The storyline is ridiculous, but the glorious melodrama of Les Mis will leave you in tears. And the songs couldn't be more rousingI knew the songs of Les Misérables off by heart well before I saw the musical. My mother had a tape of them that she would play in the car, and my siblings and I would sing along, blissfully naive: "Lovely ladies waiting for a bus ... Standing up or lying down or any way at all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM on May 5, 2014