Les Misérables set to reopen on Broadway

Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of the legendary musical Les Misérables is set to open again on Broadway this spring. The musical has beaten box-office records across the country and around the world, even inspiring filmmakers to create the film which has been nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, and has won 3 Golden Globes including Best Picture as well as 4 BAFTA’s. The new production has been a sell-out since launching a US national tour in November 2010, having already played in 64 cities throughout North America, grossing more than $130 million. International productions of the new Les Misérables have met with equal success and acclaim in the UK, France, Spain and Korea. Cameron Mackintosh, having recently reinvented Oliver!, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon to similar acclaim can now give Broadway audiences what millions of other people have already enjoyed, flocking to see this glorious new staging of Les Misérables. Based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Misérables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score includes the classic songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Stars,” “Bring Him Home,” “Master Of The House” and many more. The Broadway production of Les Misérables originally opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 12, 1987 and transferred to the Imperial Theatre on 17th October 1990 running for 6,680 performances. Broadway audiences welcomed Les Misérables back to New York on 9th November 2006 where the show played at the Broadhurst Theatre until its final performance on 6th January 2008. To date, Les Misérables is the 4th longest-running Broadway production of all time. Now in its 28th year in London, Les Misérables originally premiered at the Barbican Theatre in 1985. It transferred to the Palace Theatre in December of that year and then moved to its current home at the Queen’s Theatre in April 2004 where it is still playing. In October 2006 Les Misérables took over the title of World’s Longest Running Musical followed by two other Cameron Mackintosh productions, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera and Cats.