Les Miserables: The Arena Concert Spectacular - New York

Now at Radio City Music Hall, *Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular* presents Victor Hugo’s story as a concert staging, built around sung-through scenes, massed vocals, and the score rather than full-scale naturalistic sets. The plot tracks Jean Valjean’s flight from the law and his moral reckoning against the upheavals of 19th-century France. In New York, *Les Misérables* holds a long Broadway legacy dating back to its 1987 opening, and this format reframes a familiar touchstone as public-pageant music theater. The stripped staging makes the chorus function like a civic witness.