First, There Was "Les Miserables"

I remember thinking that I must have misunderstood when I first learned that someone was making a musical from Victor Hugo's endless 19th Century novel. The thing would have to be 5 hours long, and who the heck could write music that went with chasing through the sewers of Paris?

Shows what I know.

So maybe "Jihad The Musical" will be a wild success. Here's a little ditty from the British production called "I Wanna Be Like Osama:"



It goes without saying that the usual suspects are enraged with a harmless musical, while they ponder the complex moral questions presented by suicide bombers. More HERE.