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Rehearsal clip 'One Day More' 2. SOUNDBITE  (English) Michael Ball: \"It's extraordinary the amount of emotions that come back to you. Some of the people...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRestrictions: Check With Ap Entertainment Dept.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment \u003cbr/\u003e6th October 2006\u003cbr/\u003e1. Rehearsal clip 'One Day More' \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE  (English) Michael Ball: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's extraordinary the amount of emotions that come back to you. Some of the people in the cast, we've all gone our separate ways, I haven't seen them for 21 years, meeting up with the current cast and realising how old we've become. We've just been rehearsing on the stage now and getting ready for the big night and the music is as timeless as ever, the story is as timeless, I am thrilled to be part of this.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Rehearsal clip 'One Day More '\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE  (English) Frances Ruffelle:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's fantastic actually, I've just met most of the cast that were there originally 21 years ago. It's quite funny actually, a lot of the were originally playing students and they're all bald and old now. But on the whole everyone kind of looks the same, no zimmer frames...it's fun. Really fun.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE  (English) Peter Polycarpou:\u003cbr/\u003e\" Really fantastic yes, Michael Ball just said that we've done more rehearsing for this than we did for the original production. No it's going  really well, it's great to hear and especially the voices of the present cast with the original cast, very powerful, very powerful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE  (English) Colm Wilkinson:\u003cbr/\u003e\" Incredible, its like 21 years just wash away in an instant. That is what is so staggering about it. And then seeing your double on stage as well, it's incredible. Walking out onto the same set, it's not the same theatre, but the same set. It does feel that, they are calling me,I've got to go back, but incredible, a real buzz, there's a real buzz here today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Rehearsal clip 'One Day More '\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE  (English) Michael Ball: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The abiding memory for me is that opening , when, and we were slagged off by the press, the crits were not good, but we looked out onto that auditorium, and to a man everybody was on their fete cheering and screaming, and it didn't matter that the reviews weren't good. We knew that we had crafted something that was getting to the people we needed to get to, the audience, and I think that for all of us was the most extraordinary moment, the first time, putting to the audience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE  (English) Frances Ruffelle:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I remember in rehearsals I watched the scenes that I wasn't in and I used to just by myself sobbing. And then I'd think it's my scene next I've got to get myself together so that I can rehearse. And I remember everybody was the same, it made us realise we were in something very very special. I mean this story, he actually, it makes men cry, put it that way.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Rehearsal clip 'Bring Him Home'\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE  (English)Colm Wilkinson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Alan Armstrong, on the last night, Alan Armstrong, the actor, on my last night who had previously left the show, he had left the previous week, he came back on and he appeared on stage in the beggar scene with an overcoat in and was walking up towards me, and I didn't know who he was. He had his head down and he pulled up his head. It was Alan, he opened the coat and he was stark naked underneath, on stage, back to the people of course, the audience. That is one of my favourite memories, unbelievable.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Rehearsal clip 'Bring Him Home'\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE  (English)Peter Polycarpou:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a special story, the  music is incredibly intricate and woven into the dramatic story line, and so the drama and the music work together in tandem amazingly so. That is why it works, it works as this fantastic story wonderful music, interwoven with the drama, and, I've really got to go. \"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Rehearsal clip 'One Day More '\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE  (English) Michael Ball :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Its amazing how quickly it comes back. It's like muscle memory, and to find ourselves, us the original cast, on stage with these kids who are  currently doing it, we are doing the finale of act one, and to hear that wall of sound, because you've got twice as many people now doing it, it gave me shivers up and down my spine. It's going to be a really brilliant evening. \" \u003cbr/\u003e17. Rehearsal clip 'One Day More '\u003cbr/\u003eThe legendary musical 'Les Miserables' will celebrate its 21st birthday tomorrow (8 October) becoming the world's longest running musical, surpassing the record currently held by 'Cats' in the West End.\u003cbr/\u003eTo celebrate the record-breaking event, there will be a specially devised finale at the evening performance today (7 October.)\u003cbr/\u003eOriginally opening at the Barbican Theatre on 8 October 1985, the Cameron Mackintosh/Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'Les Miserables'  transferred to the Palace Theatre on 4 December 1985 and moved to its current home at the Queen's Theatre on 3 April 2004, where it is now booking until December 2007.\u003cbr/\u003eBased on Victor Hugo's opus, 'Les Miserables' tells the story of Jean Valjean, released on parole after 19 years on the chain gang, finds that the 'ticket-of-leave' he must display by law, condemns him to be an outcast. \u003cbr/\u003eOnly the saintly Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver. Valjean is caught and brought back by the police, and is astonished when the Bishop lies to save him, also giving him two precious candlesticks. Valjean decides to start his life anew. \u003cbr/\u003eThings go well but 8 years later, an encounter with a face from the past threatens everything he now holds dear. \u003cbr/\u003eThe show continues to take on new lives.  As well as celebrating this milestone in London, 'Les Miserables'  will return to Broadway on 24 October at the Broadhurst Theatre and a Chinese language version of the show, co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh and the Shanghai Grand Theatre, will open in 2008 launching an initiative between Cameron Mackintosh and the cities of Shanghai and Beijing to create the musical theatre industry in China.\u003cbr/\u003eNow seen by over 54 million people worldwide in 38 countries and in 21 languages, 'Les Miserables'  remains one of the world's most popular musicals.  There have been 33 cast recordings of the show, including the multi-platinum London cast recording and the Grammy Award-winning Broadway cast and complete symphonic albums.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe video of the 10th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall Gala Concert has sold well over one million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling musical videos ever in the UK.  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