Les Miserables (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (6,947)
See it if if you love that every single song is memorable and classic. You purely love musicals and should see one of the all-time greats
Don't see it if you like simple and light. This one is rich and powerful
See it if You are a romantic at heart that loves a great love story with historical action.
Don't see it if You do not like an unusually long first act, several sub-plots and a musical that offers many songs with less dialogue.
See it if you love a good story of redemption. Jean Valjean is one of the most compelling characters to ever hit the stage.
Don't see it if you do not like operettas.
See it if epic theater interests you. This is historical musical theater magnificently crafted. Completely through-sung.
Don't see it if long shows tire you. It's long and you have to focus. If you like dialogue breaks between songs, skip this. It doesn't happen.
See it if My all time favorite show. Ramin's Valjean and abs stole the show. It's not perfect but I'd see it again.
Don't see it if you like the original staging and the round table. It's not there.
See it if you like history and a story of redemption; you want to hear some of the theatre's most loved songs
Don't see it if hate seeing a show in which just about everyone dies
See it if you like classic musicals
Don't see it if you hate musicals
See it if You love musicals.
Don't see it if you hate musicals.
Critic Reviews (27)
"Les Miserables returns in a sizzling 21st-century upgrade...This isn't your grandfather's Les Miz, as it's more familiarly known. It's the new and enhanced-in-some-ways-diminished-in-others Les Miz, and it very much takes into account the movie and the possible expectations that it's planted in the eyes, ears and minds of ticket buyers."
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"Les Miz opened the floodgates for the bloated, self-important musicals that would pop up regularly in the following decade...The faithful will be pleased that the new staging offers as much bombast as ever. There are thundering performances of the syrupy, repetitive score, a vast, creepy set and a company of accomplished troupers who gamely glower and fret under the heavy-handed direction."
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"For those of us in the minority, "Les Miz" remains Masterpiece Musical at its most earnest, marred by cumulative bellowing and politics so fuzzy-edged that they never get beyond a generic storm-the-barricades fervor. But if we need to have "Les Miz"--and obviously, we do--I pick this one."
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"You can pick holes in it - yes, it's terribly sentimental, and illogical, but its grand conception and parade of timeless songs sweep everything else away. The fine new production doesn't sponge on the show's reputation. At the end, you can hear weeping in the audience as Valjean dies. It's a show that, after thousands and thousands of performances, still has that effect on people."
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"Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean is the main reason to reacquaint yourself with this newly reimagined revival. It is a successful love-letter to the original, with some nifty tweaks. Out is the familiar turntable, which once spun an enormous barricade; in is a video backdrop that transitions from a streetscape to the Paris sewers as Valjean rescues Marius. The show just looks dynamite."
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“Les Misérables does not turn it up to eleven because it is always at eleven. Here, all the pomp seems to outweigh any interest in narrative or character. Ultimately, this show is lacking the passion and sincerity of a musical produced by those who love it; it seems more about the $40 t-shirts than it does about anything else. Though Les Misérables has always been a behemoth, it has perhaps suffered the watering down of becoming an international institution.”
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"Les Miserables has rolled into town for its third bite at the Broadway apple, and there’s nothing tiresome about its gloomy, aching heartbeat...The melodies are as grandiose as the story. And here, the voices and look of the show wonderfully match. Bring your flag."
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"The score is the best written one of the last 30 years and it is undermined of its grandeur by injecting it with unneeded sound enhancement...This reinvention and unnecessary excessive humor injected in the oddest of scenes is courtesy of the directors Laurence Connor and James Powell. They discarded the magnificently paced original direction by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and replaced it with their own underwhelming vision."
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