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Some 900 residents of nursing homes, homeless shelters and centers for the mentally ill attended a Broadway spectacular this week. The show featured songs--appropriately enough--from “Les Miserables,” which is based on Victor Hugo’s novel about society’s outcasts. Seventeen Broadway stars performed, including cast members from “The Phantom of the Opera.” “It kind of gives you a view of what everyone else considers reality,” said Mignon Bowe, who said she became homeless after she fractured an ankle and lost her job.