Les Misérables - The movie (please, *please* be good...)
Les Misérables was the first Major Musical that I ever saw, and it made an indelible impression on me. I must have seen it at least half-a-dozen times in the U.S. since '89 when I saw it at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago (shout out to Printer's Row , the pre-theater restaurant that I had been to many a time), I've seen it in London, and even at the Paper-Mill playhouse (NJ) in an awesome off-broadway production. And the soundtrack! Brilliance - I must have listened to it - oh - an infinity of times. Slightly obsessive about it? Quite possibly, but the music is sheer genius, and I still get chills down my spine when I hear the opening chords. On my own, Do you hear the people sing, I dreamed a dream, One day more , and on, and on, every song is brilliant. So why this sudden burst of nostalgia for Les Mis ? 'cos the Trailer for the latest movie version is out, and it looks staggering, quite probably one of the first movies in a long time that I'm actu...