Bristol Old Vic Circus freaks, puppets and soaring songs collide in a new adaptation that deftly walks a tightrope between romantic and grotesqueYou can see why Victor Hugo attracts the makers of musicals: his novels are almost excessively theatrical. After Boublil and Schönberg's Les Misérables and Lionel Bart's Quasimodo, we now have a new version of L'Homme qui rit (1869), already twice filmed, with a score by T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AM on October 23, 2016