Norman Large Peter Cunningham. Recommended Reading:. A look back at the actors who have played the father-son duo as the show celebrates its 24th anniversary on Broadway November Look Back at the Revival of Falsettos on Broadway. Krakowski, who won a Tony Award in for her performance in Nine, celebrates her birthday October Actor and photographer Benjamin Rivera gave Playbill an exclusive view inside his experience returning to the Tony Award-winning musical after 18 months of the Broadway shutdown.
The first production in English, produced by Cameron Mackintosh and adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, opened on 8 October five years after the original production at the Barbican Arts Centre, London.
Musical supervision and orchestrations were by John Cameron, who had been involved with the show since Claude-Michel and Alain hired him to orchestrate the original French concept album. Musical staging was by Kate Flatt with musical direction by Martin Koch. On December 4, , the show transferred to the Palace Theatre, London and moved again on April 3, , to a much more intimate Queen's Theatre, with some revisions of staging, where it is played until July 13, It celebrated its ten-thousandth performance on 5 January As of October 8,, the show has been running for 33 years.
The drummer from the original cast album, Peter Boita, is still with the show — the only musician still associated with the show that was there from the beginning. Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle reprised their roles from the London production. The show underwent further tightening of plot, and an improved sewer lighting effect was incorporated into the staging. The lyrics in Javert's "Stars" have been changed. It now ends with the line, "This I swear by the stars!
Other more minor lyrical and musical changes were made throughout the musical. Michael Hinton was the original drummer and credited on the cast album. The musical ran at the Broadway Theatre through October 10, , when it moved to the Imperial Theatre. It was scheduled to close on March 15, , but the closing was postponed by a surge in public interest. After 6, performances in sixteen years, when it closed on May 18, , it was the second-longest-running Broadway musical after Cats.
More recently, its position has fallen to the third-longest-running Broadway musical after The Phantom of the Opera ascended initially to the second and, in , to the number one spot. It was subsequently announced that the show would have an open-ended run rather than a set closing date. Using the set, costumes, performers, and other resources from the recently closed third U. Minor changes included a new costume for Cosette, the use of colourful projections blended into its existing lighting design, and a proscenium that extended out into the first two boxes on either side of the stage.
Some cuts previously made to the show during its original Broadway run were restored, new lyrics were penned for Gavroche's death scene known in the revival as "Ten Little Bullets" , and much of the show was re-orchestrated by Christopher Janke, introducing a snare and timpani heavy sound played by a 14 member band, a reduction of about 10 musicians from the original score's requirement of 23— Fantine was played by Lea Salonga beginning on March 2, Ann Harada replaced Jenny Galloway as Mme.
Later that year, the show went temporarily dark because of the Broadway stagehands' strike. The revival closed on January 6, The musical has also been performed in concert at Cardiff Castle and several venues in southern England, produced by Earl Carpenter Concerts. In , a one-night concert performance was performed at the Toronto Skydome, and the largest concert production attracted an audience of approximately , as part of the Australia day celebrations in Sydney's Domain Park.
The Scandinavian concert tour, produced by Cameron Mackintosh in association with Noble Art, starred Danish musical icon Stig Rossen in the leading role and commemorated author Victor Hugo's th birthday. Venues on the tour included the Stockholm Globen, Oslo Spektrum, the Helsinki Hartwell Areena, and the Gothenburg Scandinavium, with audiences totalling over , for the complete tour. In September , it was performed at the St John Loveridge Hall in Guernsey with a cast of West End performers—the first time that it had been professionally performed on the Island where Victor Hugo wrote the novel.
The show had three national touring productions in the U. While the touring production and the New York production were running simultaneously, the staff, cast members, crew, and musicians of the two productions interchanged often, which contributed to keeping both companies of the show in form.
When the New York production closed in , the Third National Tour continued for another three years, and enjoyed the influx of many members from the original and subsequent New York companies.
The production played for 14 months then closed. Delays caused from the damages the city suffered from the Loma Prieta Earthquake, the orginal opening date was delayed till Nov. It played till Spring The original North American tour ran for seventeen years and over 7, performances. As of , four different U. Skip to main content. Music Theatre International. Cultural Influence The musical has had more concurrent productions fifteen at one time than any other musical in history, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records.
Almost overnight, the taping of her performance became one of the most popular videos on YouTube and has amassed over million views since. The musical has won over 70 major theatre awards, including an Olivier, a Tony and a Grammy.
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