I tried to get it last year from Amazon. They kept pushing back the range of dates that they would be able to send it...they changed the dates about 2 times before they eventually told me they could never get it.
But, I heard a few of the songs in a French class and loved them, moreso than some of the ones in English productions.
Actually, if you know where to find this recording, I'd love to be able to buy it too.
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Are you referring to the Paris Cast, or the Original French Concept Album?
I used to have both - on the Paris Cast, Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia) is an amazing Fantine, and the Eponine phenomenal. I consider her "Own My Own" the best I've ever heard - because of the lyric changes, the line "I've only been pretending", which is usually belted on the "-ten" syllable is belted on the "-ing". The translation for her Own My Own is also beautiful - it's "Mon Histoire" ("My Story"), and the line "Without me his world will go on turning/A world that's full of happiness/That I have never known" becomes "My story, though still empty, is a dream full with sweetness, of which I'll never take part."
On the French Concept, "L'Un Vers L'Autre" (One Towards The Other) is a highlight. I think this in the spot where "On My Own" is now, but instead its Eponine singing about Marius and Cosette meeting for the first time:
Two angels which are discovered do not have anything to explain two hearts which are found said all without speaking
They went without knowing one towards the other and by chance found the other like in a story.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
I prefer the Paris one. The original concept wasn't that great.
2008 European Tour
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
Worth every penny.
