Fresh off of a successful Broadway revival, the music-theater phenomenon known as
Les Miserables is on tour,
stopping at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre for the final two weeks of the year. I'm not one of those
Les Miz fanatics (like my friend Laura at
Twin Cities Stages), I save the fanaticism for
RENT. I saw the tour 18 years ago, but it was the
#TCTheater production at Artistry (formerly known as Bloomington Civic Theatre) five years ago that production that really won me over to the beauty of the story, writing, "
Les Miserables is such an inspiring story. Through a moment of kindness, a man's life is changed and he goes on to affect others' lives by passing on that kindness. But through it all he's still just a man, with doubts and regrets and struggles. In short, it's the human experience." So I was ready for this large-scale Broadway production, re-invented from the original. And I loved every minute of it (approximately 180 of them).
