# Valjean.  At last.  We see each other plain.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 29, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valjean-at-last-we-see-each-other-plain/52287 "2001-01-29T17:47:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valjean-at-last-we-see-each-other-plain/52287/21 "2001-02-01T00:11:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by hypergirl \*  
> \*\*Les Mis. 🙂
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> I LOVE On My Own. That song could be the story of my life. \*\*

Eponine just kills me. I cannot listen to “On My Own” or “A Little Fall of Rain” without crying.

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**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valjean-at-last-we-see-each-other-plain/52287/22 "2001-02-01T01:34:37Z")

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Ahhh. I’m home at last.

I didn’t even know the thing existed until a friend enlightened me. I eventually made her tell me the entire story one afternoon. I’ve been in love ever since.

Unfortunatly, I’ve never heard the Dream Cast, but I do have the orignal London and Broadway cast. “A Little Fall of Rain” gets re-played at least twice while I bawl. Saw the play last spring on Broadway and have to see it again. It was more beautiful than I imagined.

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**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valjean-at-last-we-see-each-other-plain/52287/23 "2001-02-01T04:41:57Z")

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_Les Mis_ is, undoubtedly, the best two hours on Broadway.

Unfortunately, it’s about three hours long.

(Ba-dum _BUM._)

The show is great, but many of the songs drag… beautiful music. But there is simply too much of it.

I directed a staff production of it at summer camp that came in at just under the ninety-minute mark. The only thing I was really upset about cutting was _Little People_. As far as I’m concerned, Gavroche has the best death scene in the entire show. (In most of Broadway’s musical theatre for that matter.)

And as far as I’m concerned, _Drink With Me_ and _Empty Chairs at Empty Tables_ are the high spots. Damn! Those are fantastic numbers.

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