VIDEO: When a Hong Kong theater troupe performed “Les Miserables” to spectators drained by six months of pro-democracy protests, it struck a deep chord. johnleicester reports on a show that caused many to weep: Read story:
that have convulsed the city, a rousing performance of “Les Miserables” proved almost too much to bear.
The crowd several hundred strong joined with the troupe in singing “Do You Hear the People Sing?” — the stirring lyrics eloquently putting to words what many Hong Kong protesters feel. Singer Harriet Chung said their aim is to tour the show to all 18 of Hong Kong’s districts. Tuesday’s performance was the troupe’s third, staged in a park in Tai Po in the New Territories that are north of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon and which butt up against mainland China.
Wiping away tears that welled behind his glasses, red-eyed spectator Herman Tang said the song “Bring Him Home” made him think of protesters who were“Very moved,” he said. “Some of the words in the song echo the current situation in Hong Kong.”
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