After two years in development, the English-language version opened in London on 8 October 1985, by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Centre, then the London home of the RSC. Mackintosh, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company, assembled a production team to adapt the French musical for a British audience. Initially reluctant, Mackintosh eventually agreed. Farago had been impressed by the work and asked Mackintosh to produce an English-language version of the show. In 1983, about six months after producer Cameron Mackintosh had opened Cats on Broadway, he received a copy of the French concept album from director Peter Farago. Les Misérables was originally released as a French-language concept album in 1980, and the first musical-stage adaptation of Les Misérables was presented at the Palais des Sports in September. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempt to overthrow the government at a street barricade in Paris. But a police inspector named Javert refuses to let him escape justice and pursues him for most of the play. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy. Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption, released in 1815 after serving nineteen years in jail, five for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child, the other fourteen for numerous escape attempts. Its English-language adaptation, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks. The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Les Misérables ( / l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b( əl), - b l ə/ lay MIZ-ə- RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: ), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz ( / l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z/ lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.Laurence Olivier Award for Most Popular Show.
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