CHICAGO—One of the most poignant and profound musicals—“Les Miserables”—perhaps one of the greatest musicals of all time, is now playing in its North American tour at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago.
This scene catapults the action: A man has been released from jail after serving a 19-year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving nephew. He arrives at a bishop’s home and is soon arrested by a policeman who caught him stealing the priest’s silverware. But the bishop tells the policeman that he gifted the man the silverware, and that the man forgot the two candlesticks he gave him as well. The policeman departs and the bishop tells the ex-convict that with the candlesticks he is giving him, his soul now belongs to god.
