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...MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children...
When Fantine dies, Valjean comes to the aid of her daughter, Cosette. He finds that the Thenardiers, the couple who take care of the young Cosette (Christa Larson), are nothing but thieving, conniving pub owners who have worked the child like a slave while charging her mother large sums of money. Thenardier (Tom Robbins) and his wife (Victoria Clark) are the show's clowns, and the audience revels in their provincial language and drunken vulgarity...
AFTER he has lived with the now-grown Cosette (Tamara Jenkins) for some time, Valjean realizes he is devoted to her, and the focal point of his life becomes taking care of his beloved "daughter." However, he must also run from Javert (Herndon Lackey), his relentless parole officer...
...Valjean is so devoted to Cosette that he risks his life to rescue her lover, Marius (Hugh Panaro), during an uprising, in one of the most intense sequences of the play. The student activists are clearly ready to die for what they believe...
...impossible to mention all the wonderful moments in this show. Each scene and song has its own special power, from Valjean's song questioning his identity and causing him to realize, "Who am I? I'm Jean Valjean," to the song sung by the adorable young Cosette as she scrubs the Thenardiers' floor before her rescue, in which she dreams of a fantasy world, a "castle on a cloud," where "nobody shouts or talks too loud...