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After opening in the role for the Broadway revival of the show in 2006, Norm is now playing opposite Simon Bowman’s Jean Valjean at the Queen’s theatre in London. He was well partnered by an impressive Javert in Norm Lewis, whose rich vocals and impassioned performance made Stars and Javert’s Suicide quite unforgettable.
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His Bring Him Home stopped the show – literally – with a tumultuous standing ovation. I have never before liked opera singers singing musical theatre songs, but Alfie Boe sang in a true musical theatre way, just letting rip at significant moments with glorious operatic oomph to phenomenal effect. The emotionally charged audience greeted each new performer with rapturous applause and cheering and none more so than Alfie Boe. Three massive LED screens above the stage not only showed the featured performers but also the richly atmospheric projections used in the tour, and never to greater effect than in the cavernous sewer scene. The set had the epic proportions necessary for all 500 actors and musicians to be accommodated on stage at the same time and it was cleverly informed by both John Napier’s iconic original design and Matt Kinley’s design for the 25th Anniversary touring production. The split level set with the superb 50 piece orchestra clearly visible above, and the various, huge stairways and multiple other entrance ways allowed it to be more like a fully costumed, theatre staging whereby performers could enter and exit as their roles demanded instead of being seated on stage awaiting their turn. The staging, in fact, ensured that it was rather more than a concert. This was to be the concert of all concerts for any Les Mis fan, with uber-spectacular, epic staging and lighting and a cast to die for. A buzz of excitement and anticipation rippled through the massive arena audience as the first familiar, pounding notes electrified the air. Still, the album serves as a souvenir of a work that has held up over a quarter-century and seems likely to do so in the future.We all knew Sunday 3rd October 2010 would be an evening we would remember for the rest of our lives but not one of us could have imagined just how utterly extraordinary it would be. This is not the only one drawn from a live performance, but such recordings have the odd aspect of loud cheering, which disrupts the grandly tragic intentions of the piece. The show has not changed much over the years, making any new recording essentially redundant.
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#25TH ANNIVERSARY LES MISERABLES CAST CD PROFESSIONAL#
On this live recording, the cast seems a bit overexcited at the outset, but they settle down into a professional performance over the course of the long running time. Since the English-language version of the musical Les Misérables opened in London in 1985, there have been a number of recordings this one features the cast of the 25th anniversary London revival production, with John Owen-Jones starring as the Job-like Jean Valjean and featuring Earl Carpenter as his nemesis Javert, Madalena Alberto as Fantine ("I Dreamed a Dream"), Katie Hall as the grown-up Cosette, Rosalind James as Eponine ("On My Own"), and Gareth Gates as Marius.