Our group was fortunate enough to see Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center on October 13th. Les Misérables is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. The well known tragic tale chronicles the lives and interactions of several French characters over a 17 year period. The Kennedy Center performance was a "new 25th anniversary production of Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical" which featured new staging and spectacularly re imagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. Les Misérables is the longest running musical in the world and includes the widely famous songs; "I dreamed a dream" and "one more day," just to name a few.The story of Jean Valjean was wonderfully preformed and was quite an experience for all of us--whether we knew the story line or were being exposed to it for the first time.
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