Les Starwarbles, Part III

You could say there are two categories of songs in a musical - those that express the feelings and/or develop the character of the singer without really advancing the plot, and those that move the action forward. Les Mis has both (it has to, since it's pretty much all singing and no talking) and I like both. But the second kind is harder to write. Having people sing as they do stuff takes an extra level of suspension of disbelief, and it can make things pretty silly if it's not done right. I mean, sillier than the foundational concept of people breaking out into song in the first place. ;)

Having said all that, here's some songs that encompass entire scenes or even more than one scene.

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