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MUSICAL COMEDY AND INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS.

July 8, 2014 at 5:34 PM · History, Politics, Theater

MUSICAL COMEDY AND INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS. This post on Ken Davenport’s blog about theater from a producer’s perspective features a video of a Hong Kong boy singing “Do you Hear the People Sing” from Les Mis as a contemporary protest song. Here is the video of the boy singing. Here is an article about a Hong Kong demonstration in which the demonstrators sing “Do You Hear the People Sing” in Cantonese. There is a video of the demonstrators singing (Click on the photograph of the umbrellas).