Last night we went to a Broadway play. The play was "Les Misérables" at the Broadhurst Theater, on 44th Street, and I must say I was quite pleasantly surprised.
Based in the well-known, melodramatic novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a French ex-con who climbs back to a respectable life and ends up in the higher classes of Paris, living first-hand the social events taking place in the first half of the 19th century, right after the Napoleonic Wars.
Having read the more than a thousand pages of the 19th-century drama, I was wondering how they were going to fit it in a two-and-a-half-hour musical, but they do a great job. The stage has a moving, circular part, which lets the company change the set very quickly and scenes just go by at a fast pace. The singers were exceptional, with wonderful voices, and I really wanted more. Maybe I'll go to see some other musical before I go back to Barcelona.
I recommend to anyone the TKTS service, where you can get tickets for same-day Broadway plays at half price. It has two locations, one near Times Square and one down on the Seaport area. Get there early, the lines are long.
