This 25th anniversary tour of Les Miserables was a huge let down to a fan of Les Miserables like me.
I have seen Les Miserables 9 times before, both on and off broadway, and I was very excited to see it again.

The production of this tour is different than in the past shows. No rotating stage, replaced by a huge video projection background. Chain gang working the stones replaced by a slave ship. But I felt that the production itself, while different, was very good. Javert's death scene and Marius rescue scenes in the sewer was quite amazing. The Barricade scenes were weak and the shooting death of Gavroche had no impact since you couldn't see him, and the death of leader of the rebellion wasn't striking since their was no rotating stage and his death could not be revealed in the same dramatic way.

The real big problem I had was the cast and the performers. The lead, Jean Valjean's role was played by Lawrence Clayton.. he maybe a good singer but he is not Jean Valjean. I am a traditionalist. I like singers to sing the National Anthems as they were written and I hate it when pop stars or anyone else who put their own twists to the inflection in the words. In such a major role in a dramatic musical, he could not deliver.

Chasten Harmon played Eponine and she was also not good at all for the role. She sang the songs as if she was singing a pop song rather than a dramatic scene in a musical. I kept thinking she would have been better in shows like Rent where her pop style singing skills would be a better fit.

Now to the good parts. Thenadiers were good as well as Marius and Javert. Best was Fantine, as she made me tear up with her singing and acting. Also the ensemble songs were all strong and moving as well.

In all, if this was your first time seeing it, I think you would love it. As for people who have seen Colm Wilkinson or other Jean Valjean sing in the past performances, you will be sadly disappointed.

I have seen Les Mis 4times and I was underwhelmed with this production The actor who played Javert and Jeremy Hayes stole the show. The actor playing Valjean was poorly castes as he clearly didn't have the voice for such a major role.

The two female death scenes were over-acted which took away from the beautiful songs that accompany those scenes. However, Javert's death scene was probably the one thing I liked about the new set.

Call me old school but I missed the revolving stage and didn't like how the opening scene was switched to a boat scene. It felt more like a scene from Amistad than Les Mis.

Casting is so important for this show and I feel the mark was missed for some of the bigger parts. The passion wasn't there...it was more like the actors were trying too hard.

I love Les Mis but not this production. Don't fix something that isn't broken.

We love the story of Les Miserable and have seen the production numerous times so a certain standard of excellence had already been established for our family. The story line, songs and set for this performance were all outstanding. Our performance had an emergency interruption and we were amazed at the poise of the performers to pick up right were they left off. The 3 star rating comes from the addition of some raunchy sexual gestures(a couple obviously having sex,clothed thankfully, during Master of the House and several men grabbing themselves or making other lewd gestures) which were notably added making this performance not family friendly. Disappointing to say the least.