Bill Nicholson Talks About Script for 'Les Miz' Movie — Page 2

"And Phantom did insert spoken dialogue, which sounded really jarring. I remember Emmy Rossum speaking "What I once used to dream, I now dread (etc)." It rhymed and everything."

That's not really inserting spoken dialogue. That is just speaking previously sung dialogue. There really was no reason for it though, and it was indeed a bit jarring.

I suppose what we should all is ourselves is “Should every major musical be made into a musical” because I people end up disappointed in the result most of the time. While I don’t entirely hate Phantom, I seldom actually watch the movie and instead prefer to watch the special features about the stage version. Like Phantom, Les Mis is SOOO big, it’s probably better to let it stay a stage musical. In truth, I would prefer that when they want to release something they would release live tapings, which Rent did, but only after making a lousy movie. If they’d just done the live taping to begin with it would saved a lot of people face AND money.

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