Les Misérables at Wolf Trap
Les Misérables, one of Broadway’s longest running shows and Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, is coming to Wolf Trap, in suburban Washington, DC.
Based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, it tells the tale of Jean Valjean, a criminal by circumstance, in pre-revolutionary Frances.. Sentenced to jail for stealing bread to feel his starving family, after 19 years on a chain gang, he is released on parole.
He breaks his parole after attempting to find honest work, and steals pieces of silver from church, only to be saved from the police by the priest he robbed.
The incident profoundly changes Valjean …read more
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