![]() The plot is complex and compelling: In France in 1815 Jean Valjean (Peter Lockyer) steals a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s child and is imprisoned for 19 years. The creators of this show are well-known, but let’s give credit: the classic novel by Victor Hugo, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer (original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel), direction by Laurence Connor and James Powell, produced by Cameron Mackintosh. ![]() From the opening notes I have never heard such clarity and power in any show there, ever. Sound engineer Mick Potter and his crew have defied the notoriously vast and tricky space of the Fox, and they have won. But it’s much more than this: the sound of the show, for both orchestra and singers, is perfection.
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