Les Misérables, the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel, had a long life before it became an Oscar hopeful this season. The show premiered in London in 1985 and on Broadway in 1987, and its ...
Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going ...
THE STAGE — "Les Miserables" is not known as a humorous play, but some actors in a world tour that began in October decided they wanted to spread some laughs anyway. Michael Ball, who plays Javert in ...
From negative reviews to the show’s Christian themes, here are some things you may not have known about “Les Mis.” ...
Returning to "Les Miserables" after a couple of decades away, one of the biggest changes in the musical about the French Revolution is that it no longer has revolutions. The show ditched its ...
LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR is expanded from the hugely successful Les Misérables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 record-breaking performances in the West End. It has an ...
Tom Hooper came to fame by adapting the past: first via a pair of HBO films (with Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I and Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in the spellbinding John Adams), then with a royal ...
There are moments in Les Misérables, the movie musical adaptation from The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, that are so rumbling and rousing and righteous that certain people might be immediately ...