Trevor Nunn has reached the shadowboxing phase, the most perilous in any artist's career. Having staged one of the era's most celebrated productions, Nicholas Nickleby, for his Royal Shakespeare Company, and the acclaimed musical Cats for London's West End and then Broadway, Nunn now must top himself each time out or face critics' speculation that his best work lies behind him. Just that sort of skepticism awaited the opening last week of Nunn's production of Les Miserables, a 3 1/2-hr. musical version of Victor Hugo's novel about revolutionary France. In article after article, London journalists asked whether the show would be...
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