Do you hear the people sing?

To follow up on yesterday’s entry: I’m out of the loop again. I knew Les Misérables was closing on Broadway, but I didn’t realize it was this weekend! Of course all the remaining performances are sold out. I first saw the show in San Francisco, back in my high-school days, and fell in love with it. I was obsessed. My friend Steve and I would debate the merits and dissect every nuance of the various cast recordings: London, Broadway, international symphonic… I even have the original French concept album somewhere. (A great place to find obscure cast albums and soundtracks is Footlight Records in the East Village. I keep reminding myself to get the Italian recording of Rent there.)

So yeah, I never got to see Les Miz on Broadway. You know how it is… you visit New York, and given limited time, you don’t make a point to see the old standards, which you figure will be around forever or tour to a theater near you. It would’ve been nice to see it again for the first time, as it were, but oh well.