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2 | [[caption-width-right:260:''I dreamed a dream in time gone by...'']] |
3 | ->''Do you hear the people sing? / Singing a song of angry men\ |
4 | It is the music of a people / Who will not be slaves again!\ |
5 | When the beating of your heart / Echoes the beating of the drums\ |
6 | There is a life about to start / When tomorrow comes!'' |
7 | -->-- '''Enjolras''', "Do You Hear the People Sing?" |
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9 | The famous [[TheMusical musical]] adaptation of the landmark [[TheEpic epic]] [[Literature/LesMiserables novel]] of Creator/VictorHugo. An ever popular choice for schools and drama companies of all levels, this epic show was originally a French musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Jean-Marc Natel. It compressed the plot of the book quite tightly. Then Cameron Mackintosh got his hands on the rights, and Herbert Kretzmer adapted the libretto. |
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11 | The result was what can only be called a bona fide musical theatre phenomenon. The show opened at the Creator/RoyalShakespeareCompany's Barbican Theatre in 1985 (later moved to the Sondheim Theatre) and has been running [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAr7n6i-lds without interruption ever since]].[[note]]There have been brief closures for refurbishments and an unavoidable hiatus during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-2022 when all theatres were forced to close but these were accounted for and do not affect the record.[[/note]] It debuted on Broadway two years later, where it won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. "''[[FanNickname Les Mis]]''" is the [[LongRunners longest-running]] major musical in the world, with the West End production alone having played an astounding 10,000+ performances. |
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13 | Played over fifty-one ''thousand'' times in over 347 cities and forty-four different countries around the world, with over seventy official recordings in twenty-two separate languages, ''Les Misérables'' has been hailed as the most famous, most popular, most influential, most beloved, and most-performed work of musical theatre ever written. |
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15 | Word about the long-awaited film version finally getting a release spread quickly when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvHzCLP6ug the official trailer came out]] in November 2012, and the movie debuted on Christmas Day 2012, with wide and international release in January 2013, which included an engagement in Creator/{{IMAX}}. See ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. |
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18 | !!The musical provides examples of: |
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20 | [[index]] |
21 | * LesMiserablesTheatre/TropesAToF |
22 | * LesMiserablesTheatre/TropesGToL |
23 | * LesMiserablesTheatre/TropesMToR |
24 | * LesMiserablesTheatre/TropesSToZ |
25 | [[/index]] |
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27 | ->''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Do you hear the people sing?]] / [[TriumphantReprise Lost in the valley of the night.]]\ |
28 | It is the music of a people / Who are climbing to the light.\ |
29 | For the wretched of the earth / There is a flame that never dies\ |
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