J'AVAIS RÊVÉ D'UNE AUTRE VIE
Created on 07/05/2009Latest update on 19/04/2024
Artist: Rose Laurens
Author: Alain Boublil/Jean-Marc Natel/Claude-Michel Schönberg
Label: Relativity
Year: 1980
As Fantine at the world première of musical Les Misérables in Paris (Palais des Sports). Not exactly a hit, at least not compared to the English version, first staged in London five years later. In 2006 Les Misérables became the longest running West End production ever, and counting.
Covers:
- 1985:
Patti LuPone [the original West End Fantine as I Dreamed A Dream (lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer); a hit UK following the Susan Boyle hype]
- 1987:
Randy Graff [idem in Broadway cast]
- 1987:
Neil Diamond [idem]
- 1987:
David Essex [idem]
- 1987:
- 1991:
Debbie Byrne [in the symphonic cast]
- 1991:
Louise Pitre [in the second French production at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris]
- 1991:
Aretha Franklin [also sang it in '93 at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton]
- 1993:
- 1994:
Elaine Paige [Susan Boyle's example]
- 1994:
- 1996:
- 1998:
- 2003:
Michael Ball [the Marius from the original West End cast on his album I Dreamed A Dream]
- 2005:
Allison Crowe [all as I Dreamed A Dream]
- 2009:
Susan Boyle [idem in Britain's Got Talent; download hit YouTube and title track debut album, n°1 UK & US]
- 2013:
Anne Hathaway [idem in film Les Misérables; BAFTA & Oscar awarded]
The French original version was first part of a concept album, only later turned into a theatre production.
