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Les Miz London over the years. click for identification
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Standout Moments from "Les Misérables" Recordings (audio and video): #3
1986 London audio bootleg
Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean), Roger Allam (Javert), Jackie Marks (Fantine), Alun Armstrong (Thénardier), Zoe Bright (u/s Mme. Thénardier), Frances Ruffelle (Éponine), Simon Bowman (u/s Marius), David Burt (Enjolras), Rebecca Caine (Cosette)
Jackie Marks’ “HOLY GOD, IS THERE NO MERCY?!!” in “Fantine’s Arrest.”
This performance still features most of the original London cast, but with Jackie Marks and Simon Bowman in place of Patti LuPone and Michael Ball. The standout performance is Jackie Marks’ Fantine, and the standout moment in her performance is this line from “Fantine’s Arrest.” It stands out because her Fantine has been an especially soft-spoken and delicate one; less passionate and powerful than either Patti LuPone before her or Randy Graff after her, and more girlish, frightened, and pitifully sad. Yet gradually, she reveals her inner fire and passion, first in the later verses of “I Dreamed a Dream,” but most of all in her arrest scene. When she sings her desperate, sobbing-toned pleas to Javert, and then wails “HOLY GOD, IS THERE NO MERCY?!!” with a raw anguish not heard from many other actresses, we know that this Fantine has truly been torn inside-out by all she’s been through.
“One Day More,” London, 2008. Drew Sarich as Jean Valjean, Jon Robyns as Marius, Leanne Dobinson as Cosette, Natalie Caswell as Éponine, David Thaxton as Enjolras, Earl Carpenter as Javert, Greg Castiglioni as Thénardier, Jackie Marks as Mme. Thénardier.
Casts come and casts go from the various long-running Les Mis productions, but certain casts seem to stand out as particularly special. The fan reviews for those specific casts are always especially glowing. The 2008 London cast definitely seems to have been one of those. I still remember all the outstanding reviews I read from fans at the time.
This excellent “One Day More” audio lives up to the praise. Even though it features understudies for Thénardier and Éponine, rather than regulars Jimmy Johnstone and the acclaimed Nancy Sullivan, the quality of the performance as a whole still shines through.
“Castle on a Cloud,” London, 2008. Shannon Williams (now K-Pop/R&B singer Shannon) as Young Cosette, Jackie Marks as Mme. Thénardier.
For Cosette Appreciation Week.
Shannon’s voice is lovely: pure, sweet, warm, and mature in quality yet still childlike. It’s no wonder she grew up to have a distinguished career.
Jackie is one of the few former Fantines to play Mme. Thénardier, but rest assured, there’s no Fantine in her performance here. She’s every bit as brash and mean as she should be.
“I Dreamed a Dream,” London, 1986. Jackie Marks as Fantine.
The second London Fantine after Patti LuPone. We've all heard her as the Factory Girl on the OLC recording and in the 10th Anniversary Concert, but her Fantine is less well known.
Is it just me, or is the song transposed down?
Even apart from the key, this is a very different rendition than what would become standard later. Jackie doesn’t treat it as a powerhouse ballad. She starts out very quiet and broken, so quiet that with the recording’s iffy ‘80s sound quality she can barely be heard. And even though she gains power over the course of the song, she never belts as much as most other Fantines do. But her warm alto voice is beautiful all the same, and instead of power, she puts her supreme emphasis on emotion. The vulnerability and despair of this Fantine is very, very clear.
This is a unique, poignant and definitely underrated rendition.
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backstage at the les miz west end production. photos (c) leanne dobinson
