I was interested by the grand effect that the music of Les Miserables had on me. I thought that the anthems and chorus were especially effective during crowd scenes, giving a voice to the people and expressing their collective feelings much more efficiently than dozens of lines of dialogue. I was not as moved by some of the one on one scenes where there was singing. Many of these were unnecessary in my opinion, and would have better served the audience as dialogue. Specifically, the scene where Valjean is telling Cosette that they must leave the city, they sing a mundane conversation and then break into their theme songs when they run out of things to sing about.
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