Les Miserables is imo far better.
Sure, Phantom has some fantastic music (phantom's theme is brilliant), but les mis is far more interesting.
Better story, and although many say it "only has one song", I don't agree, I think its very, very good.
I'm generally not a musical theatre kind of person, but those two are the best I've seen by far. You'll enjoy either, but I think les mis has more to it than phantom does.
Sing it with me guys, after 3.....
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
awesome! go see les mis.
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She says brief things, her love’s a pony
My love’s subliminal