When it opened in 1985, Les Mis got some rotten reviews. Forty years on, our writer sees it afresh and Cameron Mackintosh reflects on the show's spectacular success So were we wrong? By "we" I mean the overnight critics, myself included, who gave largely negative reviews to the musical of Les Misérables when it opened at the Barbican in October 1985. All the statistics suggest we misjudged popular taste. Since it be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM on October 7, 2025