Les Mis

Andrew was in a musical this past spring....it wasnt just ANY musical, it was the best musical of all time and Andrew's class performed it spectaculary!  I was so impressed.  They had so much talent and I loved it so much.  The songs are still stuck in my head, daily!

I'm going to rank my favorite songs from the show, but even though some are at the bottom of the list, I still enjoyed them ALL!

















1. Do You Hear the People Sing...except Andrew said the teacher cut one of his solos and let everyone sing it together the last three shows, so that makes me sad and mad, but this is my favorite song in the whole show!

2.  One More Day!  I have memories of watching Andrew's class do a flash mob at a school rally, doing it at the Freshmen Orientation for the freshmen parents, and doing it at the Downtown Parade, but this is a song I always want to join in and sing all the parts in all the different characters voices, which is impossible, but Andrew does pretty good at it when we are in the car together!

3. On My Own.  Just WOW,

4.  At The End of The Day.  Even with my hearing loss, I LOVE the different parts singing at different speeds in different sounds all at the same time overlapping!

5.  I Dreamed a Dream.  Love, not as much as On My Own, but such an emotional song!

6.  Some of the rest of my rankings have to do more with Andrew's play than the actual song qualities-  The Wedding Dance. Andrew was great in that scene.

7.  The Master of the House (minus the nasty stuff)

8.  The song "Look Down" on the street with Gavrosh solo, haha, he was so good!!!! I also like the song with this same melody/tune/music at the start of the play with the prisoners because Andrew was in that scene!

9. Castle on a Cloud.  Scott said that it was his favorite from the show, ever since then I've liked it a lot.  Melanee said that the girl who sang it in Andrew's play did a great job.  And that girl was also on the track team and I met her mom from parking in the "athletes and coaches only" parking lot at Enterprise, haha!

10. Red and Black.  This song reminds me of Andrew, too, because he had to sing part of it for his audition.

11.  Heart Full of Love.  I like Eponie, I know in the book, she was just a street urchin, but in the movie and in our play, she was cute and I think he should have picked her, haha!!!

12.  I like Drink With Me because Andrew was in that scene.  But I never go around singing it.

13  I like the different Javert songs, except the high note he hits as he was going down during the suicide.

14.  I liked the actor and actress of the Thenardiers....but they got a lot of stage time and their songs were all silly.

15.  I know I'm forgetting a lot of Jean Val Jean songs like the one after he lifted the cart and then went to the judge, etc....I dont know those very well.  And one he was singing with Javert after carrying Marius, right?

16.  Empty Chairs and Empty tables is sad.

17, I dont like Bring Him Home, but appreciate that it is a very difficult song to sing, especially for the Jean Valjean guy who in all the other songs sang with a deep voice.

18. I sort of like the song with the hooker street girls which was also the tune later with the scrubbing the blood in the street girls, but I dont know what it was called either time

19. I didnt really like the precher song with Jean Val Jean.

20,  I dont really think this goes second to last because a quarter of it is part of my favorite song, but that whole Jean ValJean dying scene....it ends with Do You Hear the People sing words....so I love it, but it's long and starts off not enjoyable.  (yeah this one should be higher, haha)

21 ok, and the worst song, dont know what it was called, but it was Eponie dying and the guy holding her and they were singing into each other and crying/singing.