A gee-whiz end to ‘Les Miz’

“Les Miserables” closed out a 16-year Broadway run Sunday after 6,680 performances, leaving Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” as the only remaining big British musical of the 1980s left in New York.

“Les Miserables” -- second only to “Cats,” Broadway’s longest-running show -- went out in a joyous, emotional celebration. The invitation-only audience at the Imperial Theatre included members of the original 1987 cast, friends and relatives of the current cast and members of the creative team. Red, white and blue balloons and streamers as well as confetti engulfed theatergoers at the raucous curtain call.