We are due for a Les Mis Broadway Return

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:15pm

I believe we are due for another Broadway mounting of Les Miserables and I would not be shocked to see one announced by 2024. Weather it be a remounting of the Laurence Connor 25th Anniversary Edition or Staged Concert version. The time between the original productions closing and the first revival(remount) was just under 4 years, the time between the first and second revivals was 6 years. It has been 7 years since the second revival was on broadway, thus we are overdue for a broadway return of the show. I’d say it’s pretty likely the current tour makes a return engagement, perhaps at the broadhurst to connect it back to the 2006 original remount, at the end of its tour. 

Updated On: 5/18/23 at 03:15 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:24pm

Maybe Phantom and Les Mis will return in the same season.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:26pm

I actually lost a little bet during Covid that this would announce a Broadway return when theatres reopened. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:28pm

^Although I didn’t lose a bet, I thought it was a guarantee CamMac was going to bring over the concert version post pandemic.

Updated On: 5/18/23 at 03:28 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:32pm

If it comes back, it’ll probably be the newly redesigned production in London which, I don’t even know if it’s an unpopular opinion or not, I quite liked. 

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:34pm

I love Les Mis but I personally think it's one that could stand to stay "in the vault" for another decade before a revival 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:36pm

Jordan Catalano said: "If it comes back, it’ll probably be the newly redesigned production in London which, I don’t even know if it’s an unpopular opinion or not, I quite liked."

Does that design vary from the 2014 revival/tour?

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:39pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I believe we are due for another Broadway mounting of Les Miserables and I would not be shocked to see one announced by 2024. Weather it be a remounting of the Laurence Connor 25th Anniversary Edition or Staged Concert version. The time between the original productions closing and the first revival(remount) was just under 4 years, the time between the first and second revivals was 6 years. It has been 7 years since the second revival was on broadway, thus we are overdue for a broadway return of the show. I’d say it’s pretty likely the current tour makes a return engagement, perhaps at the broadhurst to connect it back to the 2006 original remount, at the end of its tour."

We're not "overdue" for the return of a show simply because it's now been a longer gap in time since the gap between the first and second revival.  Most shows don't get revived that quickly, and I'd personally rather Les Mis stay away from Broadway long enough for people to really miss it.  

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:39pm

It’s a completely new set design with a lot of projections.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 3:46pm

I was under the impression the “new” London design was just the 25th Anniversary production design, but it’s not?

[Jarethan]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 4:24pm

Mr. Wormwood said: "I love Les Mis but I personally think it's one that could stand to stay "in the vault" for another decade before a revival"

I agree, although I must sheepishly admit that I saw the touring company literally 2 weeks before the shutdown in Sarasota; I thought the revised production, which I had already seen in Tampa a few years earlier, was excellent, and for me, it did not pale next to the original production.

If it comes back too soon, it will run for a year and that will be it.  If it waits another decade, the probability of revival 'excitement' will be much stronger, and it will run a lot longer than a year.

[Tag]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 4:45pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I was under the impression the “new” London design was just the 25th Anniversary production design, but it’s not?"

Yes it's that same crap production.

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 5:09pm

Not really, no.

[RUkiddingme]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 5:24pm

No is the only correct answer.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 5:32pm

I’d be down if it were a totally fresh take on the show. Keep Cameron Mackintosh away. 

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 5:43pm

I think the only thing that could get me back to Broadway now that Phantom is closed is a Les Miz revival with the revolve, but I know that won't happen unless somehow CM can be separated from Les Miz. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 6:47pm

The show’s age and icon status has blunted its weirder rougher edges. I’d love to see the show’s creative team work out a new orchestration with the arrangers behind Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Their last two albums have been very blatant in their use of Les Miserables as part of their aesthetic, and I think “symphonic Broadway metal” a la TSO is absolutely in line with what Les Mis was originally intended to be but never entirely achieved.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 11:01pm

I’d love a completely different approach. Something smaller. Do something different.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 11:07pm

I'd love to see a modern-dress and race-conscious production (Valjean as a person of color, Javert as a white man, the Thenardiers as "trailer trash," etc). I know there have been regionals that did this, but this show is hauntingly relevant in its connections to the treatment of Black folks and other people of color by the police and those in power. Don't change a word of the material, let it speak for itself.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/18/23 at 11:44pm

Dear God. Please no. This show has been non-stop touring in various incarnations and keeps getting attached to people’s Broadway subscriptions. It needs to go away for a long long time until someone can do something new with it. 
 

Plus who wants to see this depressing show in this day and age? Aren’t we living it? 

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 5/19/23 at 2:31am

I feel like Les Mis is one of those musicals that should always be on Broadway. People show up to the TKTS booth looking for tickets to Les Mis, Cats, A Chorus Line, Rent.  Shouldn’t Les Mis attract enough tourists to be able to have another long run?

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 5/19/23 at 5:32am

Broadway Flash said: "I feel like Les Mis is one of those musicals that should always be on Broadway. People show up to the TKTS booth looking for tickets to Les Mis, Cats, A Chorus Line, Rent. Shouldn’t Les Mis attract enough tourists to be able to have another long run?"

You may be on to something.  With the advent of AI and holograms, they could create a whole "frozen" show for tourists with a cast that will never get sick, need time off, or complain about working conditions.  

[The8re phan]

Posted: 5/19/23 at 7:02am

Impeach2017 said: 
You may be on to something. With the advent of AI and holograms, they could create a whole "frozen" show for tourists with a cast that will never get sick, need time off, or complain about working conditions."

This screams CamMac, feeling his fantasy

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 5/19/23 at 8:05am

Rentaholic2 said: "
We're not "overdue" for the return of a show simply because it's now been a longer gap in time since the gap between the first and second revival. Most shows don't get revived that quickly, and I'd personally rather Les Mis stay away from Broadway long enough for people to really miss it."

Agreed wholeheartedly. Plus the Staged Concert was filmed and widely released, and the national tour has been going on since reopening and continues through August 2024 (for now). People have more access to Les Mis than most shows. Give it some breathing room and let people actually WANT it. Why bring something back just for it to close prematurely? 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 5/19/23 at 4:45pm

We are never "due for" a revival of anything lol