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Alfie Boe and Michael Ball lead cast as Les Misérables arena tour kicks off in Belfast

Alfie boe and michael ball talk to jenny lee as they prepare to lead the les misérables cast on the musical’s world tour, which opens in belfast this month.

“It’s the most extraordinary piece of art ever created for the theatre. It will always be relevant.”

This is Michael Ball ’s summary of the acclaimed musical Les Misérables, which is being reinvented in a new arena world tour.

“It’s a show that was created the right way, by the right creative team. The music is timeless; the characters timeless. It’s not like any other show musically,” adds the double Olivier Award-winning musical theatre star and hugely popular radio and TV presenter.

With a score of iconic songs, including I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own and One Day More, and an enthralling story of broken dreams, unrequited love, sacrifice and redemption, Les Misérables is the world’s longest running and most successful musical.

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Ball made his West End debut as Marius Pontmercy in the original production in 1985. After countless performances, he is still excited, emotionally touched and learning something new every time he is involved a Les Misérables production.

“I know the show backwards, forward and sideways, but it amazes me that there will always be a moment when I’m sitting and I’m listening, in the wings or on stage, and somebody interprets something differently. It’s constantly evolving.”

This is a view shared by his co-star, multi-platinum recording artist and Tony award-winning Alfie Boe .

“Every performance I’ve done has taken me on a new journey of discovery. People ask me if I tire of singing Bring Him Home, but how could I? It’s an incredible, beautiful piece of music. It’s a song that’s structurally and emotionally perfect, and it’s done so much for me and my career.”

Over the past 39 years, the musical has been the launch pad for many stars internationally.

“There have been so many performers playing the same role, but I can guarantee that not one does it like anybody else,” he adds.

Cameron’s Mackintosh’s production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular is an expanded version of the Les Misérables The Staged Concert, which played for over 200 performances in the West End. It features a company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew and a new design specifically created for arenas.

The world tour begins in Belfast’s SSE Arena on September 19 with Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly sharing the role of Jean Valjean and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden sharing the role of Javert. Will they be watching Killian and Bradley on their nights off?

“I’d be too jealous. I’d be thinking how dare they cast someone 20 years younger than me,” says Boe (50).

“Bloody hell. They’re more than 20 years younger than me,” shrieks Ball (62).

“They are just incredible. It’s a great pairing,” adds Boe sincerely. “You couldn’t wish for better on this tour. Without blowing our own trumpet, I think me and Michael do a really good job of it and I think Killian and Bradley are insane.”

Earlier this year it was announced that Ulster Operatic Company were one of 11 amateur theatre groups chosen under Cameron Macintosh’s Let People Sing Project to stage their own productions of Les Misérables next year.

It’s a song that’s structurally and emotionally perfect, and it’s done so much for me and my career —   Alfie Boe

The groups will receive support and guidance from the show’s West End creative teams. Michael’s advice is to “just get on the train and hold on tight”.

“There are always nerves and anticipation before a show, but the moment the first chord starts from the orchestra it doesn’t stop for anybody. The music and the story will carry you. It’s a privilege to be a part of it, so just enjoy yourself.”

Also in the Arena Spectacular cast are Bonnie Langford as Madame Thénardier, Gavin Lee as Thénardier, Jac Yarrow as Marius, Beatrice Penny-Touré as Cosette, Channah Hewitt as Fantine, James D. Gish as Enjolras, Jeremy Secomb as Bishop of Digne and Emily as Éponine.

Michael is especially excited to be once again working alongside Langford.

“It’s because of Bonnie I’m doing Les Mis. I did my first proper job, Pirates of Penzance in 1984 or ‘85 with Bonnie and I gave her my first stage kiss.

“I heard about this new show called Les Misérables that was being put on at the RSC. I asked my then agent about it but he said there were no parts for me. But Bonnie’s agent, Barry Burnett, knew that two roles hadn’t yet been cast. He phoned Cameron Mackintosh and told him to come up to Manchester and see this lad - that’s how I got the role of Marius,” he reminisces.

Michael and Bonnie’s paths have crossed on numerous occasions, most recently in Sondheim’s Old Friends.

“There’s the song Broadway Baby where all the different women that were in the show come on and give their own take on a line. I said to Bonnie beforehand: ‘If you don’t do a high kick and the splits, you’re not the showbiz diva that I think you are’. Boom, she did it... I guarantee she’s going to find a way to give Madame Thénardier a high kick and some splits,” he laughs.

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Ball and Boe first met in a production of Kismet in 2007 – Ball had recommended to Cameron Mackintosh that he should come and watch Boe perform. The offer of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables quickly followed.

The duo have gone on to record four albums together, receiving two Classic Brit Awards and have presented a number of ITV Specials.

As well as their voices complementing each other beautifully, they are the best of friends, which is clear to be soon during my chat with them on Zoom, especially as the pals discuss bringing toffees to rehearsals, like naughty little school boys.

“We have our own careers and our own trajectories, and then we go, ‘It’s time we get back together’. It’s just brilliant. I love it - and he’s quite good,” smiles Michael.

Having last been in Belfast for their 2021 Together at Christmas tour, the pair are genuinely looking forward to spending a longer period here.

“We can actually go and have a couple of pints in The Crown,” says Michael, whose enthusiasm is infectious.

“I’ll tell you what we’ll do. We’ll hire a car and go for a trip out, will we Alf?,” he beams, proceeding to ask me for advice on where to go during their days off.

Maybe we should watch this space for a Northern Ireland coastal road trip TV special with Ball and Boe? “Who knows. Neither of us have toured around before. It would be really nice to discover it together,” replies Alfie.

Covid lockdown presented Ball with the opportunity to explore his creative side through writing. This November his new novel, A Backstage Betrayal, is released.

“It’s the second installment of The Empire series. I’ve just spent the last four days in the tiniest cubby hole doing the audio version. We’re only at the end of the 1920s – it could go on and on,” he teases.

Boe faced his fears in BBC1′s Freeze The Fear with Wim Hof. “I loved the challenges like swimming under the ice and sitting in the water. Throwing myself off a bridge was a bit hair-raising,” says the tenor, who still does some cold water swimming.

“If I get the chance, I’ll throw myself into a lake or river. Though I’m softening up a little bit and I like it to be warmer weather,” he confesses.

Les Misérables The Arena Spectacle will play Belfast’s SSE Arena from September 19 to September 28. Check out Concert.lesmis.com for cast listings. Tickets from Ticketmaster.ie

Ahead of starting Les Mis rehearsals next week, I sat down to answer a few questions about the show… Let me know in the comments if there’s anything else you’d like to know before we hit the stage again 🇫🇷 Mx pic.twitter.com/K0bAwJgfR9 — Michael Ball OBE💙 (@mrmichaelball) August 22, 2024

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Les Misérables UK tour full cast announced

Find out who will be joining the previously announced Killian Donnelly as Jean Valjean

Daisy Bowie-Sell

18 September 2018

The cast joining Killian Donnelly in the UK tour of Les Misérables has been announced.

The already announced Donnelly will play Jean Valjean, with Nic Greenshields as Javert, Katie Hall as Fantine, Martin Ball as Thénardier, Sophie-Louise Dann as Madame Thénardier, Harry Apps as Marius, Tegan Bannister as Eponine, Will Richardson as Enjolras and Bronwen Hanson as Cosette.

Completing the cast will be Joseph Anthony, Helen Aylott, Jamie Birkett, Keoni Blockx, Michael Burgen, Nicholas Carter, Mary-Jean Caldwell, Danny Colligan, Nicholas Corre, Megan Gardiner, Zac Hamilton, Jessie Hart, Teleri Hughes, Brian James Leys, Ruby Lyon, Leo Miles, Shane O'Riordan, Lee Ormsby, Jordan Simon Pollard, Corrine Priest, Aaron Pryce-Lewis, Janne Snellen, Ruben Van keer and Emma Warren.

Greenshields recently starred in Young Frankenstein in the West End and has starred in Les Misérables at both the Queen's Theatre and the Palace Theatre. Hall returns to the show, after playing the role of Cosette in Les Misérables in 2009. Ball returns to the role of Thenardier, having performed it at the Queen's Theatre. Dann has starred in shows including Made in Dagenham and The Girls .

The show heads out on tour in November, opening at Curve, Leicester on 3 November before heading to Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Milton Keynes and more.

Les Misérables is Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schönberg's musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Songs included in the show are "On My Own", "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?".

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New principal cast announced

Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce new casting for the critically acclaimed new production of LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre from Monday 27 March 2023.

Joining the company from 27 March 2023 will be Josh Piterman as Jean Valjean, Stewart Clarke as Javert, Lucie Jones as Fantine, Claire Machin as Madame Thénardier and Harry Chandler as Enjolras. They join Gerard Carey as Thénardier, Robert Tripolino as Marius, Nathania Ong as Éponine, Lulu-Mae Pears as Cosette.

From 28 February to 25 March 2023 Dean Chisnall will return to London to play the role of Jean Valjean for a strictly limited season, following the completion of the LES MISÉRABLES UK and Ireland tour.

The company is completed by Hazel Baldwin, Brad Barnley, Emma Barr, Will Barratt, Cameron Burt, Natalie Chua, Matthew Dale, Matt Dempsey, Bryony Duncan, Louis Emmanuel, Sophie-May Feek, Melad Hamidi, Harry Jack, Christopher Jacobsen, Will Jennings, Benjamin Karran, Yazmin King, Bart Lambert, Sarah Lark, Adam Robert Lewis, Georgie Lovatt, Ellie Ann Lowe, Donald Craig Manuel, Jodie Nolan, Sam Peggs, Jo Stephenson, Phoebe Williams and Ollie Wray.

Josh Piterman is an established Australian musical theatre performer and classical crossover artist, who made his West End debut in 2019 as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre. He is currently reprising the role at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, having recently played the Sydney Opera House to critical acclaim with a “ star performance ” (Australian Arts Review) described as “nothing short of perfection” (Broadway World). Josh’s musical theatre credits include Tony in West Side Story, Jamie in The Last Five Years, Edward in Blood Brothers and Gerry Goffin in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, all in his native Australia. He also played Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger in the Australian 2016 season of Cats, a role for which he won the Green Room Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Josh’s UK theatre credits include playing Corny Collins in the UK Tour of Hairspray.

Stewart Clarke most recently appeared in Mandela at the Young Vic. His previous credits include the role of Ersnt Ludwig in the original cast of the multi-award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Be More Chill at The Other Palace, Fiddler on the Roof at the Playhouse Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, and Loserville at the Garrick Theatre. He also appeared in Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory and The Rink at the Southwark Playhouse.

Lucie Jones returns to the role of Fantine following her recent WhatsOnStage award winning appearance as Elphaba in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria . Her London theatre credits include Jenna in Waitress, also on tour, Fantine in the Les Misérables Staged Concert and Cosette in the original production of Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre, Victoria in American Psycho at the Almeida and Maureen in RENT at The Other Palace. Her other credits include Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at Leicester Curve, on UK Tour and at the South Korea Opera House, Molly in the International tour of Ghost, Meatloaf in the International Arena tour of We Will Rock You and Holly in the UK tour of The Wedding Singer.

Claire Machin was recently seen as Mrs Brill in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre. Her previous theatre credits include her Olivier-nominated performance as Cora in Girls the Musical at Phoenix Theatre, Gladys in the original  London cast of Memphis at the Shaftesbury Theatre, for which she was nominated for a WhatsOnStage award, Claire in Amour at the Charing Cross Theatre, Violet Butterfield in Flowers for Mrs. Harris at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Alice Beane in Titanic (UK Tour), Barbara Castle in Made in Dagenham at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Mabel in The Pajama Game at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre, Mrs. Metcalf in Betty Blue Eyes at the Novello Theatre, and Widow Corney in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and on tour.

Les Misérables marks Harry Chandler’s West End debut, having recently played Feuilly in the UK and Ireland tour of the production.

Dean Chisnall most recently played the role of Jean Valjean in the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables, having also closed the original production of Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre and appeared in the West End Staged Concert version of the show. His previous theatre credits include George Mole in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Narrator in Blood Brothers (UK tour), Working at Southwark Playhouse, Shrek in Shrek The Musical at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and National Tour, Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre, La Cage aux Folles at the Playhouse, Never Forget at the Savoy and on tour, Evita at the Adelphi Theatre and The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre.

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Cameron’s Mackintosh’s production of Boublil and Schönberg’s LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR will embark on a World Tour this September, opening with strictly limited UK dates. As the beloved musical phenomenon enters its 40 th revolutionary year in London, this spectacular production will have an extraordinary new design specifically created for larger venues.

The Arena Spectacular will be performing in over 15 countries and regions worldwide.

Joining the previously announced Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly, who share the role of Jean Valjean, and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden, who share the role of Javert, will be Bonnie Langford as Madame Thénardier, Gavin Lee as Thénardier, Jac Yarrow as Marius, Beatrice Penny-Touré as Cosette, Channah Hewitt as Fantine, James D. Gish as Enjolras and Jeremy Secomb as Bishop of Digne, leading a cast and orchestra of over 65. Further casting to be announced soon.

Victor Hugo’s classic tale is an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. With a magnificent score of iconic songs including “I Dreamed a Dream”, “On My Own”, “Bring Him Home”, “One Day More” and more, this epic and uplifting story is undisputedly one of the world’s favourite musicals.

Cameron Mackintosh said “The spectacular world arena tour of the Les Misérables concert has been a dream of mine for many years. With Les Mis' 40th phenomenal year starting this October, there couldn't be a better time for it to happen. A dream concert deserves a dream cast and I couldn't be more thrilled to announce that the first UK leg of the tour, which opens in Belfast in September and is already more than two thirds sold out, will star Alfie Boe or Killian Donnelly as Jean Valjean and Michael Ball or Bradley Jaden as Javert, heading a cast and orchestra of over 65. Many other favourite Les Misérables performers, chosen from all over the world, will be announced. After the UK, the world tour will play many cities across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Korea, Japan and several other Asian cities before it returns to Europe and beyond. With the Les Misérables movie now being re-released in cinemas across the world in its completely remixed digital glory, sounding and looking better than ever, and with the London and North American productions still regularly breaking attendance records, Les Misérables is a true phenomenon – The People’s Musical – and the only musical ever to be simultaneously a hit on stage, screen and in concert arenas. Boublil and Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and I owe our inspiration to the genius of Victor Hugo's masterpiece.”

Further casting to be announced. Les Misérables will feature a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow. Please note that the appearance of any artist is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice.

Visit the website lesmis.com/worldtour to view the cast’s scheduled performance dates, which are subject to change.

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Les Misérables Tour Full Cast Announced

Cameron Mackintosh has announced full casting for his acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables as the UK and Ireland tour reopens at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 23 November 2021 where it will run until 31 December 2021.

Joining the previously announced Dean Chisnall as ‘Jean Valjean’, Nic Greenshields as ‘Javert’ and Katie Hall as ‘Fantine’ will be Ian Hughes as ‘Thénardier’, Will Callan as ‘Marius’, Nathania Ong as ‘Eponine’, Helen Walsh as ‘Madame Thénardier’, Barnaby Hughes as ‘Enjolras’ and Paige Blankson as ‘Cosette’.

The cast is completed by George Arvidson, Aidan Banyard, Will Barratt, Adam Boardman, Rebecca Bolton, Emily Olive Boyd, Olivia Brereton, Earl Carpenter, Harry Chandler, Rebecca Ferrin, Aimee Good, Steven Hall, Jenna Innes, Tessa Kadler, Damien Kneale, Caleb Lagayan, Abel Law, Joseph McDonnell, Zabrina Norry, Emily Owens, Jordan Simon Pollard, Jamie Pritchard, Dean Read and Rebecca Ridout.

Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this acclaimed new production of Les Misérables in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25 th  anniversary it has taken the world by storm continuing to enjoy record-breaking runs in countries including North America, Australia, Japan, Korea, France and Spain.

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Full Casting Announced for LES MISÉRABLES UK And Ireland Tour

Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce full casting for his acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s “ LES MISÉRABLES ” as the UK and Ireland tour reopens at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 23 November 2021 where it will run until 31 December 2021.

Joining the previously announced Dean Chisnall as ‘Jean Valjean’, Nic Greenshields as ‘Javert’ and Katie Hall as ‘Fantine’ will be Ian Hughes as ‘Thénardier’, Will Callan as ‘Marius’, Nathania Ong as ‘Eponine’, Helen Walsh as ‘Madame Thénardier’, Barnaby Hughes as ‘Enjolras’ and Paige Blankson as ‘Cosette’.

The cast is completed by George Arvidson, Aidan Banyard, Will Barratt, Adam Boardman, Rebecca Bolton, Emily Olive Boyd, Olivia Brereton, Earl Carpenter, Harry Chandler, Rebecca Ferrin, Aimee Good, Steven Hall, Jenna Innes, Tessa Kadler, Damien Kneale, Caleb Lagayan, Abel Law, Joseph McDonnell, Zabrina Norry, Emily Owens, Jordan Simon Pollard, Jamie Pritchard, Dean Read and Rebecca Ridout.

Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this acclaimed new production of LES MISÉRABLES in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary it has taken the world by storm continuing to enjoy record-breaking runs in countries including North America, Australia, Japan, Korea, France and Spain.

Boublil and Schönberg’s magnificent iconic score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the classic songs, I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, Stars, Bring Him Home, Do You Hear the People Sing?, One Day More, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Master Of The House and many more. Several of its songs have become real-life anthems of revolution wherever in the world people are fighting for their freedom. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 52 countries and in 22 languages, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular and contemporary musicals .

Cameron Mackintosh’s production of LES MISÉRABLES is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. Orchestrations are by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke and Stephen Brooker with original orchestrations by John Cameron. The production is directed by James Powell and Laurence Connor, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt, and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Alfonso Casado Trigo.

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LES MISERABLES Announces Dates for 2021-2022 UK and Ireland Tour

The cast will include Dean Chisnall as ‘Jean Valjean’, Nic Greenshields as ‘Javert’ and Katie Hall as ‘Fantine’.

Cameron Mackintosh has announced full touring dates for the UK and Ireland tour of his production of the Boublil and Schönberg's "LES MISÉRABLES".

The musical will open at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 24 November 2021 where it has been extended by 2 weeks to run until 1 January 2022, before playing Liverpool Empire (5 - 22 January 2022), Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin (8 - 26 February 2022), The Mayflower, Southampton (8 - 26 March 2022), The Lowry, Salford (29 March - 23 April 2022), Milton Keynes Theatre (26 April - 21 May 2022), Theatre Royal Plymouth (24 May - 11 June 2022), Hull New Theatre (15 June - 9 July 2022), Bristol Hippodrome (12 July - 6 August 2022), Birmingham Hippodrome (9 - 27 August 2022), Norwich Theatre Royal (31 August - 24 September 2022), Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (30 September - 29 October 2022), Sunderland Empire (1 - 19 November 2022), Leeds Grand Theatre (24 November - 10 December 2022) and Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (13 December 2022 - 14 January 2023). Full listings below.

As previously announced, the cast will include Dean Chisnall as 'Jean Valjean', Nic Greenshields as 'Javert' and Katie Hall as 'Fantine' with full casting to be announced soon.

Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of "Les Misérables" in 2009 to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary it has taken the world by storm. Originally touring the UK throughout 2009/10, concluding with a season at the Barbican, it has also played across the globe including Broadway. This production opened triumphantly in the West End at the Sondheim Theatre in January 2020 to critical acclaim, and it will reopen there in September 2021 following a limited run of The Staged Concert. It will also open in Tokyo in May 2021 and will commence another tour of North America in Autumn 2022. It has firmly been embraced by modern audiences everywhere as a Les Mis for the 21st century. The tour of this production has sold out in record breaking time in each venue it has played since opening in 2018.

This production inspired the hugely successful movie version starring Hugh Jackman , Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne . This brilliant new staging has scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo , and has to date already been seen in North America, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Manila, Singapore, Dubai and Broadway.

Boublil and Schönberg's magnificent score of "LES MISÉRABLES" includes the songs, "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own", "Stars", "Bring Him Home", "Do You Hear the People Sing?", "One Day More", "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables", "Master Of The House" and many more. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 52 countries and in 22 languages, "LES MISÉRABLES" is undisputedly one of the world's most popular musicals.

Cameron Mackintosh 's production of "LES MISÉRABLES" is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo . It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel , additional material by James Fenton and original adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird . The original "LES MISÉRABLES" orchestrations are by John Cameron with new orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke , Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen Brooker . The production is directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell , designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland , lighting by Paule Constable , sound by Mick Potter , musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt , projections by Fifty-Nine Productions and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Graham Hurman .

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Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce new cast members joining the critically acclaimed new production of LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre from Tuesday 27 September.

Joining the company from 27 September will be David Thaxton as Javert, Ava Brennan as Fantine, Robert Tripolino as Marius, Nathania Ong as Éponine and Lulu-Mae Pears as Cosette. They join Jon Robyns as Jean Valjean, Gerard Carey as Thénardier, Josefina Gabrielle as Madame Thénardier and Jordan Shaw as Enjolras.

The company also includes Hazel Baldwin, Brad Barnley, Emma Barr, Cameron Burt, Natalie Chua, Matthew Dale, Matt Dempsey, Bryony Duncan, Louis Emmanuel, Sophie-May Feek, Natalie Green, Melad Hamidi, Harry Jack, Christopher Jacobsen, Benjamin Karran, Yazmin King, Bart Lambert, Sarah Lark, Georgie Lovatt, Ellie Ann Lowe, Adam Robert Lewis, Donald Craig Manuel, Jodie Nolan, Sam Peggs, Jo Stephenson, Phoebe Williams and Ollie Wray.

David Thaxton returns to Les Misérables, having previously played both Javert and Enjolras at the Queen’s Theatre. His other West End credits include Kevin T/Garth in Come From Away at the Phoenix, The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Raoul in Love Never Dies at The Adelphi Theatre, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Giorgio in Passion at the Donmar Warehouse, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Ava Brennan’s West End theatre credits include Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Alline Bullock in Tina – The Tina Turner Musical at the Aldwych Theatre and Mrs Crachit in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic. She has also appeared in Netflix’s Top Boy and her film credits include Hellboy, Rocketman, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Beauty and the Beast.

Robert Tripolino’s theatre credits include The Man in Whistle Down The Wind at The Watermill Theatre, Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar and Sal Russo in RAGS at Manchester Hope Mill Theatre. In Australia he has appeared as Jamie in The Last Five Years, Roger in Rent, Chino in West Side Story, Jean-Michel in La Cage Aux Folles, and Jamie in Third World Blues.

Nathania Ong, who most recently played Éponine in the UK and Ireland Tour, now joins the London production in the same role. She graduated from Mountview in 2021 and went on to make her professional debut in Be More Chill at the Shaftesbury Theatre that same year.

Les Misérables marks Lulu-Mae’s West End debut. She has recently been seen as Graziella in West Side Story at the Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia.

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Les Misérables – new UK and Ireland tour dates

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Cameron Mackintosh has confirmed full touring dates for the eagerly-awaited return of the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables this autumn.

The tour will resume with a season at the Theatre Royal Glasgow. Running from 24 November 2021 until 1 January 2022, the production will then visit Liverpool Empire (5-22 January), Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin (8-26 February), The Mayflower, Southampton (8-26 March), The Lowry, Salford (29 March-23 April), Milton Keynes Theatre (26 April-21 May), Theatre Royal Plymouth (24 May-11 June), Hull New Theatre (15 June-9 July), Bristol Hippodrome (12 July-6 August), Birmingham Hippodrome (9-27 August), Norwich Theatre Royal (31 August-24 September), Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (30 September-29 October), Sunderland Empire (1-19 November), Leeds Grand Theatre (24 November-10 December) and Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (13 December 2022-14 January 2023).

As previously announced the returning cast will include Dean Chisnall ( Les Misérables , Queen’s Theatre) as Valjean, Nic Greenshields ( Young Frankenstein , Garrick Theatre) as Javert and Katie Hall (Cosette in Les Misérables 25th Anniversary concert) as Fantine.

Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel with additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird.

Directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, the successful touring production features design by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt, projections by Fifty-Nine Productions and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Graham Hurman.

The re-launch of the tour will follow on from the resumption of performances of the West End production of Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre on 25 September. The critically-acclaimed Les Misérables – The Staged Concert  will be the first of the three Les Misérables ’ production to return with performances at the Sondheim Theatre, beginning on 20 May and running until 3 September. The newest production of Les Misérables will also open in Tokyo next month and will embark on another tour of North America in the autumn of 2022.

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Haley Dortch

Haley is honored to make her national tour debut as Fantine. A special thanks to teachers, the Les Mis team, and Tara Rubin Casting. So much love to her friends, family, and her dog, Boba. And Go Blue! @haleydortch

Matt Crowle

Matt hails from Chicago where his Joseph Jefferson Award-winning and nominated performances include  The Santaland Diaries  (Goodman Theatre),  The Producers  (Leo Bloom, Mercury Theatre Chicago),  A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder  (The D’Ysquith Family, Porchlight Music Theatre),  Mary Poppins  (Bert, Paramount Theatre),  South Pacific  (Luther Billis, Drury Lane Oakbrook),  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum  (Hysterium, Porchlight Music Theatre),  Singin’ In The Rain  (Cosmo Brown, Drury Lane Oakbrook),  Merrily We Roll Along  (Charley Kringas, Porchlight Music Theatre), and  Bye Bye Birdie  (Albert Peterson, Drury Lane Oakbrook).  Broadway and National Tours: Monty Python’s Spamalot ,  Doctor Dolittle  (with Tommy Tune).  Television:  Night Sky, The Chi, Empire . Love and thanks to Ma, Pa, Jim, Sam, and my Erin. www.mattcrowle.com

Madame Thénardier

Victoria huston-elem.

Devin Archer

National Tours: Miss Saigon, Bright Star, Mamma Mia! Las Vegas: Mamma Mia!, Ace. Other: Sweeney Todd, The Last Five Years, RENT, Tarzan, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific. Northwestern Wildcat. Love and gratitude to my family, friends, The Mine and Tara Rubin Casting. @devinjarcher

Mya Rena Hunter

Jake David Smith

Delaney Guyer

Little Cosette / Young Éponine

Ava buesing.

Azalea Wolfe

Leo Caravano

Milo Maharlika

Kyle is a Chicago based actor and pro wrestling fan. Honored to join this company. Regional: Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane, Marriott Lincolnshire, Rocky Mountain Repertory, and Fireside Theatre, among others. TV: NBC’s “ C hicago Med ,” The CW’s “ 4400 .” Represented by DDO. Wouldn’t be here without Amanda, Jared or Dad. @smyleadams

Ashley Alexandra

Montparnasse

Jeremiah alsop.

Bamatabois / Babet

David andino.

Daniel Gerard Bittner

Pittsburgh-born-and-raised performer, and recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He has recently made his Broadway Debut in The Phantom of the Opera as Monsieur Reyer/Hairdresser. Dan would like to thank his family and friends for all of their love and support! 

Jenna Burns

Jenna is incredibly grateful to be back on stage! Most recently seen touring with the North American company of The Phantom of the Opera (Christine Daaé u/s). Thanks to Bloc, Tara Rubin Casting, and her husband Kevin. Soli Deo Gloria. @jennanicoleburns 

Ben Cherington

Factory Foreman / Brujon

Steve czarnecki.

Arianne DiCerbo

Over the moon touring with the first musical she ever saw.  Several national tours as crew, now enjoying the “change of scenery!”  Film: Abe (featured), Cabaret: Fringe-Sight is 2020 at Don’t Tell Mama, NYC. Love to GDK. ariannedicerbo.com  

Genevieve Ellis

Jean Prouvaire

David young fernandez.

Michelle Beth Herman

Bishop of Digne / Lesgles

Randy jeter.

Danny Martin

Mikako Martin

National tour debut! Woohoo! Some of her favorite credits include: A Gentleman’s Guide (Sibella), Joseph (Narrator), and Kinky Boots (Lauren U/S). Eden is so grateful for all of her besties. A big old thank you to her role model parents, Nick, Sandy, Dustin, and Marc. I love you all endlessly. BWMT @edenelizabethmau Xoxo.

Andrew Marks Maughan

Factory Girl

Paige mcnamara.

Ashley Dawn Mortensen

Ashley is excited to be rejoining the barricade on the road. Broadway: Les Misérables (swing). National Tour: Wicked (Elphaba understudy), Les Misérables. Regional: Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), White Christmas (Betty Haynes),  The Sound of Music (Maria), How to Succeed… (Rosemary). Graduate of NYU CAP21. Special thanks to Will and everyone at Nicolosi. @shebakesyoueat

Tim Quartier

Juliette Redden

Matt Rosell

Christopher Robin Sapp

The Buddy Holly Story (Buddy Holly, Argyle Theatre), Pirates of Penzance (Frederic, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players), Tangled (Flynn Rider, Disney Cruise Line), Eileen 100th Anniversary (Dinny, VHRP LIVE!), Titanic (Thomas Andrews, College Light Opera Company). @ChristopherRobinSapp 

Greta Schaefer

Kaitlyn Sumner

Swing, Dance Captain

Kyle timson.

Kyle is thrilled to be returning to the barricade after spending 2 plus years on the previous US Tour! Previously seen as Shrek on the International Tour of Shrek The Musical. @kylertimson Love to friends, family, Rachel, and Lily! For Baba.

David T. Walker

J.T. is thrilled to be joining the Les Misérables Tour! Previous credits include the Rent 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour (Mark) and the R ent 20th Anniversary Tour (Swing, Angel/Collins u/s). Special thanks to Michael and the Roster Agency family as well as Tara Rubin Casting. All the love to his family and friends. 

Cameron Mackintosh

With the fully staged production of LES MISÉRABLES reopen in London alongside HAMILTON, MARY POPPINS and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA now lockdown restrictions have been lifted, and with LES MISÉRABLES and OLIVER! due to open in Tokyo over the next few months followed by MISS SAIGON in Austria and MARY POPPINS in Tokyo and Sydney next year, Cameron remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals, with over 50 shows either on or in pre-production internationally.

Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS – the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4 th decades – MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITHCES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving as successful as the original productions.

In 2013, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of LES MISÉRABLES which is the most successful movie ever of an original stage musical.

The sold-out staged concert of LES MISÉRABLES at the Gielgud Theatre in 2019 was also broadcast live to over 600 cinemas and is now the highest grossing one-night live event performance of all time – a unique achievement in the history of Musical Theatre and has enjoyed another successful five month season at the Sondheim, despite having a five month hiatus due to Covid.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21 st century. They house many of London’s successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been rebuilt and renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.

Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.

Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and he is the first British producer to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor. He is also the president of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics

Alain boublil.

Alain Boublil is the author of the librettos and lyrics for the musicals La Révolution Française , Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen , all in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg, as well as Marguerite with music by Michel Legrand. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Les Misérables . He is the author/lyricist of ABBAcadabra , a fairy tale musical with songs by ABBA; of the stage adaptation of the Demy/Legrand film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ; as well as author of the plays The Diary of Adam and Eve and Manhattan Parisienne , a new work with classic and new songs, being rewritten and soon to reopen with a new title. He wrote a prize-winning French novel, Les Dessous de soi .

His many awards include two Tonys, two Grammys, two Victoire de la Musique and a Molière Award for Les Misérables , as well as an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon , a Laurence Olivier Award for Martin Guerre and a New York Chapter Honors Grammy for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. Boublil and Schönberg’s 40-plus-year collaboration was celebrated in May 2016 at Carnegie Hall as honorees of the New York Pops’ 33rd birthday gala. Boublil was recently appointed to the board of directors of the New York Pops. He lives in New York with his wife, actress/singer Marie Zamora, and is the father of four sons.

Book & Music

Claude-michel schönberg.

Born in 1944 of Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil, he is the book co-writer and the composer of La Révolution Française , Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen . In 2008, his musical Marguerite , in collaboration with Alain Boublil, Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer, opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Claude-Michel has supervised overseas productions and co-produced several international cast albums of his shows. In 2001, he composed his first ballet score, Wuthering Heights , which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. His ballet Cleopatra , which opened in 2011, was his second collaboration with David Nixon and his seventh complete score. In 2012, Claude-Michel co-wrote the screenplay and re-conceived the music for the Les Misérables musical movie. His shows have won many awards over the years, most recently the WhatsOnStage Audience Awards for Best West End Show and Best Musical Revival for the London production of Miss Saigon . Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and Grammy Award winner for his outstanding contribution to the creative community, Mr Schönberg and Alain Boublil were honoured at a New York Pops gala concert in Carnegie Hall, celebrating their 40-year collaboration. Mr Schönberg was appointed visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University – a position funded by the Mackintosh Foundation – and is now an emeritus fellow. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music where he is a guest professor. Mr Schönberg married the English ballerina Charlotte Talbot in 2003. He is the father of one son and two daughters

Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer was born in South Africa where he began a career in journalism, writing the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. He lived in London from 1954, pursuing twin careers as newspaperman and songwriter. He joined the Daily Express in 1960 and later became its senior drama critic, a post he held for 18 years. He later won two national press awards as the television critic for the Daily Mail. As a lyricist, he wrote weekly songs for That Was the Week That Was. He won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers/Sophia Loren comedy song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ . Other award-winning lyrics include two songs written with, and for, Charles Aznavour: ‘Yesterday When I Was Young’ and the chart-topping ‘She’ . He wrote the book and lyrics for the West End musical Our Man Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Millicent Martin, and the lyrics for The Four Musketeers, starring Harry Secombe as D’Artagnan. He also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (ABBA), Anthony Newley and Michel Legrand. Kretzmer was the recipient of two honorary doctorates and was appointed OBE in 2010.

James Powell

James co-directed the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables , first staged in 2009. He has subsequently directed the production worldwide – including Japan, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, Korea, Germany, Dubai, New York and the current UK and US tours. He directed the staged concert version of Les Misérables in Scandinavia in 2002 and the 25th anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena in 2010.

James’ other directorial work includes Dirty Dancing in London, Australia, Toronto, Holland, Germany and both US tours. He was Associate Director on the original production of Mary Poppins (Bristol, West End and Broadway), and has since gone on to direct both UK tours as well as productions in Holland, Australia, Switzerland, Dubai, Germany and Japan. Other work includes Batman Live (UK tour), The Witches of Eastwick and Singin’ in the Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse) where he was Staff Director.

James recently directed Les Misérables: The Staged Concert at the Gielgud Theatre and resumed his position of Associate Director for Mary Poppins in the West End.

Laurence Connor

Director: Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Chess (English National Opera); Unmasked (The Other Palace); Miss Saigon (Broadway, West End, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan and Korea); School of Rock (Broadway, West End, US Tour, Australia, China and Korea); Les Misérables (Broadway, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK and US tours); Oliver! (UK tour).

He directed the 25th anniversary concert of  The Phantom of the Opera  at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th anniversary concert of  Les Misérables  at the O2 in London, both of which were simultaneously broadcast in cinemas worldwide and subsequently released on DVD.

DVD credits:  Jesus Christ Superstar  (world arena tour);  The Phantom of the Opera  25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables  (O2 Arena) and Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre).

Awards: Miss Saigon on Broadway (Tony nomination for Best Revival); Miss Saigon (UK – Manchester Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical, Korea – Best New Foreign Production and Best Ensemble in a Musical, and Australia – the Green Room Award for Best Director of a Musical) and  Les Misérables  (UK – Best Musical at the Manchester Evening News Awards).

Set & Image Designer

Matt kinley.

Matt graduated from the Motley Theatre design course in 1994 and spent the next decade working at the National Theatre in London as a designer, design associate and draughtsman. Matt left to work within commercial theatre, developing many large productions and adapting them for tour. As part of a long working partnership with Cameron Mackintosh, Matt initially adapted the original versions of My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins as well as co-designing the recent international productions of Miss Saigon .

In 2009, he was invited to redesign Les Misérables for its 25th anniversary production as a UK tour. The success of the new staging has seen subsequent productions and tours across the world, alongside presentations on Broadway and the new West End show at the Sondheim. Matt also designed the 25th anniversary concerts of Les Misérables at the O2 Arena and The Phantom of the Opera at theRoyal Albert Hall, as well as the recent Les Mis concert at the Gielgud. Matt also designs a wide variety and scale of productions, both in the UK and internationally, with a long history of developing large-scale musical theatre in São Paulo, Brazil.

Lighting Designer

Paule constable.

Paule is a multi-award-winning lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. She is an associate of the National, the Lyric Hammersmith and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. Recent theatre credits include: The Ocean at the End of the Lane , Master Harold and the Boys , Pericles , Nine Night , Pinocchio , Follies (Olivier nominated, Knight of Illumination Award 2018), Angels in America (Olivier nominated, also Broadway, Tony Award nominated), Mosquitoes , Common , The Red Barn , The Threepenny Opera , Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , (National/Apollo/Gielgud/ Ethel Barrymore, NY/ world tour) and War Horse (National/New London/ Vivian Beaumont, NY/world tour), Local Hero (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Cherry Orchard (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam), The Moderate Soprano (West End), ear for eye , Clybourne Park (also West End), Posh , Krapps Last Tape , The Country , Dublin Carol and The Weir (Royal Court, also West End and Broadway), Luise Miller and Ivanov (Donmar at the Wyndham’s), The Chalk Garden , Othello , Proof , The Little Foxes and Bondagers (Donmar Warehouse), Happy Days , Feast , The Good Soul of Szechuan , Generations , Vernon God Little , Wolf Hall (also West End and Broadway), The Prince of Homburg , The Seagull and Tales From Ovid (RSC), Seventeen , Herons , Blasted and Three Sisters (Lyric). Her opera designs have been seen all over the world. In dance, she lit the new revival of Swan Lake , as well as Romeo and Juliet , The Red Shoes , Sleeping Beauty , Play without Words , Dorian Gray and Highland Fling for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Paule is a Royal Designer for Industry and has won the Oliver Award for Best Lighting Design a record four times (for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , The Chalk Garden , Don Carlos and His Dark Materials ) and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design twice (for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse ). She has also won the Knight of Illuminations Award for Best Lighting Design for Follies , Saint Joan and for Barnum , the LA Drama Desk Award for Les Misérables , War Horse and Sleeping Beauty , the New York Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for both Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse and the Australian Helpmann Award for Les Misérables in Sydney. Paule was the first recipient of the Opera Award for Lighting and received the first Hospital Award for Contribution to Theatre.

Sound Designer

Mick potter.

Mick has a BA Honours degree in Creative Design from the Central School of Art and Design London. Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London/New York), Bombay Dreams (London/New York), The Woman in White (London and New York), The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), Evita (London), Zorro: The Musical (London/Paris/worldwide), The Sound of Music (London/Toronto/UK tour/Asia/Australia), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London), Sister Act (London/Hamburg/Stuttgart/Barcelona/Berlin), Love Never Dies (London/Melbourne/Sydney/Tokyo/Hamburg/US tour), The Wizard of Oz (London/Toronto/US tour/Australia), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Les Misérables 25th anniversary celebration (O2 Arena, London), The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary celebration (Royal Albert Hall), The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour/US tour), Evita (New York/US tour/Australia/China), Barnum (Chichester/UK tour), From Here to Eternity (London), Miss Saigon (London/Tokyo/New York/UK tour/US tour/worldwide), School of Rock (New York/London/US tour/Australia/China), Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera, London/New York), Cats (New York/US tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester/London), Carousel and Chess (English National Opera, London), The Phantom of the Opera 30th anniversary celebration (New York), The Phantom of the Opera (worldwide), Man of La Mancha (English National Opera, London), The Light in The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall/World tour) and Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre, London).

Mick created all new sound designs for The Phantom of The Opera (London/New York/worldwide) and all new sound designs for Les Misérables international 25th anniversary production (London/New York/worldwide).

Awards include: Olivier Award in 2005 for The Woman in White (London), Parnelli Award in 2006 for The Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), Green Room Award Australia in 2011 for Love Never Dies (Melbourne), Broadway World Audience Award in 2013 for Les Misérables (Toronto), Broadway World Audience Award in 2014 for Miss Saigon (London), Helpmann Award Australia in 2015 for Les Misérables (Melbourne), Broadway World Audience Award in 2016 for Les Misérables (Manila) and Green Room Award Australia in 2019 School of Rock (Melbourne). Nominations include: Helpmann Award in 2011 for Love Never Dies (Melbourne), Tony Award in 2014 for Les Misérables (New York), Green Room Australia in 2014 for Les Misérables (Sydney), Drama Desk Award in 2016 for School of Rock (New York) and Drama Desk Award in 2017 for Cats (New York).

Original Costume Designer

Andreane neofitou.

Andy’s iconic costume designs for the huge hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon have been seen in London and on Broadway (gaining her a Tony nomination for Les Misérables ) with productions continuing to play worldwide. Les Misérables became the West End’s longest-running show at 32 years, and a major new production of Miss Saigon is currently playing a US tour following successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among Andy’s other costume designs are Timon of Athens with David Suchet, The Baker’s Wife and Gone With the Wind – all three directed by Trevor Nunn, Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre) directed by John Caird, and Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as the musicals The Far Pavilions (West End), and the mega-hit Grease (Dominion Theatre/UK and European tours).

Other international credits include Nabucco directed by Elijah Moshinsky (The Met, New York), Miss Julie (Athens), Jane Eyre: The Musical directed by John Caird (Broadway; Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and Cameron Mackintosh’s revised version of Martin Guerre (USA).

Andy’s costume designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company include The Changeling directed by Michael Attenborough, The Merchant of Venice with Antony Sher, The Fair Maid of the West directed by Trevor Nunn (inaugural production Swan Theatre), Hedda Gabler with Glenda Jackson, Once in a Lifetime , Peter Pan , and Nicholas Nickleby at Stratford and on Broadway, the latter winning Andy the Outer Circle Critics’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design.

Film credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with Richard Dreyfuss directed by Tom Stoppard and Still Life with Roger Daltrey.

Costume Design

Christine rowland.

Christine Rowland has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre. She was resident Costume Supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and Head of Costume at the RSC. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York and Japan), Oliver! (London, UK tour, Toronto and Sydney), The Witches of Eastwick (London and Melbourne), My Fair Lady (London and USA tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Mary Poppins (London, UK tour, New York, USA tour, Holland, Australia, Vienna and Stuttgart), Les Misérables 25th anniversary production (USA and UK tours, O2 concert, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, New York, Dubai, Brazil and Mexico).

Other musicals include: The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company, London), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London/New York) and Gypsy (New York).

Theatre Designer credits includes:  King Lear  (The Duke of York’s);  Admissions  (Trafalgar Studios);  The Monstrous Child  (Royal Opera House);  Frozen  (Theatre Royal Haymarket);  Lady Windemere’s Fan ,  Di and Viv and Rose  (The Vaudeville);  American Buffalo  (Wyndham’s Theatre);  Mrs Henderson Presents  (Noël Coward Theatre);  Measure for Measure  (Theatre For A New Audience, New York);  Hamlet ,  The Two Gentlemen of Verona  (RSC and The Lincoln Centre, Washington);  Running Wild  (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & UK Tour);  Kinky Boots ,  Shakespeare in Love ,  King-Kong  (The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town);  The Snapper  (Gate Theatre, Dublin);  Making Noise Quietly ,  Anna Christie ,  The Man who had all the Luck ,  The Cut  (Donmar Warehouse);  The Four Seasons : A Reimagining  (The Sam Wanamaker Theatre);  Richard II ,  Doctor Faustus ,  Frontline ,  The Lightning Child  (Shakespeare’s Globe);  Occupational Hazards ,  A Human Being Died That Night (Hampstead Theatre);  Routes ,  Breathing Corpses ,  The Acid Test  (Royal Court);  My Fair Lady  (Sheffield Crucible);  Drum Belly ,  Our Few and Evil Days  (The Abbey);  Howie the Rookie  (The Project, The Barbican, BAM);  Yerma  (West Yorkshire Playhouse);  Fortune  (The Metropolitan Theatre, PARCO, Tokyo);  An Enemy of the People  (Theatre Cocoon, Bunkamura, Tokyo);  Secret Theatre ,  Blasted ,  Saved  (Lyric Hammersmith);  The Hypochondriac ,  Home ,  A Steady Rain  (Theatre Royal, Bath);  A Number  (The Chocolate Factory)

Musical Staging

Geoffrey garratt.

Geoffrey trained at the Bird College of Performing Arts. As a performer, Geoffrey has appeared in Cats , Fiddler on the Roof , Matador , Mr Cinders , Martin Guerre , Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , West Side Story and Oliver!

Geoff’s most recent work includes Associate Choreographer on the recently opened revival of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward, additional choreography for the recent West End hit revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward), which transferred to Broadway (Landmark Theatre, New York), musical staging for the Broadway revival of Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre, New York) which opened in Toronto, and the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables . Geoff has subsequently worked on Les Misérables in Australia, Japan and Korea. He has worked as an associate choreographer on Mary Poppins since the original production in and subsequently in the USA, Holland, Australia, Mexico and in Brazil. He has worked as Associate Choreographer on Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the UK and USA national tours, Holland, Australia and Toronto, and as Additional Choreographer for productions of Miss Saigon in Japan, Holland, Australia, Korea, Brazil and the UK tour.

Other Associate Choreography credits include The Witches of Eastwick (West End and Australia) and Betty Blue Eyes (West End). Choreographic credits also include The Witches of Eastwick (UK tour), Jack and the Beanstalk (Barbican), Encore! Mr Producer and Hey! Mr Producer (Jean Ann Ryan Productions USA), Blues in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fascinating Aïda (UK tour) and Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Additional Musical Staging

Michael ashcroft, projection realization.

Finn Ross has won two Oliviers, a Tony and three Drama Desk awards. Recent work includes: Theatre:  Back to the Future (West End); Les Mis é rables (WestEnd);   Sweet Charity  (Donmar),   (Broadway);  Mean Girls   (Broadway),  Bat out of Hell  (West end and International), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End & Broadway),  Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ( Broadway/West End/Tour) ; Dusty  (Touring) ;   Jagged Little Pill ,  In the Body of the World & The Crossing   (American Reparatory Theatre & Broadway);  American Psycho  (Broadway & Almedia);  Betrayal  (Broadway);  Chimerica  (Almeida & West End);  The Tempest  (The RSC & Barbican);  Master and Margarita ,  All My Sons ,  Shunkin  (Complicite) Opera:   The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny  (Royal Opera House);  Missa Solemnis  (LA Phil); Benvenuto Cellini,  Death of Klinghoffer ,  Death in Venice ,  Damnation of Faust ,  Don Giovanni , (ENO);  Hänsel und Gretel,  Zäuberflote,  A Dog’s Heart  (DNO, Amsterdam);  La   clemenza di Tito ,  Mr Brouček  (Opera North);  Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Béatrice et Bénédict ,  Turn of the Screw  (Theatre an der Wien);  Rinaldo , (Glyndebourne);  Dance:  Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet);  The Nutcracker  (Atlanta Ballet);  Le Petit Prince  (National Ballet of Canada);  Frankenstein  (Royal Ballet);  The Feeling of Going  (Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Opera) Commercial:  J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Instillation (Guangzhou, China): Schlumberger AGM (Paris), Oracle (Las Vegas), Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International)

59 Productions

59 Productions is a multi-award-winning design studio and production company with offices in London and New York. Recent works include: Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival/Brisbane Festival), An American in Paris (Broadway/London/US tour), Junk (Lincoln Centre Theater), Oslo (Lincoln Center/National/Harold Pinter Theatre), The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre), Five Telegrams , Bloom and Deep Time (Edinburgh International Festival), The Last Ship (Northern Stage/UK tour/US tour), Moments of Silence (Imperial War Museum), Reflections: Guggenheim Bilbao 20th Anniversary (Guggenheim Museum), A Perfect Harmony (Freer/Sackler galleries/Smithsonian Institution), Paul Auster’s City of Glass (Home/Manchester/Lyric Hammersmith) Wonder.land (Manchester International Festival/National), David Bowie (V&A), Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Big Fish (Broadway), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne Berlin), War Horse (National/worldwide tours), Les Misérables (world tour) and the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Designs for opera include: Satyagraha (LA Opera), Marnie (Metropolitan Opera/ENO), Candide and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera), Brigadoon (New York City Center), Pearl Fishers (LA Opera), Metropolitan Opera 50th Anniversary Gala , Two Boys and The Enchanted Island (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Sukanya , Morgen und Abend and Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera), The Shining (Minnesota Opera), Satyagraha (ENO) and Al gran sole carico d’amore (Berlin State Opera/Salzburg Festival).

Orchestrations

Stephen metcalfe.

Stephen Metcalfe is a composer, orchestrator and record producer for film and theatre. For the past 19 years he has worked as Head of Music at Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, where he has developed, edited and contributed orchestrations to the scores for all of Cameron Mackintosh’s productions in the UK and worldwide.

Stephen produced the 2008 London cast album of Oliver! , the UK tour cast album of Les Misérables , the Australian cast album of Mary Poppins , the DVD release of the Les Misérables concert at the O2 Arena, the original London cast album of Betty Blue Eyes , the 2014 London cast album and the 25th anniversary film of Miss Saigon and the cast album of Half a Sixpence .

Other productions include Les Misérables (London/New York/the Netherlands/Spain/UK tour/US tour), Miss Saigon (London/New York the Netherlands/UK tour/US tour), The Witches of Eastwick (London/UK tour), Cats (London), Martin Guerre (Watermill), My Fair Lady (London/UK tour/US tour), Avenue Q (London), Mary Poppins (London/New York/UK tour/US tour, Oliver! (London/UK tour), Hair (London), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Barnum (Chichester/UK tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester/London) and Hamilton (London).

Stephen orchestrated and produced the double-platinum award-winning soundtrack albums for the Universal Pictures film of Les Misérables , for which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

Christopher Jahnke

Theatre includes: Orchestrator: Porgy and Bess (Broadway/London; Best Orchestrations Tony nomination), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde , Cry Baby and Grease (2007), Dessa Rose , A Man of No Importance and Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga ( The Sound of Music , 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), The Wiz Live! , Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Escape to Margaritaville and Memphis . Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success , Ragtime , Secret Garden , The Three Musketeers , The Witches of Eastwick , Mary Poppins and Wicked .

Musical Supervisor & Orchestrations

Stephen brooker.

Stephen Brooker is Executive Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh worldwide. He was musical director and conductor for Universal Pictures’ film of Les Misérables. 

Musical Supervision: Old Friends – Stephen Sondheim Celebration (May 2022), Mary Poppins (Australia May 2022), Sister Act (2022) The Show Must Go On (Palace Theatre 2021), Les Misérables (Worldwide), Miss Saigon (Worldwide), White Christmas , Mary Poppins (Worldwide), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert, Sunset Boulevard, The Woman in White, Half A Sixpence, Les Misérables O2 Concert, The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Performance, Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert, OLIVER!, My Fair Lady, Cats, Hair, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Barnum, Peter Pan, and Chess .

Musical Direction: The Woman in White, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Show Must Go On, Lautrec, Betty Blue Eyes, Cats, Shall We Dance, Hair, Fame, The Secret Garden, Chess, Carmen Jones, Saturday Night Fever, and South Pacific.

 Stephen conducted the Classical Brit Awards and was composer and conductor for the original production of Burn the Floor. For the Imagination group, he has written, produced and conducted music for: Jaguar/Range Rover, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Ford Motors, Toyota Cars, Volvo Cars, Sony Eriksson, BMW, British Airways, Holiday Inn and Canon. Orchestral conducting includes: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Hamburg Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London and Manchester Concert Orchestras and the Ukraine Opera and Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the Royal Choral Society in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. Recordings include Disney Film Classics and Crazy for Gershwin (BBC Concert Orchestra), the studio recording of Hair , cast recordings of The Secret Garden , The Woman in White and South Pacific . He was orchestrator and conductor for Walt Disney’s award-winning Animator’s Palette and Cinderellabration (Disneyland Tokyo).

 He produced the ‘live’ recording of OLIVER! Starring Rowan Atkinson, the 25th Anniversary recording of Les Misérables and the Dutch and Australian recordings of Mary Poppins . Stephen conducted the Oscars – The 85th Academy Awards and is an Australian Helpmann Award winner for Mary Poppins.

 https://stephenbrooker.co.uk

John Cameron

Academy Award-nominated John Cameron created the orchestral score for every version of Les Misérables between 1979 and 2005, including the original Robert Hossein production in 1980 through the RSC, Broadway, tour and concert versions, winning the New York Drama Desk Award for Orchestration in 1986 and the National Broadway Theatre Award in 2002. The New York cast album won a Grammy. His movie scores include: the Academy Award-nominated A Touch of Class , the British classic Kes and the Emmy-nominated Path to 9/11 . Other television and movie scores include: The Ruling Class, To End All Wars, Jack the Ripper, The Mirror Crack’d and ABC’s Little House on the Prairie . His songwriting hits include Agnetha Fältskog’s ‘If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind’. John’s concert works include the cantata Missa Celtica, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and the choir of New College, Oxford. He was nominated for an Olivier Award as co-composer of Zorro the Musical . Other shows he has arranged include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat .

Trevor Nunn

Theatre includes: From 1968 to 1986, Trevor Nunn was the longest serving artistic director of the RSC, directing most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. From 1997 to 2003, he was director of the National Theatre, where his productions included The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes: Timon of Athens and Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady from the Sea (Almeida), Hamlet, Richard II and Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), King Lear and The Seagull (RSC), Scenes from a Marriage (Coventry and St James Theatre), A Little Night Music (London/New York), Cyrano de Bergerac, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre), Birdsong, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) , A Chorus of Disapproval (West End) , All That Fall (London/New York) and Relative Values (Bath Theatre Royal/West End) .   

Opera includes: Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Così fan tutte and Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House).

Television includes: Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello and King Lear.

Film includes: Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.

John Caird is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, principal guest director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, and a freelance writer and director of plays, musicals and operas. His National Theatre productions include Hamlet , Money , Humbleboy , The Seagull , Stanley , Trelawney of the Wells , Peter Pan and his own new Olivier award-winning version of Bernstein’s Candide . His recent directorial credits include Knights’ Tale and Hamlet , both in Tokyo, Don Giovanni at WNO in Cardiff, McQueen at the Haymarket Theatre, Tosca in Chicago, Houston and LA, Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Stratford Festival in Canada, La Bohème in San Francisco and Toronto, Parsifal in Chicago, Twelfth Night in Tokyo, and his own musical Daddy Long Legs off-Broadway, in Tokyo and all across the US. His directorial work for the RSC has included more than 20 productions of Shakespeare as well as classic and new plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Romeo and Juliet , The Beggar’s Opera , Twelfth Night , Peter Pan , Our Friends in the North , Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables – the last two productions winning numerous awards in the West End, Broadway and all around the world.

At Dramaten in Stockholm, he has directed Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Dance of Death , The Tempest , Twelfth Night , Gertrud and Merry Wives of Windsor . Other productions include Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre, Becket at the Haymarket and Song & Dance at the Palace Theatre. For BBC TV, he adapted and directed Henry IV Parts I and II . He wrote and directed the Siegfried and Roy Spectacular in Las Vegas. He wrote the libretti for André Previn’s opera Brief Encounter and for The Phoenix with music by Tarik O’Regan, both premiering at Houston Grand Opera. He also wrote and directed Children of Eden with music by Stephen Schwartz, as well as Jane Eyre , Daddy Long Legs and Knights’ Tale , all with music by Paul Gordon. Theatre Craft , his book about directing plays and musicals, is published by Faber and Faber.

Original French Text

Jean-marc natel 1942 – 2019, additional material, james fenton.

James Fenton was educated at the Durham Choristers’ School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has worked as a political and literary journalist on The New Statesman, was a freelance reporter in Indo-China, spent a year in Germany working for The Guardian, was theatre critic for The Sunday Times for five years, chief book reviewer for The Times from 1984 to 1986, South East Asian correspondent for The Independent from 1986 to 1988 and a columnist for them until 1995. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

James Fenton was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999.  He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. He won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2007.

Recent work includes a new selection of poems, Yellow Tulips .  It contains some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine , to the dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children in Exile , through to the unforgettable love poems of Out of Danger . He edited the New Faber Book of Love Poems in 2006.  Further publications include School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts, A Garden of a Hundred Packets of Seeds, Samuel T Coleridge Selected Poems, William Blake Selected Poems, his reportage as a war correspondent All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of South-East Asia, and the collection of essays   The Strength of Poetry.

Plays and libretti include: The Orphan of Zhao and Tamar’s Revenge (RSC), Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic), The Tsunami Song Cycle (BBC), Rigoletto (ENO) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera). 

Associate Set Designer

David Harris

Christine peters.

Associate Sound Designer

Associate Projection Designer

Simon Harding

Associate Lighting Designer

Karen Spahn

Wigs, hair & make-up designer, stefan musch.

Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (London, 25th Anniversary, U.K. Tour, International), Les Misérables (London, Staged Concert, International), Miss Saigon, Shrek (London, International), King Lear (Chichester, London). London: A n American in Paris, Frozen: The Play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Book of Mormon, Hairspray, Gone with the Wind, Wicked, Lord of the Rings . Germany: Disney’s Aida, Elisabeth, Tabaluga and Lili, Cat s (also 1st national tour). Film: Young Woman and the Sea, Spencer, Maleficent, Cinderella, Flawless, The Merchant of Venice . Events: Royal Variety Show (2014, 2016), Her Majesty’s the Queen Platinum Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace. U.K. Theatre Trust Award for Outstanding Achievement in Wigs and Make-Up.

Musical Coordinator

John miller.

Over 100 Broadway shows. Recent: Once On This Island; Hello, Dolly!; Indecent; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; A Bronx Tale; The Great Comet of 1812; Waitress; Something Rotten!; Beautiful; Jersey Boys . Musician (bass): Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bette Midler, Peter, Paul and Mary, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra. johnmillerbass.com

Intimacy Director

Leigh zimmerman, felicia rudolph / tara rubin casting.

Selected Broadway and national tours: KPOP (upcoming), Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Big Fish, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera . Selected Off-Broadway: Sing Street, Trevor, Between the Lines, Clueless, Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love. Regional: Yale Rep, Asolo Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe. Film: Here Today.

Merri Sugarman / Tara Rubin Casting

Exclusive tour booking, press & marketing, bond theatrical group.

Bond Theatrical Group is an independently-owned booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour booking and marketing shows include & Juliet, A Beautiful Noise, A Soldier’s Play, Annie, Blue Man Group, CATS, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Clue, Clueless, Company, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Girl from the North Country, Harmony, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lempicka, Life Of Pi, Les Misérables, Peter Pan and The Lehman Trilogy . More at bondtheatrical.com

General Management

Gregory Vander Ploeg

Associate director, corey agnew.

Corey is happy to be back with Les Misérables . Favorite credits include: Les Misérables (Associate and Resident Director – Mexico, Toronto, Australia, U.S. Tours), Matilda (Deputy-Associate and Resident Director – South Korea, Toronto, U.S. national tour), Mary Poppins (Associate, Resident and Children’s Director – Broadway, Australian Premier, 1st and 2nd U.S. Tours), The Sunshine Boys (Soulpepper Theatre), Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions). Corey is passionate about teaching acting and coaches many successful college applicants: agnewactingstudio.com

Musical Supervisor

James moore.

Broadway: Miss Saigon, On the Town, Gigi, Follies, South Pacific, Ragtime, Steel Pier, Company. National tours: The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Crazy for You; And the World Goes ‘Round – The Songs of Kander and Ebb. Regional: Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Paper Mill, The Muny. Symphonic: Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, The Santa Barbara Symphony. Recordings: On the Town, Follies. Education: Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. 

Musical Staging Associate

An honors graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Robb’s career covers a wide variety of work including Broadway, Cirque Du Soleil, Disney, Momix, Prime Video, RWS Entertainment Group, Opera Philadelphia, and Turner Classic Movies. Broadway: Associate Choreographer: Miss Saigon and The Cher Show . Additional Credits: Miss Saigon (co-staged Tony Awards Broadcast performance, North American Tour, Vienna); Stratford Festival of Canada, Theatre Calgary, Ogunquit Playhouse, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Ordway, The Cape Playhouse, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the North Shore Playhouse among others. jesserobb.com

Resident Director

Brendan stackhouse, musical director, executive producer, seth sklar-heyn.

Broadway: Miss Saigon, Les Misérables (Executive Producer); The Phantom of the Opera (Production Supervisor); Miss Saigon, Evita, A Little Night Music, Finian’s Rainbow, Good Vibrations (Associate Director); Mary Stuart, Rock’n’Roll, Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director); The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director). National tour: The Phantom of the Opera (Associate Director) and Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the national tours of Frost/Nixon and Evita (2012 revival) and recently directed Ragtime at the Ogunquit Playhouse. Seth serves as Executive Producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. in N.Y. Graduate of Vassar College.

Trinity Wheeler

Networks presentations, company manager, chris danner, associate company manager, elle aghabala, production stage manager, ryan w. gardner, stage manager, claire farrokh, assistant stage manager, hollis duggans-queenss.

Cast announced for Aladdin, the first ever Disney production to come to Glasgow!

Disney Theatrical Productions present the critically acclaimed Broadway and West End musical Aladdin which will land in Glasgow for a limited season!

Article Source: ATG Last Updated: 5 September 2024 13:38

Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher, present the critically acclaimed Broadway and West End musical Aladdin which will land in Glasgow for a limited season as part of its first ever UK and Ireland tour. Disney’s Aladdin will open at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow on Wednesday 6 November 2024 with performances until Saturday 30 November 2024 , tickets are on sale now via www.atgtickets.com The UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s Aladdin will star Yeukayi Ushe (Disney’s The Lion King, A Strange Loop, Kinky Boots and Motown The Musical) as Genie and introduce Gavin Adams as Aladdin. A recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Gavin will be making his professional debut in the title role. Also a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Desmonda Cathabel (Miss Saigon, From Here to Eternity) will play Jasmine, having recently been seen on screens taking part in ITV's musical theatre talent competition, 'Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream'. They will be joined by Adam Strong (Rock of Ages, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) as Jafar, Jo Servi (Dreamgirls, The Color Purple) as Sultan, Angelo Paragoso (The Reporter, Miss Saigon) as Iago, Nay-Nay (Once On This Island) as Babkak, Adam Taylor (Cabaret, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) as Omar, and Nelson Bettencourt (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Les Misérables) as Kassim. The full cast will also include Hannah Amin, Dammi Aregbeshola, Rico Bakker, Daisy Barnett, Sarah Benbelaid, Erin Gisele Chapman, Tau-En Chien, Zac Frieze, Jared Irving, Juan Jackson, James Lim, Harriet Millier, Luchia Moss, Aaron Elijah Patel, Abbie Platts, Joseph Poulton, Chris Ribz, Olivier Scheers, Kerry Spark, Ricardo Spriggs, Damien Winchester, Niko Wirachman. Experience the timeless story of Disney’s Aladdin, a thrilling production filled with unforgettable magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle! Don’t miss this extraordinary theatrical event already seen by over 14 million people worldwide, where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite. "As Aladdin approaches its second decade onstage, we are thrilled that the 11th production of the glorious Broadway show will soon be seen by audiences throughout the UK and Ireland. Thanks to Casey Nicholaw's direction, Alan Menken's music and the peerless design team of Bob Crowley, Natasha Katz and Gregg Barnes this show is a powerful tonic, an irresistible lift for every audience who sees it,' said Thomas Schumacher, President & Producer Disney Theatrical Productions. "The musical theatre performers in the UK and Ireland rival any on the planet and we look forward to presenting the best of them in this joyous new production." "I remember when I first watched Disney's animated feature of Aladdin as a child" says Yeukayi Ushe (Genie), "singing along to those timeless songs and watching in awe at the comedic stylings of Robin Williams. Now I get to take that brilliant, bold, and beloved Genie envisaged by such brilliant creators and bring him to life in this spectacular, all singing, all dancing live stage version, going on UK tour for the first time.” Gavin Adams (Aladdin) continues: “I am delighted to be making my theatrical debut in such an iconic role, a real diamond in the rough whose aspirations and heart make him a true loveable hero. Come and join us on this magic carpet ride! We can’t wait to see you.” Adapted from Disney’s 1992 animated film and centuries-old folktales including “One Thousand and One Nights”, this smash-hit musical is brought to theatrical life in a unique and dazzling way. The show continues its record-breaking run on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and since opening there in March 2014, nine subsequent productions have launched around the world, including over 1200 performances at the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End. Aladdin features the timeless songs from the animated film, as well as new music by Tony®, Olivier®, Grammy® and eight-time Acadamy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Sister Act), lyrics by two-time Academy Award® winner Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid), three-time Tony® and three-time Academy Award® winner Tim Rice (The Lion King, Evita, Aida) and six-time Tony® nominee Chad Beguelin (The Prom, The Wedding Singer), with a book by Beguelin, and is directed and choreographed by Tony® and Olivier® Award winner Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon). Aladdin is designed by seven-time Tony®-winning scenic designer Bob Crowley, seven-time Tony®-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz, two-time Tony®-winning costume designer Gregg Barnes and sound designer Ken Travis. The production team also includes illusion designers Jim Steinmeyer and Rob Lake, hair designer Josh Marquette and makeup designer Milagros Medina-Cerdeira. The music team is headed by music supervisor and music director Michael Kosarin, who also created the vocal and incidental music arrangements, joined by orchestrator Danny Troob and dance music arranger Glen Kelly. Ben Clare is the associate director, Kyle Seeley is the dance supervisor, Jason Trubitt is the production supervisor and Myriah Bash is the US general manager. Casting is by Jill Green CDG.

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Conceptual dining experience Six by Nico will transports guests to the vibrant streets of the Japanese capital with their next innovative tasting menu, Tokyo!

King of Cocktails, Mr Lyan invites the public to join him tomorrow for Belvedere 10 premiere at House of Gods Glasgow

Belvedere, the original luxury vodka announces the release of a new icon as it launches Belvedere 10, a vodka of flawless character.

Scottish Borders winter light trail, Monteviot Lights, returns for a second year

Prepare to be enchanted once again this winter as Monteviot Lights returns to Monteviot House & Gardens!

Novartis & University of Glasgow raise awareness of rare blood cancers with art led sculpture exhibition

Meet the MPN 10 is a Novartis disease awareness campaign, funded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd and developed in collaboration with MPN Voice.

Galoshans Festival 2024 Returns for Spooktacular 10th Anniversary

Get ready for ghoulish grins and festive fun - Inverclyde’s beloved Galoshans Festival returns for its 10th anniversary!

Everything you need to know about free Govan Footbridge Festival

Stage times for Glasgow all-day event released as 5,000 expected in Govan this Saturday.

Social Bite encourages Scotland to hop, skip or jump to help end homelessness

Participants can choose any novel way of racking up 100 miles this September to help raise crucial funds for those who need it most in the UK.

Tenement Trail festival announced second wave of acts

TENEMENT TV and DF Concerts are delighted to announce the SECOND wave of acts set to appear at TT24 joining headliners Declan Welsh & The Decadent West.

Get into the spirit of Christmas with Glasgow Marriott

The newly refurbished Glasgow Marriott Hotel has launched its 2024 festive programme!

Anas Sarwar shows support for Scotland Loves Local in Glasgow

Scotland Loves Local Week 2024: Scottish Labour leader meets Glasgow West End gift shop owner who also chairs Business Improvement District.

Entertainers launch brand new Michael Jackson tribute show, Man in the Mirror

Today, on what would have been Michael Jackson's 66th Birthday, entertainers launch their brand-new show; Man in the Mirror – A Tribute to Michael Jackson.

Annual Salvesen Lecture at University of Edinburgh will address ADHD in Women and Girls

Distinguished Senior Consultant Physician and psychiatrist Lotta Borg Skoglund will present groundbreaking research which challenges outdated views on female ADHD.

Montpeliers founders among winners at the 2024 Scottish Bar and Pub awards!

The winners of the 2024 Scottish Bar and Pub Awards have been revealed!

Glasgow Scots language stars nominated for national awards

A Glasgow writer and a performer have been nominated for Scots Language Awards.

Glasgow Meat Market Regeneration plans secures Heritage Fund support

£2.3million National Lottery support will ensure community’s stake in Meat Market project.

Loch Lomond Food and Drink Festival is back this September

With Chef Demos, Cocktail & Mocktail Masterclasses and Wild Food Walks!

Celebrate National Cinema Day at Vue venues across Scotland

Film fans can get their big screen fix at Vue for just £4 this Saturday (31 August) as part of National Cinema Day!

Beyond Van Gogh celebrates fantastic Glasgow run

Fifty thousand visitors came through the doors of Beyond Van Gogh during its Scottish premiere in Glasgow.

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Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular is coming to over 15 countries and regions worldwide including the UK, Luxembourg, Geneva, Milan, Trieste, Copenhagen, Oslo, Zurich, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and beyond, with more worldwide destinations to be announced.

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The SSE Arena

United Kingdom

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Extra Seats Released

Utilita Arena

Very Limited Availability

P&J Live

Arena de Genève

Switzerland

Teatro Stabile del FVG

Teatro Arcimboldi

Royal Arena

Oslo Spektrum

Hallenstadion

Additional Performance Added

Scandinavium

Avicii Arena

Malmö Arena

Netherlands

Tokyu Theatre Orb

Festival Hall

Fukuoka Sun Palace Hotel & Hall

Aichi Arts Theatre

Atsugi City Cultural Hall

Hokuto Bunka Hall

Shanghai Grand Theatre