Picture: Matthew Murphy
Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables will return later this year nearly a decade after the show’s last UK tour sold out within days.
Opening at Curve Leicester for a season from 3-24 November, the recent Broadway production will arrive on this side of the Atlantic following a successful tour of North America.
With further dates to be announced, the tour will play the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin (5 December 2018-12 January 2019), the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (22 January-16 February), and Manchester’s Palace Theatre (19 February-30 March).
Announcing the tour, Mackintosh said: “Since I first conceived the new production of Les Misérables to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary in 2009, this production has taken the world by storm – more than matching the success of the original, which can now only be seen in London.
“I am thrilled that modern audiences have embraced this production as Les Mis for the 21st century and it is playing to packed houses all over the world in many languages. It also inspired the hugely successful movie version starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne.
“This latest version comes hot from its recent Broadway triumph (now once again on a sell-out tour of North America) and is even more spectacular than the original. I am very proud that this extraordinary Boublil and Schönberg musical remains as fresh, thrilling and exciting as ever – and people are still storming the barricades for a ticket.”
The new staging which features scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo has also already been seen in South America, Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Manila, Singapore and Dubai.
Currently in its 32nd year in the West End Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, original adaption by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and additional material by James Fenton.
Les Misérables originally opened in London at the Barbican Theatre on 8 October 1985. It transferred to the Palace Theatre on 4 December 1985 where it ran for 19 years before moving to its current home at the Queen’s Theatre on 3 April 2004.
Angela Thomas
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