын

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