Les Misérables (West End)
Ends Mar 2025 2h 50m
Les Misérables (West End)
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Les Misérables (West End) London Reviews and Tickets

94%
(1212 Ratings)
Positive
97%
Mixed
2%
Negative
1%
Members say
Absorbing, Great singing, Entertaining, Enchanting, Great staging

About the Show

The West End's longest-running musical has brand new staging at the renamed Sondheim Theatre.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (593)

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59 Reviews | 0 Followers
100
Delightful, Enchanting, Ambitious, Clever, Absorbing

See it if you want to see a great serious classic musical

Don't see it if you don't like Victor Hugo.

56 Reviews | 2 Followers
100
Masterful, Exquisite, Great acting, Great singing, Great staging

See it if You don't want to miss a masterpiece

Don't see it if You don't like musicals. There is no other reason why you don't have to see it

52 Reviews | 5 Followers
100
Entertaining, Enchanting, Delightful, Clever, Absorbing

See it if Phenomenal show with great acting and iconic songs that you will be singing for years to come. Seen 30 times now and I’m sure I’ll be back

Don't see it if I think it’s a show you need to see at least twice as there is the story to follow and then the songs.

59 Reviews | 1 Follower
100
Perfection, Outstanding, Entertaining, Enchanting, Delightful

See it if You want to see one of the best ever musicals, full stop! If you are a musicals’ fan you must see this!

Don't see it if You expect there to be talking. It’s song after song after song.

82 Reviews | 5 Followers
100
Entertaining, Enchanting, Clever, Absorbing

See it if you love classic megamusicals

Don't see it if you don't want to see a deep story

53 Reviews | 3 Followers
97
Intense, Must see, Epic, Great singing, Absorbing

See it if you want to experience a gripping musical with a fantastic score.

Don't see it if you've seen it 100 times and you've never been to another musical, then it's time for you to try something new. Read more

85 Reviews | 6 Followers
96
Must see, Great staging, Great singing, Great acting, Clever

See it if you want to see an impressive new version of a classic musical

Don't see it if 3 hours is too long

51 Reviews | 1 Follower
95
Great writing, Great singing, Entertaining, Ambitious, Absorbing

See it if You loved the original book, or if you love historical pieces. Also if you love well written songs performed masterfully by talented actors.

Don't see it if You dislike historical musicals, or if you would prefer a lighter story. Also if you would prefer something ‘smaller’ and less produced.

Critic Reviews (9)

Time Out London
September 25th, 2021

I don’t think anybody could realistically see this imperfect, absurd, magnificent show and suggest that its crown as London’s longest-runner is in any danger.
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The London Evening Standard
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

All in all, Les Mis and the refurbished Sondheim feel fit for purpose for the next decade or three.
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The Telegraph (UK)
January 16th, 2020
For a previous production

Assisted by a cluster of terrific lead performances...London’s longest-running musical has seldom looked, or sounded, so fresh.
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The Times (UK)
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

[Les Miserables] remains grossly melodramatic, overlong and overloud. Most of the lyrics and sung-through dialogues are painfully clunky, every emotion stamped in blaring capitals.
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WhatsOnStage
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

It's all very efficient and sharp. At its heart is Jon Robyns as a big-voiced and tender-hearted Valjean, catching the character's tortured valour and bringing gentle passion to the quiet "Bring Him Home"...
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London Theatre
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

The show remains a thrilling triumph. Here's to the next 35 years, as it looks set to become The Mousetrap of musical theatre; but unlike that murder mystery, there's hardly any mystery to why it's such an enduring success.
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The Stage (UK)
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

Swift, slick, sexy, sounding better than ever and constantly spectacular, the posters that flood Shaftesbury Avenue are, to be fair, pretty much on the money: this is a Les Mis for the 21st century.
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The Arts Desk
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

It barely needs to be said that the picture that [Les Miserables] paints of the poor echoes sights you can see in the streets every day, and so there is little point in denying its political punch.
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