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Les Misérables DVD 2004 The Miserables / Collectors's Edition Double DVD Disc Set / 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall / Colm Wilkinson, Ruthie Henshall, Lea Salonga, Hannah Chick
UPC 5014138071530
MADE IN EU
REGION 2 PAL DVD
Audio: English 2.0
Runtime: 150+57 minutes (2 Discs)
English Summary:
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the popular musical based on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, this gala concert featuring a cast of over 250 was given at the Royal Albert Hall. Performers include Tony Award-winners Colm Wilkinson, Lea Salonga and Michael Maguire, and highlights include the finale, which features an international gathering of 17 Jean Valjeans, each singing in his native tongue.
Filmed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the musical 'Les Misérables', this theatrical extravaganza features over 250 performers, including many of the most popular actors ever to have appeared in the 'Les Misérables' company.
The cast includes Colm Wilkinson, Ruthie Henshall, Alun Armstrong, Michael Ball and Judy Kuhn.
Les Misérables (/leɪˌmɪzəˈrɑːb(lə)/; French pronunciation: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis (/leɪˈmɪz/), is a sung-through musical adapted from French poet and novelist Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks.
Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempt to overthrow the government at a street barricade.
