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“Les Miserables,” the sweeping musical based on the Victor Hugo novel, took three awards Monday in the 1987 Helen Hayes Awards for theater productions in Washington, D.C. Playing now to packed houses on Broadway, “Les Miserables” began its successful run last year at the Kennedy Center, where Monday evening’s awards ceremony was held. It won three of the four awards for “nonresident” productions: outstanding production; outstanding lead actor, Colm Wilkinson; and outstanding supporting actor, Frances Ruffelle. “The Miser,” the Folger Shakespeare Theater’s production of the Moliere play, was named outstanding resident production.