-In London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back and hit him.

-The Rue Plumet gate wasn't properly anchored during the Love Montage. It looked a little loose all through In My Life, but it wasn't hugely noticeable until Marius had to climb over it--and it slid three feet to the right, with him still on it. They spent the rest of the scene trying to keep it in place/keep the gate closed without looking like that's what they were doing, and of course the turntable couldn't run without sending the gate flying. So by the end of the scene there was a garden bench on the wrong side of the gate, three stagehands hiding behind it to keep it in place, Celia Keenan-Bolger pushing it shut every thirty seconds, and the turntable in the wrong position for One Day More.

-Michael McCarthy (Javert) was singing and suddenly realising that because he had gotten two words the wrong way round, his next line wasn't going to rhyme!
"Tell me quickly what's the story
Who saw what and where and why
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to ... Javert"
And there was a split second pause before the last word as he realised.

-The barricade got stuck. The stage right side of it didn't go off after the barricade and stayed on during Dog Eats Dog. Of course the big problem with this is that the bridge can't come down for the suicide. Javert just walked off, the curtain came down and an announcement said that there was a fault. 10 mins later he came back on sans barricade and did the suicide number as it should be.

-To set the stage...ALFOR had just ended. All was silent, Marius cradling the dead Eponine, and Enjolras was about to say his line..."She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall--" and apparently the microphone picked up a signal from a local airport "the first of us to fall--PSHHZZT this is air traffic controller, we have you clear for landing."

-Cosette put down the water bucket, and it fell over and eventually rolled into the orchestra pit.

-At the end of Master of the House the director had blocked Madame Thenardier to jump on Thenardier, who was leaning over a table. Then the revolve would spin around, carrying everyone off. But, in one show, the table legs gave way, so it and the Thenardiers fell off the revolve section of the stage. Thenardier recovered quickly, and was able to carry off the table. Madame Thenardier, however, rolled off and into the pit, plowing through all of the music stands. The musicians all had to improvise the next few bars of music.

-Javert's buttons once got caught on the bridge during his suicide and he was nearly lifted up.

-During the curtain call Eponine came running on, then stumbled over her coat--it may have been a little too big for her--and fell over onto her knees. She put her hand over her mouth and started laughing. The audience reacted brilliantly as did Eponine who threw in a very over the top bow and then turned to find the entire cast were too applauding her. Then, when she was walking back, she covered herself in her coat and ran into the arms of Thenardier. Eponine was carried off the stage by another member of the ensemble. When Javert entered for his bow, he imitated her fall.

-As Valjean was dying his candles fell off the table next to him and crashed to the floor. He died mouthing, with a pathetic look, "...my candlestick holders..."

-Eponine to Valjean: "She said to give it to Cosette!"

-Zach Rand (Gavroche) missed his entrance in ABC Café once... and of course the "In Saint-Antoine they're with us to a man" section has been cut, so they didn't have that as a safety. So after "Give me brandy on my breath and I'll breathe them all to death," dead silence. The barricade boys stand around trying to look conspirational and revolutionary. One of them says under his breath, "Sooo, what are we going to do now?" And finally Zach bursts in gasping to tell them that General Lamarque is dead.

-In the 1999 London cast, right as JOJ was entering in the finale during "Alone I wait in the shadows" you could hear sirens in the background.

-Javert's bridge forgot to come down, so he reached that moment in the song and simply mimed stabbing himself and fell over.

-Thenardier: "Two percent for sleeping with the mirror twice."

-Javert: "Listen my friends, I have done as I said, I have been to their homes, I have watered their plants, I will tell what I can."

-Marius got off the beat in the final scene and ended up saying to Valjean, "FOOL! You must forgive a thankless man!"

-In NYC Colm Wilkinson once went out during intermission and got locked out of the theatre, but his mic was on and everyone heard inside him swearing.

-Andrea McArdle (Fantine) used to keep M&Ms in her pocket when she was playing Bullet Boy so that when she died on the barricade she'd have something to do (because we all know eating M&Ms is more entertaining than staying still for like two minutes). But one night, she didn't tuck them in her pocket far enough and they fell out and scattered all over the stage. Loudly.

-The chair didn't quite break right during Confrontation. It was hard to tell if it didn't come completely apart or if it broke in places it wasn't supposed to, or both, but John Owen-Jones (Valjean)ended up clutching a piece of it that was still connected to another piece by string or wire or whatever it is that holds the chair together. Nunchuck Valjean!

-Gary Beach (Thenardier) failed to show up at the inn scene before Master of the House once, leaving the ensemble to ad-lib... "Landlord over here... where's the wretched man?" "God, this place really has gone to hell!" "Where the hell's the landlord?" -Javert spent Fantine's Arrest AND the Runaway Cart with his hat held in front of his crotch to hide the fact that he had just ripped his pants.

-In Germany, Marius actually knocked Thenardier out during the wedding scene.


Great ones if you speak German.

LM blooper audio compiled by "Orestes_Fasting".