Les Miserables Reviews

This long running musical is a firm favourite with West End audiences. Based on the Victor Hugo novel it takes place in Paris at a time of revolution and anger. This is no light hearted musical, it tough gritty plot and stirring music puts the audience in atmospheric Paris through wonderful staging and use of a revolve on the stage - ...  Read the complete review

Les Miserables is, in my opinion, undoubtedly the best musical in the West End. I have seen it at least ten times (yes, obsessed I know) and it never fails to move me and excite me. Unlike many musicals that often have a weak story arranged around a strong musical score, I find that Les Mis has both a strong story with an ...  Read the complete review

Do you hear the people sing? Musicals tend to fall into two categories - the profoundly intense with strong orchestral and vocal arrangements and the blithely cheesey and happy - still with good music but in a different league. Les Miserables would have to top the first of the two categories but would be so far away at the ...  Read the complete review

I love musical theatre. I love everything about it. But I had Les Mis. Hated it with a passion. Don't get me wrong, I can accept that the clue is in the title. There are not going to be any jazz hands, and swinging from the rafters. But seriously, this goes beyond depressing. I normally love that exhilarating feeling when you ...  Read the complete review

I went to watch Les Miserables last night with my wife. Shes dragged me off to many a musical over the years, and i knew that this was one in particular that she'd always been dying to see - so i bought her tickets for christmas and off we went. The good news is that she loved it (and has been singing the songs ever since). ...  Read the complete review

I love musicals and have seen most of the major ones out there.... Miss Saigon, Cats, Phantom, Fame, Grease, the Lion King - i could go on and on. Even so - after watching Les Miserables i have to say... this is now up there as one of my favourites. I knew very little about the production before i went - and i'm glad i kept it ...  Read the complete review

Les Misérables - a must-see musical. I have always been obsessed with musicals, from light-hearted Hairspray to the spectacle of Phantom of the Opera, but none of them has quite added up to the wonderful Les Misérables, an adaption of the Victor Hugo novel. Let the music and songs, composed by Claude-Michel Shönberg ...  Read the complete review

Though i've seen a fair amount on stage, this is the best production I have ever seen. It's an all sung story, not something I'm normally a fan of but the songs are memorable and moving and the storyline is easy to follow. Set in revolutionary France, a runaway convict called Jean Valjean escapes from his prison sentence and vows to live ...  Read the complete review

Finally taken to see Les Mis last week after years of promises/threats by Mr Neenaw. Now people who like this musical really seem to love it - it was not the first time most people in our party had seen it (cept me!) and for one of us it was no. 4! As lots and lots of people know, Les Mis is a long-running musical based on ...  Read the complete review

Les Miserables is a musical scored by Claude-Michel Schonberg and first performed in 1985. Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, it tracks the story of a multitude of characters through France in the early 1800s, through their every day lives up to a day when there is a revolution against the Parisian Authorities. The story is multi faceted, ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I was little, I have loved musicals. My dream was always to go to London and see hundreds of Musicals in the West End. Last year I was lucky enough to travel to London and indulge myself in going too see some Musicals, among these were Wicked, Billy Elliot, Avenue Q, and the world famous Les Miserables! Les ...  Read the complete review

Les Miserables has been running at the Palace Theatre for many years and is one of the longest (if not THE longest) running musicals in London. I had been a fan of Les Miz (as it's known to fans) since my early teens and finally got to see it live for my 17th birthday. I truely loved every minute. There is some magic in a live ...  Read the complete review

I have seen this show quite a few times now and can never get bored with it. All the casts I have seen were outstanding. If you do not know the story or would like to get ahead before you see it, rent out the film Les Miserables (with Liam Neeson and Uma Thurman). Slightly changed and missing a couple of characters, but ...  Read the complete review

It all began in Marseilles... I have always liked Les Miserables, since about the age of 12 I guess. I don't know what it is that takes my breath away every time I see it, but I have never been to a performance anything other than stunning. I suppose that the words and lyrics are the main component that make this ...  Read the complete review

Goosepimples - that's what its all about. That feeling you get when your third division team beats premier league opponents, when the band you've loved for years get to number one, when the boy/girl you've been chasing for ages finally agrees to a long-awaited date. This musical provides magical moments in spades and is ...  Read the complete review

West End musicals are very popular.Most of the shows are well-done,the singing of high standards and the sets spectacular. I am a big musical fan.And I can say that from all the musicals I have seen,Les Mis remains still my favorite. Maybe it is the fact that the story is very good,full of action,romance and tragedy.Having Victor ...  Read the complete review

If you manage to spy me watching a musical at the theatre, chances are that I have been dragged kicking and screaming to the venue. I am probably one of the most pernickety and finicky theatregoers that you would ever wish not to come across. I know what I like and I more than certainly know what I abhor in terms of stage ...  Read the complete review

Les miserables was the first west end performance I saw, and it was a truly brilliant experience. The quality of acting at the palace was superb, and the set design lavish and thoroughly planned. If you've never seen Les Mis before, you may be suprised at the number of tunes you recognise - I certainly was. From ...  Read the complete review

The best musical, it sounds great, it feels, great, you will cry oh yes, and smile. Just a word of warning, get decent tickets, you can get cheap 10 pound tickets any day of the week but they are very restrictive viewing. Pay 35 pounds get some decent seats it is well worth it in the stalls I think are the best but that is ...  Read the complete review

First of all, I must inform the reader that I know Les Mis (as it is known in theatre circles) inside out and back to front, probably because my father is head electrician at the Palace theatre London where it is on. I've known the story ever since I was old enough to understand it, but have only seen it twice...and am due to see it ...  Read the complete review