September 22, 2013: are they cursed?

I love musicals.  I just do.  I can't help it.  I played music in high school, I grew up when Andrew Lloyd Webber was churning out new, popular musicals every other year, it seemed.  I watched The Sound of Music every Easter when it was on TV, and The Wizard of Oz when it was on.
I love them.

I was nervous about Les Miserables, since it had been a flop of a movie before, and I really enjoyed the stage show.  I also wasn't sure how I felt about the singing while acting and having some liberty with the music part of that.  But, it was on during a free HBO weekend recently, so I recorded it on the DVR.
Last night, Ella was playing on her computer, watching her shows with her headset on, so I decided to watch it.  I got about 15 to 20 minutes into it, and Ella took off her headset and watched it with me for a few minutes.
After about 2 minutes of watching, she turned to me with a puzzled look on her face and said, "Are they all under a curse or something where they always have to sing?"

I'm not sure she's going to love musicals like I do.

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