Les Miserables at Uihlein Hall

Fact: LES MISÉRABLES is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before.

It’s storytelling that operates on a hard-hitting, visceral level, exploring timeless themes in an honest manner - some tough, some heart-warming. It’s nothing but passionate musicianship, operatic intensity, and soaring melodies that you’ll remember long after the curtain has fallen; it’s an exquisite musical production that will engulf you, captivate you, and tear your heart apart, and stitch it back together - forever changed.

An iconic story

Following the journey of French peasant Jean Valjean from desperation to redemption, Victor Hugo’s iconic 1862 novel inspired writers Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Jean-Marc Natel to create a heavily moving oozing with passion, heart, and emotion. Victor Hugo’s iconic 1862 tale about French peasant Jean Valjean’s journey from despair, his redemption following an enormous act of mercy, love, and revolution made for the perfect foundation for a theatrical masterpiece - and that is exactly what writers Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, alongside composer Claude-Michel Schönberg {had in mind for their celebrated sung-through musical|were looking for - something incredible to create absolute theatrical magic with. The result was larger-than-life - not only did LES MISÉRABLES, since its English-version premiere in the West End in 1985, become the longest-running musical in the West End and the second-longest running musical on Broadway, but received numerous very well-deserved awards, including a Laurence Olivier Award, eight Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award..

LES MISÉRABLES has been described as “an enormous, gorgeous bleeding heart” with every single run thereof a marvellous nod to the original. It is loaded with innovation, gravitas, and sincerity, featuring wondrous music that bless the soul with raw beauty, lyrics that inspire thought and personal reflection, visuals that you won’t find anywhere else, music that oozes passion and operatic intensity, themes that hold up the proverbial mirror, and fantastic portrayals that capture the core of the story perfectly.

On top of that, you’ll experience Claude-Michel Schönberg’s incredible music performed in powerful voices - from ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ and ‘Castle On A Cloud’ to ‘Stars’ and ‘On My Own’, from ‘Bring Him Home’ and ‘Empty Chairs At Empty Tables’ to ‘One Day More’ and ‘Do You Hear The People Sing?’ - something you’ll remember for the rest of your life.

Tickets and more info

A venue better suited for a wonderful night at the theatre than the Uihlein Hall at Marcus Center For The Performing Arts is yet to be built.

With its long history of welcoming the best of the best in entertainment to its stage, the Uihlein Hall at Marcus Center For The Performing Arts is hailed as the place you’ll find world-class acts all year round. Featuring to-the-minute sound and lighting, remarkable acoustics, wonderful amenities, ample parking, and plenty of comfortable seating spread across multiple levels ensuring those superb, unobstructed sight-lines, there is a seat suitable to every taste and budget.

So go right ahead, get your tickets now - you owe it to yourself.