Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going ...

When it premiered at The Barbican in 1985, Les Miserables was famously panned - with one critic labelling it "lurid Victorian melodrama," and another dubbing it "witless." But the audience loved it, ...

The late Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English libretto for Les Misérables ... in London in 1985. The archive also includes a 1985 memo about auditions, which reveals Brian Blessed was among those ...

Once dismissed as ‘Victor Hugo on the garbage dump,’ Les Mis is now the world’s longest-running musical. As it marks 40 years ...

From negative reviews to the show’s Christian themes, here are some things you may not have known about “Les Mis.” ...