I sat quietly, trying to catch my breath as I wiped away tears. As the credits of Les Miserables rolled, my husband moved to the aisle to wait on me. He understood that I'd need a minute.
I've seen the musical five times (twice on Broadway, twice on tour, and now once on screen) and it never fails to move me. Les Miserables, based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name, depicts the power of love, freedom, and forgiveness with breathtaking realism and incredible talent. The final song, "Someday More," so clearly shows a suffering world groaning for God's Kingdom to come that I'm surprised we don't give an old-fashioned invitation, right there in the theater.
THC Community member Kimberly Coyle blogged recently about another Broadway show and how it affected her: "After the final curtain and the hooting and clapping, I thought about what art can do to a soul. How it grows us ten times larger than before, how it awakens us to beauty and sorrow and glory and wonder. How it holds up a mirror and shows us what we are. Art shows us how a finite body and an infinite spirit can contain the world in a single song, a movement, or a paragraph."
Read more of her lovely words.
Post by Dena Dyer. Image by Patricia Hunter. Used by permission.