les misérables confessions.

in the original production they awkwardly placed the full-length cheery version you can hear on the olc between “marius, rest” and “drink with me”, but since then they’ve cut most of it and moved it to right after gavroche rats out javert at the barricades. they also changed gavroche’s death song from a dark reprise of “look down” called “ten little bullets” to a reprise of “little people”.

hope that helps!

All episodes can be found here.

thank you anon :) margot has a couple of them up on her blog and i use a couple of really basic ones as well but unfortunately i don’t have them posted publicly anywhere…i’d be glad to share them on my blog if that’s what you’d like though!

not to worry! i’ve got a link to the archived version here…all the sound files are still intact so you can still listen to m. schönberg pronounce those french names to your heart’s content :)

Carpe Horas has cast information for official recordings; beyond that, cast listings for international productions are rather scattered. If there’s anything in particular you’re looking for, you can ask the crowd at Les Mis Questions , or drop a question in my ask box. I’ll see what I can do.

Several sources list [ɑ̃ʒolʁa] as the standard French pronunciation.

ɑ̃ = nasalized French /ɑ/, the same sound in Jean.
ʒ = the “z” in azure.
ʁ = a very guttural “r”

That said, I distinctly remember an audio clip of Actual French Guy™ Claude-Michel Schönberg voicing post-vocalic n and the final consonant. It’s possible he’s speaking in a regional dialect (he’s from Bretagne), but that doesn’t affect its legitimacy. Does anyone remember where to find this?