ALW did not write les mis but the music style is almost exactly the same.
the french team (i can't wuite recall their names at the moment...) that wrote les mis also write Miss Saigon and such.
they all sound the same
it's sorta pathetic. These are the types of musicals that i don't really like.
Maybe it's because i'm sorta a Sondheim Whore (

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Marry Poppins is very good and Lion King is imported Disney schlock (IMO). You can get Lion King anywhere you want, just watch the movie or what not or see it in NYC. Apart from the brilliant Opening Sequence in the Lion king there is nothing worth remembering. THe music is generic and not worth your time, the acting can be ok but the actors are given nothing. IT's purely (sp) spectacle which is the way sadly most musicals are turning. There are a few exceptions but i have to go so i'll see you all later
PS- im not bitter
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed