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Wednesday, January 30th, 2002 at 6:53 AM | 3 commentsAttention! Attention! Anyone planning a trip to New York and Broadway, please make plans to attend Les Miserables. The show, with its 6,138th performance as of last Friday, has surpassed A Chorus Line to become the second-longest running show in Broadway history.
The cast celebrated its landmark with a number of original Les Miz cast members joining current cast members singing a specially written version of “One,” from A Chorus Line (one of my favorite songs, too).
Next target: Cats. I want to see Les Miserables top out Cats, which holds the record for longest running Broadway show at 7,485. Thankfully, Cats closed in 2000.
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3 comments
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.
Will you give all you can give so that a banner may advance? Some will fall and some will live, will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France.”
Les Miserables cannot begin to compare with drek like Cats. Let’s see, hm, compare the lyrics of, oh, “Memories”. No, let’s be fair, let’s go to another musical based on a French classic: how about “Music of the Night” from Phantom?
“Night-time sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night.”
Excuse me while I try to stop laughing now. Actually, he composes the music of the fishheads, but you’d have to go to my site to find my fishhead theory on Andrew Lloyd Weber. (And I have to make a permalink for it.)
TX Meryl, if you come to NJ while I’m in the area, I’ll go with you to see Les Miz again. Heck, I think I’d like to go now, what with having the time between jobs at the moment.
Les Miserables is the musical I listen to if I find myself becoming too conservative. One hearing, and I want to go out and start a revolution myself.
Never saw Les Mis on stage, but it was a good book. I need a theatre group to hang out with to see these things with.
I was in 7 or 8th grade, and we were going on a field trip to see Les Mis, and oh, I was not pleased. I mean, musicals. yuck. Guys don;t like musicals.
And I had to go, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT. Flash forward a couple years, and I’ve seen and listened to and loved dozens of musicals. But none as much as Les Mis.
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