The French version is quite awfull. It was just a pop concert with good music but the words were just so bad. The Lyrics are not written in proper French, I know it is going to be hard to explain but in one of the songs for example, a character says I make a crime instead of saying I commit a crime and it is like that during the whole show so that the word can stick to the music easily. The Lyrics were dumb like "Aimer c'est voler plus haut et toucher les ailes des oiseaux" wich means Loving is like flying higher and touch the birds wing". IMO it was just bad but with nice music. The only problem is when Presgurvic wrote "Gone with the Wind",he used the same music..... And by the way, the music and choirs were prerecorded.
We have small French musicals that are much better like one about Camille Claudel that was beautiful and another one about monsters called "Créatures" that was as funny as the Producers and Avenue Q.
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!