Poster
2000
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Poster on gloss finish card featuring a photograph of the head of the actor playing Inspector Javert above an image of the revolutionary students on the barricades, with white smoke billowing behind them. White lettering above the image gives the word 'REVOLUTIONARY'! and below the image, the title 'Les Misérables', and 'SEE THE LEGENDARY PRODUCTION PALACE THEATRE Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1'.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster issued in 2000 advertising Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre, where it opened on 4 December 1985, having transferred from The Barbican Theatre. Designed and printed by Dewynters, London. |
| Physical description | Poster on gloss finish card featuring a photograph of the head of the actor playing Inspector Javert above an image of the revolutionary students on the barricades, with white smoke billowing behind them. White lettering above the image gives the word 'REVOLUTIONARY'! and below the image, the title 'Les Misérables', and 'SEE THE LEGENDARY PRODUCTION PALACE THEATRE Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1'. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Credit line | Given by Dewynters PLC |
| Object history | Poster issued in 2000 advertising Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michael Schonberg, with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, at The Palace Theatre, where it opened on 4 December 1985, directed by John Caird and Trevor Nunn, designed by Andreane Neofitou. |
| Literary reference | Les Miserables |
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| Accession number | S.56-2001 |
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| Record created | December 28, 2006 |
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