It seemed that, in fact, misery loves company, and a love story, and a rallying around a cause, and the triumph of moral right over legal right. The very people that the show was about - common, everyday folk, not the upper echelons of theatre snobbery. And so its fate, it seemed, was sealed.īut a funny thing happened. Critics ravaged its length, its simplification of themes and characters, its "atrocious translation," and the sheer audacity of trying to bring such an epic downer to the stage. In 1985, clocking in at over 3 and a half hours in length, the show opened at the Barbican Theatre, and it was not a success - a fact that seems to get glossed over in its rosy colored history. But nothing really prepared the world for the epic piece of musical theatre it would become. First Victor Hugo's novel, then countless movie adaptations and even a PBS version. From the outset, Les Miserables has been epic.
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