Regional premiere a huge success at playhouse

Grade: A One of the attractions of musical theater is spectacle. The grandeur of a story set to music and the power of dozens of voices drawing you into the moment. Settings for musicals aren't generally limited to the living room in a small New England college town or an apartment on the Upper East Side. They require scope: an ocean liner, the Austrian Alps, Micronesia. They demand spectacle. “Les Miserables” is that spectacle squared.