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West End Cast

Les Miserables

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Date

11th December 1999

Location

Palace Theater, London, UK

Source

Audience Video Camera

Filmer unknown
Re-master edbangor

Rating

10/10

Comments

DVD

Picture format: PAL

Aspect ratio: Full screen / 4:3

Audio 1 (re-mastered): Dolby Digital

Audio 2 (Original): Dolby Digital

Running time: 165 minutes

Authored: YES (by me on DVD Lab Pro)

Traded to me as a set of broken un-formatted VOB files.

These I combined into the correct acts. Editing out a few gaps along the way

although not the slight rollback at the end of "A little fall of rain"!

The audio track was then split out so I could remove the 

hiss it contained  and general cleaned up.

Both discs were then then totally re-authored with full chapters, menus,

menu audio, and both the original sound track, as well as the new version.

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This is probably the best audience filmed musical you will every see!
Single camera shooting from the front stalls, almost directly in front of the stage.

Nearly everything is filmed so close to the action that you can actually see the 

joins between the actors wigs and their real flesh!!!

Picture is totally without generation, or colour bleed and is damn near perfect.

There are a couple of small cuts in the footage but very little, if any

of the on stage action is lost apart from at the very end of each act. 

Line Up

John Owen-Jones - Jean Valjean
John Stacey - Javert
Gunilla Backman - Fantine
Tom Lucas - Marius
Jane Horn - Eponine
Jamie Farr - Cosette 
Mark Powel - Enjolras
Cameron Blakely - Thenardier
Joanna Mays - Mme. Thenardier 

Track Listing

DVD #1 [1:36h]

 

Act One 
1815, Digne
Prologue
Valjean's Soliloquy: / 

What Have I Done?

1823, Montreuil-Sur-Mer
At the End of the Day [cut]
I Dreamed a Dream
Lovely Ladies
Fantine's Arrest
The Runaway Cart
Who Am I? / The Trial
Fantine's Death
The Confrontation

1823, Montremeil 
Castle on a Cloud
Master of the House
The Bargain
Waltz of Treachery

1832, Paris
Look Down
The Robbery
Javert's Intervention / Another Brawl
Stars
Gavroche / Eponine's Errand
ABC Cafe / The Red and The Black
Do you Hear the People Sing
Rue Plumet / In My Life
A Heart Full of Love
Attack on Rue Plumet
One Day More!

DVD #2
Act Two: [1:09h]

At the Barricades 
On My Own
Building the Barricade
Javert's Arrival
Little People
A Little Fall of Rain 
Night of Anguish
First Attack
Drink With Me
Bring Him Home
Dawn of Anguish 
The Second Attack / Death of Gavroche
The Final Battle
The Sewers / Dog Eat Dog
Javert's Suicide
Turning
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Every Day
Valjean's Confession
The Wedding Chorale
Beggars at the Feast
[cut] Epilogue
Finale