I remember the torture of sitting in the back of my Dad's car when I was young, being forced to listen to this god-awful tape of some musical that he was mad about. Quite honestly I was pretty sick of it back then.
Now 20 years later and that same musical now plays in my car (no tapes anymore...) and ranks up there in my top 3 shows of all time. How times, and tastes, change...
This weekend, on October 8th, Les Miserables celebrates it's 21st birthday and officially becomes the longest-running musical in the world. Quite an achievement for something based on a very long, hard-going book, first published in 1862. The show was recently voted the nation's favourite in a poll by Radio 2, winning with 41% of the votes.
Our children have all grown up listening to it. We have some embarrassing video footage of Rosie and Lisa recreating that touching moment when Cosette pleads with Madame Thenardier "Please do not send me out alone, not in the darkness on my own"....only Rosie's version ends with "out in the dumpers on my own". LOL! Poor Rosie, though she was only about 4 at the time :o)
I have seen the show several times, but I never get bored of it. My next goal?....to go see it in Paris.
It may just happen!
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