Les Misérables (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (462)
See it if you love classic megamusicals
Don't see it if you don't want to see a deep story
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
See it if you want to see why this is the longest running, and one of the most beloved musicals of all time
Don't see it if you aren't a fan of tragic plots
See it if Great music, great story, epic show
Don't see it if Lots of death in it
See it if Great acting, singing and staging. For the fans of the big musical numbers. Always current.
Don't see it if You don’t like long musicals with a LOT of singing.
See it if you want an epic 3 hours of beautiful music with fantastic performances and tech. Truly a sight to behold.
Don't see it if 3 hours of dramatic musical theater doesn't sound appealing. This show can be overwhelming at times and runs a bit long. Read more
See it if you want to get lost in a passionate story with beautiful songs, performed by a brilliant cast.
Don't see it if you don't like the subject matter or intense, sung through shows.
See it if you want to understand why this is the longest running show in the west end and wonder at how they pick such a stellar cast year on year!
Don't see it if you’re only in to musicals with big dance numbers, or you balk at the idea of show entirely done in song with no spoken dialogue.
Critic Reviews (9)
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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All in all, Les Mis and the refurbished Sondheim feel fit for purpose for the next decade or three.
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Assisted by a cluster of terrific lead performances...London’s longest-running musical has seldom looked, or sounded, so fresh.
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[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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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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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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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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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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