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From the bitter opening invocation "Look down, look down," intoned by prisoners in a dungeon, to the anthemic rallying cry "When tomorrow comes," sung at the finale by the spectral dead of revolutionary 19th century Paris, the musical version of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Miserables is a melodrama inflamed with outrage. Its politics always matter more than its love stories. Many of its principals die in violence or grief, but the most unprincipled of them endure and thrive. Like Nicholas Nickleby, staged largely by the same team, Les Miserables denies itself the indulgence of even a muted happy...
Both have to deal with recalcitrant offspring. Bert's son Victor (Ross Bickell) is a policeman who, since the death of his brother, has been trying to convince everyone who cares about him that he's a "non-thinking fascist thug...
Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA), which is backing the pro-divestment candidates, solicited the endorsement of the Nobel Peace Prize winning South African Black leader to draw more attention to the pro-divestment campaign, said Victor Sidel, a prominent social activist in New York who is one of the pro-divestment candidates...
...ingenue Dorothy Flynn, who goes from boring broad to blond bombshell the instant she takes off her rhinestone glasses with pointy rims. Of course. And in the lead role of Buck, Scott Bakula chews on the endless cliches with a masculine earnestness that brings to mind Montgomery Clift, Victor Mature, and that prime-rib of cynical beefcake, William Holden...
Santiago's relationships with Kathie and Ana suggest that the individual can be a myth determined by his associations. Santiago's archetypical heroes, Victor Hugo and Karl Marx, flow into his present through their writings and influence his every action. The result: simultaneity...