Les Misérables known as Les Mis, is
a sung-through musical play based on the novel of the same name
by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo.
The first production in English,
produced by Cameron Mackintosh and adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird,
opened on 8 October 1985 (five years after the original production) at the Barbican Arts
Centre, London. It was billed in the RSC
Barbican Theatre
programme as "The Royal Shakespeare Company presentation of the
RSC/Cameron Mackintosh production", and played to preview performances
beginning on 28 September 1985.
On 4 December 1985, the show
transferred to the Palace
Theatre on London’s West En and moved again on 3 April 2004, to the
much more intimate Queen's Theatre, with some revisions of staging and where it
is still playing. It celebrated its ten-thousandth performance on 5 January
2010. The drummer from the original cast album, Peter Boita, stayed with the
show for the first 25 years of its history.
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