!!Specific Trivia Pages
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* ''Trivia/LesMiserablesShojoCosette''

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* ''Trivia/LesMiserables1935''
* ''Trivia/LesMiserables1998''
* ''Trivia/LesMiserables2012''
* ''Trivia/LesMiserables2000''
* ''Trivia/LesMiserables2018''
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!![[Literature/LesMiserables The novel]]
* AdaptationSequence: Novel —> [[Theatre/LesMiserables musical]] —> [[Film/LesMiserables2012 2012 film]] based on the musical.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The book was extremely popular among Confederate soldiers during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, who identified with Enjolras' rebels and called themselves "Lee's Miserables."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Hugo changed several characters' names over the course of writing the novel. Jean Valjean was originally named "Jean Tréjean" (literally, “John Veryjohn”), Fantine was named "Marguerite Louet," Cosette was named "Anna," Marius was named "Thomas Telbon," Gavroche was first named "Grimebodin" and later "Chavroche," Éponine was named "Palmyre," and Azelma was named "Malvina."
** Courfeyrac was originally the leader of the revolutionaries, with Enjolras as one of his lieutenants, rather than vice-versa.
* WorkingTitle: The novel's early draft from 1848 was titled ''Les Miséres'' ("Miseries").
** Hugo considered “Misérables” to be untranslatable, as it has connotations of both pity and condemnation, as well as the state of being forgotten or overlooked by society. The closest English translation would perhaps be a combination of “the wretched” and “the outsiders.”


!![[Theatre/LesMiserables The musical adaptation]]

* AccentDepundent: The show, with its English-language libretto written by the British lyricist Herbert Kretzmer (although the original libretto by Alain Boublil was in French), Thénardier sings ''Master of the house, doling out the '''charm'''/Ready with a handshake and an open '''palm'''." In a British accent this is a decent half-rhyme, but in a rhotic accent it becomes a PainfulRhyme.
* ActorInspiredHeroism: Eponine is seen as sympathetic by a modern audience, and some performances of the musical can file off a couple of her more unlikeable qualities (bullying Cosette as a child for instance). Depending on the actress, her hiding Marius's letter to Cosette can either be a scheming bit of RelationshipSabotage or a heat-of-the-moment act of despair.
* AllStarCast:
** The ''entire point'' of the 10th Anniversary Concert, which didn't have a principal cast member who wasn't a Broadway and/or West End luminary and/or have a major role in the show at some point including Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Michael Ball, Lea Salonga, Ruthie Henshall, Michael Maguire, and Judy Kuhn.
** The 25th Anniversary Concert followed suit; even Music/NickJonas, more famous as a pop singer, had at one point played Gavroche on Broadway.
** And again for the 35th Anniversary Concert.
* ColbertBump:
** "I Dreamed a Dream" received major publicity after Susan Boyle's famous performance on ''Series/BritainsGotTalent''.
** "On My Own" and "I Dreamed a Dream" have both been featured on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
* FilmedStageProduction: There have been a few anniversary concert stagings over the years of its historic run pulling in original cast members and popular replacement actors, either reprising their roles or playing new ones:
** ''Les Miserables: The Dream Cast in Concert'' aired in 1995 for the 10th anniversary, with Colm Wilkinson returning as Valjean, Judy Kuhn returning as Cosette, and Lea Salonga playing Eponine.
** ''Les Miserables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary'' aired in 2010, with Alfie Boe as Valjean, Lea Salonga now playing Fantine, Samantha Barks playing Eponine (who would go on to reprise the role in the [[Film/LesMiserables2012 2012 film adaptation]]), and Creator/NickJonas (one of the many Broadway Gavroche replacements) playing Marius.
** ''Les Miserables: The Staged Concert'' filmed the final concert of the 2019 concert staging (which ran from August 10-December 2, 2019 to accommodate the restoration of the Sondheim Theatre). It starred original Marius Michael Ball as Javert and Carrie Hope Fletcher as Fantine. Alfie Boe returned as Valjean.
* LifeImitatesArt:
** French citizens submitted a [[SeriousBusiness serious petition]] to have "Do You Hear The People Sing?", the martial revolutionary song (quoted) that you are [[ChorusOnlySong most likely to remember]] from the musical, nominated as a second National Anthem of France, alongside ''La Marseillaise''.
*** It should be noted that the french lyrics are nowhere near as belligerent as the english version. "À La Volonté du Peuple" emphasizes fellowship and ideals rather than the fight against an oppressive government.
** "Do You Hear The People Sing?" has also been used in connection with the Occupy Movement and other protest movements.
* ReferencedBy: Canadian figure skater Roman Sadovsky performed to ''Les Misérables'' soundtrack for [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59ru1s his long program]] during the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 competitive seasons. A few years later, he would later [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x70a47t revamp it with slightly different music cuts]] and minor changes to the choreography. He also skated to "Bring Him Home" as an [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ueba2 exhibition number.]]
* RomanceOnTheSet: Actors Jason Forbach and Joseph Spieldenner met while playing Feuilly and Grantaire on the 25th anniversary US tour. Forbach soon took over as Enjolras, and the two played the famously HoYay-tastic pair until the tour ended in 2013, and got engaged at the end of that year.
* StarMakingRole: This show made Michael Ball and Frances Ruffelle HouseholdNames, and turned Rebecca Caine into a darling of the theatre world. And while it wasn't his ''only'' massive role, his turn as Valjean etched Colm Wilkinson into the marble of the zeitgeist for generations.
* ToughActToFollow: How do you ensure that this trope never applies to you? By writing a musical so good, so famous, and so beloved that its mere existence allows you to write whatever else you damn well please. This is that musical. (In Schonberg and Boublil's case, "whatever else you damn well please" was ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', a critical and popular smash hit still known and beloved by most musical theatre fans. Go figure.)
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Patti [=LuPone=], who originated the role of Fantine in the West End production, turned down the offer to reprise the role on Broadway. For years, she said her reason for doing so was because the London production was the "perfect" experience, and no other venue or company could live up to the thrill of her initial run (and indeed, she disliked the New York production once she finally saw it). Eventually, however, she also revealed she wasn't offered enough money by Cameron Mackintosh to make the prospect enticing.

!!Other adaptations
* AdaptationOverdosed: Over 60 movies, a musical, at least 5 different stage plays, about a dozen audiobooks, three comic books (one of them with the Duck family!), some anime, a spectacle son et lumière and two computer games (a point-and-click-adventure of the same name and the extremely weird beat-'em-up ''Arm Joe'').
* AdaptationSequence: The '52 movie calls itself a remake of the '35 movie. Then they made a radio play out of the '52 movie.
* DisownedAdaptation: Victor Hugo's heirs went to court against François Ceresa's sequels. [[http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/12/19/us-books-miserables-idUSTRE4BI6FV20081219 They lost.]]
* {{Fanon}}:
** Especially with first names of characters that never get one in the novel.
*** One fanfic writer started calling Enjolras "Marcelin" and this has become the most often used first name for him.
*** Another common first name for Enjolras is Julien, while Grantaire is often given a name starting with "R" because of his [[InSeriesNickname nickname.]]
*** Javert is often said to simply not having been given a first name. A popular joke also is that his first name is "Inspector". In the late '90s-early 2000s musical fandom, another staple of comedy fic was that his first name was [[EmbarrassingFirstName Snookums.]]
*** Another common joke is that everyone is called Jean.
** Characters misremembering Valjean's name will always think he's called "Jacques Valjacques".
** The novel mentions that Javert's mother is a fortune-teller; in fanon, she (and thus also Javert) is [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Roma]].
*** Actually, it says Javert had ''une inexprimable haine pour cette race de bohèmes dont il était'' ("an inexplicable hatred for that race of ''bohèmes'' of [[YouAreWhatYouHate which he was one]]"). ''Bohèmes'' could be "bohemians", as in tramps/vagabonds, but really ''bohemiens'' would be better for that purpose; ''bohèmes'' almost certainly means "gypsies."
*** Susan Kay's novel ''Phantom'' (which as the title would suggest is a ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' spin-off giving the character a back story as well as a first-person narrative of events) includes [[ShoutOut a minor character named Javert]], who runs a freak show carnival Erik temporarily joins as a youth.
** It's difficult to find a Les Amis-centric modern AU fic where Jehan Prouvaire ''isn't'' genderqueer.
* PredecessorCastingGag: Judy Kuhn played Cosette in the original Broadway production of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', and later played Cosette's mother Fantine in a 2006 revival.
* SpinOff: There is a book called ''Cosette'' written by Laura Kalpakian.
* StillbornFranchise: One very early Japanese adaptation had to be abandoned after only two of the planned four parts were made.
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