‘Les Misérables’ at 40: The Unlikely Story of a Hit

Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going ...
Time

Les Misérables Director Tom Hooper on Choosing His Stars and Creating New Songs

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

Les Miserables Revival 2014

2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Director of a Musical James Powell 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Director of a Musical Laurence Connor 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards ...
The Independent on MSN

Les Misérables lyricist felt lack of credit for transforming musical to English, letters reveal

Les Misérables lyricist felt lack of credit for transforming musical to English, letters reveal - Late lyricist Herbert ...

Les Miserables at 40: from flop to phenomenon, why the West End’s longest-running musical endures

Once dismissed as ‘Victor Hugo on the garbage dump,’ Les Mis is now the world’s longest-running musical. As it marks 40 years ...
Nerd Reactor

Les Misérables Musical Coming to Southern California in 2023

New and old fans of Les Misérables in Southern California will get the chance to watch the phenomenon live and in person when Mackintosh’s production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables comes to ...
The Atlantic

'Les Miserables': Destroying Cynicism with Song

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 ...