Les Miserables final performance set for July 13

The New York Times reports how for the past six months, a drama has been playing out in London’s West End with all the heightened emotions of a musical.

In January, Cameron Mackintosh, the theater producer, announced that “Les Misérables,” which has been running in the West End since December 1985 — and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest run of a musical in London — would close. The final performance will be July 13, and then the Queen’s Theater, its venue, will be shuttered for refurbishment.

The musical, set in revolutionary France, would reopen in December after a series of concert performances, Mr. Mackintosh added. But it would no longer be the well-loved original production featuring a revolving stage that spins as the actors sing, giving endless movement to the production and transporting viewers from the French countryside to the sewers of Paris in an instant.

Via NYT