Colm Wilkinson credited as playing...
Valjean
- [Valjean prays to God to save Marius in the battle to come]
- Jean Valjean: Bring him peace, bring him joy... He is young, he is only a boy... You can take, you can give! Let him be, let him live. If I die, let me die! Let him live...
- Fantine: 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.
- Jean Valjean: Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory.
- Fantine, Eponine: Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting.
- Fantine, Jean Valjean, Eponine: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God.
- Enjolras: For your presence of mind, for the deed you have done, I will thank you Monsieur when our battle is won.
- Jean Valjean: Give me no thanks Monsieur, there's something you can do.
- Enjolras: If it is in my power.
- Jean Valjean: Give me the spy Javert, let me take care of him!
- Javert: The law is inside out, the world is upside down!
- Enjolras: Do what you have to do, the man belongs to you!
- [to the others]
- Enjolras: The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourselves in readiness! Come on my friends, back to your positions, the night is falling fast!
- Jean Valjean: [to Javert] We meet again.
- Javert: You've hungered for this all your life! Take your revenge... How right you should kill with a knife!
- Jean Valjean: You talk too much. Your life is safe in my hands!
- Javert: Don't understand.
- Jean Valjean: Get out of here.
- Javert: Valjean, take care, I'm warning you...
- Jean Valjean: Clear out of here!
- Javert: Once a thief, forever a thief. What you want you always steal. You would trade your life for mine? Yes, Valjean, you want a deal. Shoot me now for all I care. If you let me go beware, you'll still answer to Javert!
- Jean Valjean: 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. If I come out of this alive, you'll find me at number fifty-five Rue Plumet. No doubt our paths will cross again. Go.
- Javert: Now bring me prisoner 24601! Your time is up and your parole's begun. You know what that means?
- Jean Valjean: Yes, it means I'm free.
- Javert: No! It means you get your yellow ticket of leave. You are a thief!
- Jean Valjean: I stole a loaf of bread.
- Javert: You robbed a house!
- Jean Valjean: I broke a windowpane. My sister's child was close to death, and we were starving!
- Javert: You will starve again, unless you learn the meaning of the law!
- Jean Valjean: I know the meaning of those nineteen years, a slave of the law!
- Javert: Five years for what you did, the rest because you tried to run; yes, 24601!
- Jean Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean!
- Javert: And I'm Javert. Do not forget my name! Do not forget me, 24601!
- Jean Valjean: [speaking to Javert] 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 is nothing that I blame you for. You have done your duty, nothing more.
- Fantine, Eponine: Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting.
- Fantine, Eponine, Jean Valjean: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Jean Valjean: It's you Javert! I knew you wouldn't wait too long. The faithful servant at his post once more! This man's done no wrong, and he needs a doctor's care!
- Javert: I warned you I would not give in. I won't be swayed!
- Jean Valjean: Another hour yet, and then I'm yours, and all our debts are paid!
- Javert: The man of mercy comes again, and talks of justice!
- Jean Valjean: Come, time is running short. Look down, Javert, he's standing in his grave! Give way, Javert! There is a life to save!
- Javert: Take him, Valjean, before I change my mind! I will be waiting, 24601.
- Jean Valjean: [singing] Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I'm not the man I was before? And must my name until I die Be no more than an alibi? Must I lie? How can I ever face my fellow men? How can I ever face myself again? My soul belongs to God, I know I made that bargain long ago He gave me hope when hope was gone He gave me strength to journey on Who am I? Who am I? I am Jean Valjean!
- Jean Valjean: One day more. Another day, another destiny, this never-ending road to Calvary. These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time. One day more.
- Marius: I did not live until today. How can I live when we are parted?
- Jean Valjean: One day more.
- Marius, Cosette: Tomorrow, you'll be worlds away, and yet with you, my world has started.
- Eponine: One more day all on my own.
- Marius, Cosette: Will we ever meet again?
- Eponine: One more day of him not caring.
- Marius, Cosette: I was born to be with you.
- Eponine: What a life I might have known.
- Marius, Cosette: And I swear, I will be true.
- Eponine: But he never saw me there.
- Enjolras: One more day before the storm.
- Marius: Do I follow where she goes?
- Enjolras: At the barricade of freedom.
- Marius: Do I join my brothers there?
- Enjolras: As our ranks begin to form.
- Marius: Do I stay, and do I care?
- Enjolras: Will you take your place with me?
- [Chorus joins in]
- Enjolras: The time is now, the day is here!
- Jean Valjean: One day more!
- Javert: One more day to revolution. We will nip it in the bud. I will join these little schoolboys. They will wet themselves with blood!
- Jean Valjean: One day more!
- Thenardier, Madame Thenardier: Watch 'em run amok. Catch 'em as they fall. Never know your luck when there's a free-for-all. Here, a little dip. There, a little touch. Most of 'em are goners, so they won't miss much!
- [Chorus joins in]
- Thenardier, Madame Thenardier: One day to a new beginning, raise the flag of freedom high. Every man will be a king, every man will be a king. There's a new world for the winning, there's a new world to be won. Do you hear the people sing?
- Marius: My place is here. I'll fight with you!
- Jean Valjean: One day more!
- [everyone sings their previous verses simultaneously]
- Jean Valjean: One day more!
- [Verses continue]
- Jean Valjean: Tomorrow, we'll be far away. Tomorrow is the judgment day.
- Ensemble: Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store. One more dawn, one more day, one day more!