The run closed May 18, 2003
- Opened
- March 12, 1987
- Closed
- May 18, 2003
- Performances
- 6,680
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 3rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Les Miserables 2 more that season
| 1985 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2010 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it366 named
Cindy Benson
Jane Bodle
Jesse Corti
Susan Goodman
Kelli James
Gretchen Kingsley Weihe
Joseph Kolinski
Norman Large
Kevin Marcum
Marcie Shaw
Steve Shocket
Rich Affannato
Eddie Brandt
Anne Buelteman
Susan Dawn Carson
Jeffrey Clonts
Stephen Paul Cramer
Sandra Dudley
Scott Elliott
Willy Falk
Jean Fitzgibbons
Danny Gerard
Lisa Ann Grant
Adam Heller
Russell Arden Koplin
Ken Krugman
Bruce Kuhn
Herndon Lackey
Jeffrey Landman
Janene Lovullo
Olga Merediz
Maureen Moore
Brooke Sunny Moriber
Gary Morris
Jennifer Naimo
Hugh Panaro
Jacquelyn Piro
Richard Poole
Cissy Rebich
Joey Rigol
Joel Robertson
John Ruess
Anne Marie Runolfsson
Raymond Saar
Peter Samuel
Craig Schulman
Tracy Shayne
J C Sheets
Tim Shew
Timothy Shew
William Solo
John Norman Thomas
Natalie Toro
Ray Walker
Shanelle Workman
Christiana Anbri
Lawrence Anderson
Jennifer Lee Andrews
Ana Maria Andricain
Ann Arvia
Christy Baron
Evalyn Baron
Becky Barta
Kristen Behrendt
Michael Berry
Stephen Bishop
Jessica Boevers
Ron Bohmer
D B Bonds
Andrea Bowen
Cameron Bowen
Nicola Boyer
Deborah Bradshaw
Don Brewer
Kelly Briggs
Danielle Melanie Brown
Stephen R. Buntrock
Kerry Butler
Gerard Canonico
Diana Caperello
John Capes
Lisa Capps
Bill Carmichael
Joseph Cassidy
Lacey Chabert
Harrison Chad
Sarah Dacey Charles
Mary Chesterman
John Andrew Clark
Dave Clemmons
Ben Starr Coates
Stephanie Mieko Cohen
Stephen Collela
Donn Cook
Daniel C Cooney
Holly Jo Crane
Robert Cuccioli
John Cudia
Demaree Danner
Melissa Anne Davis
Lucille Decristofaro
Danielle de Niese
Alex Dezen
Chris Diamantopoulos
Ed Dixon
Madeleine Doherty
Tom Donoghue
J P Dougherty
Robert Dusold
Patrick J P Duffy
Kevin Earley
Christopher Eid
Mike Eldred
Karen Elliott
Drew Eshelman
Brandon Espinoza
Robert Evan
Cristina Faicco
Richard Falzone
Gina Feliccia
Heather Ferguson
Gina Ferrall
Dann Fink
David Fisher
Kate Fisher
Allen Fitzpatrick
Merwin Foard
Sam Fontana
Hunter Foster
Sutton Foster
Tobi Foster
Alexandra Foucard
Fuschia
David Gagnon
Robert Gallagher
Peter Gantenbein
Aymee Garcia
Susan Gilmour
Gregory Grant
Debbie Shapiro Gravitte
Peter Gunther
Mary Gutzi
Cliffton Hall
Kimberly Hannon
Marsh Hanson
Mark Hardy
Eliza Harris
Netousha N Harris
Julia Haubner
Tamra Hayden
Amelia Henriques Oreilly
Philip Hernandez
Brian Herriott
Catherine Hickland
Andrew Hoeft
Ellen Hornberger
Dave Hugo
Robert Hunt
Scott Hunt
Adam Hunter
Kristin Huxhold
Fred Inkley
Christopher Innvar
Alicia Irving
Tammy Jacobs
Philip Johnson
Nicholas Jonas
David Josefsberg
Betsy Joslyn
Christa Justus
Edward Juvier
Diana Kaarina
Alexis Kalehoff
Donna Kane
Nathan Keen
Lauren Kennedy
Kevin Kern
Richard Kinsey
Hana Kitasei
Kristin Danielle Klabunde
Melisa Klausner
Audrey Klinger
Emily Kosloski
Kurt Kovalenko
James Kuklinski
Connie Kunkle
Eric Kunze
Florence Lacey
Juliet Lambert
Gina Lamparella
Marlo Landry
Jodie Langel
Megan Lawrence
Tony Lawson
James Chip Leonard
John Leone
Stephanie Likes
Sarah Litzsinger
Joe Locarro
Angela Lockett
Peter Lockyer
Gary Lynch
Michael Sutherland Lynch
Nora Mae Lyng
Crysta Macalush
Erika Macleod
Kimberly Mahon
Joseph Mahowald
Michele Maika
Robert D Mammana
Candese Marchese
Kipp Marcus
Robert Marien
Michael L Marra
Michael X. Martin
Ricky Martin
David Masenheimer
Frank Mastrone
Gary Mauer
Neal Mayer
Andrea McArdle
Michael Mccarthy
Liz Mccartney
Matt Mcclanahan
Amy Mcdonald
David Mcdonald
Kevin Mcguire
Mark Mckerracher
Susie Mcmonagle
J Mark Mcvey
Dana Meller
Tommy J Michaels
Lea Michele
Gina Milo
Melissa Minyard
Melba Moore
Kenny Morris
Alicia Morton
Gary Moss
Lisa Musser
Cyndi Neal
Evan Jay Newman
Marnie Nicolella
Brian Noonan
Liam O Brien
Kevin Odekirk
Olivia Oguma
Paige O Hara
Lydia Ooghe
Ashley Rose Orr
Alan Osburn
Karyn Overstreet
Cindy Page
Janel Meilani Parrish
Ian Parry
Jayne Paterson
Stephen Brian Patterson
Nathalie Paulding
Jennifer Paz
Simon Pearl
Christopher Mark Peterson
Matthew Poretta
Matthew Porretta
Brian Press
Kelli Rabke
Erin Rakow
Mary Jayne Raleigh
Danielle Raniere
Timmy Reifsnyder
Jessie Janet Richards
Tia Riebling
Eden Riegel
Christeena Michelle Riggs
Alice Ripley
Darren Ritchie
Diana Rogers
Grant Rosenmeyer
Craig Rubano
Ryan Rumbaugh
Sean Russell
Ivan Rutherford
Lea Salonga
Glenn San Marco
Daniella Sando
Kathy Santen
Nicolas F Saverine
Stephen Scott Scarpulla
Jill Schackner
Jessica Scholl
Roger Seyer
Rohn Seykell
Elena L Shaddow
Shanice
Ron Sharpe
Bart Shatto
Ciaran Sheehan
Tregoney Shepherd
Jessica Sheridan
Michael Shulman
Jordan Siwek
Janel Brook Slack
Allan Snyder
Jarrod Spector
Susan Spencer
Tamara Robin Spiewak
Patrick Stogner
Gregory Calvin Stone
Doug Storm
Douglas Storm
Alex Strange
Linda Strasser
Rena Strober
Alexandra Rose Sullivan
Jason Tam
Christen Tassin
Robert Aaron Tesoro
Clif Thorn
Anne Tolpegin
Christopher Trousdale
Paul Truckey
Betsy True
Max Tuma
Sarah Uriarte
Lucy Vance
Andrew Varela
Robert Vernon
Richard Vida
Max von Essen
Chuck Wagner
Fuschia Walker
Jimmy Walsh
Stephanie Waters
Jeffrey Scott Watkins
Douglas Webster
Craig Wells
Betsy Werbel
Robert Westenberg
Wade Williams
Jessica Snow Wilson
Christopher Winsor
Savannah Wise
Kevin R Wright
Nick Wyman
Rachel York
Dawn Younker
Michael Zeidman
Tom Zemon
Jennifer Zimmerman
65 of these 366 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 301 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
Alexander Gemignani Jean Valjean
Philip Quast Javert
Ria Jones Fantine
Tony Timberlake Thénardier
Louise Plowright Madame Thénardier
Mike Sterling Marius Pontmercy
Celia Keenan-Bolger Éponine Thénardier
Sarah Ryan Cosette
Daniel Coll Enjolras
Adam Booth Laurence Porter Edward Crangle Gavroche
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Trevor Nunn, John, John Caird
- Choreographer
- Kate Flatt
- Producer
- Cameron Mackintosh
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 8 from 12 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Les Misérables ( lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), -RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz ( lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Boublil and Schönberg, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a French convict, and his desire for redemption. After stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child, Valjean is imprisoned for 19 years and released in 1815. When a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy, Valjean breaks his parole and starts his life anew and in d…
Les Miserables (Broadway, CR, “Fan- tine”): Come to Me; I Dreamed a Dream/ W: Herbert Kretzmer, M: Claude-Michel Schonberg.
Speaker not recorded. Who Sang What On Broadway 1866 1996 Volume 2 the Singers Ruth Benjamin and Arthu, p. 349Hap Erstein in the Washington Star found him “wooden” and said his vocal style was “disconcertingly reminiscent” of the Jean Valjean character in Les Miserables.
Speaker not recorded. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 54- Les Misdrableswas the first musical in Broadway history to open at a top ticket price of $50.00. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 299
- 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 ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- In 1990, Les Miserables moved from the Broadway Theatre and continued its epic run here, eventually breaking the Imperial record. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 184
- 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. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 271
- 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 ). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 659
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Les Miserables at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.