Les Misérables (musical)
It is the future that they bring — When tomorrow comes...
Les Misérables (1980, French; 1985, English) is a musical play based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. The show was an immediate hit and went on to became one of the most successful and popular of modern plays in many productions around the world.
Prologue
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And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!
- Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave.
Look down, look down, you're standing in your grave.- Chain Gang
Never forget the years, the waste.
Nor forgive them, for what they've done.
They are the guilty, everyone.The day begins...
And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!- Jean Valjean
Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven
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By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!
To touch my soul and teach me love?
- But remember this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!
What Have I Done (Valjean's Soliloquy)
[edit]- Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother.- Jean Valjean
- He told me that I have a soul,
How does he know?- Jean Valjean
At The End of The Day
[edit]- At the end of the day you're another day older
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor.- Workers
I Dreamed A Dream
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That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather.
- 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.- Fantine
Lovely Ladies
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- 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!- Fantine
- 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
Who Am I? — The Trial
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If I stay silent, I am damned!
- You have only done your duty.
It's a minor sin at most.
All of us have made misjudgments
You will return Sir to your post.- Jean Valjean to Javert
- 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!- Jean Valjean
- 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? 2 4 6 0 1!
- Jean Valjean
Fantine's Death
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We see each-other plain…
- Hurry near, another day is dying
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.- Fantine, imagining that she is speaking to Cosette
The Confrontation
[edit]- I am warning you, Javert!
I'm the stronger man by far.
There is power in me yet.
My race is not yet run! - Valjean
- You know nothing of Javert
I was born inside a jail
I was born with scum like you
I am from the gutter too!- Javert
Castle On A Cloud
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I know a place where no one cries…
- 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.- Cosette
- Madam Thadenier: Still there, Cosette? Your tears will do you no good. I told you fetch some water from the well in the wood.
Cosette: Please do not send me out alone, not in the darkness on my own —
Madam Thadenier: (cuts her off) Enough of that! Or I'll forget to be nice! You heard me ask for something and I never ask twice!!
Look Down
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- With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgment day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?
Stars
[edit]- 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 flame!- Javert
The ABC Cafe — Red And Black
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- 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!- Student revolutionaries
- Who cares about your lonely soul
We strive toward a larger goal!
Our little lives don't count at all!
Do You Hear The People Sing
[edit]- Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!- Enjolras
- 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!- Feuilly
Rue Plumet — In My Life
[edit]Valjean: Dear Cosette
You’re such a lonely child!
How pensive, how sad you seem to be.
Believe me, if it were in my power
I’d fill each passing hour.
How quiet it must be, I can see,
With only me for company.Cosette: There’s so little I know that I’m longing to know
Of the child that I was and the 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 have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good.
But Papa, dear Papa, in your eyes I am just like a child who is lost in a wood.Valjean: No more words!
No more words,
it’s a time that is dead!
There are words, that are better unheard, better unsaid!Cosette: In my life
I’m no longer a child
And I yearn for the truth that you know
Of the years
Years ago.Valjean: 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.- Marius
One Day More
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- One Day More.
Another day another destiny.
This neverending road to Calvary.
These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time
One Day More!- Jean Valjean
- 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!- Javert
- Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store! One more dawn! One more day! One day more!
- Whole Cast
On My Own
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A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!
- 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
- 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!- Éponine
Little People
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And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!
- So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!
A Little Fall Of Rain
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Can hardly hurt me now…
- Don't you fret, M'sieur 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.- Éponine
Night Of Anguish
[edit]- 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.- Valjean to Javert
The Night / Drink With Me
[edit]- Drink with me to days gone by
Can it be, you fear to die?
Will the world remember you when you fall?
Could it be your death means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?- Grantaire
- 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.- Revolutionaries
Bring Him Home
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Let him live
Bring him home.
- You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home.- Valjean, of Marius
The Final Battle
[edit]- Let us die facing our foes, make them bleed while we can!
- Enjolras
- Make them pay through the nose, make them pay for every man!
- Revolutionaries
- Let others rise to take our place until the earth is FREE!!!!
- Enjolras
Javert's Suicide
[edit]- I am the law and the law is not mocked.
- 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.- Javert
Turning
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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?
- They were schoolboys
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?- Crowds
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
[edit]- Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me,
What your sacrifice was for!
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will drink no more...- Marius
Valjean's Death
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Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
Finale
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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
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!- Whole Cast
- They will live again in freedom in the Garden of the Lord!
They will walk behind the ploughshare. They will push away the sword!
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!- Whole Cast
- 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...
Tomorrow comes!- Whole Cast
