Les Misérables is a musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of the same name. The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985. It is the second longest-running musical in the world after The Fantasticks. A film version by Tom Hooper was released in 2012 to generally positive reviews.
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Les Misérables is a musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of the same name. The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985. It is the second longest-running musical in the world after The Fantasticks. A film version by Tom Hooper was released in 2012 to generally positive reviews. The musical’s emblem is a picture of the French flag superimposed on a superimposed head-and-shoulders portrait of Cosette Thénardiers’ in the novel. The show was placed first in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of Britain’s Essential Musicals in 2005, receiving more than forty percent of the votes. It was nominated for 12 Tony Awards, of which it won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. A Broadway revival opened in 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre and closed in 2008, and a second Broadway revival opening in 2014 at the Imperial Theatre and closing in September 2016. The Broadway production opened 12 March 1987 and ran until 18 May 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. At the time of its closing, it was the second-longest running musical in broadway history. As of 2019, it remains the sixth longest- running Broadway show. The first musical-stage adaptation was presented at the Palais des Sports in 1980. However, the production closed after three months due to the expiry of the booking contract.
In 1983, about six months after producer Mackintosh had opened Cats on Broadway, he received a copy of theFrench concept album from director Peter Farago. After two years in development, the English- language version opened in London on 8 October 1985, by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Centre, then the London home of the RSC. Subsequently, numerous tours and international and regional productions have been staged, as well as concert and broadcast productions. On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productionsrunning in London: the original production at the Queen’s Theatre; the 25th Anniversary touring production at. the Barbicans Centre; and the25th Anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena. The success of the West End musical led to a Broadway production, and the show is still running in New York and Los Angeles. It has appeared in several editions of several French-language editions of the novel, including 1815, 1815 Bayard’s and 1815 et Brion, which is based on Gustave Brion’s turn of the story of Gustave et Gustave, which in turn was based on Émile Bayard’s 1815 novel, and on several other editions of The French Book of Hours. The opening of the London production was described as ‘a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness’ and Michael Ratcliffe of The Observer considered the show “a witless and synthetic entertainment’.
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