Soulful
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Moments in Les Mis that really touches you...Which parts in the musical makes you want to jump up and shout 'MY GOODNESS I LOVE THIS MUSICAL!'?
The moments that really touch me are:
- When Fantine is begging the policemen before her arrest and she says something like, ' Please M'sieur, she's only this tall'. That moment always gives me the shivers. For me, thats the moment where I can see Fantine's true desperation.
- When Valjean is reading the letter from Marius to Cosette, it gives goosebumps. This scene is so beautiful.
- Watching the march in One Day More.
- During the song Every Day, when Marius sings, 'I was lost, in your spell'. This is the best line in the musical for me. Its cheesy, yet so beautiful. Makes me want to run up on stage and kiss Marius. 
Anyone else?
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happyguava
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There are so many!
"Come to me, where chains will never bind you"
is what comes to mind first. Something about that line, I don't know what. It's beautiful. It always brings a tear to my eye. 
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Soulful
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"All your grief, at last, at last behind you..."
I love the finale song. Its so beautiful.
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dcrowley
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The whole ending from "You will live... Papa you're going to live" to "to love another person is to see the face of God" rips me apart
"tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake".
"I never did no wrong." (Fantine's arrest)
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Da_Dark_Dude
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the whole finale and one day more
the end of stars
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Trevor
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There's never a certain part. It always depends on the actor I'm watching.
For example...
Watching Alex Gemingani do Bring Him Home... Didn't care.
Watching a guy named Jacob do it... Almost cried.
Watching kid on Broadway playing Gavroche die... Thought "fiiiiiiiiinally!"
Watching Matt, the kid who did it in my production die... Cried. He was soooo realistic it was AMAZING.
Some people make certain points more powerful than others. I once saw a Valjean make "If I stay silent" one of the most memorable lines in the whole show, while others just sing it as a lyric.
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Paula74
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| trevorsanderson wrote: | | It always depends on the actor I'm watching. |
That applies for me in some cases.
Anyhow...
Fantine's death scene...unless it's a bad Fantine, it always rips my heart into little pieces
A Little Fall of Rain...if it's a very good Marius and Eponine
Bring Him Home...if it's a good Valjean
The image of Enjolras dead on the barricade
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables...needs to be a very good Marius
Valjean's entire death scene until the "Do Hear The People Sing" reprise starts...it hits me far too hard
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phantomphan85
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Fantine's death, A Little Fall of Rain and the finale. Those parts never fail to make me cry.
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shakalakababy
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basically when any character dies.
though the ones that get to me the most are:
Fantine's death
Gavroche's death
and Eponine
Empty chairs at empty tables also always makes me cry, and one day more is really touching more in just the fact that it's so powerful. But as someone said, it really depends on the actors as well
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herkind
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Like many people said it has a lot to do with whoever's playing the role.
Fantine's Arrest is one of my favorite scenes in the show and the "I never did no wrong..." part always moves me as long as my inner grammar freak ignores the random tense change at the end.
Robert Marien's Comment Faire (Who Am I) on the Paris revival recording has moved me to tears several times.
I love the line "Look monsieur, where are the children play..." during Come to Me.
Celia Keenan-Bolger's A Little Fall of Rain is/was the best I've ever seen. Not only did she actually look and sound like she was dying, she kept inching closer to Marius and her desperate (but failed) attempt to kiss him at the end was heartbreaking.
Gavroche's death if done well which is rare, sadly
Grantaire charging up the barricades after Enjolras during the final battle. One Grantaire I saw (can't remember who) glanced over the barricades and after seeing that Enjolras was dead threw his arms up in the air in a "kill me, I don't care anymore" gesture that made me sob.
Empty Chairs has been growing on me. Simply because I love the melody. The French lyrics are also excellent
"Oh! Mes amis, je voudrais croire
Que vous n'�tes pas morts en vain
Seul devant ces tables vides
Je ne suis plus sur de rien."
The finale (or the DYHTPS reprise part) makes me bawl.
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herkind
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ack...sorry for the double post.
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Orestes Fasting
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| herkind wrote: | | Fantine's Arrest is one of my favorite scenes in the show and the "I never did no wrong..." part always moves me as long as my inner grammar freak ignores the random tense change at the end. |
OMG, I thought I was the only one to be annoyed by that. *stabs Herbert Kretzmer* Even if, in true grammar-freak style, I feel obliged to point out that it's mood, not tense. Still.
Gavroche's death is the only scene that has me jumping and biting my nails every time I see it. I used to cry during Fantine's death, but I don't anymore.
Speaking of the French lyrics:
FANTINE
Prends ma main, d�livr� de tes cha�nes
Qu'elle te guide vers le bonheur supr�me
Dieu tout-puissant, piti�, piti� pour cet homme
VALJEAN
Pardonne-moi mes p�ch�s et accueille-moi dans ton royaume
FANTINE & EPONINE
Prends ma main et viens vers sa lumi�re
Prends l'amour, qui brille quand la vie s'�teint
VALJEAN, FANTINE, EPONINE
Et garde en toi les mots de ta pri�re:
"Qui aime son prochain est plus pr�s de Dieu sur la terre..."
Gets me every time.
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Aimee
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I find it different at different performances.
In the past I have cried at all things from the gut wrenching Empty Chairs to the moment when the Bishop touches Valjean's shoulder and he cowers away then the Bishop sings... sob sob. 
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Eponine93
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I always sob at the DYHTPS reprise in the Finale, whenever I even hear the recording of the song. That cresendo, those lyrics will always affect me emotionally. Besides that, IDAD really turns on the waterworks as well.
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Soulful
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I agree with you guys, it depends who the actors are. I've seen an okay Marius sing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, and I didn't feel tears. Then I saw an AMAZING Marius, and I cried my eyes out.
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High-baritonne
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Those moments who touches me is "One Day More", "The Confrontation", the end of "A Heart Full of Love", the end of "A Little Fall of Rain", "At the End of the Day", and at last the one that made me love musicals, and made me understand the meaning of Les Mis, "Look Down"
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eponine5
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As well as the moments that everyone has said, I also love the final Red and Black chorus. The one where all the students sing and then turn to face the audience, freezing for just a few seconds during the applause as they're all lit up. I think that the moment is more emotional also when you know that all of them (save Marius) are going to die.
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Soulful
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Another great scene I forgot to mention--
When the Bishop sings, "I have bought your soul from God...".
This is such an emotional scene. Beautiful. 
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Glissando
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Anytime Enjorlas is onstage. Especially Aaron Lazar. Love that boy. He's so good, I think.
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Electricity24601
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I agree with everything else everyone has said- the finale, Fantine's death, etc, etc. It also definately has to do with the actor playing the part.
A couple other of my favorite/most touching parts are:
-The well scene when Cosette and Valjean sing in harmony. It's just so sweet and tender.
-When Valjean reads the letter from Marius. "Now that I know that you... that you love me as well, it is harder to die."
- John Owen-Jones' BHH
- When the barricades turn to reveal a dead Enjolras during the swell in that amazing oboe solo.
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EponineMNFF
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Oh I've got a lot. This will probably look more like a show synopsis, but ... yeah. 
-What Have I Done? When done by a good actor, this song brings me to tears. I just love it.
-"If there's a G-d above, he'd let me die instead..."
-The Well Scene - just love it. I love the line "Hush now, do not be afraid of me..."
-At the end of Waltz of Treachery when the music changes to Look Down and then the "10 Years Later" sign comes up. All of the people coming out and singing just gives me goose bumps every time.
-The line "On the tomb of Lamarque shall a barricade rise!"
-One Day More
-The Letter - with a good Valjean and a good Eponine in the background it's just perfect.
-Of course I'm going to say On My Own, but the parts that impact me most when I see the show are,
"And all I see is him and me forever and forever..."
"That I'm talking to myself and not to him."
"... but only on my own."
-A Little Fall of Rain (especially Celia Keenan-Bolger's. I don't think you even want to know how hard I cried the first time I saw her performance.) The end especially, when she either reaches up to kiss him and misses, actually kisses him, or just dies quietly, it's all amazing.
-Grantaire's horror after Gavroche dies.
-Enjolras, dead, on the barricade with little Gavroche dead beneath him.
-"Look down, Javert, he's standing in his grave!"
-"My heart is stone and still it trembles!"
-The entire finale.
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NotoriousFunnt
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"Come with me, where chains will never bind you..." always gets me. Surprisingly the full cast finale from "do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the night..." has never made me cry. I think it's beautiful, but it never brought me to tears.
I only once ever cried during the oboe solo after the barricades fell, and that was my third. My first I think I grabbed my friend's arm and exclaimed, "oooh that's such a cool oboe solo!" (I was a hyper 15 year old...). The second I made sure my friend heard it. The third I was just so bloody sad because I really *felt* the barricades falling and the revolution failing. Goodness.
I've gained a great appreciation for Javert's Suiicide lately, and if I ever saw the show again, I'm sure I would cry during that now.
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Sweeney Hyde
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Stars blew me away when I saw it the first time. Most of the show I found very moving.
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Trevor
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| EponineMNFF wrote: |
-"If there's a G-d above, he'd let me die instead..."
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Are you not allowed to say God?
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EponineMNFF
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*Shrugs* It's just a thing that they taught me in Hebrew school - how it's disrespectful to erase it. And since computery stuff can always be erased, I don't write it completely. I like the idea behind it.
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Soulful
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Another moment that made me well up-- The one after all the students die at the barricades, and the Women are talking, and they say 'Those children has died, but nothing has changed' or something vaugely along those lines. It's so sad.
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kayumu
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"la la la la la la la la" -- When JVJ first finds Cosette wandering in the woods, and they sing together for the first time (in two parts, no less). Then, "There is a duty I must heed, there is a promise I have made." That just rips me apart.
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reedzee
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Bring Him Home, and the deaths of Fantine and Jean Valjean. I lose it every time.
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LesMisForever
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Fantine's decline. From "I dreamed a dream" to, but not including, her death.
Strangely enough "come to me", and her actual death doesn't move me that much.
...and the song "Empty Chairs at empty tables".
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eponine5
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The moment in between The Confrontation and Castle On A Cloud when you see Little Cosette onstage, right behind Fantine in her deathbed.
I also love the moment when Valjean gives the doll to Little Cosette, and she leaps into his arms.
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NotoriousFunnt
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| kayumu wrote: | | "la la la la la la la la" -- When JVJ first finds Cosette wandering in the woods, and they sing together for the first time (in two parts, no less). Then, "There is a duty I must heed, there is a promise I have made." That just rips me apart. |
That is such a beautiful part of the show! It's a small part, but just so emotional. It's one of my favorite bits because it is short but conveys so much.
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Fantine
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When Gavroche is shot.
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Soulful
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| eponine5 wrote: |
I also love the moment when Valjean gives the doll to Little Cosette, and she leaps into his arms. |
Oof! I get goosebumps when Young Cosette hugs him.
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Eponine93
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| LesMisForever wrote: | Fantine's decline. From "I dreamed a dream" to, but not including, her death.
Strangely enough "come to me", and her actual death doesn't move me that much. |
I'm absolutely the same way. I always sob through IDAD and her arrest and get a fresh tissue out for her death, but then I end up saving it for the second act.
Les Mis actually moves me a lot more when I'm listening to the music than when I'm in the theatre. I think it's because when you're in the theatre it's so exposed, like you can't cry because all of the little kids and dried up blue-haired old ladies sitting around you give you funny looks.
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Orestes Fasting
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| Eponine93 wrote: | | LesMisForever wrote: | Fantine's decline. From "I dreamed a dream" to, but not including, her death.
Strangely enough "come to me", and her actual death doesn't move me that much. |
I'm absolutely the same way. I always sob through IDAD and her arrest and get a fresh tissue out for her death, but then I end up saving it for the second act.
Les Mis actually moves me a lot more when I'm listening to the music than when I'm in the theatre. I think it's because when you're in the theatre it's so exposed, like you can't cry because all of the little kids and dried up blue-haired old ladies sitting around you give you funny looks. |
That, or you're too busy staring at Nehal Joshi and Haviland Stillwell humping on one side of the stage to weep over Lea selling her hair.
(I'm the same way; in the theater I get wrapped up in watching the action and don't really reflect as much. I don't think I've ever actually cried watching the show; gone all watery-eyed, yes, but no tears. Except maybe at the final 3nt show in St Louis, I don't remember.)
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Quique
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I never cried the first 15 or so times I saw the show. Strange.
This last time I really lost it during BHH. I mean, I was just a mess! I didn't cry loudly or whimper or anything, but my face and neck were literally dripping. Wayne just laughed at me, hehe.
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Fantine
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I didn't cry the first time I saw the show but I did cry the second time during the finale.
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may
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The first time I saw the show three songs and performers stood out ~ Jo Ampil's I Dreamed a Dream, MM's Stars and Jeff Leyton's Bring Him Home. Totally and completely blew me away ~ the melody, the lyrics and the singers. Since then, one scene that I always find very moving, romantically, is when Jon Lee (never quite the same when I've seen others in this role) as Marius first sees Cosette... he manages to portray that moment so well each and every time... I did not see you there forgive me. Beautiful.
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Eponine93
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During the show, I don't usually cry except for during IDAD. Otherwise, I get a little teary at Eponine's death, when the barricades fall and at the finale. Besides IDAD, I usually don't full-out bawl in the theatre- I usually save it til when I'm at home reading the libretto in bed and listening to the music.
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Fantine
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The part I enjoy most is the A Heart Full of Love scene
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needs2getalife
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Soooo many but these 3 in particular:
-2nd half of "A Little Fall of Rain"
-Enjolras: "until the earth is freee!!!"
-the Eponine/Fantine duet in the epilogue
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Musicalluver
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"When You Love Another Person, You See the Face of God."
Makes me cry everytime.
-Musicalluver
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The Very Angry Woman
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| Musicalluver wrote: | "When You Love Another Person, You See the Face of God."
Makes me cry everytime. |
Are you crying so hard that you can't understand it correctly? Because you just butchered that line.
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Quique
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Rofl.
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elphclaudia
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Mine were
-Fantine's Death (especially cause Nikki Renee Daniels (Fantine u/s on Broadway) reached out to me (in the first row) saying "Cosette, it's turn so cold....Come to me...)
-One Day More (cause we sang it as the last song on the BOHS stage.)
- Eponine's Death
- Final Battle (I watched Drew Sarich die.  )
- Epoligue (the end.)
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Fantine
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| elphclaudia wrote: | Mine were
-Fantine's Death (especially cause Nikki Renee Daniels (Fantine u/s on Broadway) reached out to me (in the first row) saying "Cosette, it's turn so cold....Come to me...) |
Awwww
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lckysvn777
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Re: Moments in Les Mis that really touches you... | Quote: |
- When Fantine is begging the policemen before her arrest and she says something like, ' Please M'sieur, she's only this tall'. That moment always gives me the shivers. For me, thats the moment where I can see Fantine's true desperation.
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I never knew how much Lea Salonga cried while singing that part until I sat in the 2nd row to watch it.
As for the parts that touch me:
Fantine's death(with the one tear falling down Lea's cheek as Fantine dies)
Eponines Death
The Finale
This part really didn't touch me but just the look on Ali's(Cosette) face in A Heart Full Of Love at the beginning is priceless. It made me smile
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may
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| The Very Angry Woman wrote: | | Musicalluver wrote: | "When You Love Another Person, You See the Face of God."
Makes me cry everytime. |
Are you crying so hard that you can't understand it correctly? Because you just butchered that line. |
to love another is to see the face of god - not far off ...
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lostquiche
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Almost everything that everyone else has said applies to me too. Usually I'm not a crybaby for musicals, just books, but there are so many points in Les Mis when I start watering. The lyrics that get me every time are in the finale version of Do You hear The People Sing:
They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.
Maybe it affects me stronger than it would say, an atheist, but I think it's powerful no matter what.
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herkind
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I love that part. The first part of the DYHTPS reprise has my favorite lyrics in the show. "For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies" is my favorite I think.
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Glissando
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| herkind wrote: | | I love that part. The first part of the DYHTPS reprise has my favorite lyrics in the show. "For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies" is my favorite I think. |
Wow. I never really lisented to that lyric, but now I realize how simple and true and beautiful it is.
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the_persian
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I cried in Bring Him Home the first time I saw the musical, probably because I didn't know then Valjean didn't see Marius as the son he might have known, the phrase "bring him home" was simple enough for me to understand with my limited English, and the last note was so beautiful.Which was, sadly, the last time I cried during the show.
My eyes usually water a bit in the oboe solo and in Turning, but then ECAET starts and I end up getting bored and contemplating the actor's voice...I love every moment of the finale, and watch it in an awe, but still no tears...
And I cry at the curtain call.
| lostquiche wrote: | | Maybe it affects me stronger than it would say, an atheist, but I think it's powerful no matter what. |
I'm an atheist, and it affects me all the same, since I believe in people...
I think it's wonderful how much hope a story of les miserables can inspire...
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Soulful
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| the_persian wrote: | I cried in Bring Him Home the first time I saw the musical, probably because I didn't know then Valjean didn't see Marius as the son he might have known, the phrase "bring him home" was simple enough for me to understand with my limited English, and the last note was so beautiful.Which was, sadly, the last time I cried during the show.
My eyes usually water a bit in the oboe solo and in Turning, but then ECAET starts and I end up getting bored and contemplating the actor's voice...I love every moment of the finale, and watch it in an awe, but still no tears...
And I cry at the curtain call.
| lostquiche wrote: | | Maybe it affects me stronger than it would say, an atheist, but I think it's powerful no matter what. |
I'm an atheist, and it affects me all the same, since I believe in people...
I think it's wonderful how much hope a story of les miserables can inspire... |
Someone asked me why I liked Les Miserables if I don't believe in God.
But I don't want to get into that...
I cry at the curtain call aswell. 
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Fantine
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Les Mis is about so much more than religion.
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lostquiche
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| the_persian wrote: |
| lostquiche wrote: | | Maybe it affects me stronger than it would say, an atheist, but I think it's powerful no matter what. |
I'm an atheist, and it affects me all the same, since I believe in people...
I think it's wonderful how much hope a story of les miserables can inspire... |
Exactly, it's such an encouraging and hopeful musical. I don't mean any disrespect with that remark, by the way.
And Fantine, of course it's about so much more than religion. It just has such a theme of redemption and forgiveness that identifies strongly (to me, anyway) with Christianity, my religion.
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Eponine93
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| the_persian wrote: |
| lostquiche wrote: | | Maybe it affects me stronger than it would say, an atheist, but I think it's powerful no matter what. |
I'm an atheist, and it affects me all the same, since I believe in people...
I think it's wonderful how much hope a story of les miserables can inspire... |
I think it's wonderful how a show that's basically a bunch of dirty peasants jumping around on piles of rubble singing about how their lives such can be so damn good.
Pardon my randomness. I'm frighteningly exhausted today.
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Timmy_Wishes he was Quast
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I simply adore the contarst between the brash brass and loudness at the end of the Beggars at the feast and the quiet begining of the Epilogue.
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chiiiya
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I have never seen the musical, although i think it would be amazing. Especailly since we read it (a shortened version) in french class.
Whenever we read books for school, i have to say i'm a little closed minded about it. Unless it's really good:
-When Fantine was dying, that was sad. But i'm afraid i did have my mind on "oh snap, look at all the questions at the end of this chapter!"
-Javert's suicide. I was like Ohhh this is so good! Then of course i wrote an entry in my journal as i usually tend to do. I'll post it here, just skip over it if you don't want to read it:
| Quote: | January 8th, 2007
That's weird, I appreciate good literature! I think Les Mis�rables somehow resonates with me. Javert is stoic-like and never shows emotion. He has his ideas of right and wrong, and all of a sudden they are all dissolved, it all falls down around him, his entire life--all the neat and organized ideas, the seemingly "together" picture he presents of himself. All of a sudden, he realizes he was wrong and now has to make a decision between what he believed in forever, and saving Jean Valjean. He can't do anything without regretting something, and his life has been turned upside down. He now comes up with some cold, clear logic: he wants to *d�missionne* (resign...erm i forgot the english word when i wrote it.) from his police work, but has just realized that he is working for God. So he throws himself off a bridge. But it's written really well, it really kept me interested, and showed Javert's conflict, his feelings. Then *someone* (name omitted because i felt like it.) was saying how he really liked that part, and I know exactly what he means. |
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soph-les-mis
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I had only heard the TAC version of Les Mis before I saw it in London, but I have to say that the whole musical touched me and I never wanted to leave the Queen's when it was finished...
However, JOJ's Bring him home was so beautiful, and to finally see it from the front row was fantastic. I had to focuse on one of the buttons on his jacket or else I would start crying right there. In the last scene, when he sang the reprise of BHH, only with Bring ME home.. then a small tear managed to escape OK, I know I am sensitive.. but Les Miserables is just the best stage/concert experience I have ever seen.
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kozafluitmusique
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I was listening to iTunes on random on my grandmother's 10th month death anniversary on Saturday, and when the finale came on from Les Mis, i almost started crying.
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DontDoSadnessxx
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ahh i have two. this is a great thing to discuss.
in my production there were two moments that killed me
one was
"At the shrine our friendship never say die"
Because after all my friends graduated and my high school drama club went to crap we always remembered that moment and how it held true.
second was also relating to my production =P
I was u/s for cosette and during hell week i got to play her
and my best friend was valjean and during finale when cosette runs on
"papa, papa, i do not understand. Are you alright? They said you'd gone away.
Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now? Thank god, thank god i live to see this day."
And the sincerity he showed has like scarred me. so when i saw it on bway i was like AHHH *bawls*
okay i lied threeee lol
three and it was in the revival. but im not sure if it was in the original cuz i never got to see it but when gavroche died, grantaire (played by drew sarich when i saw it <33) picked up the little flag he helped gavroche make and just like cried in.
yeah that moment got to me =]
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marlyly
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the first time i saw it, 'empty chairs at empty tables' really got to me - and thats the song i always remembered afterwards when i talked about the musical to my friends. (about 4 years ago)
then i saw it last week and that song didnt effect me at all. maybe i was looking forward to it too much, i don't know, but it didnt have the same impact it had on me 4 years ago. i absolutely adored Fantine's 'I dreamed a Dream', and for some reason the line 'Look down Javert, he's standing in his grave' really got to me too. I loved the whole 'Turning' bit (it really enforced the fact the boys were all, literally, boys, and what a waste of life their deaths were).
The ending was brilliant, were Fantine sings to Valjean. 'On My Own' is really emotional.
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EponineMNFF
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| marlyly wrote: | | and for some reason the line 'Look down Javert, he's standing in his grave' really got to me too. I loved the whole. |
That line gives me shivers every time! The lighting in that moment is so intense too. WHA-BAM spots. Oooh I just got goosebumps thinking about it.
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Berger
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Drink with me is the song that touches me the most.
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Orestes Fasting
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I get all sentimental over the French Drink With Me these days. Why? Once I was discussing the PRC with a friend and brought up the awesomeness of their Feuilly, Juan Pablo Armitano, who managed to impress me a lot despite having maybe five lines on the whole recording. "Yeah," she said, "it's really too bad." And seeing my blank look, she explained that he died of AIDS in the mid-90s.
I don't know why it affects me; I have no idea who he was or what his career was before and after Les Mis. Only that when someone stood out just enough to make you smile sometimes, and you find out he died before you ever heard that recording, you feel like someone just walked over your grave. I can't listen to him kicking off "Souviens-toi des jours pass�s" anymore without getting a bit wistful.
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jackissensational
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Easily:
"TO LOVE SOMEONE IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD."
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mastachen
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| The Very Angry Woman wrote: |
Are you crying so hard that you can't understand it correctly? Because you just butchered that line. |
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Fantine
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You don't have to be a bitch about it mastachen.
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mastachen
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I'm sure Jack can take a joke. I didn't mean it to be offensive, but TVAW's quote was the first thing that popped into my mind because someone else misquoted that line and that was her response.
Nobody called her a bitch...
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