Les Miz Coming Back to NYC in 2 Years?
#2
Posted: 8/3/26 at 11:40am
I'd like to see a modern-dress production with a Black Valjean and a white Javert by a director with an interesting point of view. (This has been done – I just haven't seen it.)
There's also the French-language Châtelet production, which looks quite striking (though period-set and large-scale) and just had a run in Montreal and Quebec. Boublil rewrote about a quarter of the French lyrics for this, according to the NYT.
I don't really see the show working immersive production (who wants to be immersed by war and tragedy more than we already are?) or off-Bway –– it's far too big.
Updated On: 8/3/26 at 11:40 AM
#3
Posted: 8/3/26 at 12:19pm
I was tempted to make a trip to see the production in Montreal.
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#4
Posted: 8/3/26 at 12:38pm
Imagine Jamie Lloyd taking this on...
#5
Posted: 8/3/26 at 12:51pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Imagine Jamie Lloyd taking this on..."
Javert coming out of a pool in his underwear post suicide
#6
Posted: 8/3/26 at 1:03pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Imagine Jamie Lloyd taking this on..."
Unironically, I’d love to see this.
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#7
Posted: 8/3/26 at 1:26pm
LES MIS has never really left the American stage due to the multiple touring productions. Sadly, they no longer tour with the original set or staging, more a very cut down version of the original.
How many of these "let's put the ensemble in abbreviated gym clothing or underwear" concert style productions do we have to endure? The gimmick has been overdone now. I fear this will be another $25 million concert production that will run well for 6 months, then have. no more audience and drop all $25 million.
Where are the new shows of substance? Not juke box shows, not idiot mediocre movies with some sound alike generic pop songs ! Where are the great stories worth telling with thrilling scores?
Hamilton is a thrilling score for a play that has great substance, ditto Hadestown, dittoDear Evan Hansen, ditto Come From Away.
Concert style revivals are just reinforcing the idea that musicals are just rock concerts iperfomed in theaters -- that is not the musical theater art form American composters and authors created.
#8
Posted: 8/3/26 at 1:40pm
merle57 said: "
Where are the new shows of substance? Not juke box shows, not idiot mediocre movies with some sound alike generic pop songs ! Where are the great stories worth telling with thrilling scores?
Hamilton is a thrilling score for a playthat has great substance, dittoHadestown, dittoDear Evan Hansen, ditto Come From Away.."
Well, you just named four from the last ten years. You can add to that Strange Loop, Kimberly Akimbo, Dead Outlaw, Great Comet, Maybe Happy Ending, The Band's Visit, Suffs, and Operation Mincemeat, at the very least.
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Updated On: 8/3/26 at 01:40 PM
#9
Posted: 8/3/26 at 2:00pm
"There is a very exciting entirely different plan for New York to happen in two years time, not by me, but it's something that I wholeheartedly back. It's a wonderful idea and it would be utterly different. Something to look forward to."
A happy, upbeat, brightly lit production with a 20-minute megamix curtain call and confetti canons.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#10
Posted: 8/3/26 at 2:04pm
And French flag fans to wave during the show.
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