Wow, I didn't know she played Eponine! She's amazing! This play was so good, and this song is one of my favorites! Sutton did a great job!

I saw her as Eponine when she was on a national tour. She was incredible!

I saw this when it played at the Fox. And when she really belted it out, you could feel the theatre vibrating. Phenomenal!

I like how you lea stans all think you're the casting directors of les miserables. Sutton is amazing

I personally love Sutton here...if you look at what Eponine is really supposed to be like she's perfect.

I'm crying this was so beautiful I love Sutton Foster so much

As with every other character this woman has portrayed on Broadway, Sutton's interpretation of Eponine is nothing short of phenomenal. You can tell she really understands the character through the very subtle, yet powerful choices in movement, facial expression, and overall tone. Was she the "best" Eponine? Maybe not, but I don't understand how anyone could dislike her.

she stays still for two and a half minutes but is still so captivating. she is wonderful.

Her expression when she says "Everyday I'm learning" is like the most heartbreaking expression ever. I love Sutton. :)

I love her approach to the character and how she's a little crazy!! She kind of scared me at one point (which is good) and she sang amazingly!!

"That I have never knoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown" She is the ONLY one that is able to milk that note. :)

I just found out my parents saw her as eponine on tour when they were dating. I'm jealous

Amazing! She is a treasure!

Sutton is my favorite Eponine. I like that she gives the song a darker feel, and she sings the hell out of it either way.

Amazing. This is why she is my Broadway idol. This is just so beautiful.

She was incredible in this role. I saw her live and she was an absolutely perfect Eponine (no one else I've seen came close). Haters back off!

I love that she used an eponine accent

sutton is just aboslutley amazing! her voice gives me chills! shes one of my biggest idols ever! :-D

She is just so talented one of the best Broadway stars ever!!

She is the epitome of a Broadway star. Legend in the making.

oh my god that was amazing. i almost started crying in the end you can see her passion and her pain! she is truly the most amazing eponine i have EVER heard!

Wow! I love her in this role! She really owned Eponine! Most actresses play the sad, depressed girl. She's so headstrong and powerful! So nice to see that! Eponine is a strong willed girl so its great to see her played to that effect! I do agree, its a strange part for Sutton but what she did with it was hers and no one else can do that! She contributed something new to Eponine and its beautiful!

this is amazing. My favorite singer singing one of my favorite songs!! she puts so much emotion in her voice it makes the whole song into an extreme ...AWESOMENESS!!!

i love how she gets so emerged in the song and the character

Not my favourite Eponine, but she was good. I like her interpretation, I wish more people would do something similar.

I personally think this was incredible... just because she doesn't have the typical "Eponine" voice we all know of and it's a bit more modern doesn't mean it's any less good. She truly develops the entire emotion of each word by just simply STANDING there. That's incredible. And you can truly see every emotion using her voice. Her voice adds on that. Again, not the "typical Eponine", but it wasn't a loony attempt. It was truly incredible-- one of the better versions currently out on KZfaq.

Sutton Fustor is just the best at eveything..

Love this, she is extraordinary! (She is exceptional in ALL she does!)

I saw this and I've been a fan of hers since. She was the very best Eponine I had ever seen...not just her voice, but her acting. Her Eponine was truly hearbreaking and captivating. All the other Eponines I've seen played her all cutesy, but Sutton had depth that no one else had and it was mesmorizing. I'll never forget it. I'm lucky cuz i got to see her in Young Frankenstein and just recently in Shrek. She's my heroe!

I love Sutton's Eponine. She's so real and relatable and innately human, while everyone else I watch it looks like they're trying to act

Y’all remember that this was over 20 years ago and les Mis has changed a ton I personally love her version

She's really good!!!! Her voice is sooo strong. She reminds me of the dutch Eponine

I love that she was great here, and this is nowhere near how amazing she is today. This was a great, solid singer/actress. And now she is a goddess. What will she be in another 10 years??

I saw her when she was on tour in D.C.:) She was truly fantastic. Who knew then that she would become this big broadway star? I also saw Kerry Butler in NYC when she was Eponine for only a month. I've been REALLY lucky! :)

This is one of the best versions of the song I've ever heard. 3:18 is amazing.

I LOVE SUTTON

We love a tall eponine 😌😌

This is so effortlessly and beautifully sung!

This is the first non comedic role I’ve seen her in.

I saw Sutton Foster playing Eponine in a touring company of Les Miserables long before she was SUTTON FOSTER and she had me in tears when she sang this. She is the only person out of the entire cast that I remember at all. You just can't appreciate how good she was from a poor quality video - or, probably, any video at all.

WHen I grow up I wanna be Sutton Foster.

I love her. Saw her in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Drowsey Chaperone. What an amazing voice with a youthful like quality

To be perfectly honest! she is the actress - this is how she set out to perform this scene / song - the director obviously saw nothing wrong with it .... if you wanna see / hear a bad performance of On My Own - look no further than Danielle Hope (current West End Eponine)

If only everyone could connect to a song the way sutton does, the world would be a much more talented place. lol.

Oh, thank you SO much for posting this! I was fortunate enough to see her perform this in Seattle in '99, and eight viewings of the show later she is still one of my favorite Eponines. Her passion is just incredible. :0) Thank you again for sharing!

I don't get why everyone hates this performance so much. I think it's pretty good. Much better than the "woe is me, I'm so lovesick!" performance that 9/10 Eponines perform. She acts weirded out, which I kind of like, since Eponine is a bit delusional and unstable in the novel.

I like how whenever there's a strong female actress with powerhouse vocals, everyone's response is "OH MY GAAAWHDZZ, SHE SHOULD PLAY ELPHABA"

Casting directors cast talented people, only the best, people pay to go to the shows soooo obviously she is freakishly amazing!

sutton is amazing at life

Full body chillsssss

Suttin Foster is a lovely singer and actor, without guile or fluctuating merisma. I'm trying to understand the negativity of all those "critics" out there in You Tube land except to say it is reflective of people involved in amateur theatre. The talentless attacking the talented. Plus...Everybody is a critic.

Amagash, i love her so much.. loved her in shrek, and now shes in my fav musical ever?! Hello new idol!

alot of professional actors use a universal stage diction. it's not too "american" or too "british" it's in between. and you can really hear it in spring awakening when they speak.

Wow! Yes, another Wow! for Sutton Foster.

This is the best Eponine I've ever heard

I have a lot of respect for when people extend the belting note like she did, because shes not just saying shes comfortable doing that- but comfortable doing it every night- and some nights twice! (I know she was the understudy but still)

Incredible

yeh her broadway debut was in grease as understudy for sandy then took over...next was star to be in the annie revivel then she did les mis tour and broadway with eponine then she did millie and became who she is today!..i love her so much...btw i got this off a website im not a creep..lol

beautiful

I think she's an actor, and she makes her own acting choices. Whether or not you would do the same if performing the song is for you to decide. But you can't say she is wrong or incorrect because your opinion is different. Also remember Sutton is a professional Tony award winning actor pursuing an objective not playing an emotion or state of mind.

Hadn't taken on this role? She fresh from school and offered a major contract. Riiight...i would love to see a young actor turn down this gig on a major national tour. And what confidence are you looking for? The character is a child who just realized her boy crazy obsession isn't falling for her...the character should have no confidence at this point. Her parents dont love her and the only person who shows her affection is a boy she can't have. AAAAAND...her voice is AMAZING on this.

Even though she has a very powerful voice I hate the mixy-nasality to it. This was very early on in her career though. She's improved immensely since.

Y'all are crazy. Sutton did a fantastic job here.

woooow.. that sounds so cool....!!! i would looooove to meet her :D !!!!! Im really jealous, but im sure i'll get to meet her sometime.. i hope..

This isnt the “standard” of on my own rendition since perhaps most of us are very familiar with lea salonga’s iconic performance.However if you really have read the book, and have not just based on broadway performance, I think this rendition is the closest to who Eponine really is.Eponine isnt angelic and a disney princess. She was a street girl, scorged and tortured by the cruel reality of life…The grit in the performance is what really makes this rendition great for an Eponine.

@benjaminjosephharris finally SOMEONE agrees. not every female who can belt is an elphaba... in fact, I could NEVER see Sutton Foster, as amazing as she is, play elphaba..

honestly she's such a queen

Sigh... some people around here just don't know how to be a good audience. I don't think there's a part in the bible that says "How to be the perfect Eponine" so stop trying to put a frame around the character and be a bit more open minded.

I thinkeveryone could tell when they saw her in this that she was gonna be a HUGE star. I mean, I guess this was before Millie, so GO SUTTON!

I think someone my mom knows might've met Sutton Foster . . . hmmm. KARL! She's so amazing, it's so weird to me now that I'm seeing her everywhere in the world of musical theatre. I really love this perfromance as Eponine.

Hey guess what guys? This is Sutton Foster. She has won two Tony awards. And you haven't. So shut up and listen or go away.

Sutton wasn’t trained as a singer until thoroughly modern Millie…NATURAL TALENT 🥳🥳

how dare she. this is stunning.

I totally get you and the criticisms about Sutton's incorrect "looney" attack to this. On My Own is supposed to be her "epiphany" -- when after so much reflection she realizes how alone she is and how her love will remain unrequited. While Eponine has a 'crazy touch,' this song is sung when Eponine's mind is at its clearest -- thus, Eponine should not appear crazy at all when singing this song. While Sutton had the wrong approach here, I forgive her for she was a newbie when she did Les Miz.

This is beautiful. Now I am about to hurt who ever said this was bad. What people who aren't in the part of the theater that looks at the audience don't understand IT IS A CHARACTER! It's the same deal with Ellen Greene in little shop, I see so many people say oh she can't sing, AUDREY IS A CHARACTER, a very defined character. Audrey is not supposed to sound like someone who plays belle. Anyways what I'm saying is people need to realize... In theater you are a character...

Sutton rules my world :)

I might be crazy but I really like her portrayal. Makes Eoponine seem kind of off her rocker... which she is, as a character. bravo!

I love her "preTENding!!!" Brilliant little D to C thing there... All hail.

And PS her vocals are out of this world!!!

The costumes and sets were really good, you can see some clips here on youtube. And the songs were witty and catchy because i stil remember them. Lord Farquad was hilarious. Donkey was hilarious. Shrek was awesome. It was just an all out enjoyable joy. But part of that, for me was because the actors were so good. I would have enjoyed these people singing the abcs.

This is the first Eponine I've heard that's not all Whiney and Over-Dramatic. Man, she's so good.

Shrek was so good. Its not one that I would of gone to see if Sutton wasn't involved, I really loved it. The performaces were flawless. Sutton can do it all. But everyone else in the cast were brilliant as well. I wouldn't be suprised to see Tony nominations for these actors. Even if you've seen the movie, the jokes are still funny on stage. I highly recommend it.

Wow, I love this!!! I did not like her much, but this version, WOW. I felt sadness, anger, pain and a bit of happiness(?). Very emotional, and this made me cry. Thaks for posting this!

pshh i lied i just love sutton she is so amazing and can pull of like any role

First of all, Sutton's amazing, always will be, and all that jazz. But I just watched MusicalMablibs's version of On My Own with Celia Keenan Bolger, and so I 'm listening thinking, "All the Abe Lincolns are misty in Lake Superior. In the darkness the trees are full of toasters..." Teehee. BUT I heart Sutton.

i agree her movement choices were a little static... however it does NOT take away from her absolute amazingness lol

@punknnerd2 Well, at this point in the show eponine, kind of IS crazy. After all she's seen and what's happened to her, sutton puts the right amount of emotion and crazy and normalcy that is necessary to convey why she's singing this song at this point in the show.

add ampil and lyons to that list and i completely concur.

She is way better than any other girl to do it. Way more power and resonance than anybody else. Lea Salonga has no resonance to her voice

I disagree entirely. If you read the book, Eponine is desperate. Her life sucks and the one person she loves has essentially cast her aside for his new girlfriend. I always think of her as quite a guarded character, and this is her completely letting rip about it all. But that's just MY opinion, and I find it quite patronizing that you say that "while Sutton had the wrong approach here, I forgive her because she was a newbie". There is no such thing as a wrong approach, just a different one!

Find the following on youtube... Marissa McGowan was an understudy, but her OMO might be the best live version I've ever seen.

To me, Sutton Foster is more suitable for light-hearted roles, such as in Anything Goes.

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL I CRY

I saw Alexia Khadime 7 times during her run as Eponine. I thought she played the role superbly. I thought the previous cast were the best cast i've ever seen (Craig Mather, Liam Tamne, Lisa-Anne Wood, Katie Secombe, Hadley Frazer, Alfie / Ramin, Cameron Blakely) I understand not everyone is going to like every performer though but I've seen Alexia in Wicked and Whistle down the wind (UK Tour) and I really like her as a performer :)

and something else that i have noticed, she was singing on her own terms instead of making it sound like the genetic way....know what i mean

omg i had no idea she was in les miz! :O

It's hard to really judge Sutton's Eponine just from this song... if you ever get a chance to see the whole video of this Les Mis performance you can see the unique take she brought to the role and how she good she was at it. I kept on saying "wow, if she keeps this up, she's going to beat out Lea Salonga for my favorite Eponine" and she certainly did.

@miyoshiumeki Now that's not always true. It depends on what you're singing. However, a ballad like this does require you to stand still and send your presence out.

I forgot the year but I know it was the last time it was in LA if that helps.

I love Sutton, and you're right, she is phenomenal! But I've seen Les Mis many times with many different Eponine's and from this recording, she is far from my favourite. Not that she isn't good, it's just I've seen other people portray the role of Eponine who I liked better :)