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What happened to this site?

After four years and nine months, CMOL's legal department finally decided to take action against my site. I don't know if they just weren't looking before (since I made it very easy to find), or whether they had overlooked it before and decided to stop for some reason, but I received this letter on March 8, 2000.

Under copyright law, they have full legal rights to do this. I don't have the resources to apply for an authorized site, and I suspect that if they were willing to distribute the lyrics they would put them on their own site. As of today, the Complete Multilingual Libretto is shut down.

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Do you have lyrics in xxxx language?
Can you send them to me?
Where can I find them?

Not anymore. See above.

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Where can I find lyrics in xxxx language?

On the Net? Not sure. Keep using those search engines. In print, however, I know a few sources.

The complete English lyrics, as well as some of the early songs that were dropped from the production, can be found in The Complete Book of Les Misérables by Edward Behr. Unfortunately it's out of print.

Also, many of the lyrics that were once posted here were taken from the liner notes of various recordings, including the Broadway, London, Vienna, Duisburg, Paris, and Original French Concept albums. In most cases, the CD comes with lyrics, but the cassette does not.

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Where can I find xxxx recording?

It's getting harder to find more than just the highlights albums without going online. In the mid-1990s, you could usually look through a few U.S. record stores and find the London, Broadway, Complete Symphonic, Original French, and 10th Anniversary Recordings. I actually found the Manchester and Paris recordings at Tower Records. Now, between the age of the show and the shifting market, your best bet is to order from an online. Some good sources are Footlight Records, Dress Circle (UK), and Amazon.com.

Footlight Records online store.
Dress Circle online store (listed under "Miserables, Les").
Amazon.com: Les Misérables in Music

The iTunes Music Store (ITMS) has several recordings available as downloads, including London, Broadway, Paris 1991, Complete Symphonic, Original French, and 10th Anniversary recordings.

At this writing (October 2007), Amazon has the Broadway cast recording very cheap as a digital download ($9, as compared to $33 for the CD set): Les Misérables: Broadway Cast Album (MP3).

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Can I get Les Misérables on videotape or DVD?

I don't know of any recordings of the entire musical. There are two related videos, though:

Les Misérables: Stage By Stage (Polygram, 1988) is a one-hour "making of" special, which includes the songs "Bring Him Home" (Gary Morris, the recording session for the CSR), "Castle on a Cloud" (Marissa Dunlop), "On My Own" (Linzi Hateley), "Master of the House" (Barry James and Gay Soper), and the Norwegian production of "One Day More." To the best of my knowledge, this has only ever been released on VHS cassette.

The Dream Cast: Les Misérables in Concert (Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1995) is a 160-minute recording of the 10th Anniversary Concert as televised. The principals include Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Ruthie Henshall, Jenny Galloway, Alun Armstrong, Lea Salonga, Michael Ball, Michael Maguire, Judy Kuhn, Anthony Crivello, Adam Searles, and Hannah Chick. I've seen this as both a VHS cassette and a DVD.

I believe both are out of print, so you may need to hunt around for a used copy.

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How can I find Les Miseranimals?

"Les Miseranimals," in which Rita and Runt parody Les Misérables, was the second segment of Animaniacs Episode 11 (originally broadcast on September 27, 1993). The first half is "No Pain, No Painting," in which Yakko, Wakko and Dot meet Picasso.

The episode is included in the Animaniacs Volume 1 DVD Set (Region 1), released on July 25, 2006. "Les Miseranimals" is on Disc 3 of the set.

While a dozen or so Animaniacs episodes were previously released on videotape, the DVD release is the first to include "Les Miseranimals"—13 years after it first aired!

For more Animaniacs information, check out Keeper's Cartoon Files. For more about the DVD release, see TV Shows On DVD.

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Where can I get the Les Misérables font?

Actually, it's not really the Les Misérables font; the typeface predates the show. But you can get a copy of a freeware font that matches the one used in the title right here on the Font page.

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