Les Miserables

Cameron Macintosh has proven to be a genius when it comes to musical theater in media entertainment.  Phantom Of The Opera took the world by storm with it's breathtaking cinematography along with it's traditional singing & score.  Well Les Miserables was made almost in the identical fashion, with one exception.  Instead of doing all of the singing for each song in the studio then applying to the film later, they had them sing each song live as they recorded it.  Now in the eyes of the media this was unprecedented and ground breaking, critics saw it as a brilliant move and more moving way of bringing the music to life.  In the eyes of the musical theater world, it was a terrible idea.  They took an incredible motion picture and spoiled it by ruining the moving music contained with in.  The music lost all of it's eloquence and beauty and just became lines sung poorly by actors who are weak singers.  Interesting how the media can effect the true ideals of the entrainment world.