It will.
My problem is the unevenness of the production. As stated, the music for Les Miserables is in many cases totally inappropriate considering the material. One of the early themes for Gavroche is annoying as hell, as I recall, and if you ever want to rob the emotion from his death, just have some idiot sing it.
I don't hate all forms of musical theater, and even I admit that there are *parts* of better musicals, like Phantom and Les Mis, which can be good, but on the whole I just find it shallow and pandering. Opera -- *generally* speaking -- is a higher caliber of musical theater, though it too can be strange. The fact of the matter is and always will be that singing and acting do not truly mix. They are separate arts that paint in completely different colors, and while they can be mixed in interesting and powerful ways, most often they are not. They attempt to achieve different ends by their very natures and thereby undermine each other far more often than they render each other assistance.
