Norton 360 v6--only £24.99 when you spend £30 or more
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Product Features
- Colourfully illustrated story of Victor Hugo's life
- Dramatic readings from the novel and interviews with the show's creators
- Join a backstage tour and see clips from historic movies
- Explore the virtual walk-though environment derived from a current production
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Let the Les Miserables Interactive CD-ROM take you behind the scenes of this popular musical with a wealth of detail about the production, the book and the French Revolution. You're in your seat, facing the stage, ready to experience Les Miserables--but this isn't the theatre, it's an unusual interface to two CDs full of information. Scroll around the auditorium and click on icons to explore backstage, find out about the team that put the show together or find out more about the show.
There are 40 key scenes that you can see the libretto along with a discussion of the musical themes used plus excerpts and readings from the novel, stills and video clips from recent productions and illustrations of the historical events they're based on. Places and technical terms are defined in a pop-up glossary plus a timeline puts the scenes in context in French history, along with details of Victor Hugo's life. You can also find out about every film version that's been made and see details of the actors, sketches of the costumes and images from two London productions.
Walk out into the foyer to check out the awards the show has won, visit the gift shop to see the various soundtrack albums, find fan sites or jump to the Web to book tickets and buy merchandise. If you're confused by the program structure there's a map of all the different sections here--disguised as an umbrella. Moving around the interface can be a little frustrating, although you can get at the information in several ways, and you'll swap between the two CDs as you go along. Mac users aren't left behind in the culture stakes as it also runs on the Macintosh platform. While this is no substitute for watching Les Miserables, for fans of the show this interactive journey is a great way to relive favourite moments and to find out about the production and background. --Mary Branscombe
Manufacturer's Description
Les Miserables is probably the strongest story ever to be turned into a popular musical. Boublil and Schonberg's inspirational show extracts all the key characters and condenses the heart of the story without losing any of the power of Hugo's original. What they left out of Hugo's novel they replaced with one of the most stirring, emotional and uplifting musical scores ever written. Cameron Mackintosh then turned their work into a breathtaking classic production which pushed forward the frontiers of spectacular stage craft under the masterful direction of Trevor Nunn and John Caird.
Les Miserables Interactive addresses all these interests and more by interweaving the colourfully illustrated story of Victor Hugo's life with dramatic readings from the novel and interviews with the show's creators, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. Join a backstage tour and see clips from historic movies or recent video excerpts drawn from musical productions of Les Miserables all over the world.
Les Miserables Interactive also offers access to the World Wide Web. Obtain booking information for current productions or go online to the Les Miserables Fan Site to meet some of the show's many thousands of fans.
Your starting point is a theatre seat in the auditorium. Explore the virtual walk-though environment derived from a current production of Les Miserables and... let the show begin.
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