Date/Time: Thursday, 28th January 2027 at 14:30
Location: Sondheim Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6BA
Price: £56 per person. Member and guest £112. Face value £125
Event Organiser: Pete Wells. 7 Wayfaring Court, Safflower Lane, Harold Wood RM3 0LQ
The thing that makes Les Mis worth the money is the score. Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, it follows Jean Valjean, a man jailed 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread, his relentless pursuit by the policeman Javert, and the sweep of ordinary lives caught up in a doomed 1832 Paris uprising. The music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, with lyrics originating from Alain Boublil and brought into English by Herbert Kretzmer, carries almost the entire story: “I Dreamed a Dream”, “On My Own”, “Bring Him Home”, “One Day More”, “Do You Hear the People Sing?”.
Les Mis is the world’s longest-running musical. It opened in London in October 1985, marked its 40th anniversary in October 2025, and has now played more than 16,000 performances in the capital alone, seen by roughly 150 million people worldwide. It has collected a wall of awards along the way, including eight Tony Awards after its 1987 Broadway transfer and a special recognition Olivier Award for its 40th anniversary in 2025. For a lot of visitors, seeing the show that has defined the modern musical, in the city that has been its home for four decades, is the entire point.
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