As someone who was in the school edition production (as Cosette) and a huge fan of Les Mis, I can say for sure that the show is great to perform and is good for younger students as a first show. (That may sound weird, but there were many ten year olds who joined the theatre group for that show.)
And, the only things we changed for Mme. Thenardier's lines were:
"lifelong twist"
and "everybody raise a beer" "raise it up the master's rear" =)
My community theatre did the "non" school edition legally. I promise you. We have the legal DVD, posters, programs, [now shreaded] libretto copys and other to prove it.
Maybe there was an exception or extra money, but we did do it.
promise
Any updates on this? Thinking of doing this at my school. Are all those cuts still there or has the school edition changed since 2006?
I haven't any additional charges were made. Ive always thought this version was well done.
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