Les Misérables

LES MISÉRABLES A Musical by Alain Boublil &
Claude-Michele Schönberg | Based on a novel by Victor Hugo |
Music by Claude-Michele Schönberg | Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer |
Original French Text by Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel |
Additional Material by James Fenton | Adapted and Originally
Directed by Trevor Nunn & John Caird | Orchestrations by John
Cameron | Original London Production by Cameron Mackintosh &
The Royal Shakespeare Company


 


Episode Segments:


3:05 - Speed Test

5:07 - Why God Why

7:06 - Back to Before

25:56 - What's Inside

49:12 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

1:05:10 - Our Favorite Things

1:17:31 - Corner of the Sky



Works Consulted:


Les Misérables (Libretto) by Claude-Michele Schönberg, Alain
Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Trevor Nunn & John Caird

Les Misérables: The Story of the World's Longest Running
Musical in Words, Pictures and Rare Memorabilia by Benedict
Nightingale, Martyn Palmer 

The Complete Book of Les Misérables by Edwadr Behr

Les Misérables The HIstory of the World's Greatest Story |
Directed by Alan Byron



Music Credits:


"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear
World Orchestra & Donald Pippin

"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine
Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch,
Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble

"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live
Recording  (Original Cast Recording  /
Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by
Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by
Alistair Brammer

"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original
Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty,
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie

"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast
Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles |
Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble

"What Have I Done?" from Les Misérables (Original Broadway
 Cast Recording) | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg,
Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer | Performed by
Colm Wilkinson

"Javert's Suicide" from Les Misérables (Original Broadway
 Cast Recording) | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg,
Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer | Performed by
Terrence Mann

"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack
Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar
Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia
Nelson, Marni Nixon

"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original
Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews

"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast
Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz |
Performed by Matthew James Thomas