The plot of “Les Miserables’’ addresses themes that can keep people apart. The current production at Albemarle High School, however, is bringing a lot of community members together.
The impoverished character Valjean gets a hefty sentence for stealing a loaf of bread, setting a complex chain of events into motion that made Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel an international favorite and the 1980 musical version by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil a worldwide hit.
At AHS, director Fay Cunningham calls the challenging show “really a community event.’’