In 19th-century France, the ex-convict Jean Valjean, released after 19 years on a chain gang for stealing a loaf of bread, breaks his parole and builds a new life as a factory owner and mayor. Relentlessly pursued by the fanatical Inspector Javert, Valjean rescues the orphaned Cosette and navigates the 1832 Paris student uprising, where young revolutionaries including the idealistic Marius fight and die at the barric…
Opened
1987
Performances
6,680
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Claude-Michel SchonbergLyrics: Herbert KretzmerBook: Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schonberg
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Les Miserables, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up
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Les Misdrableswas the first musical in Broadway history to open at a top ticket price of $50.00.
book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p299
As the decades passed, music itself emerged as the primary method of telling a musical’s story, and the public became accustomed to sung-through musicals (Evita and Les Miserables )
book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p3
In 1990, Les Miserables moved from the Broadway Theatre and continued its epic run here, eventually breaking the Imperial record.
book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p184
When Les Miserables, produced in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, opened to mostly negative reviews, Mackintosh So believed in the piece, he moved it to London’s Palace Theatre, where he proved his unerring taste when it, too, became a sensation.
book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p271
These shows made Mackintosh the single most powerful theater producer of the age, and a very wealthy man. They include, besides Cats and Phantom, Les Miserables (Paris, 1980/London, 1985/ New York, 1987) and Miss Saigon (London, 1989/New York, 1991 ).
book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p659
Mackintosh, by contrast, has consistently succeeded to recoup-Cats ($4 million), Les Miz ($4.5 million), Phantom ($8 million), Miss Saigon ($10 million)-and then gone on to reap hitherto unimaginable prof-its with runs that have lasted from ten to more than twenty years on Broadway alone.
book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p668
