Holly
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Character question - the Old WomanSo, I was cast as the "Old Woman" in a production of Les Mis. (SE  )
I know that there are two different songs that have an old woman in them - Lovely Ladies (who buys the jewel...or the hair...whichever wasn't cut out of the SE, I forget) and Look Down ("What d'ya think your at? Hanging round my pitch?") Are both of these parts in the school edition, and if they both are, are they the same woman?
In the lyrics I found one is just "Old Woman" and the other is "Old Beggar Woman," but, the only "beggars" cast are both male. So I turn to you guys 
On another note...I remember a thread that was around here a while back that had all the cuts made in the student edition listed. I looked for a while and can't find it though - does anyone know where it is?
Thanks!
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olly
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The Cuts:
Prologue
Valjean:
Now every door is closed to me
Another jail. Another key. Another chain
For when I come to any town
They check my papers
And they find the mark of Cain
In their eyes I see their fear
`We do not want you here.'
Innkeeper's Wife:
My rooms are full
And I've no supper to spare
I'd like to help a stranger
All we want is to be fair
Valjean:
I will pay in advance
I can sleep in a barn
You see how dark it is
I'm not some kind of dog!
Innkeeper:
You leave my house
Or feel the weight of my rod
We're law-abiding people here
Thanks be to God.
Valjean Arrested / Valjean Forgiven:
Valjean:
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
No cuts in 'At The End Of The Day'.
No cuts in 'I Dreamed A Dream'.
Lovely Ladies:
Old Woman:
Come here, my dear
Let's see this trinket you wear
This bagatelle...
Fantine: Madame, I'll sell it to you...
Old Woman: I'll give you four
Fantine: That wouldn't pay for the chain!
Old Woman: I'll give you five. You're far to eager to sell. It's up to you.
Fantine: It's all I have
Old Woman: That's not my fault
Fantine: Please make it ten
Old Woman: No more than five
My dear, we all must stay alive!
Women:
Lovely ladies
Waiting in the dark
Ready for a thick one
Or a quick one in the park
Whore 1
Long time short time
Any time, my dear
Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!
All: Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!
Whore 1: God, I'm weary!
Sick enough to drop.
Belly burns like fire -
will the bleeding ever stop?
Pimp: Cheer up, dearie.
Show a happy face.
Plenty more like you here
if you can't keep up the pace!
Whore 1: Only joking - dearie knows her place...
Fantine's Arrest
Bamatabois:
By Christ you'll pay for what you've done
This rat will make you bleed, you'll see!
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
For this disturbance of the peace
For this insult to life and property!
Fantine:
I beg you, don't report me sir
I'll do whatever you may want
Bamatabois
Make your excuse to the police!
The Cart Crash:
Voices:
Look at that!
Stay away!
You'll be crushed by the cart!
Don't approach! Don't go near!
Or that load's gonna fall!
Oh my God! Who is that?
It's Monsieur Fauchelevant!
There is nothing to do!
There is nothing to do!
Valjean:
You say this man denies it all
And gives no sign of understanding or repentance?
You say this man is going to trial
And that's he's sure to be returned
To serve his sentence?
Come to that, can you be sure,
That I am not your man?
Javert:
I have known the thief for ages
Tracked him down through thick and thin
And to make the matter certain
There's the brand upon his skin
He will bend, he will break
This time there is no mistake.
No cuts in 'Who Am I?'
Fantine's Death:
Cosette:
Hurry near, another day is dying
Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying?
There's a darkness which comes without a warning
But I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning.
'The Confrontation' is completely cut.
Castle On A Cloud:
Young Cosette:
There is a room that's full of toys,
There are a hundred boys and girls,
Nobody shouts or talks too loud,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
Oh help! I think I hear them now,
and I'm nowhere near finished sweeping and
scrubbing and polishing the floor.
Oh, it's her! It's Madame!
Master of the House
Drinkers:
3. Come on you old pest
2. Fetch a bottle of your best
1. What's the nectar of the day?
Th�nardier:
Here, try this lot
Guaranteed to hit the spot
Or I'm not Th�nardier
Drinkers
Gissa glass a rum
Landlord, over here!
Th�nardier:
Right away, you scum (to himself)
Right away, m'sieur (to customer)
Diners
1. God this place has gone to hell
2. So you tell me every year
Drinkers
6. Mine host Th�nardier
He was there so they say,
At the field of Waterloo
7. Got there, it's true
When the fight was all through
1. But he knew just what to do
Crawling through the mud
So I've heard it said
Picking through the pockets
Of the English dead
8. He made a tidy score
From the spoils of war
Th�nardier:
My band of soaks
My den of dissolutes
My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts.
My sons of whores
Spent their lives in my inn
Homing pigeons homing in
They fly through my doors
And their money's as good as yours
Wife
Don't have a clue
what he put into this stew,
must've scraped it off the street.
Husband
God, what a wine
Chateau Neuf de Turpentine, must've pressed it with his feet
Wife
Where's the wretched man?
Husband
Landlord, over here!
Drinkers
One more for the road!
Th�nardier, one more slug o' gin.
Girl: Just one more, or my old man is gonna do me in.
'The Well Scene' is completely cut.
There is more to come soon, I just have to go now...
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