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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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(ENTHRALLING MUSIC PLAYING)
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(ALL HUMMING)
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(SINGING) Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
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Look down, look down
You're here until you die
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The sun is strong
It's hot as hell below!
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Look down, look down
There's 20 years to go
-
I've done no wrong
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!
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Look down, look down
Sweet Jesus doesn't care
-
I know she'll wait
I know that she'll be true
-
Look down, look down
They've all forgotten you
-
When I get free
You won't see me
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Here for dust!
-
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
-
How long, dear Lord
Before you let me die?
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Look down, look down
You'll always be a slave
-
Look down, look down
You're standing in your grave
-
Now bring me prisoner 24601
-
Your time is up
and your parole's begun
-
You know what that means...
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Yes! It means I'm free!
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No! It means you get
your yellow ticket of leave
-
-You are a thief
-I stole a loaf of bread
-
-You robbed a house
-I broke a window pane
-
My sister's child was close to death
And we were starving
-
You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law
-
I know the meaning of those 19 years
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A slave of the law
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Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
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Yes, 24601
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My name is Jean Valjean!
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And I'm Javert!
Do not forget my name
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Do not forget me, 24601
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Look down, look down
You'll always be a slave
-
Look down, look down
You're standing in your grave
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(ALL HUMMING)
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Freedom is mine
-
The earth is still
-
I feel the wind
-
I breathe again
-
And the sky clears
-
The world is waking
-
Drink from the pool
How clean the taste!
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Never forget the years, the waste
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Nor forgive them for what they've done
-
They are the guilty, every one!
-
The day begins
and now let's see
-
What this new world
will do for me!
-
You'll have to go!
I'll pay you off for the day
-
Collect your bits and pieces there
and be on your way
-
You have given me half
what the other men get
-
This handful of tin
wouldn't buy my sweat!
-
You broke the law!
It's there for people to see
-
Why should you get the same
as honest men like me?
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And now I know how freedom feels
The jailer always at your heels!
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It is the law!
-
This piece of paper in my hand
It makes me cursed throughout the land
-
It is the law!
-
Like a cur
I walk the street
-
The dirt beneath their feet
-
Come in, sir, for you are weary
-
And the night is cold out there
-
Though our lives are very humble
-
What we have, we have to share
-
There is wine here to revive you
-
There is bread to make you strong
-
There's a bed to rest till morning
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Rest from pain, and rest from wrong
-
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share
-
The silver in my hand
cost twice what I had earned
-
In all those 19 years
A lifetime of despair!
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And yet he trusted me
-
The old fool trusted me
He'd done his bit of good
-
I played the grateful serf
and thanked him like I should
-
But when the house was still
I got up in the night
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Took the silver
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Took my
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flight!
-
-Tell his reverence your story!
-Let us see if he's impressed!
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-You were lodging here last night
-You were the honest bishop's guest
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And then, out of Christian goodness
when he learned about your plight
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You maintain he made a present
of this silver
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That is right!
-
But my friend, you left so early!
Surely something slipped your mind
-
You forgot I gave these also
Would you leave the best behind?
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So, messieurs, you may release him
-
for this man has spoken true
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I commend you for your duty
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Now God's blessing go with you
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But remember this, my brother
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See in this some higher plan
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You must use this precious silver
-
to become an honest man
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By the witness of the martyrs
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By the passion and the blood
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God has raised you out of darkness
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I have bought your soul
-
for God!
-
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
-
Become a thief in the night!
Become a dog on the run!
-
And have I fallen so far
And is the hour so late
-
That nothing remains
but the cries of my hate?
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The cries in the dark that nobody hears!
-
Here where I stand
at the turning of the years?
-
If there's another way to go
I missed it 20 long years ago
-
My life was a war that could never be won
-
They gave me a number
and murdered Valjean
-
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread!
-
Yet why did I allow this man
-
to touch my soul and teach me love?
-
He treated me like any other
-
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
-
My life he claims for God above
-
Can such things be?
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For I had come to hate the world
-
This world that always hated me!
-
Take an eye for an eye!
-
Turn your heart into stone!
-
This is all I have lived for!
-
This is all I have known!
-
One word from him and I'd be back
-
beneath the lash, upon the rack
-
Instead he offers me my freedom!
-
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
-
He told me that I have a soul
-
How does he know?
-
What spirit comes to move my life?
-
Is there another way to go?
-
I am reaching, but I fall
-
and the night is closing in
-
As I stare into the void
-
to the whirlpool of my sin
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I'll escape now from that world
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From the world of Jean Valjean
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Jean Valjean is nothing now!
-
Another story must begin!
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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(SINGING) At the end of the day
you're another day older
-
And that's all you can say
for the life of the poor
-
It's a struggle! It's a war!
-
And there's nothing that anyone's giving
-
One more day standing about
What is it for?
-
One day less to be living!
-
At the end of the day
you're another day colder
-
And the shirt on your back
doesn't keep out the chill
-
And the righteous hurry past
They don't hear the little ones crying
-
And the winter is coming on fast
Ready to kill
-
One day nearer to dying!
-
At the end of the day
there's another day dawning
-
And the sun in the morning
is waiting to rise!
-
And the waves crash on the sand
Like a storm that'll break any second
-
There's a hunger in the land
There's a reckoning still to be reckoned
-
And there's gonna be hell to pay!
At the end of the day!
-
FOREMAN: At the end of the day
you get nothing for nothing!
-
Sitting flat on your bum
doesn't buy any bread!
-
-There are children back at home
-And the children have got to be fed
-
-And you're lucky to be in a job
-And in a bed!
-
(FOREMAN SHOUTS)
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And we're counting our blessings!
-
Have you seen
how the foreman is fuming today
-
With his terrible breath
and his wandering hands?
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It's because little Fantine
won't give him his way
-
Take a look at his trousers
you'll see where he stands!
-
And the boss, he never knows
that the foreman is always on heat
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WOMAN: If Fantine doesn't look out
Watch how she goes
-
She'll be out on the street!
-
At the end of the day it's another day over
-
With enough in your pocket
to last for a week
-
Pay the landlord, pay the shop
Keep on grafting as long as you're able
-
Keep on grafting till you drop
Or it's back to the crumbs off the table
-
Well, you've got to pay your way
At the end of the day!
-
And what have we here
little innocent sister?
-
Come on, Fantine, let's have all the news!
-
Dear Fantine, you must send us more money
-
Your child needs a doctor
There's no time to lose
-
Give that letter to me
It is none of your business
-
With a husband at home
and a bit on the side!
-
Is there anyone here
who can swear before God
-
She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?
-
What is this fighting all about?
Will someone tear these two apart?
-
This is a factory, not a circus
-
Now, come on, ladies, settle down!
-
I run a business of repute
I am the mayor of this town
-
I look to you to sort this out
and be as patient as you can
-
Now someone say how this began!
-
At the end of the day
she's the one who began it!
-
There's a kid that she's hiding
in some little town
-
There's a man she has to pay
You can guess how she picks up the extra
-
You can bet she's earning her keep
sleeping around!
-
And the boss wouldn't like it!
-
Yes, it's true there's a child
and the child is my daughter
-
And her father abandoned us
leaving us flat
-
Now she lives
with an innkeeper man and his wife
-
And I pay for the child
What's the matter with that?
-
At the end of the day
she'll be nothing but trouble
-
And there's trouble for all
when there's trouble for one!
-
While we're earning our daily bread
she's the one with her hands in the butter
-
You must send the slut away
or we're all gonna end in the gutter
-
And it's us who'll have to pay
At the end of the day!
-
I might have known the bitch could bite!
I might have known the cat had claws!
-
I might have guessed your little secret!
-
Ah, yes! The virtuous Fantine
Who keeps herself so pure and clean
-
You'd be the cause, I had no doubt
of any trouble hereabout
-
You play a virgin in the light
but need no urging in the night!
-
She's been laughing at you
while she's having her men!
-
She'll be nothing but trouble
again and again!
-
-You must sack her today!
-Sack the girl today!
-
Right, my girl
-
On your way!
-
There was a time when men were kind
-
When their voices were soft
-
and their words inviting
-
There was a time when love was blind
-
and the world was a song
-
and the song was exciting!
-
There was a time
-
Then it all went wrong
-
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
-
when hope was high and life worth living
-
I dreamed that love would never die
-
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
-
Then I was young and unafraid
-
And dreams were made and used
and wasted
-
There was no ransom to be paid
-
No song unsung, no wine untasted
-
But the tigers come at night
-
with their voices soft as thunder
-
As they tear your hope apart
-
As they turn your dream
-
to shame
-
He slept a summer by my side
-
He filled my days with endless wonder
-
He took my childhood in his stride
-
But he was gone when autumn came
-
And still I dream he'll come to me!
-
That we will live the years together
-
But there are dreams that cannot be
-
And there are storms we cannot weather
-
I had a dream my life would be
-
so different from this hell I'm living
-
So different now from what it seemed!
-
Now life has killed the dream
-
I dreamed
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(SINGING) I smell women!
Smell 'em in the air!
-
Think I'll drop me anchor
in that harbour over there!
-
Lovely ladies!
Smell 'em through the smoke!
-
Seven months at sea
can make you hungry for a poke
-
Even stokers need a little stoke!
-
Lovely ladies waiting for a bite!
-
Waiting for the customers
who only come at night
-
Lovely ladies ready for a call
-
Standing up or lying down or any way at all
-
Bargain prices up against the wall!
-
Come here, my dear
Let's see this trinket you wear
-
This bagatelle
-
Madame, I'll sell it to you!
-
-I'll give you four
-That wouldn't pay for the chain
-
I'll give you five, you're far too eager to sell
It's up to you
-
-It's all I have!
-That's not my fault
-
-Please, make it 10!
-No more than five
-
My dear, we all must stay alive!
-
Lovely ladies waiting in the dark
-
Ready for a thick one
or a quick one in the park
-
Long time, short time, anytime, my dear!
-
Cost a little extra
if you want to take all year
-
Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!
-
What pretty hair!
What pretty locks you've got there
-
What luck you've got
It's worth a centime, my dear!
-
-I'll take the lot!
-Don't touch me! Leave me alone!
-
Let's make a price
I'll give you all of 10 francs
-
-Just think of that!
-It pays a debt
-
-Just think of that
-What can I do? It pays a debt
-
Ten francs may save my poor Cosette
-
Gimme the dirt
Who's that bit over there?
-
A bit of skirt
She's the one sold her hair
-
She's got a kid
Sends her all that she can
-
I might've known
there is always some man
-
Lovely lady, come along and join us!
-
Lovely lady!
-
Come on, dearie, why all the fuss?
-
You're no grander than the rest of us
-
Life has dropped you
at the bottom of the heap
-
Join your sisters
Make money in your sleep!
-
WHORE 1 : That's right, dearie
Let 'im have the lot
-
WHORE 2: That's right, dearie
-
Show 'im what you've got
-
Old men, young men, take 'em as they come!
-
Harbour rats and alley cats
and every kind of scum!
-
Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land
-
See them with their trousers off
They're never quite as grand!
-
All it takes is money in your hand!
-
Lovely ladies going for a song
-
Got a lot of callers
but they never stay for long
-
Come on, Captain, you can wear your shoes
-
Don't it make a change
to have a girl who can't refuse?
-
Easy money
Lying on a bed
-
Just as well they never see
the hate that's in your head!
-
Don't they know they're making love
-
to one already dead?
-
Here's something new
-
I think I'll give it a try
-
Come closer, you!
-
I like to see what I buy
-
The usual price
-
for just one slice of your pie
-
I don't want you!
No! No, monsieur, let me go!
-
Is this a trick? I won't pay more!
-
No, not at all
-
You've got some nerve, you ugly slut!
-
You've got some gall!
-
It's the same with a tart
as it is with a grocer
-
The customer sees what he gets in advance
-
It's not for the whore
to say yes sir or no sir
-
It's not for the harlot
to pick or to choose
-
Or to lead me a dance
-
I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that!
-
Even a whore who has gone to the bad
won't be had by a rat!
-
By Christ, you'll pay for what you've done!
This rat will make you bleed, you'll see!
-
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer!
-
For this disturbance of the peace
-
For this insult to life and property!
-
I beg you, don't report me, sir
I'll do whatever you may want
-
Make your excuse to the police!
-
Tell me quickly what's the story
Who saw what, and why, and where?
-
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to Javert!
-
In this nest of whores and vipers
Let one speak who saw it all
-
Who laid hands on this good man here?
What's the substance of this brawl?
-
Javert, would you believe it?
I was crossing from the park
-
When this prostitute attacked me
You can see she left her mark!
-
She will answer for her actions
When you make a full report
-
You may rest assured, monsieur
That she will answer to the court
-
There's a child who sorely needs me
Please, monsieur, she's but that high
-
Holy God, is there no mercy?
If I go to jail she'll die!
-
I have heard such protestations
every day for 20 years
-
Let's have no more explanations
Save your breath and save your tears
-
Honest work, just reward
That's the way to please the Lord
-
A moment of your time, Javert
I do believe this woman's tale
-
But, Monsieur Mayor
-
You've done your duty, let her be
She needs a doctor not a jail
-
-But, Monsieur Mayor
-Can this be?
-
Where will she end
This child without a friend?
-
I've seen your face before
-
Show me some way to help you
-
How have you come to grief
-
In such a place as this
-
Monsieur, don't mock me now, I pray
-
It's hard enough I've lost my pride
-
You let your foreman send me away
-
Yes, you were there and turned aside
-
I never did no wrong
-
Is it true, what I've done...
-
My daughter's close to dying
-
... to an innocent soul?
-
-If there's a God above...
-Had I only known then
-
...he'd let me die instead
-
In his name my task has just begun
-
I will see it done
-
But, Monsieur Mayor!
-
Take her to the hospital
-
But, Monsieur Mayor!
-
I will see it done!
-
Can this be true?
-
I don't believe what I see!
-
A man your age
To be as strong as you are!
-
A memory stirs
-
You make me think of a man
-
from years ago
-
A man who broke his parole
-
He disappeared
-
Forgive me, sir!
I would not dare
-
Say what you must
Don't leave it there
-
I have only known one other
who can do what you have done
-
He's a convict from the chain gang
He's been 10 years on the run
-
But he couldn't run forever
We have found his hideaway
-
And he's just been re-arrested
And he comes to court today
-
Well, of course, he now denies it
You'd expect that of a con
-
But he couldn't run forever
No, not even Jean Valjean!
-
You say this man denies it all
-
And gives no sign of understanding
or repentance
-
You say this man is going to trial
-
And that he's sure to be returned
to serve his sentence
-
Come to that, can you be sure
-
that I am not your man?
-
I have known the thief for ages
Tracked him down through thick and thin
-
And to make the matter certain
There's the brand upon his skin
-
He will bend
He will break
-
This time there is no mistake!
-
He thought that man was me
without a second glance
-
This stranger he has found
This man could be my chance
-
Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong?
-
When I have come so far
and struggled for so long?
-
If I speak, I am condemned
-
If I stay silent
-
I am damned!
-
I am the master of hundreds of workers
They all look to me
-
Can I abandon them?
-
How will they live
If I am not free?
-
If I speak, they are condemned
-
If I stay silent, I am damned
-
Who am I?
-
Can I condemn this man to slavery?
-
Pretend I do not feel his agony?
-
This innocent who wears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
-
Who am I?
-
Can I conceal myself for evermore?
-
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
-
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
-
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
-
How can I ever face myself again?
-
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
-
He gave me hope when hope was gone
-
He gave me strength to journey on
-
Who am I?
-
Who am I?
-
I'm Jean Valjean!
-
And so, Javert, you see it's true
-
This man bears no more guilt than you
-
Who am I?
-
24601!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(SINGING) Cosette, it's turned so cold
-
Cosette, it's past your bed time
-
You've played the day away
-
And soon it will be night
-
Come to me
-
Cosette, the light is fading
-
Don't you hear the winter wind is crying?
-
There's a darkness
which comes without a warning
-
But I will sing you lullabies
and wake you in the morning
-
Oh, Fantine, our time is running out
-
But, Fantine, I swear this on my life
-
Look, monsieur, where all the children play!
-
Be at peace!
-
Be at peace ever more
-
-My Cosette...
-Shall live in my protection
-
-Take her now!
-Your child will want for nothing
-
Good monsieur
You come from God in heaven
-
And none will ever harm Cosette
as long as I am living
-
Take my hand
-
The night grows ever colder
-
Then I will keep you warm
-
Take my child
-
I give her to your keeping
-
Take shelter from the storm
-
For God's sake
please stay till I am sleeping
-
And tell Cosette I love her
-
and I'll see her when I wake
-
Valjean, at last
We see each other plain!
-
Monsieur Ie Mayor
You'll wear a different chain!
-
Before you say another word, Javert
Before you chain me up like a slave again
-
Listen to me! There is something I must do
-
This woman leaves behind a suffering child
-
There is none but me who can intercede
-
In mercy's name, three days are all I need
-
Then I'll return, I pledge my word
Then I'll return
-
You must think me mad!
I've hunted you across the years
-
Men like you can never change
A man such as you
-
-Believe of me what you will
-Men like me can never change
-
-There is a duty that I'm sworn to do
-Men like you can never change
-
-You know nothing of my life
-No, 24601!
-
-All I did was steal some bread
-My duty is to the law
-
-You know nothing of the world
-You have no rights!
-
-You would sooner see me dead
-Come with me, 24601!
-
-But not before I see this justice done!
-Now the wheel has turned around
-
Jean Valjean is nothing now
-
-I am warning you, Javert
-Dare you talk to me of crime
-
-I'm the stronger man by far!
-And the price you had to pay
-
-There is power in me yet!
-Every man is born in sin
-
-My race is not yet run!
-Every man must choose his way
-
-I am warning you, Javert
-You know nothing of Javert!
-
-There is nothing I won't dare!
-I was born inside a jail
-
-If I have to kill you here
-I was born with scum like you
-
-I'll do what must be done
-I am from the gutter, too
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
And this I swear to you tonight
-
There is no place for you to hide
-
Your child will live within my care
-
Wherever you may hide away
-
And I will raise her to the light
-
I swear to you
-
I will be there
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) There is a castle on a cloud
-
I like to go there in my sleep
-
Aren't any floors for me to sweep
-
Not in my castle on a cloud
-
There is a lady all in white
-
Holds me and sings a lullaby
-
She's nice to see
and she's soft to touch
-
She says
"Cosette, I love you very much"
-
I know a place where no one's lost
-
I know a place where no one cries
-
Crying at all is not allowed
-
Not in my castle on a cloud
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
Now look who's here!
-
The little madam herself
-
Pretending once again
She's been so awfully good!
-
Better not let me catch you slacking
Better not catch my eye
-
Ten rotten francs your mother sends me
What's that going to buy?
-
Now, take that pail
My little mademoiselle
-
And go and draw some water from the well
-
We should never have taken you in
in the first place
-
How stupid the things we do
-
Like mother, like daughter
The scum of the street!
-
Still there, Cosette?
-
Your tears will do you no good
-
I told you fetch some water
from the well in the wood
-
Please do not send me out alone
-
Not in the darkness on my own
-
(ANGRILY) Enough of that
-
(SOFTLY) or I'll forget to be nice!
-
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-
You heard me ask for something
And I never ask twice
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
My band of soaks
My den of dissolutes
-
My dirty jokes
My always pissed as newts
-
My sons of whores
Spend their lives in my inn
-
Homing pigeons homing in
-
They fly through my doors
-
And their money's as good as yours
-
Welcome, monsieur!
Sit yourself down
-
And meet the best innkeeper in town
-
As for the rest
All of them crooks
-
Rooking the guests
and cooking the books
-
Seldom do you see
-
Honest men like me!
-
A gent of good intent
-
Who's content to be
-
Master of the House!
Doling out the charm
-
Ready with a handshake
and an open palm
-
Tells a saucy tale
Creates a little stir
-
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur
-
Glad to do a friend a favour!
-
Doesn't cost me to be nice
-
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
-
Master of the House!
Keeper of the zoo!
-
Ready to relieve them
of a sou or two
-
Watering the wine
Making up the weight
-
Picking up their knick-knacks
When they can't see straight
-
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend!
-
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!
-
(LAUGHS)
-
Master of the House!
Quick to catch yer eye!
-
Never wants a passer-by
to pass him by!
-
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
-
Comforter, philosopher and life-long mate!
-
Everybody's boon companion!
Everybody's chaperone!
-
But lock up your valises
Jesus! Won't I skin you to the bone!
-
Enter, monsieur
Lay down yer load
-
Unlace yer boots
Rest from the road
-
This weighs a ton!
Travel's a curse
-
But here we strive
to lighten your purse
-
Here the goose is cooked!
-
Here the fat is fried!
-
And nothing's overlooked till I'm satisfied
-
Food beyond compare!
Food beyond belief!
-
Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef
-
Kidney of a horse
Liver of a cat
-
Filling up the sausages with this and that!
-
Residents are more than welcome!
-
Bridal suite is occupied!
-
Reasonable charges
Plus some little extras on the side!
-
Here we go
-
Charge them for the lice
Extra for the mice
-
Two percent for looking
in the mirror twice
-
Here a little slice
There a little cut
-
Three per cent for sleeping
with the window shut!
-
When it comes to fixing prices
There are lots of tricks he knows!
-
How it all increases!
All them bits and pieces!
-
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!
-
Master of the House!
Quick to catch yer eye!
-
Never wants a passer-by
to pass him by!
-
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
-
Comforter, philosopher and life-long mate!
-
Everybody's boon companion
Gives them everything he's got
-
Dirty bunch of geezers
Jesus! What a sorry little lot!
-
I used to dream
that I would meet a prince
-
But, God almighty, have you seen
what's happened since?
-
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-
"Master of the House"
isn't worth my spit!
-
Comforter, philosopher, and life-long shit!
-
Cunning little brain
Regular Voltaire!
-
Thinks he's quite a lover
But there's not much there
-
What a cruel trick of nature
Landed me with such a louse!
-
God knows how I've lasted
living with this bastard in the house!
-
-Master of the House!
-Master and a half!
-
-Comforter, philosopher!
-Don't make me laugh!
-
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
-
Hypocrite, and toady, and inebriate
-
Everybody bless the landlord!
Everybody bless his spouse!
-
Everybody raise a glass!
-
(ALL WHOOPING)
-
Raise it up the master's arse!
-
(ALL LAUGH)
-
Everybody raise a glass
to the Master of the House!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(CHEERING)
-
(SINGING)
I found her wandering in the woods
-
This is her child
-
I found her trembling in the shadows
-
And I am here to help Cosette
-
And I will settle any debt
you may think proper
-
I will pay what I must pay
-
to take Cosette away
-
What to do?
What to say?
-
Shall you carry our treasure away?
-
What a gem!
What a pearl!
-
Beyond rubies is our little girl!
-
How can we speak of debt?
-
Let's not haggle for darling Colette!
-
-(SOFTLY) Cosette!
-Cosette!
-
Dear Fantine, gone to rest
-
Have we done for her child what is best?
-
Shared our bread, haven't we?
Shared each bone
-
We treated her like she's one of our own!
Like our own, monsieur!
-
Your feelings do you credit, sir
I will ease the parting blow
-
Let us not talk of bargains
or bones or greed
-
Now, may I say we are agreed?
-
That would quite fit the bill
-
if she hadn't so often been ill
-
Little dear, cost us dear!
-
Medicines are expensive, monsieur
-
Not that we'd begrudge a sou
-
It's no more than we Christians must do!
-
One thing more
One small doubt!
-
There are treacherous people about!
-
No offence!
Please reflect
-
Your intentions may not be correct
-
No more words!
Here's your price
-
1, 500 for your sacrifice
-
Come, Cosette, say goodbye!
-
Let us seek out some friendlier sky
-
Thank you both for Cosette
-
It won't take you too long to forget
-
(INDISTINCT)
-
Look down and see the beggars at your feet!
-
Look down and show
some mercy if you can!
-
Look down and see
the sweepings of the street!
-
Look down, look down
upon your fellow man!
-
How do you do?
My name's Gavroche!
-
These are my people
Here's my patch
-
Not much to look at
Nothing posh
-
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch
-
This is my school, my high society!
-
Here in the slums of Saint Michel
-
We live on crumbs of humble piety
-
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
-
Think you're poor?
Think you're free?
-
Follow me! Follow me!
-
Look down and show
some mercy if you can!
-
Look down, look down
upon your fellow man!
-
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me pitch
-
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to learn
-
Listen, you old bat
Crazy bloody witch
-
Least I give my customers
some pleasure in return
-
I know what you give
You give them all the pox
-
You spread around your poison
till they end up in a box
-
Leave the poor old cow
Move it, Madeleine
-
She used to be no better
till the clap got to her brain
-
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
-
-Something's gotta happen now
-MAN: Or something's gonna give
-
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
-
Where are the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?
-
Only one man, and that's Lamarque
speaks for these people here below
-
See our children fed!
Help us in our shame!
-
Something for a crust of bread
in holy Jesus' name!
-
In the Lord's holy name
In his name, in his name, in his name
-
Lamarque is ill and fading fast
Won't last a week out, so they say
-
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
-
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
-
Before the barricades arise?
-
Watch out for old Thenardier!
All of his family's on the make
-
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no mistake
-
He's got a gang
The bleeding layabout
-
Even his daughter does her share
-
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to scare!
-
Do we care?
Not a cuss!
-
Long live us!
Long live us!
-
Look down and show
some mercy if you can!
-
Look down, look down
upon your fellow man!
-
Here's the old boy!
Stay on the job and watch out for the law!
-
-Stay out of this!
-But, Eponine...
-
You'll be in trouble here!
It's not your concern, you'll be in the clear
-
-Who is that man?
-Leave me alone!
-
Why is he here?
Hey, Eponine!
-
I didn't see you there, forgive me
-
Please, monsieur, come this way
-
Here's a child what ain't eaten today
-
Save a life
Spare a sou!
-
God rewards all the good that you do
-
Wait a bit!
Know that face!
-
Ain't the world a remarkable place?
-
Men like me don't forget
-
You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!
-
What is this?
Are you mad?
-
No, monsieur, you don't know what you do!
-
You know me, you know me!
I'm a con, just like you
-
It's the police! Disappear!
Run for it!
-
It's Javert!
-
Another brawl in the square!
Another stink in the air!
-
Was there a witness to this?
Well, let him speak to Javert!
-
Monsieur, the streets are not safe
But let these vermin beware
-
We'll see that justice is done!
-
Look upon this fine collection
crawled from underneath a stone
-
This swarm of worms and maggots
could have picked you to the bone!
-
I know this man over here
I know his name and his trade
-
And on your witness, monsieur
I'll see him suitably paid
-
But where's the gentleman gone?
And why on earth did he run?
-
You will have a job to catch him!
He's the one you should arrest!
-
No more bourgeois when you scratch him
than that brand upon his chest!
-
Could it be he's some old jailbird
that the tide now washes in?
-
Heard my name and started running
Had the brand upon his skin
-
And the girl who stood beside him
When I turned they both had gone
-
Could he be the man I've hunted?
Could it be he's Jean Valjean?
-
(CLEARS THROAT)
-
In the absence of a victim
-
Dear Inspector, may I go?
-
And remember when you've nicked him
-
It was me wot told you so!
-
Let the old man keep on running
-
I will run him off his feet!
-
Everyone about your business
Clear this garbage off the street!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
There, out in the darkness
-
A fugitive running
-
Fallen from God
-
Fallen from grace
-
God, be my witness!
-
I never shall yield
till we come face to face
-
Till we come face to face
-
He knows his way in the dark
-
Mine is the way of the Lord
-
Those who follow the path
of the righteous
-
shall have their reward
-
And if they fall, as Lucifer fell
-
The flame!
The sword!
-
Stars in your multitudes!
-
Scarce to be counted
-
Filling the darkness
-
With order and light
-
You are the sentinels
-
Silent and sure
-
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
-
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim!
-
And each in your season
returns and returns
-
And is always the same
-
And if you fall, as Lucifer fell
-
You fall in flames!
-
And so it must be
For so it is written
-
On the doorway to Paradise
-
That those who falter and those who fall
-
Must pay the price!
-
Lord, let me find him
-
that I may see him safe behind bars!
-
I will never rest till then!
-
This I swear!
-
This I swear by the stars!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(SINGING)
That inspector thinks he's something
-
But it's me who runs this town!
-
And my theatre never closes
and the curtain's never down!
-
Trust Gavroche! Have no fear!
You can always find me here!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) Enjolras!
At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
-
At Rue du Bac they're straining at the leash!
-
Students, workers, everyone!
There's a river on the run!
-
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
-
The time is near
-
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins
-
And yet beware!
-
Don't let the wine go to your brains
-
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
-
With the men and the arms
that we never can match
-
It is easy to sit here and swat them like flies
-
But the National Guard
will be harder to catch
-
We need a sign to rally the people
-
To call them to arms
To bring them in line
-
-Marius, you're late
-JOLY: What's wrong today?
-
You look as if you've seen a ghost!
-
Some wine, and say what's going on!
-
A ghost you say? A ghost may-be
She was just like a ghost to me!
-
One minute there, then she was gone!
-
I am agog!
I am aghast!
-
Is Marius in love at last?
-
I have never heard him "ooh" and "ah"
(LAUGHS)
-
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Juan
-
It is better than an opera
Thank you!
-
It is time for us all
to decide who we are
-
Do we fight for the right
to a night at the opera now?
-
Have you asked of yourselves
what's the price you might pay?
-
Is this simply a game
for rich young boys to play?
-
The colours of the world
are changing day by day
-
Red, the blood of angry men!
-
Black, the dark of ages past!
-
Red, a world about to dawn!
-
Black, the night that ends at last!
-
Had you been there tonight
you might know how it feels
-
To be struck to the bone
in a moment of breathless delight
-
Had you been there tonight
you might also have known
-
How the world may be changed
with just one burst of light
-
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!
-
-Red!
-I feel my soul on fire!
-
-GRANTAIRE: Black!
-My world if she's not there!
-
-Red!
-The colour of desire!
-
-Black!
-The colour of despair!
-
Marius, you're no longer a child
-
I do not doubt you mean it well
-
But now there is a higher call!
-
Who cares about your lonely soul?
-
We strive towards a larger goal
-
Our little lives don't count at all!
-
Red, the blood of angry men!
-
Black, the dark of ages past!
-
Red, a world about to dawn!
-
Black, the night that ends at last!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(SINGING) Well, Courfeyrac!
Do we have all the guns?
-
Feuilly, Combeferre!
Our time is running short!
-
Grantaire, put the bottle down!
Do we have the guns we need?
-
Give me brandy on my breath
and I'll breathe them all to death!
-
Listen, everybody!
-
General Lamarque is dead!
-
Lamarque is dead
-
Lamarque, his death is the hour of fate
-
The people's man
-
His death is the sign we await!
-
On his funeral day
They will honour his name
-
With the light of rebellion
ablaze in their eyes
-
From their candles of grief
we will kindle our flame
-
On the tomb of Lamarque
shall our barricade rise!
-
The time is here!
-
Let us welcome it gladly
with courage and cheer!
-
Let us take to the streets
with no doubt in our hearts
-
But a jubilant shout!
-
They will come one and all!
-
They will come when we call!
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
-
It is the music of a people
who will not be slaves again!
-
When the beating of your heart
echoes the beating of the drums
-
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!
-
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
-
Beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
-
Then join in the fight
that will give you the right to be free!
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
-
It is the music of a people
who will not be slaves again!
-
When the beating of your heart
echoes the beating of the drums!
-
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!
-
Will you give all you can give
so that our banner may advance?
-
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
-
The blood of the martyrs
will water the meadows of France!
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
-
It is the music of a people
who will not be slaves again!
-
When the beating of your heart
echoes the beating of the drums
-
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes
-
(MEN SHOUTING)
-
How strange, this feeling
that my life's begun at last
-
This change!
Can people really fall in love so fast?
-
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
-
Have you been too much on your own?
-
So many things unclear
So many things unknown
-
In my life
-
There are so many questions and answers
that somehow seem wrong
-
In my life
-
There are times when I catch in the silence
the sigh of a far away song
-
And it sings of a world that I long to see
-
Out of reach, just a whisper away
Waiting for me!
-
Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
-
Did he see what I see?
Does he feel what I feel?
-
In my life
-
I'm no longer alone
now the love in my life is so near
-
Find me now!
-
Find me here!
-
Dear Cosette
You're such a lonely child
-
How pensive
How sad you seem to me
-
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
-
How quiet it must be, I can see
-
With only me for company
-
There's so little I know
that I'm longing to know
-
Of the child that I was
in a time long ago
-
There's so little you say
of the life you have known
-
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
-
So dark, so dark and deep
-
The secrets that you keep
-
In my life
-
I'm no longer a child
and I yearn for the truth that you know
-
Of the years, years ago!
-
You will learn!
-
Truth is given by God to us all
in our time, in our turn!
-
In my life
-
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun!
-
And my life seems to stop
as if something is over
-
And something has scarcely begun!
-
Eponine, you're the friend
who has brought me here
-
Thanks to you, I am one with the Gods
and heaven is near!
-
And I soar through a world
that is new, that is free!
-
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
-
In my life
-
There's been no one like him anywhere
-
Anywhere, where he is
-
If he asked, I'd be his!
-
In my life
-
There is someone who touches my life
-
Waiting near!
-
Waiting here!
-
A heart full of love!
-
A heart full of song!
-
I'm doing everything all wrong!
-
Oh, God, for shame!
-
I do not even know your name
-
Dear mademoiselle
-
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
-
A heart full of love!
-
No fear, no regret!
-
My name is Marius Pontmercy
-
And mine's Cosette
-
Cosette! I don't know what to say
-
Then make no sound
-
I am lost!
-
I am found!
-
A heart full of light!
-
A night bright as day!
-
And you must never go away
-
Cosette, Cosette!
-
This is a chain we'll never break
-
Do I dream?
-
-I'm awake
-A heart full of love!
-
-He was never mine to lose
-A heart full of you!
-
-Why regret what could not be?
-A single look and then I knew!
-
-I knew it, too!
-These are words he'll never say
-
-Not to me
-From today...
-
Not to me! Not for me
-
Every day
-
-For it isn't a dream
-EPONINE: His heart full of love
-
-Not a dream
-He will never
-
-After all!
-Feel this way
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) This is his lair!
I've seen the old fox around
-
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
-
I smell profit here!
-
Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
-
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
-
This'll cost him dear!
-
What do I care who you should rob?
Gimme my share! Finish the job!
-
You shut your mouth!
You'll get what's yours!
-
CLAQUESOUS: What have we here?
-
Who is this hussy?
-
It's your brat Eponine!
Don't you know your own kid?
-
Why's she hanging about you?
-
Eponine, get on home!
You're not needed in this
-
We're enough here without you
-
I know this house, I tell you!
There's nothing here for you!
-
Just the old man and the girl
-
They live ordinary lives
-
Don't interfere! You've got some gall!
-
Take care, young miss
You've got a lot to say!
-
-She's going soft!
-Happens to all!
-
Go home, 'Ponine!
Go home, you're in the way!
-
I'm gonna scream
I'm gonna warn them here!
-
One little scream
and you'll regret it for a year!
-
(SCREAMING)
-
Make for the sewers! Get underground!
Leave her to me! Don't wait around!
-
You wait my girl! You'll rue this night!
-
I'll make you scream!
You'll scream alright!
-
It was your cry sent them away
-
Once more 'Ponine, saving the day!
-
Dearest Cosette
My friend 'Ponine
-
Brought me to you
Showed me the way!
-
Someone is near!
Let's not be seen!
-
Somebody's here!
-
My God, Cosette!
I heard a cry in the dark
-
I heard the shout of angry voices
in the street
-
That was my cry you heard, Papa
-
I was afraid of what they'd do
-
They ran away when they heard my cry
-
Cosette, my child
What will become of you?
-
Three men I saw beyond the wall
-
Three men in shadow moving fast!
-
This is a warning to us all!
-
These are the shadows of the past!
-
Must be Javert
He's found my cover at last
-
I've got to get Cosette away
before they return!
-
We must get away from
shadows that will never let us be
-
Tomorrow to Calais
And then a ship across the sea
-
Hurry, Cosette!
Prepare to leave and say no more
-
Tomorrow we'll away!
-
Hurry, Cosette!
It's time to close another door
-
And live another day!
-
One day more!
-
Another day, another destiny
-
This never-ending road to Calvary
-
These men who seem to know my crime
will surely come a second time
-
-One day more!
-I did not live until today
-
How can I live when we are parted?
-
One day more!
-
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
-
And yet with you my world has started!
-
One more day all on my own
-
Will we ever meet again?
-
One more day with him not caring
-
I was born to be with you!
-
What a life I might have known
-
And I swear I will be true!
-
But he never saw me there!
-
One more day before the storm!
-
Do I follow where she goes?
-
At the barricades of freedom!
-
MARIUS: Shall I join my brothers there?
-
ENJOLRAS: When our ranks begin to form
-
Do I stay, and do I dare?
-
Will you take your place with me?
-
ALL: The time is now! The day is here!
-
One day more!
-
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
-
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood!
-
One day more!
-
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
-
Never know your luck
when there's a free-for-all
-
Here a little dip
There a little touch
-
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
-
One day to a new beginning!
Raise the flag of freedom high!
-
Every man will be a king!
Every man will be a king!
-
There's a new world for the winning!
There's a new world to be won!
-
Do you hear the people sing?
-
My place is here! I fight with you!
-
One day more!
-
I did not live until today
-
-I will follow where they go
-One more day on my own
-
I will learn their little secrets
I will know the things they know
-
One day more!
-
-One more day to revolution
-Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
-
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all
-
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
-
Tomorrow we'll be far away
Tomorrow is the judgement day
-
Tomorrow we'll discover
what our God in heaven has in store
-
One more dawn!
-
One more day!
-
One day more!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
-
(SINGING) Here upon these stones
we will build our barricade
-
In the heart of the city
we claim as our own
-
Each man to his duty
and don't be afraid!
-
Wait! I will need a report
on the strength of the foe
-
I can find out the truth!
I know their ways
-
Fought their wars
Served my time
-
In the days of my youth
-
Hey, little boy, what's this I see?
God, Eponine, the things you do!
-
I know this is no place for me
Still I would rather be with you!
-
Get out before the trouble starts!
Get out, 'Ponine, you might get shot!
-
I got you worried now, I have!
That shows you like me quite a lot
-
There is a way that you can help
You are the answer to a prayer!
-
Please take this letter to Cosette
and pray to God that she's still there!
-
Little you know!
-
Little you care!
-
I have a letter, monsieur
It's addressed to your daughter Cosette
-
It's from a boy at the barricade, sir
In the Rue de Valette
-
Give me that letter here, my boy
-
He said to give it to Cosette
-
You have my word that
my daughter will know
-
what this letter contains
-
Tell the young man
she will read it tomorrow
-
and here's for your pains
-
Go careful now
Stay out of sight
-
There's danger in the streets tonight
-
Dearest Cosette
-
You have entered my soul
and soon you will be gone
-
Can it be only a day since we met
and the world was reborn?
-
If I should fall in the battle to come
let this be my goodbye
-
Now that I know that
you love me as well
-
it is harder to die
-
I pray that God will bring me home
to be with you
-
Pray for your Marius
-
He prays for you
-
And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
-
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face to say hello to
-
And now the night is near
-
Now I can make believe he's here
-
Sometimes I walk alone at night
when everybody else is sleeping
-
I think of him and then I'm happy
with the company I'm keeping
-
The city goes to bed
-
and I can live inside
-
my head!
-
On my own
-
Pretending he's beside me
-
All alone I walk with him till morning
-
Without him, I feel his arms around me
-
And when I lose my way
I close my eyes
-
and he has found me
-
In the rain
-
the pavement shines like silver
-
All the lights are misty in the river
-
In the darkness
the trees are full of starlight
-
And all I see is him and me
forever and forever!
-
And I know it's only in my mind
-
That I'm talking to myself
and not to him
-
And although I know that he is blind
-
Still I say there's a way for us
-
I love him, but when the night is over
-
He is gone
The river's just a river
-
Without him
the world around me changes
-
The trees are bare and everywhere
the streets are full of strangers
-
I love him, but every day I'm learning
-
All my life, I've only been pretending
-
Without me, his world will go on turning
-
A world that's full of happiness
that I have never known
-
I love him
-
I love him
-
I love him
-
But only
-
on my own
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
-
ALL: (SINGING) Now we pledge ourselves
to hold this barricade!
-
Let them come in their legions
and they will be met
-
Have faith in yourselves
and do not be afraid
-
Let's give 'em a screwing
they'll never forget!
-
This is where it begins
-
And if I should die in the fight to be free
-
Where the fighting is hardest
there will I be
-
Let them come if they dare
-
We'll be there!
-
He's back!
-
Listen, my friends
I have done as I said
-
I have been to their lines
I have counted each man
-
I will tell what I can
-
Better be warned
They have armies to spare
-
and our danger is real
-
We will need all our cunning
to bring them to heel!
-
Have faith!
-
If you know what their movements are
we'll spoil their game
-
There are ways that our people can fight
-
We shall overcome their power!
-
I overheard their plans
There will be no attack tonight
-
They intend to starve us out
before they start a proper fight
-
Concentrate their force
Hit us from the right
-
Liar!
-
(SINGING) Good evening, dear Inspector
Lovely evening, my dear!
-
I know this man, my friends
His name's Inspector Javert!
-
So don't believe a word he says
'cause none of it's true
-
This only goes to show
what little people can do!
-
Bravo, little Gavroche!
You're the top of the class!
-
So what are we going to do
with this snake in the grass?
-
Tie this man
and take him to the tavern in there!
-
The people will decide your fate
Inspector Javert!
-
Shoot me now or shoot me later
Every schoolboy to his sport!
-
Death to each and every traitor!
I renounce your people's court!
-
Take this man
Bring him through
-
There is work we have to do
-
There's a boy climbing the barricade!
-
Good God! What are you doing?
'Ponine! Have you no fear?
-
Have you seen my beloved?
Why have you come back here?
-
Took the letter, like you said
I met her father at the door
-
He said he would give it
I don't think I can stand any more
-
Eponine, what's wrong?
There's something wet upon your hair
-
Eponine, you're hurt!
You need some help!
-
Oh, God, it's everywhere!
-
Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius
-
I don't feel any pain
-
A little fall of rain
-
can hardly hurt me now
-
You're here
That's all I need to know
-
And you will keep me safe
-
And you will keep me close
-
And rain will make the flowers grow
-
But you will live 'Ponine
Dear God above!
-
If I could close your wounds
with words of love
-
Just hold me now, and let it be
-
Shelter me
Comfort me
-
You will live 100 years
if I could show you how
-
I won't desert you now
-
The rain can't hurt me now
-
This rain will wash away what's past
-
And you will keep me safe
-
And you will keep me close
-
I'll sleep in your embrace at last
-
The rain that brings you here
is heaven blessed!
-
The skies begin to clear
and I'm at rest
-
A breath away from where you are
-
I've come home from so far
-
-So don't you fret, Monsieur Marius
-Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine
-
-I don't feel any pain
-You won't feel any pain
-
-A little fall of rain
-A little fall of rain
-
-Can hardly hurt me now
-Can hardly hurt you now
-
(GASPING)
-
I'm here!
-
That's all I need to know
-
-And you will keep me safe
-I will stay with you...
-
-And you will keep me close
-...till you are sleeping
-
-And rain...
-And rain...
-
-... will make the flowers...
-... will make the flowers...
-
...grow
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) She is the first to fall
-
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
-
Her name was Eponine!
-
Her life was cold and dark
yet she was unafraid!
-
We fight here in her name
-
She will not die in vain
-
She will not be betrayed
-
JOLY: (SINGING)
Here comes a man in uniform!
-
What brings you to this place?
-
I come here as a volunteer!
-
Approach, and show your face!
-
You wear an army uniform!
-
That's why they let me through!
-
JOLY: You've got some years
behind you, sir!
-
There's much that I can do
-
You see that prisoner over there?
-
A volunteer like you!
-
A spy who calls himself Javert!
-
GRANTAIRE: He's going to get it, too!
-
MAN: They're getting ready to attack!
-
Take this, and use it well!
-
But if you shoot us in the back
You'll never live to tell
-
MAN: PIatoon of sappers
advancing towards the barricade!
-
Troops behind them! Fifty men or more!
-
Hold!
-
Fire!
-
(GUNSHOTS)
-
(SINGING) Look how they turn and run!
-
And so the war was won!
-
They will be back again
Make an attack again
-
For your presence of mind
For the deed you have done
-
I will thank you, monsieur
when our battle is won
-
Give me no thanks, monsieur
There's something you can do
-
If it is in my power
-
Give me the spy Javert!
Let me take care of him!
-
The law is inside out
The world is upside down!
-
Do what you have to do!
The man belongs to you!
-
The enemy may be regrouping!
Hold yourself in readiness!
-
Come, my friends
Back to your positions
-
The night is falling fast!
-
We meet again
-
You've hungered for this all your life
-
Take your revenge
How right you should kill with a knife!
-
You talk too much
Your life is safe in my hands
-
-Don't understand
-Get out of here
-
-Valjean, take care! I'm warning you
-Clear out of here!
-
Once a thief, forever a thief
What you want, you always steal!
-
You would trade your life for mine
Yes, Valjean, you want a deal!
-
Shoot me now for all I care
If you let me go, beware!
-
You'll still answer to Javert!
-
You are wrong
and always have been wrong
-
I'm a man no worse than any man
-
You are free
and there are no conditions
-
No bargains or petitions
-
There's nothing that I blame you for
-
You've done your duty
-
Nothing more
-
If I come out of this alive
-
You'll find me at number 55 Rue Plumet
-
No doubt our paths will cross again!
-
Go!
-
(GUNSHOT)
-
(SINGING) Courfeyrac, you take the watch
They won't attack until it's light
-
Everybody keep the faith
-
For certain as the eagle flies
we are not alone
-
The people too must rise
-
Marius! Rest.
-
(SINGING) Drink with me
-
to days gone by!
-
Sing with me
-
the songs we knew!
-
Here's to pretty girls
who went to our heads!
-
Here's to witty girls
who went to our beds!
-
Here's to them
and here's to you!
-
Drink with me
-
to days gone by!
-
Can it be you fear to die?
-
Will the world remember you
when you fall?
-
Can it be your death
means nothing at all?
-
Is your life just one more lie?
-
Drink with me
-
to days gone by!
-
To the life
-
that used to be!
-
At the shrine of friendship
never say die
-
Let the wine of friendship
never run dry
-
Here's to you!
-
And here's to me!
-
Do I care if I should die
now she goes across the sea?
-
Life without Cosette
means nothing at all
-
Would you weep, Cosette
should Marius fall?
-
Will you weep
-
Cosette
-
for me?
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) God on high
-
Hear my prayer
-
In my need
-
you have always been there
-
He is young
-
He's afraid
-
Let him rest
-
heaven blessed
-
Bring him home!
-
Bring him home!
-
Bring him home
-
He's like the son I might have known
-
if God had granted me a son
-
The summers die one by one
-
How soon they fly on and on
-
And I am old
-
and will be gone
-
Bring him peace
-
Bring him joy
-
He is young
-
He is only a boy
-
You can take!
-
You can give!
-
Let him be
-
Let him live!
-
If I die
-
Iet me die!
-
Let him live
-
Bring him home
-
Bring him home!
-
Bring him
-
home!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
-
(SINGING) You at the barricade listen to this!
-
The people of Paris sleep in their beds!
-
You have no chance
No chance at all!
-
Why throw your lives away?
-
Let us die facing our foes!
Make them bleed while we can!
-
Make them pay through the nose!
-
Make them pay for every man!
-
Let others rise
-
to take our place
until the earth is free!
-
Here's a hint of gold
Stuck into a tooth
-
Pardon me, monsieur
You won't be needing it no more!
-
Shouldn't be too hard to sell
-
Add it to the pile!
Add it to the stock!
-
Here among the sewer rats
A breath away from hell
-
You get accustomed to the smell
-
Well, someone's got to
clean 'em up, my friends
-
Before the little harvest
disappears into the mud
-
Someone's got to collect
their odds and ends
-
When the gutters run with blood
-
It's a world where the dog eats the dog
-
Where they kill for the bones in the street
-
And God in his heaven
you don't interfere
-
'Cos he's dead as the stiffs at me feet!
-
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
-
And only the moon looks down!
-
The harvest moon shines down!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) It's you, Javert
I knew you wouldn't wait too long
-
The faithful servant
at his post once more!
-
This man's done no wrong
and he needs a doctor's care!
-
I warned you I would not give in!
I won't be swayed!
-
Another hour yet
and then I'm yours
-
And all our debts are paid!
-
The man of mercy comes again
and talks of justice!
-
Come, time is running short
-
Look down, Javert!
He's standing in his grave!
-
Take him, Valjean
-
Before I change my mind!
-
I will be waiting, 24601!
-
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he?
-
To have me caught in a trap
and choose to let me go free?
-
It was his hour at last
to put a seal on my fate!
-
Wipe out the past
and wash me clean off the slate!
-
All it would take
was a flick of his knife!
-
Vengeance was his
and he gave me back my life!
-
Damned if I live in the debt of a thief!
-
Damned if I yield
at the end of the chase!
-
I am the law, and the law is not mocked!
I'll spit his pity right back in his face!
-
There is nothing on earth that we share!
-
It is either Valjean or Javert!
-
How can I now allow this man
-
to hold dominion over me?
-
This desperate man whom I have hunted
-
He gave me my life!
He gave me freedom!
-
I should have perished by his hand
-
It was his right
-
It was my right to die as well
-
Instead, I live, but live in hell
-
And my thoughts fly apart
-
Can this man be believed?
-
Shall his sins be forgiven?
-
Shall his crimes be reprieved?
-
And must I now begin to doubt
who never doubted all these years?
-
My heart is stone and still it trembles
-
The world I have known
is lost in shadow
-
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
-
that, granting me my life today
-
this man has killed me even so?
-
I am reaching, but I fall
-
And the stars are black and cold
-
As I stare into the void
of a world that cannot hold
-
I'll escape now from that world
From the world of Jean Valjean
-
There is nowhere I can turn
-
There is no way to go on
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) Did you see them
going off to fight?
-
Children of the barricade
that didn't last the night?
-
They were school boys
Never held a gun
-
Fighting for a new world
that would rise up like the sun
-
Where's that new world
now the fighting's done?
-
-Who will wake them?
-No one ever will
-
No one ever told them
that a summer day can kill
-
Same old story
What's the use of tears?
-
What's the use of praying
if there's nobody who hears?
-
Turning, turning
-
Turning, turning, turning
through the years
-
Turning, turning, turning
through the years
-
Minutes into hours
and the hours into years
-
Nothing changes, nothing ever can
-
Rounding round the roundabout
and back where you began
-
Round and round
and back where you began!
-
There's a grief that can't be spoken
-
There's a pain goes on and on
-
Empty chairs at empty tables
-
Now my friends are dead and gone
-
Here they talked of revolution
-
Here it was they lit the flame
-
Here they sang about tomorrow
-
And tomorrow never came
-
From the table in the corner
-
They could see a world reborn
-
And they rose with voices ringing
-
And I can hear them now!
-
The very words that they had sung
-
became their last communion
-
On the lonely barricade at dawn
-
Oh, my friends, my friends, forgive me
-
That I live and you are gone
-
There's a grief that can't be spoken
-
There's a pain goes on and on
-
Phantom faces at the window!
-
Phantom shadows on the floor!
-
Empty chairs at empty tables
-
Where my friends will meet no more
-
Oh, my friends, my friends, don't ask me
-
What your sacrifice was for
-
Empty chairs at empty tables
-
Where my friends will meet
-
no more
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) Every day, you walk
with stronger step
-
You walk with longer step
The worst is over
-
Every day, I wonder, every day
-
who it was brought me here
from the barricade
-
Don't think about it, Marius!
-
With all the years ahead of us
I will never go away
-
and we will be together every day
-
Every day
-
we'll remember that night
-
and the vow that we made
-
A heart full of love
-
She was never mine to keep
-
A night full of you
-
-She is youthful, she is free
-The words are old, but always true
-
Cosette, Cosette!
-
-Love is the garden of the young
-I saw you waiting and I knew
-
Waiting for you
-
-Let it be!
-At your feet!
-
-Let it be!
-At your call!
-
-And it wasn't a dream
-A heart full of love
-
-Not a dream...
-This I give you...
-
-...after all
-... this day
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) Monsieur, this is a day
I never can forget
-
Is gratitude enough
for giving me Cosette?
-
Your home shall be with us
and not a day shall pass
-
But we will prove our love
to you, whom we shall call
-
a father to us both
a father to us all
-
Not another word, my son!
-
There's something now that must be done
-
There lived a man
whose name was Jean Valjean
-
He stole some bread
to save his sister's son
-
For 19 winters served his time
-
In sweat he washed away his crime!
-
Years ago
-
he broke parole
and lived a life apart
-
How could he tell Cosette
and break her heart?
-
It's for Cosette this must be faced
If he is caught, she is disgraced
-
The time has come to journey on
-
and from this day he must be gone!
-
Who am I?
-
Who am I?
-
You're Jean Valjean!
-
What can I do to turn you from this?
Monsieur, you cannot leave
-
Whatever I tell my beloved Cosette
she will never believe
-
Make her believe
I have gone on a journey a long way away
-
Tell her my heart was too full for farewells
It is better this way
-
Promise me, monsieur
Cosette will never know
-
I give my word
-
What I have spoken, why I must go!
-
For the sake of Cosette, it must be so
-
CHORUS: (SINGING) Ring out the bells
upon this day of days!
-
May all the angels
of the Lord above
-
In jubilation sing their songs of praise
-
And crown this blessed time
with peace and love!
-
The Baron and Baroness de Thenard
wish to pay their respects to the groom!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
I forget where we met
-
Was it not at the Chateau Lafarge?
-
Where the Duke did that puke
-
down the Duchess's decolletage?
-
No, Baron de Thenard
-
The circles I move in are humbler by far
-
Go away, Thenardier
-
Do you think I don't know who you are?
-
He's not fooled!
Told you so!
-
Show monsieur
what you've come here to show
-
Tell the boy what you know!
-
Pity to disturb you at a feast like this
-
But 500 francs
surely wouldn't come amiss
-
In God's name, say what you have to say!
-
But first you pay!
-
What I saw, clear as light
-
Jean Valjean in the sewers that night
-
Had this corpse on his back
hanging there like a bloody great sack
-
I was there, never fear!
-
Even found me this fine souvenir!
-
I know this! This was mine!
-
This is surely some heavenly sign!
-
One thing more, mark this well
-
It was the night that the barricade fell!
-
Then it's true! Then I'm right!
-
Jean Valjean was my saviour that night!
-
As for you, take this, too!
-
God forgive us the things that we do!
-
Come, my love, come, Cosette
-
This day's blessings are not over yet!
-
(LAUGHING)
-
Ain't it a laugh?
Ain't it a treat?
-
Hob-nobbin' here
among the elite?
-
(VOCALISING)
-
Here comes a prince
There goes a Jew
-
This one's a queer
But what can you do?
-
Paris at my feet!
-
Paris in the dust!
-
And here's me, breaking bread
with the upper crust
-
Beggar at the feast!
Master of the dance!
-
Life is easy pickings
if you grab your chance
-
Everywhere you go
law-abiding folk
-
doing what is decent
but they're mostly broke!
-
Singing to the Lord on Sundays
praying for the gifts he'll send
-
But we're the ones who take it
We're the ones who make it in the end!
-
Watch the buggers dance!
Watch them till they drop!
-
Keep your wits about you
And you stand on top!
-
Masters of the land!
Always get our share!
-
Clear away the barricades
and we're still there!
-
We know where the wind is blowing
Money is the stuff we smell
-
And when we're rich as Croesus
Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell?
-
(BOTH LAUGHING)
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
(SINGING) Alone I wait in the shadows
-
I count the hours till I can sleep
-
I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by
-
It made her weep to know I die
-
Alone at the end of the day
-
Upon this wedding night I pray
-
Take these children, my Lord
to thy embrace
-
And show them grace
-
God on high
-
Hear my prayer
-
Take me now
-
to thy care
-
Where you are
-
Let me be
-
Take me now!
-
Take me there!
-
Bring me home!
-
Bring me home!
-
Monsieur, I bless your name
-
I am ready, Fantine
-
Monsieur, lay down your burden
-
At the end of my days
-
-You raised my child in love
-She's the best of my life
-
And you will be with God
-
Papa, papa, I do not understand!
-
Are you alright?
They said you'd gone away!
-
Cosette, my child! Am I forgiven now?
-
Thank God, thank God
I lived to see this day!
-
It's you who must forgive
a thoughtless fool!
-
It's you who must forgive
a thankless man!
-
It's thanks to you that I am living
-
and again I lay down my life
at your feet
-
Cosette, your father is a saint!
-
When they wounded me
he took me from the barricade
-
Carried like a babe
and brought me home to you!
-
Now you are here
-
again beside me
-
Now I can die in peace
-
for now my life is blessed
-
You will live, papa, you're going to live!
-
It's too soon
too soon to say goodbye!
-
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die!
-
I'll obey
-
I will try
-
On this page
I write my last confession
-
Read it well
when I, at last, am sleeping
-
It's the story
of those who always loved you
-
Your mother gave her life for you
then gave you to my keeping
-
Come with me
-
where chains will never bind you
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All your grief
at last, at last, behind you
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Lord in heaven
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Iook down on him in mercy
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Forgive me all my trespasses
and take me to your glory!
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Take my hand
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I lead you to salvation
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Take my love
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For love is everlasting
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And remember
-
the truth that once was spoken
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To love another person
is to see the face of God
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CHOIR: Do you hear the people sing
lost in the valley of the night?
-
It is the music of a people
who are climbing to the light
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For the wretched of the earth
there is a flame that never dies
-
Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise
-
They will live again in freedom
in the garden of the Lord
-
They will walk behind the plough-share
They will put away the sword
-
The chain will be broken
and all men will have their reward
-
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
-
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
-
It is the future that they bring
when tomorrow comes!
-
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
-
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
-
It is the future that they bring
when tomorrow comes
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(ALL VOCALISING)
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Tomorrow comes!
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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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(SINGING) God on high
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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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Hear my prayer
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In my need
-
you have always been there
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He is young
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He's afraid
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Let him rest
-
heaven blessed
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Bring him home!
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Bring him home!
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Bring him home
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He's like the son I might have known
-
if God had granted me a son
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The summers die one by one
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How soon they fly on and on
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And I am old
-
and will be gone
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Bring him peace
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Bring him joy
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He is young
-
He is only a boy
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You can take!
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You can give!
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Let him be
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Let him live!
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If I die
-
Iet me die!
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Let him live
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Bring him home
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Bring him home
-
Bring him home
-
Bring him home
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Bring him
-
home!
-
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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(SINGING) One day more!
-
Another day, another destiny
-
This never-ending road to Calvary
-
These men who seem to know my crime
will surely come a second time
-
-One day more!
-I did not live until today
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How can I live when we are parted?
-
One day more!
-
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
-
And yet with you my world has started!
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One more day all on my own
-
Will we ever meet again?
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One more day with him not caring
-
I was born to be with you!
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What a life I might have known
-
And I swear I will be true!
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But he never saw me there!
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One more day before the storm!
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Do I follow where she goes?
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At the barricades of freedom!
-
Shall I join my brothers there?
-
When our ranks begin to form
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Do I stay, and do I dare?
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Will you take your place with me?
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ALL: The time is now! The day is here!
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One day more!
-
One day more to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
-
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood!
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One day more!
-
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
-
Never know your luck
when there's a free-for-all
-
Here a little dip
There a little touch
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Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
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One day to a new beginning!
Raise the flag of freedom high!
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Every man will be a king!
Every man will be a king!
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There's a new world for the winning!
There's a new world to be won!
-
Do you hear the people sing?
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My place is here! I fight with you!
-
One day more!
-
I did not live until today
-
One more day on my own
-
How can I live when we are parted?
-
One day more!
-
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away!
-
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all
-
And yet with you my world has started
-
Tomorrow we'll be far away
Tomorrow is the judgement day
-
Tomorrow we'll discover
what our God in heaven has in store
-
One more dawn!
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One more day!
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One day more!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
Well, Les Miserables is 25 years young!
-
What a remarkable evening.
-
This is going to be one of
the greatest nights of my Iife.
-
We are all very Iucky to be here in front of
such an incredible, stellar, amazing cast.
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
-
I realised, over the Iast few days,
-
seeing the original cast here,
-
the two wonderful London
companies at the moment,
-
and our extraordinary cast tonight,
-
that I've not only shared
Les Miserables with them,
-
I've shared most of
my professional Iife with them.
-
And everyone, including the choir,
the ensemble, everyone,
-
they're all the stars of the West End
-
that have kept the British
musical theatre thriving.
-
And they're here
for the same reason I'm here
-
and the same reason you're here.
-
We Iove Les Miserables. There's something
extraordinary about this musical.
-
And ever since it opened,
25 years ago, at the Barbican
-
it is you, the public, that have grasped it
-
and embraced it in the most personal way.
And that's how we all feel.
-
I watched the second act backstage.
-
It was as electrifying
as it was for you outside,
-
just because the embrace between us,
-
and seeing everybody
just Iove this material so much,
-
and Iove their fellow performers,
-
is something I have never
encountered in the theatre,
-
and I never will for the rest of my Iife.
-
The inspiration, of course,
belongs to Victor Hugo,
-
and Victor Hugo inspired two Frenchmen,
they had to be French, of course,
-
AIain Boublil and CIaude-Michel Schonberg,
to write the show,
-
with the wonderful, uplifting words
of Herbert Kretzmer.
-
Ladies and gentlemen,
the authors of Les Miserables.
-
(ALL CHEERING)
-
Just a few words
on such an emotional evening,
-
in front of such a huge and warm crowd.
-
I must remember that 32 years ago
I was asking myself one question.
-
Would Les Miserables make
a good subject for a musical?
-
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
-
And I was unconscious enough
to think it was,
-
and CIaude-Michel
crazy enough to agree with me.
-
So tonight is a celebration of
obviously the genius of Victor Hugo,
-
of nearly 40 years of collaboration and
friendship between CIaude-Michel and me,
-
(ALL APPLAUDING)
-
and 27 years of collaboration and
friendship with Cameron Mackintosh.
-
It's also the celebration of incredible talents
that we met through Cameron.
-
Namely they are the people
who have helped him to reshape our work.
-
They are James Fenton,
Trevor Nunn, John Caird,
-
and master Iyricist Herbert Kretzmer.
-
(ALL APPLAUDING)
-
Well, it's an evening...
It's hard to speak, but...
-
An evening which I will remember
for all my Iife, obviously.
-
Seeing this company of companies
perform this night, this incredible evening,
-
and the 1985 evening, with whom
we share so many fond memories,
-
is something that we'II carry with us
for the rest of our Iives.
-
I want to thank you, Cameron,
again, for making us
-
such an incredible and overwhelming
birthday present.
-
(ALL APPLAUDING)
-
It's an incredible evening for us.
-
We are privileged to attend such a concert.
-
But I am wondering
what we are doing here, really,
-
because, generally, when you have
a tribute for a show Iike that
-
it means that the authors,
they are dead for a Iong time.
-
(ALL LAUGHING)
-
And we are still here.
-
And they are not very happy
every day, those two gents
-
and Laurence, the director of the show,
that we are here
-
because we are always Iooking
what they are doing with our baby.
-
But anyway, as AIain said,
-
it's 40 years of brothership
between me and AIain,
-
27 years of friendship
and collaboration with Cameron.
-
Sometimes it's easy,
sometimes it's very tough,
-
but it's always a Iot of fun.
-
And I wish that it will Iast a very Iong time.
-
Thank you very much, everyone.
Thank you!
-
(ALL CHEERING)
-
I've just realised
-
that I'II be nearly 90 for the
50th anniversary. What shall I do?
-
I intend to be here, though.
-
(ALL LAUGHING)
-
Now, in 2002,
it was Victor Hugo's bicentennial,
-
and we decided that
we would do a school's edition,
-
so that under-19-year-olds
could perform the show.
-
They've been extraordinary doing it.
-
Hundreds and thousands of students
-
and tens of thousands
of productions have done it.
-
And now, here, just a few of them
are going to be here
-
to take part in our celebration
as we come to an end tonight.
-
They are the future.
-
They will be doing Les Miserables
when tomorrow comes.
-
(SINGING) Do you hear the people sing
lost in the valley of the night?
-
It is the music of a people
who are climbing to the light
-
For the wretched of the earth
there is a flame that never dies
-
Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise
-
They will live again in freedom
in the garden of the Lord
-
They will walk behind the plough-share
They will put away the sword
-
The chain will be broken
and all men will have their reward
-
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
-
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
-
It is the future that they bring
when tomorrow comes!
-
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
-
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
-
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
-
It is the future that they bring
when tomorrow comes
-
(ALL VOCALISING)
-
Tomorrow comes!
-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
