One Day More

"One Day More"("Le grand jour", The big day, in the original French version) is a song from the 1980 musical Les Misérables. The music was written by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.[1]

For the 2011 romantic comedy film, see One Day More(film).

"One Day More"
Song by Les Misérables Cast
LanguageFrench, English
Published1980
Recorded1980 (French Cast recording)
1985 (London Cast recording)
1987 (Broadway Cast recording)
2012 (Film cast recording)
GenreMusical, theatrical, show tune
Songwriter(s)Claude-Michel Schönberg (music)
Alain Boublil (French lyrics)
Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics)
Composer(s)from the musical Les Misérables

Les Misérables was originally released as a French-language concept album, as French songwriter Alain Boublil had had the idea to adapt Victor Hugo's novel into a musical while at a performance of the musical Oliver! in London.[2]

The show – and the song – has been translated into twenty-one languages, including Japanese, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Spanish, and Estonian, and there have been 31 cast recordings featuring the song.[3] The London cast version is Triple Platinum in the UK, for sales of more than 900,000, and Platinum in the U.S., for sales of more than one million. The Broadway cast version is Quadruple Platinum in the U.S. (more than four million sold), where four other versions have also gone Gold.[4]

In 2008, a parody of the song featuring Broadway stars was created to promote the election of Barack Obama.[5]

In 2012, musical theater performer and composer Michael Bihovsky composed a parody of this song about glutin-free and hypoallergenic food called "One Grain More".[6][7]

Key & Peele also parodied the song as "One at a Time".[8]

Nostalgia Critic along with others at Channel Awesome parodied this number as "One Big Song" during their 2013 review of the Les Misérables movie.[9]

In 2016, the song was sung by James Corden, the host of American television network CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden, on the popular "Carpool Karaoke" segment in promotion of the telecast of the 2016 Tony Awards. Corden's guests included Broadway stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krakowski.[10] In 2021, Corden and a slew of Broadway stars performed a parody of the song aired on the January 19 episode of The Late Late Show just before the inauguration of Joe Biden by daytime.[11]

References
  1. "Les Misérables at IBDB.com". Retrieved 29 April 2009.
  2. Behr, Edward (1993). The Complete Book of Les Miserables. New York: Arcade Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-55970-156-3.
  3. "Translations and Cast Recordings. LesMis.com". Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  4. "Gold and Platinum RIAA.com". Archived from the original on 2 September 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  5. "Parody Video". Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  6. Tepper, Rachel (23 January 2013). "'One Grain More', gluten-free parody Of 'Les Miserables', offers great singing about awful food". Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  7. One Grain More on YouTube
  8. Key & Peele - Les Mis on YouTube
  9. http://channelawesome.com/nostalgia-critic-les-miserables-2012-musical-review/
  10. Broadway Carpool Karaoke ft. Hamilton & More on YouTube
  11. Shafer, Ellise (19 January 2021). "James Corden Celebrates 'One Day More' of Trump With 'Les Misérables' Spoof". Variety. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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