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Do you hear the people sing? Don’t wait one day more to be transported to revolutionary France. Head to the barricade now. Les Misérables tickets are available on London Theatre now.
The Les Misérables musical is based on Victor Hugo’s epic French novel of the same name. The musical doesn’t focus on the French Revolution of 1789 though. Instead Les Misérables tells an expansive story of one man’s journey to salvation from 1815 to 1832.
After picking up audience buzz at the Barbican, Les Misérables opened at the Palace Theatre on 4 Dec. 1985. Its original cast boasts West End and Broadway talent, including Patti LuPone and Michael Ball. Les Misérables in London continues to attract audiences, with fans continuing to revisit this dazzling musical that includes Boublil and Schönberg's hit songs such as “I Dreamed a Dream,” “Bring Him Home,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” and “Do You Hear the People Sing?"
An Academy Award-nominated Les Misérables film adaptation saw Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, and Russell Crowe star in the timeless musical. To date, 70 million people have seen the musical, produced across 42 countries and translated into 22 languages. But there's nothing quite like seeing Les Misérables, the West End's longest-running musical, in London.
What is Les Misérables about?
The Les Misérables musical is set against the backdrop of 19th-century France and tells a moving story of unrequited love, sacrifice, passion, redemption, and revolutionary spirit. The newly-free prisoner Jean Valjean builds a new, respectable life for himself but is hunted by the prison guard Javert, all while revolutionaries fight for freedom in France. Throughout the musical, audiences meet Fantine, Eponine, and Cosette, as well as the Thenardiers, and freedom fighters like Marius and Enjolras.
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Run time
2 hours 50 minutes
Opening date
September 25th, 2021
Categories
Musicals, Weekday Matinees
Booking until
October 1st, 2023
Venue
Sondheim Theatre
Age
Suitable for ages 8+. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by and sat next to a ticketholder who is at least 18 years old. Children under the age of 3 will not be admitted.
Cast and creative
By: Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, with original text by Alain Boublil and additional material by James Fenton
Songs by: Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and music by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Director: Trevor Nunn and John Caird
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Cast list: Jon Robyns,David Thaxton, Ava Brennan, Nathania Ong, Lulu-Mae Pears, Robert Tripolino, Gerard Carey, Josefina Gabrielle, Jordan Shaw, Hazel Baldwin, Brad Barnley, Emma Barr, Cameron Burt, Natalie Chua, Matthew Dale, Matt Dempsey, Bryony Duncan, Louis Emmanuel, Sophie-May Feek, Natalie Green, Melad Hamidi, Harry Jack, Christopher Jacobsen, Benjamin Karran, Yazmin King, Bart Lambert, Sarah Lark, Georgie Lovatt, Ellie Ann Lowe, Adam Robert Lewis, Donald Craig Manuel, Jodie Nolan, Sam Peggs, Jo Stephenson, Phoebe Williams and Ollie Wray complete the Les Misérables company.
Design: John Napier
Lighting: David Hersey
Costume: Andreane Neofitou
Choreography: Kate Flatt
Sound: Mick Potter and Andrew Bruce
Other info: The show premiered at the Barbican on 8th Oct 1985, then transferred to Palace Theatre 4 Dec 1985, before transferring to Queen's Theatre 3 April 2004
Our review
Review of Les Misérables
Review - Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre
5/5
Another fantastic chapter in West End history has been gloriously (re)written, with not one but two spectacular reinventions - first of a theatre itself, in which the Queen's on Shaftesbury Avenue has been reincarnated as the Sondheim Theatre and completely refurbished by its owner Cameron Mackintosh to restore it from a threadbare functionality to which it had previously been brought back 61 years ago from wartime bomb damage to a glowing and welcoming new warmth. Meanwhile, its current tenant...
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