[Borges]

If you want to hear the score from Les Miz, stay away from these non-singers and get a cast album. The Original Symphonic Recording or the 10th anniversary would do.

[Wordkraft]

I really enjoyed the 25th Anniversary Concert version from London.

[Dunstan McShane]

I know that I am in an increasingly dwindling (and probably despised) minority in saying that I have never seen the show, have not heard (to my knowledge) a word or note of its music, and (or possibly therefore) cannot understand the mania it generates among so many people. And my admittedly contrarian leanings sort of want to keep it that way.

I'm sure (or at least I'm willing to entertain the idea) that I'm missing out on something wonderful, but I know the plot of Hugo's novel, and as a source for an international musical-extravaganza hit, it seems a little less likely The Guide to Incredibly Communicable and Really Messy Diseases, but what do I know?