Les Miserables [Cast Recording]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Legacy
• ASIN: B00003W89H
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,345 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. At the End of the Day

2. I Dreamed a Dream

3. Who Am I / The Trial

4. Fantine's Death

5. The Confrontation

6. Master of the House

7. Stars

8. The ABC Café

9. Red and Black

10. Do You Hear the People Sing

11. A Heart Full of Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not The Original London Cast!, June 20, 2000

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Robert Lopez (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Miserables (Audio CD)

I bought this CD thinking it was a newly released highlights CD of the Original London Cast CD with Colm Wilkinson, Patti LuPone, Michael Ball & Francis Ruffle. IT'S NOT! What a great way to get people to bye the CD. I really haven't listened to it because I was disgusted at the fact that I was lured into buying a CD under false pretences! (I did listen to some and it sounds like Kareoke music and Fantine was vocally weak. This is not a cast recording but a STUDIO RECORDING.) I can tell you the actors who sing the parts though (Something I would've wanted to know before buying, but I didn't have that chance, so here it is.)

VALJEAN & JAVERT = John Curl, FANTINE & COSETTE = Lindsey Stafford Smith, MARIUS= Christopher Smith, ENJOLRAS= Adam Pinter, THENARIDIER=Julian Emery, M. THENARDIER= Catherine Watson.

Uhhh, why have the same man sing 2 different parts. Okay, maybe I can see the same woman singing the mother and daughter, but the rivals?

Song List: AT THE END OF THE DAY,--I DREAMED A DREAM,--WHO AM I?,--FANTINE'S DEATH, --CONFRONTATION, --MASTER OF THE HOUSE, --STARS, --ABC CAFE, --RED AND BLACK, --DO YOU HERE THE PEOPLE SING, --A HEART FULL OF LOVE

Songs only from Act I of Les Miz!

Anyhow, the singers could turn out to be good for all I know, but I was just upset that it wasn't what it said it was. Although it wasn't listed as having Colm and Patti it did say "Original London Cast." So, at least now you can purchase this CD fully aware that it's not the London Cast! :)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not the best, August 9, 2005

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Les Mis junkie (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Les Miserables (Audio CD)

Definitely not the best version of Les Mis available (that would be the 10th Anniversary Concert). Eponine is truly awful. The rest of the cast is OK; if not the best possible at least they're not the worst possible. Lindsey Stafford Smith (Fantine) is better than Randy Graff. John Curl (Valjean) is better than Garry Morris, although he also seems to sing "Stars" (and is definitely not right for it). It sounds a lot like Roger Allam with him in "Confrontation". Adam Pinter (Enjolras) is no Andy Warlow or Michael Maguire, but still stirring and powerful. Christopher Smith (Marius) is also actually not bad, although we don't get to hear "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables". In fact, there are a LOT of great songs missing from this very short version. I recommend saving up for one of the 2- or 3-disc versions. However, if you don't pay too much for it, you might get a pleasant if unremarkable hour of music.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ALW did not write a musical called Les Misérables, November 12, 2004

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Michael D. Mullins "surfdudehh" (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Miserables (Audio CD)

To the reviewer who was complaining that this recording was not by Andrew Lloyd Webber: ALW did not write a musical called Les Misérables. The composer of Les Miz was Cluade-Michel Schönberg and the librettist was Alain Boublil, the same team that created Miss Saigon. For the record, Les Misérables was and is a classic novel by Victor Hugo. As to this particular recording, I cant' speak.