Me: Hey, everyone! Welcome to another episode of "Musical Characters React"!

Veronica.: Welp...Westerberg's closed for the rest of the year.

Me: My school is, too.

Hamilton: I just hope everything opens up again sooner rather than later.

Anne Boleyn: Exactly.

Sonny: Okay, when I found out my school was closing for the rest of the school year, I celebrated in the bodega!

Usnavi: Yep. I can attest to that.

J.D.: Veronica and I celebrated by making homemade slushies. Not as good as the ones at 7-11, though. (Whispers) I miss it so much! Send...help...

Lafayette: So what are we going to react to?

Me: Today's winning request was from Forces_06.

King George: Oooh! Les Mis!

Me: Yep.

Anne Boleyn: I haven't seen it but now's a good time as any to listen to it.

Lafayette: Yeah. It makes me proud to be French.

Me: Okay, this will be a two-parter and we'll react to act one today!

[During Prologue: Work Song]

Jane Seymour: So these people are convicts?

Me: Yeah.

Sonny: Who's "prisoner 24601"?

Me: Jean Valjean.

Veronica: Ooh! I feel bad for him...Javert dehumanizes Valjean by refusing to refer to him by name.

Sonny: Didn't Thomas Sanders play Javert one time?

Me: Yeah, he did!

[During Prologue: On Parole]

Catherine of Aragon:...well at least he's free...

Madison: Yeah, but after nineteen years in prison.

Burr: Oh, no! He got thrown out of the inn!

Benny: Just because he was an ex-convict.

Nina: Yeah...

[During Prologue: Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven]

Nina: Well, I'm glad the bishop took him in.

[During What Have I Done?]

Jane Seymour: Okay, I feel really bad for him!

Hamilton: Oh! He's leaving a life of crime behind...

Laurens: Yep.

[During At The End Of The Day]

Katherine Howard: Oh, poor Fantine....just because she has an illegitimate child, she gets sent away from the factory!

Philip: Yeah, it's not her fault...

[During I Dreamed A Dream]

Me: Yep, one of the iconic musical theater solos in this show, along with On My Own.

Catherine Parr: I saw Rachelle Ann Go singing this in West End Live, she was excellent!

Heather M.: She's singing about how she dreamed of a better life but she ended up in this state...

Heather D.: Yeah, no dip, Heather!

[During Lovely Ladies]

Heather C.: So...she's selling her hair and her two front teeth?!

Veronica: Well, she hardly can get by!

Peggy: Yeah! It's not her fault!

[During Fantine's Arrest]

Anna of Cleves: What's happening?!

Me: Fantine is getting arrested because she is fighting with Bamatabois for throwing a snowball at her when she did nothing wrong.

Carla: Oh, thank goodness someone's intervening.

Me: That's Valjean in disguise.

[During The Runaway Cart]

Eliza: Oh no! Someone's trapped in a cart?!

J.D.: Uh-oh, looks like Valjean's cover might be blown...

Angelica: Thank goodness the cart got lifted!

[During Who Am I?]

Eliza: Oh no! An innocent man is arrested?

Laurens: At least Valjean turned himself in instead of letting an innocent man go to prison...

[During Come To Me/Fantine's Death]

Lafayette: Oh no! Fantine's dying!

King George: WHY SO MUCH ANGST ALREADY?!!!

Jane Seymour: (Tearing up) I feel so bad for Cosette, having her mother dying on her...it also brings back my own memories...

[During The Confrontation]

Peggy: Okay, why does Javert seem to have beef with Valjean?!

Anne Boleyn: Yeah!

Usnavi: Oh my gosh...Javert got knocked out...

[During Castle On A Cloud]

Sonny: Okay, why are the Thénardiers treating Cosette like crap! Like, THERE ARE CHILD LABOR LAWS, PEOPLE!

[During Master Of The House]

Philip: Okay, the Thénardiers are crappy people in general, cheating their costumers like that....

Me: What you said, save for Éponine.

[During The Bargain/Waltz of Treachery]

King George: Awww, Valjean is planning to adopt Cosette!

Anne Boleyn: BULL, YOU THÉNARDIERS DO NOT CARE FOR COSETTE!

Sonny: YEAH, Y'ALL TREAT HER LIKE CRAP!

Heather M.: Well, at least it worked out in Valjean's favor.

[During Look Down]

Catherine of Aragon: What's happened now?

Me: Nine years have passed and General Lamarque is about to die and Paris is in upheaval.

Carla: Ooh! New characters!

Me: Yep, Enjolras and Marius!

[During The Robbery]

King George: Oh, so Éponine's grown up now?

Me: Yeah.

Heather C.: Well, looks like she like Marius...

Heather D.: Yep, and he doesn't like her back.

[During Stars]

Katherine Howard: Oh, so this is like, the "Wait For It" of Les Mis because a character is singing a solo explaining the reason for the way they live?

Me: I guess.

[During Éponine's Errand]

J.D.: Okay, I feel, like, REALLY bad for Éponine now...

Veronica: Yeah, it must suck when a person you like asks you to take them to another person who THEY like...

[During The ABC Café—Red and Black]

The Hamilsquad: WHOOOOOO! REVOLUTION!

Everyone: (Winces)

Heather C.:  Wow, way to ruin the meeting, Marius! Talk about your crush on Cosette ELSEWHERE!

King Geoge:...welp, looks like General Lamarque is dead.

[During Do You Hear The People Sing]

[Lafayette and Boleyn are waving French flags throughout]

Both: VIVE LE FRANCE!

Hamilton: Now THIS is MY kind of people!

[During In My Life]

Nina: Ooh! A Cosette/Valjean duet!

Benny: Well, Éponine and Marius sing toward the end.

J.D.: Is the guy Cosette is singing about Marius?

Heather D.: Maybe.

[During A Heart Full of Love]

Me: So Marius and Cosette are confessing their love...

Sonny: Gosh, Marius, why don't you know that Éponine exists?!

Me: Ah, you're on Team Éponine are you?

Sonny: Yep.

Angelica: Oh, I'd feel really heartbroken if I were her...

[During The Attack on Rue Plumet]

Philip: Okay, why do I despise the Thénardiers more and more?!

Benny: Yeah! Now they're robbing Valjean?!

Usnavi: At least Éponine saved the day!

[During One Day More]

Lafayette: Yay! An uprising!

Me: And the characters sing about what's in store for them...

King George: Wow! The end is majestic!

[The song ends]

Me: So what did everyone think of act one of Les Mis?

Anne Boleyn: It was great!

Lafayette: It made me so proud to be French!

Heather M.: I can't wait to see the rest of the play!

Usnavi: Yeah! I think I'll also watch the movie, too.

Me: Well, I'm glad everyone enjoyed it! Well, that's it for today's episode!

Benny: Feel free to add a request, vote, and comment!

Mulligan: We'll see you guys next time!

Everyone: Bye!