The cast of 2012’s Les Misérables had a short stint as set designers when they were instructed to build a barricade for the award-winning movie.The trick was that they only had 15 minutes to do ...

"Les Misérables" stands atop a barricade roaring with pathos and passion. ... the show arrives a week after the Paris Olympics — “Les Mis” runs now through Aug. 25 at the Citizens Opera House.

Les Misérables storms the barricades again Thirty-four years later, the blockbuster musical still packs a potent political message with the melodrama. by Josh Flanders July 17, 2019 July 25, 2024 ...

Now a major new stage production, set to open at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on Wednesday, aims to make “Les Misérables” a star at home, too — with the enthusiastic assent of its ...

Rehearsal for "Les Misérables" at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, November 17, 2024. JOËL SAGET/AFP. Today, it benefits from a fine polish, notably from Boublil, who has reworked 20% of the ...

Beyond the Barricade, the UK’s longest running musical theatre concert tour, will be hosted at Buxton Opera House on June 1, 2025. Enjoy numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ ...

WEST NEWBURY — The barricades have risen and Inspector Javert is ready to hunt down his prey when the Pentucket Regional High School Theater Department presents the school edition of ...

The most famous French musical in the world is Les Miserables with at least a hundred and thirty million people having seen a singing Jean Valjean face off against Javert in some 22 languages.

Image Courtesy of The New Yorker By Mariam Baldwin Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center has been dominating the headlines ...

Beginning in 1982, with “Cats,” then “Les Miz” and finally with “Phantom of the Opera,” imported British musicals dominated Broadway box offices and continuously populated national ...

Long before the stage juggernaut of Les Mis came an epic French novel that was the publishing sensation of its day. On first printing in 1862, Les Miserables was a runaway bestseller.

Les Miserables is finally a smash hit in Paris after the musical's writers reworked the script to appease locals by switching out the songs from English to French.