Adaptations
The Musical - Cast Recordings
The official site claims there are thirty-some recordings, but their figure includes singles, studio casts, highlights versions of full CDs, et cetera, and is slightly out of date. This list goes solely by which casts were recorded, so there's going to be some discrepancy in numbers.
Recordings that have yet to be reviewed are marked with an asterisk.
- 1980 - Concept Album (French)
- 1985 - London (English)
- 1987 - Broadway (English) *
- 1987 - Tel Aviv (Hebrew)
- 1988 - Complete Symphonic Recording (English)
- 1988 - Vienna (German) *
- 1988 - Budapest (Hungarian) *
- 1990 - Stockholm (Swedish) *
- 1991 - Paris revival (French)
- 1991 - Amsterdam (Dutch)
- 1992 - Denmark (Danish) *
- 1992 - Prague (Czech) *
- 1992 - Manchester (English) *
- 1993 - Madrid (Spanish) *
- 1994 - Japanese Red cast *
- 1994 - Japanese Blue cast *
- 1995 - Tenth Anniversary *
- 1996 - Duisburg (German) *
- 1996 - Varmland (Swedish) *
- 1998 - Antwerp (Dutch)
- 2003 - Japanese light blue cast*
- 2003 - Japanese green cast *
- 2003 - Japanese violet cast *
- 2003 - Japanese orange cast *
- 2004 - Prague Bídníci (Czech) *
The following studio recordings are not available for general release, though they are not bootlegs. If someone offers them to you or you see them on ebay, keep in mind that something shady probably transpired to get them to you.
Occasionally bootleg traders will present their wares as rare or unreleased recordings--this happened most recently with soundboard recordings from Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. Use your head: if you can't find anything about it on google, there's no cover image or liner notes, and you can't hunt up record label information, it is most likely a bootleg.
Movies
Les Misérables has also been put to film innumerable times, and some of the movies are more miserable than others.
Reviews of the movies coming soon.