I’m totally maxed out on Les Miserables. I read it two or three times in the unabridged but I have an amazing ability to skip over passages in books that I find boring so I listened to it on audiobooks when it finally came out. I had to listen to every word of Hugo’s socialist BS and it so bogged down the story that I was fed up with it by the time I finished. The sewer parts are awesome though and I totally love the Archbishop. Watch the latest movie. The archbishop is played by the man who created the role of Jean ValJean in the original stage play.
Colm Wilkinson played ValJean. I have the DVD of the stage production of the 1996 concert . . . I want to say 10th anniversary? Philip Quast was Javert.
I haven’t actually read the book, I get all sorts of annoyed with it. :-)
“The archbishop is played by the man who created the role of Jean ValJean in the original stage play.”
I did not know that, very interesting. I saw it in the movies with my daughter, we liked it a good deal. I thought hubby would like it too, and he did, sort of, but his big complaint (and not invalid I don’t think) was that all the male roles were written for tenors, he was missing a basso here and there.
(If I screwed up the music lingo, forgive me, I’m ignorant to a large extent!)