Les Mis' Do You Hear the People Sing is the Anthem of Occupy Central
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Les Misérables doesn't have the happiest ending for a musical. Still it is one of the most famous and most performed musicals worldwide. Basing it on the novel by Victor Hugo, which follows the struggles of characters up to and through the 1832 Paris uprisings against Louis Philippe (brutally suppressed at the time), French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg composed the Tony Award-winning score in 1980, with a libretto by Alain Boublil. It was staged in London's West End in 1985, with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and ran on Broadway for over 10 years.
The musical's call to arms song from the end of Act 1 has become the official song of Occupy Central and the Umbrella Revolution. We present it to you today in both English and Cantonese.
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