rec.arts.theatre.musicals

Steve Newport wrote:
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> fmomoon@ (fmomoon)
> <<<87 LES MISERABLES: It's better in French>>>
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> I imagine it would be.
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> Is it any shorter in French?

The first French staging was about an hour shorter. Subsequently, the
Nunn/Caird version played in Paris, and was the same length it was
everywhere else, which was three and a quarter hours, give or take -
this was before they revised the show mid-run on Broadway. It was three
hours forty minutes when it opened at the Barbican, and they trimmed ten
minutes out when it transferred to the West End, and a further fifteen
minutes before it transferred to Broadway. Then at some point relatively
late in the Broadway run the show was trimmed by another 15 minutes or
so to bring it in under three hours and so save overtime.


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Stephen

Written in the 1920s, this gently humorous and moving account
of a Cumbrian childhood lay undiscovered in a biscuit tin for
over 60 years. Then, unfortunately, someone found it.