Les Misérables
Music: Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer
Ongoing performances from March 24 to April 5, 2009
French Cultures Festival Special Night on Friday, March 27 at 7.30p.m.
Dance talks at 6:45 p.m. in the alcove.
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77002
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Adapted from the classic Victor Hugo novel, the musical theatre phenomenon Les Misérables is one of the world’s best-loved musicals. It is the longest running musical in London’s West End, and arguably the longest continuously-running musical in the world. This immensely popular entertainment has been seen by over 53 million people worldwide in 38 countries and been performed in 21 languages. There are over 35 recordings of the score, again in several languages.
Following the life of the fugitive Jean Valjean, his foster daughter Cosette, and his relentless pursuer Javert against a backdrop of the French Revolution, Les Misérables reminds us that we are each part of the same human family---that whatever our outward differences may be, our longings for individual liberty and peace are the same.
