The Broadway version opened at the Broadway Theater on March 12, 1987, with Colm Wilkins and France Rufele reprising their roles.

The play was named the Tony Award for Best Musical that year, and also won five other awards: Mike Maguire won the Best Actor Award, and France Rufele won the Best Actor Award. Best Actress Award, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alan Burberry won the Best Screenplay Award, Trevor Nunn and John Caird won the Best Director Award, and David Hussey won the Best Film Award. Best Lighting Design Award.

The play ran on Broadway until October 10, 1990, and then moved to the Empire Theater. The show was originally scheduled to end on March 15, 2003. Perhaps due to the enthusiasm caused by the announcement, the stop date was postponed.

After 16 years and 6,680 performances, when it closed on May 18, 2003, it became the second-longest musical on Broadway after "Cats" drama. However, this record was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera in 2006, making the show the third longest-running musical in Broadway history.

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British version

In 1982, British musical producer Cameroon MacIntosh Cameron Mackintosh began production of the English version, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. The English version, directed by Trevor Nunn, opened at the Barbican Theater in London on October 8, 1985.

The Broadway version opened in 1987 and won nine out of 13 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical and Best Original Score, and ran until 2003. Les Miserables is the third longest-running musical in Broadway history.

In the original version, Colm Wilkins played Jean Valjean, France Rouffele played Eponine, Rebecca Cain played Cosette, and Pa Ty Luperne plays Fantine, Roger Allam plays Inspector Jarvie, and Alan Armstrong plays Thenardier.

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