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Why All the Hate for Les Mis?

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Melodrama captures a lot of the truth of our internal lives

I might as well just get this out of the way: I loved Les Miserables.

I loved it on Broadway, where I saw it for the first time in 1989, with Colm Wilkinson, "The

This won't last long. One year of fearless reporting for only $35 $25.

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