tanen and i were crazy. after we hopped off the train at waterloo station, we said our goodbyes to zhongjie and richard and hurried to queen's theatre in chinatown to catch les miserables at 7.30pm. we bought the stall seats, 5 rows from the stage, at 20 pounds. we weren't really mentally ready for such an intense musical after such a long day but we braced ourselves for the 3 hour musical about france in the early 19th century where poverty and disease was strife and revolution was to begin.
i was so moved by the passion of the men at the barricade, the patriotism, the strength of 'little people' (children), the love of marius and cosette, the unrequited love of eponine for marius till her death, the love of jon von john for cosette, his guilt, his pain, his compassion, his sense of chivalry, his civic mindedness... the fast moving pace of the emotion packed musical and the left me on the edge of the seat for the whole show.
Les Miserables - a classic that could never be replaced.
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