Les Miserables!
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"
Hello!!! Music is a very important thing in my life....i LOVE to listen
to it....and i LOVE to make it....i play the clarinet and i have for about
5 years now.... i also play sax..anyways....i think the fact that i am in the Wind Ensemble
at my school, Monroe High, and play an instrument and sing in choir makes me appreciate music
alot more than the average person and just recently i worked backstage in
a drama production at my HS, Murder in The House of Horrors...i really LOVE musicals..i seen Les
Mis awhile ago..and i fell in love with it!! it was soooo great...a very
touching story!!! and i really want to see Phantom of the Opera....if you ever
get a chance to go see something on Broadway take the chance! cause its great! =o) anyways
here are some pictures from Les Mis...=o) enjoy!
okay the synopsis from the play so you can know what happens! =o)
PROLOGUE: 1815, DIGNE
Jean ValJean, released on parole after 19 years on the chain gang, finds that the yellow
ticket-of-leave he must, by law, display condemns him to be an outcast. Only the saintly Bishop
of Digne treats him kindly and ValJean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing
some silver, ValJean is caught and brought back by the police, and is astonished when the Bishop
hiles to the police to save him, also giving him two precious candlesticks. ValJean decides to start
his life anew.
1823, MONTREUL-SUR-MER
Eight years have passed and ValJean, having broke his parole and changed his name to Monsieur Madeleine, has risen
to become both a factory owner and mayor. One of his workers, Fantine, has a secret illefitimate child. When the other
women discover this, they demand her dismissal. The foreman, whose advances she has rejected, throws her out.
Desperate for money to pay for medicines for her daughter. Fantine sells her locket, her hair, and than joins the whores
in selling herself. Utterly degraded by her new trade she gets into a fight with a prospective customer and is about to be taken
to prison by Javert when "the mayor" arrives and demands she be taken to a hospital instead.
The mayor than rescues a man pinned down by a runaway cart. Javert is reminded of the abnormal strength of convict 24601 Jean ValJean,
a parole-breaker whome he has been tracking for years, but who, he says has just been recaptured. ValJean, unable to see an innocent man go
to prison in his place, confesses to the court that his prisoner 24601.
At the hospital ValJean promises the dying Fantine to fnd and look after her daughter Cosette. Javert arrives to arrest him, but ValJean escapes.
1823, MONTFERMEIL
Cosette has been lodged for five years with the Thenardiers who run an inn, horribly abusing the little girl whome they use as a skivvy while
indulging their own daughter, Eponine. ValJean finds Cosette fetching water in the dark. He pays the Thenardiers to let him take Cosette away
and takes her to Paris, but Javert is still on his tail....
1832, PARIS
Nine years later there is a great unrest in the city because of the likely demise of the popular leader General Lamarque, the only man left in the Government
who shows any feelings for the poor. The urchin Gavroche is in his element mixing with the whores and beggers of the capital.
Amoung the street-gang is one led by Thenardier and his wife, which sets upon Jean ValJean and Cosette. THe are rescused by Javert who does not reconize ValJean
until after he has made good his escape. The Thenardiers daugther Eponine , who is secretly in love with the student Marius , reluctantly agrees to help him find Cosette,
with whom he has fallen in love.
At political meeting in a small cafe, a group of idealistics students prepare for the revolution they are sure will erupt on the death of General Lamarque. When Gavroche brings ithe news
of the Generals death, the students, led by Enjolras, stream out into the streets to whip up popular support. Only Marius is distracted by thoughts of mysterious Cosette.
Cosette is consumed by thoughts of Marius, with whome she has fallen in love. ValJean realizes that his "daughter" is changing very quickly but refuses to tell her anything of her past.
In spite of her own feelings for Marius, Eponine sadly brings him to Cosette and then prevents an attempt by her fathers gang to rob ValJeans house. ValJean, convinced it was Javert who was lurking
outside his house, tells Cosette they must prepare to flee the country. On the eve of the revolution the students and Javert see the situation from their different viewpoints; Cosette and Marius part in
despair of ever meeting again: Eponine mourns the loss of Marius;and ValJean looks forward to the security of exile. The Thenardiers, meanwhile, dream of rich pickings underground from the chaos to come.
The students prepare to build the barricades. Marius noticing the Eponine has joined the insurrection, sends her with a letter to Cosette, which is intercepted by the Rue Plumet by Valjean. Eponine decides
despite what he has said to her, to rejoin Marius at the barricades.
The barricade is built and the revolutionaries defy an army of warning that they must give up or die. Gavroche exposes Javert as a policy spy. In trying to return to the Barricade Eponine is shot and killed.
ValJean arrives at the barricades in search of Marius. He is given the chance to kill Javert but instead lets him go.
The students settle down for the night on the barricades and in the quiet of the night, ValJean prays to God to save Marius from the onslaughter which is to come. The next day, with ammunition running low, gavroche
runs out to collect more and is shot. The rebels are killed, including their leader Enjolras.
ValJean excapes into the sewers with the unconscious Marius. After meeting Thenardier who is robbing corpses of the rebels, he emerges into the light only to meet Javert once more. He pleads for time to deliver the young man
to a hostpital. Javert decides to let him go and his unbending principles of justice having been shattered by ValJeans own mercy, he kills himself by throwing himself into the swollen River Seine. A number of parisian women come
to temers with the failed insurrection and its victims. Unaware of the identity of his rescuer Marius recovers in Cosettes care ValJean confess the truth of his past to Marius and insists that after the young couple are married
he must go away rather than taint the sanctity and safety of their union. At Marius and Cosettes wedding the Thenardiers try to blacksmith Marius. Thenardierse says Cosettes "father" is a murderer and as proof produces a ring in which
he stole from the cropse in the sewers the night the barricades fell. It is Marius' own ring, and he realizes it was ValJean who rescused him that night. He and Cosette go to ValJean, where Cosette learns for the first time of her own
history before the old man dies, joining the spirits of Fantine, Eponine, and all those who died on the barricades.
THE END!
Les Mis Login
This is the offical Logo of Les Mis...its is a picture of Cosette
when she was young...and if you notice her hair on each side is either
red or blue, thats the colors of the flag.
Title in Les Mis font
This is the title...its in the Les Miserables font..thats how it appears
on basically anything stating the title of this musical...
Here is one of my favorite song! its called On my Own
it is sang by Eponine my favorite character! =O)
On my Own
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 that 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 teh lights are misty in the river
In the darkness the trees are full of starlight
And all i see is him and me for ever and forever.
ANd i know its 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 theres a way for us.
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone, the rivers 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 everywhere I'm learning
All my life i've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world thats full of happiness that i have never known
I love him, I love him.
I love him, but only on my own.
Castle on a Cloud
this is just another picture i thought looked cool..i couldn't find many
pictures with the actors in the tour of the Musical that i seen...anyways
i think that is Jean Valjean in this picture...here is one of my favorite
songs in the musical..sung by Cosette its called Castle in a Cloud:
"There is a castle on a cloud.
I like to go there in my sleep.
Aren't any floors for me too sweep.
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a room that's full of toys.
There are a hundred boys and girls.
Nobody shouts or talks too loud.
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."
now for something a little different! about my own small
bit of drama experience! Recently I worked backstage as
tech crew in my HS's spring play....the play we did
was a murder mystery/musical/dinner play...it was really
cool! =O) i really enjoyed it!!! and i'm think i will
be in the two plays that i can be part of in my remaining
years of HS! Anyways.....play practices are a lot of fun
because there wasn't too much for backstage to do so basically
we just sat around and watched the practice which i enjoyed for
alot of reasons that remain unknown! lol and than we also play
countless games of different card games! i met some really cool
people and i had lots of fun!!! anyways...right now i'm finding
it hard to adjust back to my boring life before the play LOL
because the play practices took up so much of my time...anyways
much of the play practices and performances are a blur in my head
because so much happened and it was exciting that i can't even
describe it! lol but anyways you people who live in my town ask
to see the pictures and i'll show you them!! =O) thats all for now!