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Production
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The 20-track album, titled "Les Miserables: Highlights From the Motion Picture Soundtrack," is being released by Universal Republic Dec. 26. The album features live vocals recorded on set during the filming of the epic musical.
The cast, including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Aaron Tveit, recorded all of their singing live during filming, listening to piano accompaniment through a hidden earpiece. A 70-piece orchestra later gathered in London to record the full orchestrations that will be featured in the film and on the soundtrack.
The movie also includes the new song "Suddenly" for Jean Valjean (Jackman) to sing. Producer Cameron Mackintosh previously told Playbill.com that the song "was something that Alain and Claude-Michel came up with, after a passage in the book, which beautifully explains what happens when [Valjean] takes Cosette from the inn and looks after her. Herbie's written a lovely lyric to it, and we're all delighted how it seems to fit into the film version."
The film, which arrives Christmas Day, stars Jackman as Valjean; Crowe as Javert; Hathaway as Fantine; Tveit as Enjolras; Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thenardier; Amanda Seyfried as Cosette; Eddie Redmayne as Marius; Samantha Barks as Eponine; George Blagden as student Grantair
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Songs from Les Misérables
Les Misérables (1980) is a sung-throughmusical, based on the 1862 novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelistVictor Hugo. It premiered in Paris in 1980 and includes music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, as well as an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. The London production has been running since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical on the West End.[1][2] It is the second-longest-running musical in the world, after The Fantasticks.
Performances
[edit]There have been several recordings of this material, including those by the original London and Broadway casts. However, there are no recordings that contain the entirety of the songs, musical score, and spoken parts as featured on stage. The Complete Symphonic Recording nearly has this but a pair of songs that were cut from the show following its initial London run, as well as one song present only in the Original French Concept Album, are not included.
The original motion picture soundtrack reached number 1 on the American Billboard chart.
Characters
[edit]The characters who sing solos, duets, and other notable, unique musical lines are:
- Jean Valjean, a morally conf