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I'm watching The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and I realized it was Les Miserables for children. It was a strange realization. It's another story by Victor Hugo, and he has great themes of justice set in France.

I've seen Les Mis, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q, Rent on Broadway, it's not very much. 

I'm really into watching them online. 

Here are my past posts about musicals:

Cabaret

Schmiggadoon

The King and I

Schitt's Creek has some Cabaret that eventually led me to seeing it twice.

Favorite Musicals post

West Side Story


Best Musicals on Netflix right now in USA that I have seen:

Tick, Tick...Boom!

Matilda

Les Miserables

La La Land

Jingle Jangle

The Prom

What About Dick?


I haven't seen on Netflix, but I'll get to them:

Eurovision

The Wiz

The Queen of Flow

Diana: I tried this one. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 12% favorable reviews. I have resistance to the Royalty, I'm not interested, and well, Charles is a cad, I don't need more proof of that. The musical does give sympathy into what to me is a quite uninteresting situation, even with my interest in English history. And yet it's a musical and isn't all horrible, I might finish it someday in 10 minute spurts.

A Week Away

Autumn Girl

Honey Girls


Come From Away (2021) is on Apple. It's quite fun and makes me cry. 


Sweeney Todd (2007) is on Paramount Plus. I watched that. I'm not really into the dark side, but it does exist. 


There's an article about how quasi feminist pop musicals plague Broadway.


Obscure musicals

10 best musicals adapted to film article.

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