The songs are all presented in their original keys, with the piano accompaniments carefully crafted for playability. Songs in Broadway Singer's Editions include the vocal line and lyrics paired with faithful reductions of the orchestral accompaniments. Music By - Claude-Michel Schonberg | Lyrics By - Alain Boublil | Stage Date - 1985 | Film Date - 2012 Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. The London production has run continuously since October 1985 – the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world. Premiering in Paris in 1980, it has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Les Misérables, colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis or Les Miz is a sung-through musical based on the novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo.
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