But Les Mis also has earned the reputation as the feel-hate film of the year. Judging by their published vitriol, a number of notable pundits who experienced the big-screen version of Broadway's ...

For eight weeks only, a special company will celebrate Les Misérables’ 40th anniversary in the West End. The long-running musical is based on the novel by Victor Hugo and features music by Schönberg, ...

The first couple have long planned on attending the opening night performance of Les Misérables ... given that the lyrics are sung from the point of view of French revolutionaries standing up against ...

Donald and Melania Trump Booed at Their First Kennedy Center Show on Opening Night of “Les Misérables” Several actors in the touring musical boycotted their own show on Wednesday, June 11 ...

President Donald Trump attended the opening night of “Les Misérables,” a musical set against a background of revolution and protest, at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

President Donald Trump is set to attend the opening night of “Les Misérables,” a musical set against a background of revolution and protest, at Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for ...

June 17, 2025 An earlier version of this story incorrectly omitted naming the writer of the English lyrics for Les Misérables. It is Herbert Kretzmer.

That included eight Tony Awards, among them Best Musical for the original Broadway production. Set in early 19 th century France, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and ...

Critics hated Les Miserables when the musical debuted 40 years ago – its producer, Cameron Mackintosh, remembers one called it “the Glums” – yet over the next month it will play to 300,000 ...

The story, insists the show’s original producer Cameron Mackintosh, has not been touched.

‘Les Misérables’ Concept, book and original French lyrics by Alain Boublil, book and music by Claude Michel-Shönberg, English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.