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How Two Writers Updated Les Miz For Millennials With Les Millénniables (www.playbill.com)

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In Les Millénniables, the new pop parody musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe loosely based on Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is a millennial who has just graduated from college. Her nemesis, Javert, is a boomer debt collector chasing Jean for her student loan payments. Fantine? She’s trying to survive in the gig economy, and has been reduced to selling her hair…on eBay. Cosette? An overworked, unappreciated intern for the Thénardiers. It’s Les Miz for the millennial generation (Les Millz?). Except this version is much funnier.

Ayla Glass and Kelly D'Angelo talk about bringing their parody musical to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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