Just got home from seeing a performance of Le Miz at the Civic Theater here in Fort Wayne. It was a wonderful performance with many excellent voices. They are sold out for this weekend but if you get a chance to see it next weekend, I highly recommend it.
An interesting question came up though, in the discussion on the way home, "Why is it called a musical and not an opera?" My first guess was that it's because it's in English, but when I was in Milan a few years ago I saw the opera "The Rake's Progress" and it was in English, so that's not the answer.
My friend Al suggested that perhaps it's because if they called it an opera no one would come.
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