Les Misérables is the longest running musical in the history of the West End, with it’s 9,000th show performed at the Queen’s Theatre, London, UK on 10 August 2007.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Misérables first opened in the West End at The Palace on 4 December 1985 (transferred from The Barbican where it opened on 8 October 1985). It closed at the Palace Theatre on 27 March 2004 to re-opened at the Queen’s Theatre on 3 April 2004.