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My friend convinced me to join her and we sang in the chorus when our high school put on Les Mis. We ended up missing tryouts for the next musical so it ended up being my first and last. It’s been close to my heart ever since. And would still be on my iPod if it didn’t have a conniption one day and erase all my music.

@Bandit1119 iTunes has the tenth anniversary special music (my favorite version) available. I’d have worn it out if it was a physical copy, lol! My roommate and I can sing about 95% of the full thing by heart without prompting :))

I JUST finished reading Terry Pratchett's parody (Night Watch, a Sam Vimes book) this morning! :D I also loved the musical when I saw it in the movie, and loved it even more when I looked up the songs on youtube for theatre edition singers. :) The book is really only slightly a parody. He borrows some things and references, but it doesn't really follow the plot exactly, nor the characters. But it's good! :D

I love all musicals (including foreign language ones)! I was in Evita and Les Mis in high school but I already know the entire shows years before. Almost 3/4 of my CD collection is musicals or solo albums from musical stars. While I was in college I stumbled upon German musical theater and now I've been teaching myself German and have a ton of German musicals.

Oh darn! That would be such a fun line.

I love Les Mis!! I watched it in high school French and we marched it for marching band in High school!! I listen to the broadway cast soundtrack all the time!

@Lallyhop, I love her voice and I have the German Wicked CD with her on it. I like it better than the English one. There's another video of her switching language/accents almost every other line.

I've found over the last few years that I'm liking German musicals better than English ones. Some many of the new(er) ones in English are just pop music. I love how the German theater has taken famous novels and turned them into shows. They also have so many amazing singers including a bunch from other countries and there is so much more appreciation of the performing arts. A bunch of the shows have very simple stages but fantastic costumes and performers. There also doesn't seem to be as much 'stunt'/'promo' casting like in the US were they stick actors or pop singers in shows were they really aren't up to par with the rest of the cast (like Nick Jonas in the Les Mis anniversary cast).

I'll have to make a list of all of the cast recordings I have...I'll do it tomorrow because I have to put my CDs back in order anyway......I don't think I even want to guess how many I have