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Les Misérables

[ French ley mee-zey-ra-bluh ]

noun

  1. a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo.


Les Misérables

  1. (1862) A novel by Victor Hugo . The central character , Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for stealing a single loaf of bread. Later, seeking respectability, Valjean is hounded by his archenemy, Inspector Javert.
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Notes

The broad canvas of Hugo's novel has been adapted for numerous films and a long-running Broadway (see also Broadway ) musical (usually known as Les Miz ).
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The group, completed by Charlotte Steele and Lauren Byrne, started singing together in school, and went on to have starring roles in West End shows like Les Misérables, Phantom Of The Opera and Six: The Musical.

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Starlight Express and a 40th anniversary performance from Les Misérables.

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Gilroy set to work meticulously highlighting the Maine-area colloquialisms and metaphors and building out Detective Mackey as a Javert-type villain, echoing the relentless inspector in Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables."

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During his first tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since taking over as the institution’s chairman, President Donald Trump said he never liked “Hamilton” but that he expected other “Broadway hits,” including “Les Misérables,” to do “well” for the center.

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Fisher-Becker also appeared in TV movies “An Ungentlemanly Act,” the 2012 film adaptation of “Les Misérables” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first installment in the film franchise.

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