With an orchestra and its conductor, David Charles Abell, sitting on an upper-level tier above the actual stage, this is purely a celebration of the music and lyrics of Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. Nevertheless, the performance is a magnificent display of color and sound, allowing the audience, as well as viewers at home, to imagine Hugo's beautiful story of redemption at the time of the June Rebellion. Performers dressed in costume, instead, walk unhurriedly to their designated spots with microphones and sing to a sold-out stadium crowd. Little of the original show is actually acted in the traditional sense, and three gigantic screens hang high above so that even those in the far distance will not miss a thing. The special concert event is a rather simple show, with minimum direction and a background design reminiscent of what's been seen before on the stage around the world.
Opening at The O2 Arena in South East London, successful theatrical producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh celebrates 25 years of the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic 19th Century novel, Les Misérables.
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