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MysteriousLady said: "This will be one of the rare times I disagree with you. Modern DVDs look remarkable and with all the compression that goes on with streaming they can even be better than streaming in 4k (which isn't actually 4k by the time they compress it to hell)."

This is assuming they were ever really 4k to begin with. Some 4k blu-rays are just upscales of 2k masters.

The new 40th anniversary cast recording of Les Misérables releases digitally tonight at midnight EST 5/29. Pre-save or pre-order the album here.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh said in a statement “As Les Miz approached its 40th record-breaking year in London last October, I felt it was the perfect time to record the first complete album of the contemporary production of this great musical as it is now staged all over the world. We wanted it to have the quality of a studio recording while maintaining the excitement and emotion of being on stage with the actors, right in the midst of the action. ... Hopefully audiences will enjoy Hearing The People Sing on this new cast album as much as we enjoyed making it.”

Track Listing:
1    Prologue / Look Down
2    Valjean's Soliloquy
3    At the End of the Day
4    I Dreamed a Dream
5    Lovely Ladies
6    Fantine's Arrest
7    The Runaway Cart
8    Who Am I?
9    Fantine's Death
10    The Confrontation
11    Castle On a Cloud
12    Master of the House
13    The Bargain
14    Paris / Look Down
15    The Robbery
16    Stars
17    Streets of Paris
18    ABC Café / Red & Black
19    Do You Hear the People Sing?
20    In My Life
21    A Heart Full of Love
22    The Attack on Rue Plumet
23    One Day More
24    Building the Barricade
25    On My Own
26    The Barricade
27    A Little Fall of Rain
28    She Is the First to Fall
29    The First Attack
30    Drink with Me
31    Bring Him Home
32    The Final Dawn
33    The Second Attack
34    The Final Battle
35    The Sewers / Dog Eats Dog
36    Javert's Soliloquy
37    Turning
38    Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
39    A Heart Full of Love (Reprise)
40    Valjean's Confession
41    The Wedding
42    Beggars at the Feast
43    Epilogue / Do You Hear the People Sing?

So the full London album won’t be out in 2026 like previously teased?

Anyone listen to the album? Rachel sounds great. Anyone who knows better than me know if these are the original orchestrations or expanded? I can’t tell.

Bless whoever conceived/wrote/orchestrated this new overture.

quizking101 said: "Why. Is. The Arbiter. Slowed. Down?

Am I nuts for thinking the tempo was faster in the theatre? This version sounds a bit more sluggish as opposed to its usual punchiness. I compared it to my audio slime and I definitely perceive a difference"

The length of the song, studio vs live, is practically identical on my end. I don't think it's slower.

I’m so glad they did this right and gave us a complete recording of the score as presented in this production instead of highlights to fit on one CD.

Is the album art really just going to be the production photo they’re using for the pre-save?

It would be interesting to see what Sher and LCT would do with the piece since every single production seems to be different. I’ve never seen two Show Boats use the same song stack. There’s always songs getting added, cut and shuffled around.

Dueling productions?

No release date for the album yet? Mmmkay

I don’t mind them using a different font than the more traditional Rocky Horror look, it’s just the warping that makes it look like 80s Microsoft Word. Maybe that’s what they were going for.

Maybe they’re just trying to keep all their bases covered with this title? Didn’t MTI have to change the contract a while back to specify which characters are black because a theatre performed Hairspray in blackface?

EvanstonDad said: "I'd love a complete recording of Flower Drum Song similar to what they've done recently with Oklahoma!, Carousel, and My Fair Lady."

I’m actually surprised this hasn’t happened yet.

To me it’s about intent. The show is called Gypsy because her name was Gypsy Rose Lee, not because anyone is intentionally trying to offend the Roma and Sinti people. It’s a period piece and at this time in history it was culturally acceptable to use that word. Changing it censors history. Absolutely include a note in the program about the usage of the word as they have done on their website, but I see no reason to change the title.

Thank you. Just an observational guess not a joke.

Mary_Poppins said: "I’ll guess that was a joke."

I wasn’t joking necessarily. Sometimes albums are recorded and released in 4 to 6 weeks and other times it does seem like producers will hold back a release a few weeks or months for some sort of strategic reason even though we all know it’s not really taking that long to finish it.