re: are 'sung through' musicals dead?
Calling a Les Miz a rock opera is terrible. Les Miz isn't a rock opera at all. Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who's Tommy, which are both sung-though can be called rock opera because they have rock-type music in it. But an opera is more...well the singers sing words like, just using a word off the top of my head- let it go. A musical could make it 'Leeet it Gooooo!' or even 'Let it Goooooo!' but in an opera it would be more like this- 'Leeeeeeeeettttttttttt iiiiitttttttt Gooooooooooooooooooooooo
