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Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, Les Miserables captures in song the harrowing tale of right and wrong, love and loss, and the tumultous time of war in Revolutionary France. With powerful songs and equally masterful performers, the plot is adapted into a musical that has been much loved for over 20 years.
The musical begins as Jean Valjean is released from nineteens years in prison for stealing bread to stave off starvation by the police inspector Javert, who issues him a parole ticket he is to present for employment. Valjean quickly realizes that no onel sees him as an equal citizen and decides to break parole and begin a new life elsewhere. As Valjean reestablishes himself as mayor and businessman of another town, the diligent Javert spends the next years continuing his search for the convict.
Javert is relocated to Valjean’s town and becomes suspicious when Valjean first intervenes with the arrest of Fantine, an ill prostitute whom he later brings as a guest to his home. After Valjean saves another life, Javert confesses that he had thought him the convict he sought, but that the man had been captured. Valjean cannot cope with the idea of another being imprisoned for him, so he confesses before the court that it is he, and not the vagrant accused, who is Valjean, then goes home to await his consequence. At the same time, Fantine is dying and requests that Valjean bring up her daughter, so when Javert comes to arrest him, he flees.
Cosette, Fantine’s daughter, is found in a questionable inn, where Valjean pays a hefty price to take her away, again garnering new identities, and evading capture again. When Cosette grows, she falls in love with the revolutionary Marius Pontmercy, and the revolutionary movement has brought the country to war. Javert joins the revolutionaries as a spy, where his path crosses again with Valjean as Valjean struggles to save Marius from death. Valjean escapes him yet again after setting Javert free of execution.
Marius and Cosette are married while Jean Valjean goes into hiding, but visit on the eve of his death, where Cosette learns the truth of her mother and past before Valjean’s passing.
Put to music, the plot plays out more lovely than in the book. Rich with emotion, the tunes capture the struggles of the characters, the agony of defeat, and the bittersweet thrill of victory.
