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While I love Sarah Brightmans Christine, I think my favorite has to be Patti Cohenour. Her operatic singing and her clearness on the song makes her my favorite!

it’s like Philippines versus Korea. Koreans have the highest notes. I think the Koreans are better than Philippines

Deedee Magno Hall will always be my fave <3

1:15 What a powerful and strong voice, really shows her anger and pain

THAT SHERIDAN SMITH CLIP ONE WAS SO CREATIVE

Too much of a good thing. The same song excerpt 100 times causes fatigue.

Fun fact: Amy Nuttall (1st UK Tour understudy) went on to be in Downtown Abbey.

Betty Buckley for me. I heard Elaine Paige too but in terms of vocal performance Betty Buckley is amazing . But in terms of acting performance Elaine Paige is the top pick for me. Jennifer Hudson is good as well in terms of the strong vocal emotional performance.

I have to give a special mention to Katie Rowley Jones (UK TOUR 2005). She was my first Belle when the show came to my.home town and she was wonderful! In fact this recording does not do her 100% justice. She is also a very lovely person as I got to meet her after. Her yellow ball gown was also the most movie accurate (though I also love the original Broadway dress) it had about 5 layers with a massive hoop underneath. I was in the front row so I could see all the beautiful details...I remember she said it was "very heavy. " Nic Greenshields was also a wonderful Beast and he and Katie had great chemistry on stage. ✨🌹

Becky... I believed that she believes she IS 'So Much Better'

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Imagine having to learn a foreign language and perform onstage. 😱 These Filipinas are incredibly talented! 🫡

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Elaine Page has a great voice, but I don't like the style she sings the song in. She overdoes it or something. That, "Touuche-a-meeEEe." Don't like it. There's far too many singers here to listen to the whole thing, heh. I saw Laurie Beechman when she was doing her Broadway run of this. It's the first voice I heard singing this song, and when it was live, my memory (wink) of it sounded better than what I'm hearing here from her. It filled the whole theater at that "touch me" part and I was thinking, "wow." Betty Buckley is the voice of the U.S. cast album, so I'm familiar with that and it sounds good to me. And Lea Salonga is always spectacular. There's a bunch here who can belt it out pretty good. But, I can't sit through 36 minutes of the same part of a song, so I can't judge everyone.

I LOVE Jennifer Paz as Kim! Specially in ''you will not touch him''

I don’t care for that lisp Nikki James sang it with.

I must be high. It’s almost midnight and I’m watching a 40 minute long video of every Eponine to ever sing on a stage… and commenting on it. France is the gold standard. Facts are facts. 💁🏼‍♂️

Pioneer Theater one…. 😂 Ello lil boy. 😂

I hate when the costumes looked like freshly washed clean clothes. 😂 The original original cast was gritty!!!!! And I loved it.

2002 Broadway was great. Unpopular opinion, I love Lea, but not for this song, I thought she was a tad boring. I prefer the thrilling belters. Isn’t it interesting how we all appreciate different things?

2002 Broadway was great. Unpopular opinion, I love Lea, but not for this song, I thought she was a tad boring. I prefer the thrilling belters. Isn’t it interesting how we all appreciate different things?

If the idea of cultural appropriation existed in the 80s we wouldn’t have Les Mis and it never would have spread around the world.

Kate is still the best, but Laura is iconic and her acting is stellar

Watching this hurts my vocal cords 😂

wait...Kerry Butler sang the Demo recording? I didn't know, THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

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daphne rubin-vega you will always be famous

Looks like Patti Lupone set the standard and it took three decades for the standard to be met again by Caroline Bowman.

Robert Sena Devin Ilaw Kwang Ho Hong

listen to LBB in this video she sounds like her voice is like straing

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Lucy Durack my queen!!

Amanda Coutts is Scaramouch for me. What a voice.

Why does no one talk about Niklas Andersson??? He sang it so beautifully

Isay Alvarez is the best, she tells her story by singing, she doesn't sing to impress.

Betty Buckley is the best.

Natalia Sosa!. An amazing Musical Theatre Mexican Star (Ulla- The Producers. Lady of the Lake- Spamalot. Grizabella- Cats. Mary Magdalene- Jesus Christ Superstar. Fiona- Shrek. Susan- Tick, Tick, Boom.) Blessings from México City.

no you didn't they are all American and litle else . Where are the British ones

My favorites who best captured Belle in this scene are Susan Egan, Melissa Thomson, Dianne Pilkington, Megan McGinnis, Ashley Brown, Christina DeCicco, and Patricia Paisal.

56:46 Julia Udine went to my high school.

We love Laura but she ate so hard 1:40 2:21 I didn’t know Karen did this

bless you betsy haze bc i was looking for a very certain vibe of this exact part 🙏🏻 for me it's the ones who capture the pure female rage!!

I love you Josh.

Do you have the full recording of Melissa Lyons’ Eponine or at least On My Own? You have the best quality of her On My Own here in the internet but you only have bits of it. Thanks

Sorry to say, but personal opinion, at least half of those indicated were not really able to do justice to "Memories" as it was originally presented - they have changed inflection, they have held notes longer or shorter than in the original, their voices simply were not capable of singing such a very demanding song as intended by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Three of the more powerful women who recorded, sang at concerts or on television were not even mentioned - Celine D, Susan Boyle, Barbra Streisand and there were many other females who did perform "Memories" but not on stage, a cruise ship, in the streets of various cities and not on tv shows but made videos or recorded their versions of the original song. Barbra (and that is the correct spelling of her given name), Celine and Susan sang their version of "Memories" as it was intended by Andrew Lloyd Webber to be sung. Those males who performed "Memories" simply were not capable of the dynamic range intended by Webber. The differences many of the females shown made when singing "Memories" made a tremendous difference from what Mr Webber intended and they did not do good justice to Mr Webber's masterpiece.

I didn’t know Kerry Butler was in Legally Blonde!!! I only knew her from Beetljuice

Rachelle Ann Go is the best Gigi.

This is one of my favorite reprises of all time!

This is just something I've noticed but as a brit some of those british actresses were hiding their accents HARD