Comments about ‘Coming home: Orem actress plays Cosette in national tour of 'Les Miserables'’

Sorry, but I think is one of the worst musicals ever written. Boring music. I actually walked out at intermission because it was extremely boring. A story about nothing. However, the worst is Annie.

I saw this "new, re-staged" production of Les Miserables, last night. It was a disappointment. I guess the producer and director felt that in the days of YouTube, audiences would lose interest and have trouble sitting through the original production.

So many of the songs had been re-timed, sped-up that the performers had a hard time getting the words out. And with the sped-up songs, most of the feeling and emotion was removed. Often, the interactions between characters devolved into just shouting at each other. This was particularly the case in the numbers with Valjean and Javert. In some songs, parts had been reduced to just spoken dialog.

At the end of the first act, the man sitting next to me turned to his wife and said, "I had a hard time following the story."

As we left the theater, my date said to me, "It's like they removed the heart and soul of the story." Sad.