Accompanied by Mr. Saliga, Mme. Obels took some of Cistercian’s French students on a field study to Fair Park to see the musical Les Misérables in a new production by Cameron Mackintosh of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomeno. It premiered in Paris in 1980 and in London in 1985.
Les Misérables, a master piece of French Literature written by Victor Hugo, takes place in the 19th century. It tells a captivating story about dreams, love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption on the backdrop of the French revolutionary period of the Barricades. Seen by 130 million people in 44 countries and 22 languages around the globe, it is the second longest-running musical in the world.