WHS Les Misérables

dedication

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This virtual *scrapbook* is for the WHS (2006) Les Misérables Company.

We will never forget your brilliance!

With heartfelt respect and appreciation,
the Balgassi family

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WHS Les Misérables Company

2006-05-16T00:52:00.000-07:00

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D I R E C T O R
Erin Watson

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C A S T
(in order of appearance)

C H A I N ~ G A N G
Charlotte Byram, Tim Mannion,
Patrick McMahon, Andy Smith,
Ryan Barley

J A V E R T
Jeremy Hetherington

J E A N ~ V A L J E A N
Daniel Harvester

C O N S T A B L E S
Rebecca Coffey, Jackie Nichols

F A R M E R
Peter Scuderi

L A B O U R E R S
Amy Sitler, Ben Farrell

B I S H O P
Ryan Barley

P O O R
Peter Scuderi, Kristie Wortman,
Adria Balgassi, Katie Giffune,
Michael Broderick, Caterina Miacola,
Tim Mannion

F O R E M A N
Patrick McMahon

F A C T O R Y ~ W O R K E R S
Sarah Gosselin, Alecia Wortman,
Katie Camerlin, Jenna Sgambati,
Amy Sitler, Jackie Nichols

F A N T I N E
Stephanie Morgan

S A I L O R S
Peter Scuderi, Andy Smith,
Ryan Barley

P R O S T I T U T E S ~ L A D I E S
Alecia Wortman, Sarah Gosselin,
Adria Balgassi, Megan Bishop,
Jenna Sgambati, Mindy Sgambati,
Ashleigh Towse, Katie Giffune

O L D ~ W O M A N
Kali Bradford

P I M P
Ben Farrell

C A P T A I N
Patrick McMahon

B A M A T A B O I S
Tim Mannion

L I T T L E ~ C O S E T T E
Katie Camerlin

M A D A M E ~ T H E N A R D I E R
Chelsey Wynegar

Y O U N G ~ E P O N I N E
Louisa Balgassi

T H E N A R D I E R
Patrick McMahon

C U S T O M E R S
Jenna Sgambati, Amy Sitler,
Charlotte Byram, Tim Mannion,
Lila Dunk, Nadya Shlykova,
Ryan Barley, Katie Giffune

B E G G A R S
Katie Giffune, Cali Bradford,
Alecia Wortman, Caterina Miacola,
Nadya Shlykova

G A V R O C H E
Marie Allie

E N J O L R A S
Michael Broderick

M A R I U S
Peter Scuderi

E P O N I N E
Kristie Wortman

C O S E T T E
Adria Balgassi

C O M B E F E R R E
Charlotte Byram

F E U I L L Y
Ryan Barley

C O U F E Y R A C
Tim Mannion

J O L Y
Ben Farrell

G R A N T A I R E
Carin Puza

P R O U V A I R E
Andy Smith

L E S G L E S
Amy Sitler

S T U D E N T
Becky Coffey

M O N T P A R N A S S E
Andy Smith

B A B E T
Kali Bradford

B R U J O N
Lila Dunk

L A U N D R Y ~ W O M E N
Jenna Sgambati, Katie Giffune,
Alecia Wortman, Nadya Shlykova,
Amy Sitler, Sarah Gosselin,
Carin Puza, Lila Dunk

M A J O R ~ D O M O
Tim Mannion

R E V O L U T I O N A R I E S
Steve Osowski, Jackie Nichols,
Nadya Shlykova, Sarah Gosselin,
Katie Camerlin

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P I T ~ O R C H E S T R A

D I R E C T O R
Patrick Kennedy

A S S I S T A N T ~ D I R E C T O R
Joel Whalen

V I O L I N
Kayla Wichowski, Ian Lazzara

F L U T E
Sarah Ware, Kate Smigielski

O B O E
Brittany Perez

E N G L I S H ~ H O R N
Brittany Perez

C L A R I N E T
Linda Skinner

S A X O P H O N E
Ryan Emken, Brian Westerlind

T R U M P E T
Joel Whalen, Dustin Grabowski,
Eric Thomas, Morgan Drewniany

T R O M B O N E
Keith Dugas, Brendan Irujo

P I A N O
Becky Dinan

S Y N T H E S I Z E R
Martha Sienkiewicz

E L E C T R I C ~ B A S S
Marion Dunk

P E R C U S S I O N
Jackson McCutchen

M U S I C A L ~ T R A N S C R I P T I O N
S C O R I N G ~ R E E D
Peter Scuderi

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B E H I N D ~ T H E ~ S C E N E S

C O S T U M E ~ D E S I G N
Gwen Newton-Denton

R E H E A R S A L ~ P I A N I S T
Martha Sienkiewicz

P R O D U C T I O N ~ S U P P O R T
Tawnya Tiskus

S E T ~ D E S I G N
Michael Cady

S O U N D ~ L I G H T I N G
Joe Matterano

L I G H T ~ B O A R D ~ O P E R A T O R S
Lee Ann Richardson, Julie Koivisto

P R O J E C T O R ~ O P E R A T O R
Arielle Rollins

C H O R E O G R A P H E R
Shannon Canty

B A C K S T A G E ~ C R E W
Chelsey Wallace, Arielle Rollins

V O I C E ~ C O A C H
Jennifer Judd

another way to go

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"He let me eat my fill,
I had the lion's share.
The silver in my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years...
That lifetime of despair.
And yet he trusted me."

"I played the grateful serf,
And thanked him like I should.
But when the house was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the silver...
Took my flight!"

"You maintain he made a present of this silver?"

"That is right...
So, Messieurs, you may release him,
For this man has spoken true.
I commend you for your duty,
And God's blessing go with you."

"But remember this, my brother.
See in this some higher plan.
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man."

"By the witness of the martyrs,
By the Passion and the Blood,
God has raised you out of darkness...
I have bought your soul for God!"

"What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run!"

"And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late,
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?"

"The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?"

"One word from him and I'd be back,
Beneath the lash, upon the rack.
Instead he offers me my freedom.
I feel my shame inside me like a knife."

"He told me that I have a soul.
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?"

"I am reaching, but I fall...
And the night is closing in.
And I stare into the void...
To the whirlpool of my sin."

"I'll escape now from the world...
From the world of Jean Valjean.
Jean Valjean is nothing now.
Another story must begin!"

nothing but trouble

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"At the end of the day
She's the one who began it!"

"There's a kid that she's hiding
In some little town."

"There's a man she has to pay.
You can guess how she picks up the extra.
You can bet she's earning her keep
Sleeping around.
And the boss wouldn't like it!"

"Right my girl. On your way!"

the tigers come at night

2006-05-16T00:45:00.000-07:00

"He slept a summer by my side."

"He filled my days with endless wonder."

"He took my childhood in his stride!"

"But he was gone when autumn came."

"I had a dream my life would be..."

"So different from this hell I'm living."

"So different now from what it seemed..."

"Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

going for a song

2006-05-16T00:44:00.000-07:00

"I smell women.
Smell 'em in the air.
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there."

"Lovely ladies...
Smell 'em through the smoke.
Seven days at sea
Can make you hungry for a poke."

"Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite...
Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night."

"Lovely ladies,
Ready for the call.
Standing up or lying down,
Or any way at all.
Bargain prices up against the wall!"

"What pretty hair!
What pretty locks you got there.
What luck you got!
It's worth a centime, my dear.
I'll take the lot."

"That's right, dearie,
Show him what you've got!"

some nerve

2006-05-16T00:43:00.000-07:00

"I don't want you.
No, no, m'sieur, let me go."

"Javert, would you believe it?
I was crossing from the park,
When this prostitute attacked me...
You can see she left her mark."

"She will answer for her actions
When you make a full report.
You may rest assured, M'sieur,
That she will answer to the court."

no more than an alibi

2006-05-16T00:42:00.000-07:00

"A memory stirs...
You make me think of a man...
From years ago...
A man who broke his parole."

"I have only known one other
Who could do what you have done.
He's a convict from the chain gang.
He's been ten years on the run."

"But he couldn't run forever.
Yes, we found his hideaway.
And he's just been rearrested,
And he comes to court today."

"Who am I?
Can I condemn this man to slavery?
Pretend I do not feel his agony?
This innocent who bears my face,
Who goes to judgement in my place."

"Who am I? Who am I?
I'm Jean Valjean!"

"And so Javert, you see it's true!
That man bears no more guilt than you!
Who am I?"

"24601!"

be at peace

2006-05-16T00:41:00.000-07:00

"Cosette, it's turned so cold.
Cosette, it's past your bedtime.
You've played the day away,
And soon it will be night."

"Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading.
Don't you see the evening star appearing?
Come to me, and rest against my shoulder.
How fast the minutes fly away and every minute colder."

"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."

"Look, M'sieur, where all the children play.
Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven."

"Take my child. I give her to your keeping."

"And none shall ever harm Cosette
As long as I am living."

"Take my hand. The night grows ever colder.
For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping."

"And tell Cosette I love her,
And I'll see her when I wake...."

sworn to duty

2006-05-16T00:40:00.000-07:00

"Valjean, at last,
We see each other plain!
`M'sieur le Mayor,'
You'll wear a different chain!"

"Before you say another word, Javert...
Before you chain me up like a slave again...
Listen to me! There is something I must do.
This woman leaves behind a suffering child.
There is none but me who can intercede.
In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.
Then I'll return, I pledge my word.
Then I'll return..."

"You must think me mad!
I've hunted you across the years.
A man like you can never change.
A man such as you."

"And this I swear to you tonight.
Your child will live within my care.
And I will raise her to the light.
I swear to you, I will be there."

in the darkness

2006-05-16T00:39:00.000-07:00

"There is a castle on a cloud.
I like to go there in my sleep."

"Aren't any floors for me to sweep.
Not in my castle on a cloud."

"There is a lady all in white.
Holds me and sings a lullaby."

"She's nice to see and she's soft to touch.
She says, 'Cosette, I love you very much.'"

"I know a place where no one's lost.
I know a place where no one cries."

"Crying at all is not allowed.
Not in my castle on a cloud."

like mother, like daughter

2006-05-16T00:38:00.000-07:00

"Eponine, come my dear, Eponine, let me see you.
You look very well in that new little pink hat."

"There's some little girls who know how to behave..."

"And they know what to wear..."

"And I'm saying thank heaven for that."

a gent of good intent

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"Welcome, M'sieur.
Sit yourself down.
And meet the best
Innkeeper in town."

treacherous people

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"What to do?"

"What to say?"

"Shall you carry our treasure away?"

"What a gem! What a pearl!"

"Beyond rubies is our little girl!"

"How can we speak of debt?
Let's not haggle for darling Colette..."

"Cosette!"

follow me!

2006-05-16T00:35:00.000-07:00

"'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche!"

"These are my people. Here's my patch."

"Not much to look at, nothing posh."

"Nothing that you'd call up to scratch."

"This is my school, my high society!
Here in the slums of Saint Michele."

"We live on crumbs of humble piety.
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!"

"Think you're poor?
Think you're free?"

"Follow me! Follow me!"

fallen from grace

2006-05-16T00:34:00.000-07:00

"Stars...
In your multitudes..."

"Scarce to be counted,
Filling the darkness
With order and light."

"You are the sentinels,
Silent and sure,
Keeping watch in the night,
Keeping watch in the night."

"You know your place in the sky.
You hold your course and your aim."

"And each in your season
Returns and returns..."

"And is always the same."

"And if you fall as Lucifer fell,
You fall in flame!"

souls on fire

2006-05-16T00:33:00.000-07:00

"Marius, you're late."

"What's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost."

"Some wine, and say what's going on!"

"A ghost you say... a ghost maybe.
She was just like a ghost to me.
One minute there, and she was gone!"

"I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah.'
You talk of battles to be won,
And here he comes like Don Ju-an.
It's better than an o-per-a!"

"Had you been there tonight,
You might know how it feels...
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!"

"Had you been there tonight,
You might also have known...
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!"

"And what was right seems wrong,
And what was wrong seems right!"

"Marius, you're no longer a child.
I do not doubt you mean it well.
But now there is a higher call."

"Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal.
Our little lives don't count at all!"

"Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!"

a world out of reach

2006-05-16T00:32:00.000-07:00

"How strange,
This feeling that my life's begun at last."

"This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?"

"What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?"

"So many things unclear.
So many things unknown."

"In my life...
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong."

"In my life...
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song."

"And it sings...
Of a world that I long to see."

"Out of reach...
Just a whisper away,
Waiting for me."

"Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child.
How pensive, how sad you seem to me.
Believe me, were it within my power,
I'd fill each passing hour.
How quiet it must be, I can see...
With only me for company."

"In my life...
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know...
Of the years... years ago."

"You will learn,
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time,
In our turn."

a single look

2006-05-16T00:31:00.000-07:00

"A heart full of love.
A heart full of song."

"A heart full of love.
No fear, no regret."

"I am lost."

"I am found."

"A single look, and then I knew."

"I knew it, too."

"For it isn't a dream..."

"Not a dream... after all!"

another day, another destiny

2006-05-16T00:29:00.000-07:00

"Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!"

"One more dawn...
One more day..."

"One day more!"

each man to his duty

2006-05-16T00:28:00.000-07:00

"Here upon these stones
We will build our barricade..."

"In the heart of the city
We claim as our own!"

misty in the river

2006-05-16T00:26:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes I walk alone at night,
When everybody else is sleeping."

"I think of him, and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping."

"The city goes to bed,
And I can live inside my head."

"I love him,
But when the night is over..."

"He is gone,
The river's just a river."

"Without him,
The world around me changes."

"The trees are bare and everywhere,
The streets are full of strangers."

"I love him,
But every day I'm learning..."

"All my life,
I've only been pretending!"

"Without me,
His world will go on turning..."

"A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!"

"I love him..."

"I love him..."

"I love him..."

"But only on my own."

just a pup

2006-05-16T00:25:00.000-07:00

"And little people know,
When little people fight,
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite!"

"So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup.
We'll fight like twenty armies,
And we won't give up!"

"So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!"

and rain will make the flowers grow

2006-05-16T00:24:00.000-07:00

"Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius...
I don't feel any pain."

"A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now."

"You're here,
That's all I need to know."

"And you will keep me safe.
And you will keep me close."

"And rain will make the flowers grow."

"But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above...
If I could close your wounds with words of love."

"Just hold me now, and let it be."

"Shelter me.
Comfort me."

we meet again

2006-05-16T00:23:00.000-07:00

"You are wrong, and always have been wrong.
I'm a man, no worse than any man."

"You are free, and there are no conditions,
No bargains or petitions."

"There's nothing that I blame you for.
You've done your duty, nothing more."

let the wine of friendship never run dry

2006-05-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

"Drink with me to days gone by.
Sing with me the songs we knew."

"Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
Here's to witty girls who went to our beds.
Here's to them... and here's to you."

"Drink with me to days gone by.
Can it be you fear to die?
Will the world remember you
When you fall?
Could it be your death
Means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?"

"Do I care if I should die,
Now she goes across the sea?
Life without Cosette
Means nothing at all."

"Would you weep, Cosette,
Should Marius fall?
Will you weep, Cosette,
For me?"

hear my prayer

2006-05-16T00:10:00.000-07:00

"He is young.
He's afraid."

"Let him rest,
Heaven blessed."

"If I die,
Let me die!"

"Let him live.
Bring him home."

the end of the chase

2006-05-16T00:09:00.000-07:00

"I am reaching, but I fall."

"And the stars are black and cold."

"As I stare into the void..."

"Of a world that cannot hold."

"I'll escape now from the world,"

"From the world of Jean Valjean."

"There is nowhere I can turn."

"There is no way to go on...."

rise up like the sun

2006-05-16T00:08:00.000-07:00

"Turning, turning, turning through the years..."

"Minutes into hours and the hours into years."

they lit the flame

2006-05-16T00:07:00.000-07:00

"There's a grief that can't be spoken."

"There's a pain goes on and on."

"Empty chairs at empty tables..."

"Now my friends are dead and gone."

"Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me..."

"What your sacrifice was for!"

"Empty chairs at empty tables..."

"Where my friends will sing no more."

remember that night

2006-05-16T00:06:00.000-07:00

"Every day
You walk with stronger step,
You walk with longer step.
The worst is over."

a heart too full for farewells

2006-05-16T00:05:00.000-07:00

"There lived a man whose name was Jean Valjean.
He stole some bread to save his sister's son.
For nineteen winters served his time.
In sweat he washed away his crime."

"Years ago...
He broke parole and lived a life apart."

"How could he tell Cosette and break her heart?"

"It's for Cosette this must be faced.
If he is caught she is disgraced."

"The time has come to journey on.
And from this day he must be gone."

mark this well

2006-05-16T00:04:00.000-07:00

"In God's name,
Say what you have to say."

"I was there, never fear.
Even found me this fine souvenir."

"Then it's true. Then I'm right.
Jean Valjean was my savior that night!"

"As for you, take this too!
God forgive us the things that we do."

wedding dance

2006-05-16T00:03:00.000-07:00

"Come, my love."

"Come, Cosette."

"This day's blessings are not over yet!"

stand on top

2006-05-16T00:02:00.000-07:00

"Ain't it a laugh?
Ain't it a treat?
Hob-nobbin' here
Among the elite?"

"Paris at my feet..."
Paris in the dust...
And here's me breaking bread
With the upper crust!"

"Beggar at the feast!
Master of the dance!
Life is easy pickings
If you grab your chance."

"Everywhere you go,
Law-abiding folk,
Doing what is decent
But they're mostly broke!"

"Singing to the Lord on Sundays..."

"Praying for the gifts He'll send."

"But we're the ones who take it.
We're the ones who make it in the end!"

"We know where the wind is blowing
Money is the stuff we smell."

"And when we're rich as Croesus..."

"Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell!"

love is everlasting

2006-05-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Papa, Papa, I do not understand!
Are you all right? They said you'd gone away."

"Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now?
Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day."

"It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool.
It's you who must forgive a thankless man.
It's thanks to you that I am living...
And again I lay down my life at your feet."

"Cosette, your father is a saint.
When they wounded me,
He took me from the barricade,
Carried like a babe,
And brought me home to you!"

"Now you are here,
Again beside me.
Now I can die in peace...
For now my life is blessed."

"You will live,
Papa, you're going to live..."

"It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!"

"Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die.
I'll obey,
I will try."

"On this page
I write my last confession.
Read it well
When I at last am sleeping.
It's the story
Of those who always loved you.
Your mother gave her life for you,
Then gave you to my keeping."

"Come with me,
Where chains will never bind you."

"All your grief...
At last, at last behind you."

"Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy."

"Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory."

"Take my hand,
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting."

"And remember
The truth that once was spoken...
To love another person
Is to see the face of God!"

the music of a people

2006-05-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?"

"Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?"

"Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?"

"It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes."

"Tomorrow comes!"