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■Along with the Oscar winning movie ,“Les Miserables” has been seen by over 130 million people worldwide in 45 countries, 350 cities and in 22 languages. Over 100 professional companies have opened the show worldwide.

■To date ,“Les Miserables” remains the fifth longest running Broadway production of all time. There are over 2,500 productions of the LesMiserables School’s Edition scheduled or being performed by over 125,000 school children in the U.K., U.S. and Australia.

■ There are approximately 101 cast and crewdirectly involved in every performance. This doesn’t include front of house staff and back-up services— ticket sales, advertising and publicity, wardrobe staff, set contractors, maintenance and office personnel.

■ Each performance entails some 392 complete costumes consisting of some 1782 items of clothing and 31 wigs.

■ “LesMiserables” has won over 140 major theatre awards including eight TonyAwards and five Drama Desk Awards. The showalso won the 2017Whatsonstage Award for Best West End show.

■ There have been 47 cast recordings of“Les Miserables” including albums, singles, symphonic and digital download albums. Both the Original Broadway cast albumand the Symphonic recordingwon Grammy Awards.

■ “Les Miserables” originally opened in London at the Barbican Theatre on Oct. 8, 1985, transferred to the Palace Theatre on Dec. 4, 1985 andmoved to its current home at the Queen’s Theatre on April 3, 2004where it continues to play to packed houses and is the only version of the original production left in the world.

■ The original Broadway production of“Les Miserables” opened onMarch 12, 1987 .

■ The newproductionwas conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary in 2009.