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Director Tom Hooper discusses the work that went into his interpretation of the musical, and offers this interesting insight: He said that he had consulted Australian director Baz Luhrmann who pointed out that moving between singing and talking can be difficult for an audience: “He said unless you can make some kind of contract with [...]
There’s a lovely remembrance of first encountering “Les Miserables” — the musical and the book — by Rev. Charles Klamut, in this week’s issue of AMERICA—and he concludes with this poignant epiphany: I read Les Misérables in a week. It was the perfect book at the perfect time, with soul-shaking impact. For a long time afterward, I [...]
And, perhaps fittingly, the star is literally a son of Grace. Details: His performance is both a tribute and a thank you to his father Chris, who brought him up after his mother walked out of the family home in Australia when Hugh was just eight years old. Both parents are English-born, but settled in [...]
Though some were shocked, simply shocked to see fleeting moments of sexual congress (one involving a guy in a Santa suit), other Christians have embraced the movie’s message. From CNN: “Les Miserables” is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: [...]
Author Stacy Wolf looks at “Les Mis” through a feminist lens in the Washington Post, and isn’t impressed: In 1987, when “Les Miz” opened on Broadway, it was part of a cultural moment that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi labeled the “anti-feminist backlash.” Its popularity at the time wasn’t surprising: The late 1980s weren’t kind [...]
The part is played by the great Colm Wilkinson, who originated the role of Jean Valjean in London in 1985. In the film, the bishop is a character around which much of the plot pivots. A sharp-eyed reader writes: I’m not too much up on my pre-V2 vestments (and neither it would seem was the [...]
At long last, I saw the movie version of “Les Miserables” tonight, tears dribbling off my cheeks and into my popcorn. I have long been smitten by the score, the story, the unabashed emotion of the piece, and the movie does justice to all of that. In fact, one of the things that struck me [...]
The cast of the London stage production gets in the spirit.
Tony Rossi offers his review of this year’s must-see movie musical: The Christmas debut is appropriate since it’s the most profoundly Christian story for mainstream audiences that’s been produced in years. Far from being a niche movie just designed for religious viewers, this is a big budget drama whose universal values will appeal to anyone yearning for [...]
And clinched the deal with “Les Miserables.” Tony Rossi has a winning video of a wedding flash mob performing “One Day More.” Not exactly my first choice for a sentimental wedding song (“One day more to revolution, we will nip it in the bud…”) but, boy, it’s done with gusto and a lot of good [...]
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