Les Mis rables( Les Mis orLes Miz, is a composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Sch nberg , with a French-language libretto by Alain Boublil .
Background Reception Emblem Synopsis Act I Act II Musical numbers Act I Song Performer(s) 01 "Prologue: Work Song" Chain Gang, Javert, and Valjean 02 "Prologue: On Parole" Valjean, Farmer, Labourer, Innkeeper's Wife, Innkeeper, and Bishop of Digne 03 "Prologue: Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven" Policemen and Bishop of Digne 04 "Prologue: What Have I Done?" Valjean 05 "At the End of the Day" Poor, Foreman, Workers, Factory Girls, Fantine, and Valjean 06 " " Fantine 07 "Lovely Ladies" Sailors, Old Woman, Fantine, Crone, Whores, and Pimp 08 "Fantine's Arrest" Bamatabois, Fantine, Javert, and Valjean 09 "'The Runaway Cart" Townspeople, Valjean, Fauchelevant, and Javert 10 "Who Am I? / The Trial" Valjean 11 "Fantine's Death: Come to Me" Fantine and Valjean 12 "The Confrontation" Javert and Valjean 13 "Castle on a Cloud" Young Cosette and Madame Th nardier 14 "Master of the House" Th nardier, Madame Th nardier, and Customers 15 "The Bargain / The Th nardier Waltz of Treachery" Th nardier, Valjean, Madame Th nardier, and Young Cosette 16 "Look Down" Gavroche, Beggars, Old Woman, Prostitute, Pimp, Enjolras, and Marius 17 "The Robbery" Th nardier, Madame Th nardier, Marius, ponine, and Valjean 18 "Javert's Intervention" Javert and Th nardier 19 "Stars" Javert and Gavroche 20 " ponine's Errand" ponine and Marius 21 "ABC Caf / Red and Black" Students, Enjolras, Marius, Grantaire, and Gavroche 22 "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Enjolras, Students, and Beggars 23 "Rue Plumet In My Life" Cosette, Valjean, Marius, and ponine 24 "A Heart Full of Love" Marius, Cosette, and ponine 25 "The Attack on the Rue Plumet" Th nardier, Thieves, ponine, Marius, Valjean, and Cosette 26 "One Day More" Valjean, Marius, Cosette, ponine, Enjolras, Javert, Th nardier, Madame Th nardier, Gavroche, and Company Act II Characters Character Description Jean Valjean Valjean is released from jail after serving nineteen years (five for stealing a loaf of bread and fourteen for multiple escape attempts). He breaks his parole and changes his identity, becoming the wealthy mayor of a small town. He later adopts Cosette, the daughter of Fantine. Inspector Javert bass-baritone or baritone Respecting the law above all else, Javert relentlessly pursues Valjean, hoping to bring the escaped convict to justice. baritone The bishop houses Valjean after his release from jail and gives him gifts of silver and absolution. Fantine mezzo-soprano or alto A worker who loses her job and becomes a prostitute in order to pay the Th nardiers for the welfare of her daughter. She later dies of a disease. Bamatabois baritone or tenor A young gentleman who tries to buy Fantine's services and is responsible for her arrest. Fauchelevent baritone or tenor In a role reduced from the novel, Fauchelevent appears only in the Cart Crash scene, where he is trapped under the cart and rescued by Valjean. He is an elderly man who has fallen upon hard times. The daughter of Fantine, the Th nardiers force eight-year-old Cosette to work. Madame Th nardier contralto Th nardier's unscrupulous wife. silent Eight-year-old ponine is the pampered daughter of the Th nardiers. She grows up with Cosette and is unkind to her. baritone or tenor A second-rate thief, Th nardier runs a small inn. Gavroche boy soprano Gavroche is a streetwise urchin who dies on the barricade helping the revolutionaries. He is the abandoned son of the Th nardiers. Enjolras baritone or tenor Enjolras leads Marius and the rest of the student revolutionaries. Marius Pontmercy tenor Marius, a student revolutionary, is friends with ponine, but loves Cosette. mezzo-soprano (can be played by Soprano with solid sound) Daughter of the Th nardiers, ponine, now ragged and a waif, secretly loves Marius. She is killed while returning to the barricades to see Marius. Cosette soprano Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, has become beautiful under Valjean's care. She falls in love with Marius, and he returns her love. baritone or tenor The brutish and cowardly but dissatisfied member of Th nardier's Gang. His role in the musical expands to cover . Babet baritone or tenor A foreboding member of Th nardier's Gang. Claquesous baritone or tenor Quiet and masked, expert at evading the police, Claquesous might in fact be working for the law. Montparnasse baritone or tenor A young member of Th nardier's Gang a handsome man who wishes to be close to ponine. baritone or tenor Student revolutionaries who lead a revolution and die in the process, becoming martyrs for the rights of citizens. (See Members listed below) Combeferre baritone or tenor The philosopher of the ABC group. Feuilly baritone or tenor Feuilly is the only member of the Friends of the ABC who is not a student; he is a workingman. An optimist who stands as a sort of ambassador for the "outside," while the rest of the men stand for France. Courfeyrac baritone or tenor Friendly and open, Courfeyrac introduces Marius to the ABC society in the novel. Joly baritone or tenor A medical student and a hypochondriac; best friends with Lesgles. baritone or tenor Grantaire is a member of the Friends of the ABC. He is the opposite of Enjolras and believes in nothing other than his worship of Enjolras. Jean Prouvaire baritone or tenor Prouvaire is the youngest student member of the Friends. Lesgles baritone or tenor Enjolras' second-in-command. Best friends with Joly. Major casts Character differences: novel vs. musical versions Productions Original French production Original London production Original Broadway production 2006 Broadway revival Concert productions 10th Anniversary Concert 25th Anniversary Concert Other concert performances Touring productions National U.S. tours 25th Anniversary International Tour International productions Regional productions Les Mis rables school edition Film adaptation Cast recordings English Original London Cast recording Original Broadway Cast recording Complete Symphonic Recording 10th Anniversary Concert Manchester Highlights 25th Anniversary UK Tour Cast 25th Anniversary Concert Other languages Awards and nominations 1985 Laurence Olivier Awards 1987 2008 John Kraaijkamp Musical Awards (Netherlands) 2010 London LifeStyle Awards See also References^ Masters, Tim (1 October 2010). .
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