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Les Miserables
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Music is power, and the musical rendering of Victor Hugo’s classic Les Miserables is no exception. The Broadway musical sensation has thrilled audiences throughout the world for the past twenty years. The songs capture the essence of characters, events, and themes in a beautiful and compelling manner. Through utilizing the tremendous medium of music students can experience the magic and power of this novel through sound.
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Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Miserables is not primarily about Bohemianism or student life. But in such a voluminous novel (1260 pages in the 1992 Modern Library edition), Hugo was able to discuss virtually every aspect of French society in the 1820s and 30s, and this included every Parisian class, including students. The primary example of student life in Les Miserables is Marius and his friends in the Societe de la ABC.
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The Cameron Mackintosh/Royal Shakespeare Company production Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg has lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and music by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with original text by Alain Boublil and additional material by James Fenton. The show is adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird.
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When Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables first came out in 1862, people in Paris and elsewhere lined up to buy it. Although critics were less receptive, the novel was an instant popular success. The French word "miserables" means both poor wretches and scoundrels or villains. The novel offers a huge cast that includes both kinds of "miserables." A product of France's most prominent Romantic writer, Les Miserables ranges far and wide. It paints a vivid picture of Paris's seamier side, discusses the causes and results of revolution, and includes discourses on topics ranging from the Battle of Waterloo to Parisian street slang. But the two central themes that dominate the novel are the moral redemption of its main character, Jean Valjean, an ex-convict, and the moral redemption of a nation through revolution.
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Les Miserables opened in 2000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, being the second version in Spanish after the 1993 Madrid version. It ran for eight months at Teatro Ópera. The Spanish-spoken version (Madrid, Buenos Aires, México) is the only international version having changed its name from "Les Misérables" to "Los Miserables". No recording was made from the Buenos Aires production, the Madrid production being the one and only Spanish recorded version of the show. The official webpage of the show still has a link to the Argentine production: http://www.lesmis.com/ag.htm
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Written in 1862 by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables is ranked as one of the greatest novels of all time. The story revolves around Jean Valjean, who rises above his life as a convict and becomes a responsible father and member of the community. From reading this novel, you will learn the importance of responsibility in your own life and how that affects those around you. Also you will consider the ramifications of living in a heartless society.
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