어떤 뮤지컬 음반에는 아주 유명한 곡들만 들어 있거나, 가장 많이 팔리는 뮤지컬 음반을 사고보니 컴필레이션이라 한 작품의 맛을 제대로 보지 못했다던가 (물론 여러 작품에서 가장 유명한 곡들을 듣는 것은 좋지만, 작품을 처음부터 끝까지 보면, 유명하진 않더라도 마음에 드는 작은 노래들을 발견할 수도 있다) 하게 되지만, 이 음반은 두툼하게도 거진 모든 곡들을 다 포함하는데다가 가사까지 다 적혀있다.

[귀여운 여인]에선 줄리아로버츠가 맡은 여인이 지식이나 지위가 미천하고 입이 걸걸하여도, 자신의 처지와 비슷한 내용인 오페라 [라 트라비아타]를 보고 가슴을 들썩거리고 눈물을 머금으면서 감동을 받는다 (옆에 고상한 은발의 노부인이 "정말 좋지 않우?"하고 묻자 "너무 좋아서 오줌을 지릴뻔했어요"란 말로 쇼크를 주는데, 사실상 저렇게 심장박동이 싱크로나이즈드되고 눈물이 나오는 신체적 반응이라면 그녀의 형이하학적 대사는 충분히 이해할 수 있다고 생각한다). 그렇지만, 인내심이 짧은 나는 어려서 부터 아버지 옆에서 바이올린 곡을 듣던가 발레 지젤과 오페라을 보면 조금 감탄하다간 지겨워 (하하하^^^;;;)해왔으므로, 과연 모국어도 아닌 영어로 불려지는 이 작품을 제대로 감상할 수 있을까...고민을 하면서, 런던의 한 극장에 헐레벌떡 뛰어와 앉았다. 청바지에 패딩코트 (된장, 그때는 영국이 춥기만 하다고 해서 겨울옷만 쟁여갔었다) 를 입은 동양계 여자애가 관객석 중앙 (자리는 좋았다)에 앉아있으니, 좀 시선을 받긴 했는데 극을 보면서 웃다가 울다가 하니까 뭔가 주변에서 느껴지는 이질감이 조금씩 줄어들고, 심지어 옆자리의 아저씨는 말까지 걸어왔다 (영국애들은 말걸면 잘 대답은 해주는데, 뭔가 벽이 항상 있는 느낌이다, 날씨마냥). 여하간, 요지는 왠만해선 지루함을 느끼는 내가 엄청 감동하면서 울고불고 웃으면서 봤다는 작품.

나중에 서울에서도 봤지만, 여하간 처음의 그 벅찬감동만큼은 아니어서 (어린이 배우가 조금 실수했다. 그래도 장발장을 맡은 배우가 잘 감싸주더라) 난 왠만해선 어떤 작품의 처음 공연을 보는데 있어 신중하길 권유한다.

저기 보이는 앨범커버가 고대로 페이퍼 백 원서 (signet book)을 장식하고 있는데, 어릴적 읽은 축약된 [장발장]보단 원저는 보다 스케일이 크다. [노트르담의 곱추]도 원저로 보면, 상당히 세심하고도 깊이있고 슬픈 운명들이 얽혀있는 것처럼, 이 장발장에도 '인간의 본성', '환경의 영향', '민중의 목소리', '남녀간의 사랑과 부녀간의 사랑과 정' 등이 얽혀 있다 (원저는 죽기전엔 꼭 읽으려고 결심했다). 그것처럼, 이 작품은 장발장의 탈옥과 자베르 형사의 추적, 혁명속의 마리우스와 코제트의 사랑만이 나오는 것이 아니라, 바리케이드를 쌓아놓고 대치하고 죽어가는 혁명의 한 장면을 보여준다.

사실 이 작품은 CD보단 시각적인 DVD나 현장 관람이 더 좋긴 하다. 하지만, [미스사이공], [캐츠], [팬텀오브리 오페라]와 같이 한번은 거쳐야 하는 (이렇게 말하면 좀 웃기지만) 작품이다.

Les Miserables musical song list:

• --- LES MISERABLES SYNOPSIS ---

PROLOGUE: 1815, DIGNE

Jean Valjean, released on parole after 19 years on the chain gang, finds that the yellow ticket-of-leave he must, by law, display condemns him to be an outcast. Only the saintly Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver. Valjean is caught and brought back by police, and is astonished when the Bishop lies to the police to save him, also giving him two precious candlesticks. Valjean decides to start his life anew.

1823, MONTREUIL-SUR-MER

Eight years have passed and Valjean, having broken his parole an changed his name to Monsieur Madeleine, has risen to become both a factory owner and Mayor. One of his workers, Fantine, has a secret illegitimate child. When the other women discover this, they demand her dismissal. The foreman, whose advances she has rejected, throws her out.

Desperate for money to pay for medicines for her daughter, Fantine sells her locket, her hair, and then joins the whores in selling herself. Utterly degraded by her new trade she gets into a fight with a prospective customer and is about to be take to prison by Javert when "The Mayor" arrives and demands she be taken to a hospital instead.

The Mayor then rescues a man pinned down by a runaway cart. Javert is reminded of the abnormal strength of convict 24601 Jean Valjean, a parole-breaker whom he has been tracking for years, but who, he says has just been recaptured. Valjean, unable to see an innocent man go to prison in his place, confesses to the court that he is prisoner 24601.

At the hospital Valjean promises the dying Fantine to find and look after her daughter Cosette. Javert arrives to arrest him, but Valjean escapes.

1823, MONTFERMEIL

Cosette has been lodged for five years with the Thenardiers who run an inn, horribly abusing the little girl whom they use as a skivvy while indulging their own daughter, Eponine. Valjean finds Cosette fetching water in the dark. He pays the Thenardiers to let him take Cosette away and takes her to Paris. But Javert is till on his tail...

1832, PARIS

Nine years later there is a great unrest in the city because of the likely demise of the popular leader General Lamarque, the only man left in the Government who shows any feeling for the poor. The urchin Gavroche is in his element mixing with the whores and the beggars of the capital. Among the street-gangs is one led by Thenardier and his wife, which sets upon Jean Valjean and Cosette. They are rescued by Javert, who does not recognize Valjean until after he has made good his escape. The Thenardiers' daughter Eponine, who is secretly in love with the student Marius, reluctantly agrees to help him find Cosette, with whom he has fallen in love.

At a political meeting in a small cafe, a group of idealistic students prepare for the revolution they are sure will erupt on the death of General Lamarque. When Gavroche brings the news of the General's death, the students, led by Enjolras, stream out into the streets to whip up popular support. Only Marius is distracted by the thoughts of the mysterious Cosette.

Cosette is consumed by the thoughts of Marius, with whom she has fallen in love. Valjean realizes that his 'daughter" is changing very quickly but refuses to tell her anything of her past. In spite of her own feelings for Marius, Eponine sadly brings him to Cosette and then prevents an attempt by her father's gang to rob Valjean's house. Valjean, convinced it was Javert who was lurking outside his house, tells Cosette they must prepare to flee the country. On the eve of the revolution the students and Javert see the situation from their different viewpoints; Cosette and Marius part in despair of ever meeting again; Eponine mourns the loss of Marius; and Valjean looks forward to the security of exile. The Thenardiers, meanwhile, dream of rich pickings underground from the chaos to come.

The students prepare to build the barricade. Marius, noticing that Eponine has joined the insurrection, sends her with a letter to Cosette, which is intercepted at the Rue Plumet by Valjean. Eponine decides, despite what he has said to here, to rejoin Marius at the barricade.

The barricade is built and the revolutionaries defy an army warning that they must give up or die. Gavroche exposes Javert as a policy spy. In trying to return to the barricade Eponine is shot and killed. Valjean arrives at the barricades in search of Marius. He is given the chance to kill Javert, but instead lets him go.

The students settle down for a night on the barricade and, in the quiet of the night, Valjean prays to God to save Marius from the onslaught which is to come. The next day, with ammunition running low, Gavroche runs out to collect more and is shot. The rebels are all killed, including their leader, Enjolras.

Valjean escapes into the sewers with the unconscious Marius. After meeting Thenardier, who is rubbing the corpses of the rebels, he emerges into the light only to meet Javert once more. he pleads for time to deliver the young man to a hospital. Javert decides to let him go and, his unbending principles of justice having been shattered by Valjean's own mercy, he kill himself by throwing himself into the swollen River Seine. A number of Parisian women come to terms with the failed insurrection and its victims. unaware of the identity of his rescuer, Marius recovers in Cosette's care. Valjean confesses the truth of his past to Marius and insists that after the young couple are married, he must go away rather than taint the sanctity and safety of their union. At Marius and Cosette's wedding the Thenardiers try to black mail Marius. Thenardier says Cosette's "father" is a murderer and, as proof, produces a ring which he stole from the corpse in the sewers the night the barricades fell. It is Marius' own ring., and he realizes it was Valjean who rescued him that night. He and Cosette go to Valjean, where Cosette learns for the first time of her own history before the old man dies, joining the spirits of Fantine, Eponine, and all those who died on the barricades.

• Prologue: Work Song : 죄수들이 부르는 노동의 노래, 여기서 자베르형사와 죄수인 장발장이 처음 만난다.
• Prologue: Valijean Arrested/Valijean Forgiven
• Prologue: What Have I Done?
• At The End Of The Day
• I Dreamed A Dream: 꼬제뜨의 엄마 퐝틴이 아파서 누워 침대에서 과거를 회상하면서 부르는 서글픈 노래.

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.

But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.

He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder...
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!

And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed...
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...

• Lovely Ladies
• Who Am I?
• Fantine's Death: Come To Me
• Fantine's Death: Confrontation
• Castle On A Cloud
• Master Of The House
• Thenardier Waltz
• Stars
• Look Down
• Little People
• Red & Black
• Do You Hear The People Sing?

• In My Life/A Heart Full Of Love : 꼬제뜨가 혼자 자기집 뜰에서 마리우스를 사랑하는 마음을 노래한다. 장발장이 나오고, 결국 마리우스가 합치면서 (뒤에선 에포닌느가 자신의 짝사랑을 노래하고) 두연인이 서로의 사랑을 확인하는, 두 곡이 연달아 나온다.

IN MY LIFE
(Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet)

COSETTE
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.

In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.

Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?

In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!

VALJEAN
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.

COSETTE
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!

In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am just like a child
Who is lost in a wood

VALJEAN
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.

COSETTE
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!

VALJEAN
You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn

(Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine arrive outside)

MARIUS
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free

EPONINE(to herself)
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his

MARIUS & EPONINE
In my life
There is someone who touches my life

MARIUS
Waiting near

EPONINE
Waiting here

A Heart Full of Love

(Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside the gate)

MARIUS
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?

COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret

M,ARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy

COSETTE
And mine's Cosette

MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say

COSETTE
Then make no sound

MARIUS
I am lost

COSETTE
I am found!

MARIUS
A heart full of light

COSETTE
A night bright as day

MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette

COSETTE
This is a chain we'll never break

MARIUS
Do I dream?

COSETTE
I'm awake!

MARIUS
A heart full of love

COSETTE
A heart full of you

MARIUS
A single look and then I knew

COSETTE
I knew it too

MARIUS
From today

COSETTE
Every day

COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.

EPONINE(Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...

His heart full of love
He will never feel this way...

(Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)

====
A HEART FULL OF LOVE
(Time has passed. Suggest Marius convalescing,
encouraged by Cosette who takes his arm as he walks with firmer step)

COSETTE
Every day
You walk with stronger step
You walk with longer step-
`The worst is over.'

MARIUS
Every day
I wonder every day
Who was it brought me here
From the barricade?

COSETTE
Don't think about it, Marius!
With all the years ahead of us!
I will never go away
And we will be together
Every day.
Every day,
We'll remember that night
And the vow that we made:

A heart full of love
A night full of you
The words are old
But always true.
Oh, God, for shame
You did not even know my name!

MARIUS
Dear Mad'moiselle
I was lost in your spell.

(Valjean enters, unnoticed)

COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear no regret
`My name is Marius Pontmercy'

MARIUS
Cosette, Cosette!

COSETTE
I saw you waiting and I knew.

MARIUS
Waiting for you
At your feet

COSETTE
At your call

BOTH
And it wasn't a dream
Not a dream after all

VALJEAN(interjecting, to himself)
She was never mine to keep.
She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young
Let it be... let it be...
A heart full of love
This I give you on this day.

(They notice Valjean)

MARIUS
M'sieur, this is a day
I can never forget.
Is gratitude enough
For giving me Cosette?
Your home shall be with us
And not a day shall pass
But we will prove our love
To you, whom we shall call
A father to us both
A father to us all.

(Cosette leaves)

• Plumet Attack
• One Day More!
• On My Own:

꼬제뜨를 구박하면서 데리고 있던 비열한 여관주인의 딸인 에포닌느는, 꼬제뜨를 사랑하는 마리우스를 사랑한다. 그래서 총알이 퍼붓는 곳이라도 그의 부탁이라면 달려간다. 이빨이 빠져서 고칠 돈도 없는 그런 아이지만, 꼬제뜨를 사랑하는 마리우스일지라도, 그녀는 그를 사랑한다. 이 곡을 무척이나 좋아하는 것은, 비극에 보다 동화되는, 그리고 장발장을 잃지만 마리우스라도 얻는 꼬제뜨에 비해 에포닌느가 너무나 가여워서 었다. 착한 여인이어서 노래도 아주 아릅답고, 배역도 꼬제뜨에 버금가는 중요한 캐스트이다.

And now I'm all alone again,
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to.
Without a home, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near,
Now I can make believe he's here.

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping.
I think of him, and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping.
The city goes to bed,
And I can live inside my head.

On my own,
Pretending he's beside me.
All alone,
I walk with him till morning.
Without him,
I feel his arms around me,
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me.

In the rain,
The pavement shines like silver.
All the lights
Are misty in the river.
In the darkness,
The trees are full of starlight,
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever.

And I know
It's only in my mind,
That I'm talking to myself
And not to him.
And although I know that he is blind,
Still I say,
There's a way for us.

I love him,
But when the night is over,
He is gone,
The river's just a river.
Without him,
The world around me changes.
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers.

I love him,
But every day I'm learning,
All my life,
I've only been pretending!
Without me,
His world will go on turning,
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!

I love him...
I love him...
I love him...
But only on my own...

• The Attack
• A Little Fall Of Rain
• Drink With Me
• Bring Him Home
• Dog Eat Dog
• Soliloquy
• Turning
• Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
• Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
• Finale

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