Les Misérables, the musical adapted from Victor Hugo's book with the same name by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer, is a story of mercy in the face of the axioms of society. In this conceptual project, the narrow streets of revolutionary France are depicted as a crumbling shamble that is constantly threatened by a looming Arc de Triomphe. Piece by piece, the established arc is dismantled to aid the cause of the rebels in the formation of the barricade, upon which the survival of the revolution depends.
