Ron, Hugo's Les Miserables is a monumental book, and not only were the movie versions, of necessity, "Reader's Digest Condensed" versions, I knew full well before seeing the musical that it would also be a condensation, so I had no illusions. Also, since high school, I've had classmates and, later, friends who were (are) involved in musical theater—including my neighbor immediately upstairs (not the woman who writes her own "folk songs," she lives on the top floor). So there, too, musically I knew pretty much what to expect.

Within the parameters of the possible, I think the musical was well done. Certain aspects could have been done better, but all-in-all, well done. Some parts were even better than I expected.

Don Firth