So you may or may not have caught a comment of mine mentioning how France is FINALLY staging a French-language version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' (ALW) musical in Paris, and I was pretty chuffed the story gets to come home - though they'd never allow it near the actual Opera Garnier because REAL Culture =/= pop culture something fierce in this country, and Gaston Leroux sometimes get some school studying for his detective stories but that's it. (Iirc, 'Les Miz' was first a French-language concept album, then musical, that ran 3 months in the early 80s, to reviews panning it for dumbing-down and sensationalizing the great classic book of Hu