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Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular

Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular commences September 2024. Initial UK Casting has just been announced >> UK Dates for this highly anticipated production listed below.

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Cameron Mackintosh, is delighted to announce initial dates and venues for the World Tour of  LES MISÉRABLES –  THE ARENA SPECTACULAR. 

This production will have an extraordinary new design specifically created for arenas (and large theatres) with audiences of between 3,000 – 5,000.  

This spectacular production will have a UK company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew featuring a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow.

The World tour will open in Belfast . Following this, the production will play limited dates at Glasgow , Sheffield and Aberdeen . The Tour will then commence its European leg in Luxembourg , followed by Geneva , Trieste , Milan , Copenhagen , Oslo and Zurich . Its final UK dates will be in Manchester and Newcastle before moving on to Sweden , Australia , Taiwan , Japan and South Korea .

WHAT IS LES MISÉRABLES ABOUT?

“I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living. I dreamed that love would never die. I dreamed that God would be forgiving.”

The year is 1832. Jean Valjean, a French peasant who stole a loaf of bread and ended up spending 19 years in gaol for his trouble, is living to regret it. Then he goes and jumps parole which doesn’t go down well with Javert, a particularly jobsworth cop who, with his unshakeable belief in the letter of the law, obsessively hounds Valjean until… well, if you want the whole story, read Victor Hugo’s novel. No? You prefer your French classics delivered in the form of a musical and theatrical triumph? Now you’re talking.

Because, thanks to the creative team that includes composer Claude-Michel Shönberg and writer Alain Boublil , and songs including One Day More , I Dreamed a Dream and Do You Hear the People Sing? that’s exactly what ‘Les Mis’ is.

Secure your tickets today because this show will sell-out.

LES MISERABLES TOUR 2024 CAST & CREATIVE

Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular Initial UK Casting is as follows:

• Alfie Boe / Killian Donnelly – Jean Valjean
• Michael Ball / Bradley Jaden – Javert

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will play the roles of Javert and Jean Valjean respectively at the following locations and dates:

Belfast:  19, 20 & 21 Sep at 7.30pm and 25, 26, 27 & 28 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow:  3 & 4 Oct at 7.30pm, 5 Oct at 2pm, 6 Oct at 6.30pm Sheffield:  10 & 11 Oct at 7.30pm, 12 Oct at 2.30pm, 13 Oct at 6pm Aberdeen:  17 & 18 Oct at 7.30pm, 19 Oct at 2pm Manchester:  27 Dec at 7.30pm, 28 Dec at 2pm, 29 Dec at 1pm Newcastle:  2 & 3 Jan 7.30pm, 4 Jan at 1pm, 5 Jan at 6.30pm

Killian Donnelly and Bradley Jaden will play the roles of Jean Valjean and Javert respectively at the following locations and dates: Belfast: 21 & 28 Sep at 2.30pm, 24 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow: 5 Oct at 7.30pm, 6 Oct at 1pm Sheffield: 12 Oct at 7.30pm, 13 Oct at 1pm Aberdeen: 19 Oct at 7.30pm, 20 Oct at 1pm Manchester: 26 & 28 Dec at 7.30pm, 27 Dec at 2pm Newcastle: 4 Jan at 7.30pm, 5 Jan at 12.30pm

Produced by Cameron Mackintosh

Book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (based on the novel by Victor Hugo )

Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer

Directed by  Laurence Connor and James Powell Sio

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

The Arena Spectacular will be performing in over 15 countries and regions worldwide and initial casting has now been announced for the UK dates – Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly will share the role of Jean Valjean and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden will share the role of Javert, leading a cast and orchestra of over 65.

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.

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

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Les Misérables UK arena tour cast and dates announced

Les misérables: the arena spectacular is coming this september.

By Adam Lawler

The cast of the upcoming arena tour of Les Misérables has been announced, with musical legends Alfie Boe, Killian Donnelly, Michael Ball, and Bradley Jaden leading the UK cast.

Kicking off its world tour in Belfast’s SSE Arena in September, Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular will expand on the production of the popular West End production, with a new set created for larger venues.

The world tour comes as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the original English stage production, which has been running on the West End since 1985, the longest in its history.

“The spectacular world arena tour of the Les Misérables concert has been a dream of mine for many years,” the show’s producer Cameron Mackintosh said. “With Les Mis’ 40th phenomenal year starting this October, there couldn’t be a better time for it to happen.”

Who is starring in Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular ?

On the UK dates, the role of Jean Valjean will be shared between Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly. Taking on the role of Javert will be Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden

Boe, renowned for his remarkable tenor voice and performances on both the West End and Broadway, is set to reprise one of his most celebrated roles. Alongside him, Donnelly, fresh from his acclaimed portrayal of the same character at London’s Sondheim Theatre and his role as Combeferre in the 2012 film adaptation, will bring his own interpretation to the part.

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Ball, a distinguished figure in musical theatre with a history of performances on the grand stages of West End and Broadway, returns to the role of Javert, offering his unique depth to the character. Jaden, celebrated for his previous portrayal of Javert at the Sondheim Theatre, will once again embody the antagonist, completing a cast of exceptionally talented actors for these pivotal roles.

An adaptation of the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables follows the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant searching for redemption after serving 19 years in prison for a petty crime. When he breaks his parole and attempts to start life anew, he is pursued by the relentless police inspector Javert.

How to get tickets for Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular

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Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular UK tour schedule

SSE Arena, Belfast : 19 September – 28 September 2024

OVO Hydro, Glasgow : 3 October – 6 October 2024

Utilita Arena, Sheffield : 10 October – 13 October 2024

P&J Live, Aberdeen : 17 October – 20 October 2024

AO Arena, Manchester : 26 December – 29 December 2024

Utilita Arena, Newcastle : 2 January – 5 January 2025

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Initial casting has been announced for the Les Misérables world tour, with Alfie Boe and Michael Ball set to return in principal roles.

Boe will be splitting the part of Jean Valjean with Killian Donnelly, while Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden share the role of Javert for the UK leg of the tour.

All four stars are alumni of the iconic Boubil and Schonberg musical, with Boe reprising the part of Jean Valjean for the fifth time and Ball having played the part of Marius in the first ever West End production, before later going on to play Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert.

The stars will be joined by a cast and orchestra of over 65 people for shows in Belfast, Sheffield, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester and Newcastle as part of Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular world tour.

Spanning over 15 countries, the tour will kick off this September with a limited UK run before carrying on to Luxembourg, Australia, Taiwan, Italy, South Korea and more.

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When can I see Michael Ball and Alfie Boe perform in Les Misérables UK arena tour?

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will be performing the following locations and dates:

• Belfast | 7.30pm – 19th, 20th, 21st, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th Sep
• Glasgow | 7.30pm – 3rd, 4th Oct, 2pm – 5th Oct, 6.30pm – 6th Oct
• Sheffield | 7.30pm – 10th, 11th Oct, 2.30pm – 12th Oct 2.30pm, 6pm – 13th Oct
• Aberdeen | 7.30pm – 17th 18th Oct, 2pm – 19th Oct
• Manchester | 7.30pm – 27th Dec, 2pm – 28th Dec, 1pm – 29th Dec
• Newcastle | 7.30pm – 2nd, 3rd Jan, 1pm – 4th Jan, 6.30pm – 5th Jan

When can I see Killian Donnelly and Bradley Jaden perform in Les Misérables UK arena tour?

Killian Donnelly and Bradley Jaden will be performing the following locations and dates:

• Belfast | 2.30pm – 21st, 28th Sep, 7.30pm – 24th Sep
• Glasgow | 7.30pm – 5th Oct, 1pm – 6th Oct
• Sheffield | 7.30pm – 12th Oct, 1pm – 13th Oct
• Aberdeen | 7.30pm – 19th Oct, 1pm – 20th Oct
• Manchester |7.30pm – 26th, 28th Dec, 2pm – 27th Dec
• Newcastle |7.30pm – 4th Jan, 12.30pm – 5th Jan

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Annabelle Aquino

Hazel Baldwin

Credits whilst training : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Dorothy Shaw) and The SpongeBob Musical (Mayor of Bikini Bottom), Frank Wildhorn and Friends (Cadogan Hall) & The Olivier Awards.

Hazel is thrilled to be making her West End debut in Les Misérables and would like to thank her wonderful family, friends and agent for all their love and support.

Factory Foreman / Brujon

Brad barnley.

Michael Baxter

Emily Olive Boyd

Will Callan

Rosy Church

Stewart Clarke

Ben Culleton

Matthew Dale

Matthew hails from Middlesbrough and graduated from ArtsEd, London with a BA Hons in Musical Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre) A Christmas Carol (RSC), Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh Ltd); Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Smallest Show on Earth (Runaway Entertainment); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour/ATG); Spamalot (UK Tour/ATG); Christmas in New York , (Prince of Wales Theatre); Olivier Awards 2011 & 2012, (Theatre Royal and Royal Opera House, London).

Bamatabois / Lesgles / Babet / Dance Captain

Matt dempsey.

Amena El-Kindy

Djavan van de Fliert

Sophie-May Feek

Training: Moutview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre credits include: Cover Fantine & Factory Girl in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Sophia in Death Takes a Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre); Sandra in Made in Dagenham (New Wolsey Theatre & Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Jackie Tower in Six-Five Rock n Roll Express (Assembly Halls).

Theatre whilst training include: Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre ; Wardrobe Mistress in Kiss Me, Kate ; Jacqueline Kennedy in First Lady Suite .

Montparnasse

Matt hayden.

Christopher Jacobsen

Christopher is from Cardiff, South Wales and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour), Lt. Joe Cable in South Pacific (Kilworth House), Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory), Les Misérables – the Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Enjolras in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre) Alternate Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), Tony Candolino in Master Class (Theatre Royal Bath, UK Tour) 1st Cover Jean Valjean in the 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables (International Tour).

Film Includes: Julian in Max , Nick in Onset and Luke in Deadpan .

Jessica Johns-Parsons

Luke Kempner

Yazmin King

Training: Mountview, 2022.

Les Misérables marks Yazmin’s professional debut.

Credits whilst training: Éponine in Les Misérables ; Kathy in Company ; Whitney/Ensemble/Chorus Master in Legally Blonde .

Sam Kipling

Anouk Van Laake

Jean Prouvaire

Training:  Royal Academy of Music. (graduated with distinction).

Theatre credits include:   Les Misérables: The Staged Concert  (Gielgud), Oklahoma! (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables (Queen’s), Beauty and the Beast (Chatham), Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Union Theatre), Strawberry Seller , covered and played Nancy in Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carrie’s War (UK tour), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), covered and played Sophie and Lisa in  Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales), Lucy Van Pelt in Snoopy the Musical (Jermyn Street/New Players Theatre), Scottie Fitzgerald in Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Little Girl in The Witches of Eastwick (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and Whistle Down the Wind (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Estate).

Television credits include:  I’d Do Anything (finalist), Just Up Your Street, The Healer, The Biz, Barrymore and The X Factor with Mamma Mia!

Film credits include:   Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Holmes & Watson .

Workshops include:  Miss Dixon in Time’s Up (Shaftesbury Theatre), Delphina in Twang (Lionel Bart Estate), Rita in Billy (Kenny Wax Ltd), Collette in Mathilde and Sgt Pike in His Grace’s Betting Shop (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Concerts include:   Dress Circle Benefit (Her Majesty’s), Broadway to West End (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), WhatsOnStage Awards (Prince of Wales), April McScoop in Betwixt (New Ambassadors Theatre) and Hello Jerry (Jermyn Street Theatre). Sarah has also headlined Cabaret performances at the Jermyn Street Theatre, Lauderdale House and, most recently, the Pheasantry .

Recordings include:  The Witches of Eastwick , Oliver! (2009 live), Postman and the Poet, Roberta Jones in Bluebird , Nancy in songs from Oliver! , Scrapbook ,  Raise the Curtain, Surrounded by Sounds, Unwritten Songs and Acoustic Overtures.

Factory Girl

Ellie ann lowe.

Training: Guildford School of Acting

Theatre Credits: Science Officer (Gloria) in  Return To The Forbidden Planet   (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Amalia in  Carmen  (The Union);  Lead Vocalist  for Belinda King (Seabourn Quest Luxury Yacht); Adriana in  Comedy of Errors  (Antic Disposition at Gray’s Inn Hall & South of France Tour); Pauline Clench in  One Man, Two Guvnors  (Theatre Royal Windsor) ;  Anna Truman in   Deadly Nightcap  (Theatre Royal Windsor); Grandma in  Red Riding Hood  (Middle East Tour); Ensemble in  Miracle on 34th Street  (Madinat Theatre Dubai); Dusty Springfield in  DUSTY  (Charing Cross Theatre); Connie/Cover Annette/Swing in  Saturday Night Fever  (National Tour); Ensemble in  Love Story  (Union Theatre)

Television Credits: Featured Dancer in  Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball  (BBC)

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Madame Thénardier

Claire machin.

Bishop of Digne

Adam pearce.

Lulu-Mae Pears

Training: ArtsEd, London graduate, 2022; Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, 2019.

Credits whilst training include: Lysistrata in Lysistrata Jones (ArtsEd); Ensemble in Bandstand (ArtsEd); Graziella in West Side Story (Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia).

Workshops include: Mary-Jane Gumm in Chasing Rainbows (Denis Jones); Chelsea Green in Charley The Musical (Caroline Frericks).

Les Misérables marks Lulu-Mae’s West End debut. 

Jordan Simon Pollard

Jonathan Stevens

Jean Valjean

Milan van waardenburg.

Phoebe Williams

Phoebe graduated from the The Guildford School of Acting in 2020.

Credits whilst training include: Laurey Williams in  Oklahoma ! and Arista/Ensemble in  The Little Mermaid.

Other Credits include:   Rob Houchen at the Cadogan Hall  and  West End Does Christmas  (Cadogan Hall).

Training: London School Of Musical Theatre.

Credits whilst training: Adam/Noah in Children Of Eden , Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening , Frank in Merrily We Roll Along , Orlando in As You Like It .

Ollie is thrilled to be making his West End debut in Les Misérables .

Ollie Benson

Elliott norrington, nicholas preece, dexter pulling, clark young.

Little Cosette

Ivy-Rae Battams

Mila isaacs, saskia sibley.

Young Eponine

Olive Harrison

Poppy jason, maya marinova, 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 in 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.

James resumed his position of Associate Director for Mary Poppins in the West End. His production of Les Misérables is now on at the Sondheim Theatre.

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 the Royal 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. Paule is an associate of the National Theatre and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Recent theatre credits include: The Visit,  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 Theatre/Apollo/Gielgud/Ethel Barrymore, NY/World Tour), And War Horse . (National Theatre/New London Theatre/Vivian Beaumont, NY/World Tour) (National Theatre); The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); 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 & Broadway); Luise Miller, Ivanov (Donmar At The Wyndhams), The Chalk Garden, Othello, Proof, Little Foxes and Bondagers (Donmar Warehouse); Happy Days, Feast, The Good Soul Of Szechuan, Generations and Vernon God Little, Wolf Hall (Also West End & Broadway), The Prince Of Homburg, The Seagull and Tales From Ovid , (Rsc);  Seventeen, Herons, Blasted and Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith).

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 ror Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Paule has won the Oliver Award for Best Lighting Design a record five times (for  Ocean At The End Of The Lane, 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 Hospital Award for Contribution to Theatre.

Sound Designer

Mick potter.

Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London, New York and worldwide), Bombay Dreams (London, New York), The Woman In White (London, New York), the largest ever production of Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), the critically acclaimed West End production of Evita (London, Broadway, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Zorro The Musical (London, Paris and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit productions of The Sound Of Music (London, Toronto, UK Tour, Asia, Australia) and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London) , Sister Act (London, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Berlin),the world premiere of Love Never Dies (London, Melbourne and Sydney, Tokyo, Hamburg, US Tour, UK Tour), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of The Wizard of Oz (London, Toronto, US Tour, Australia), the world premiere of Betty Blue Eyes (London) , the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Celebration (02 Arena London), The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary Celebration (Royal Albert Hall, London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of The Phantom Of The Opera (UK Tour, US Tour), the Broadway revival of Evita (New York, US Tour, Australia, China), Barnum (Chichester, UK Tour), Tim Rice’s From Here To Eternity (London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon (London, Tokyo, New York, UK Tour ,US Tour and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock (New York, London, US Tour, Australia, China), Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera, London, New York), Cats Broadway revival (New York, US Tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester, London), Carousel (English National Opera, London), The Phantom Of The Opera 30 th Anniversary celebration(New York), Chess (English National Opera, London), New International Tour The Phantom Of The Opera (Worldwide 2019), Man of La Mancha (English National Opera, London), The Light in The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall), Les Misérables The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre London), Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre London), The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour 2020).

Mick created all new sound designs for The Phantom of The Opera (London, New York, worldwide) and all new sound designs for Les Misérables (New York, worldwide, and most recently at the newly named Sondheim Theatre London).

Awards: Olivier Award UK 2005 The Woman in White in London Parnelli Award USA 2006 The Phantom of The Opera in Las Vegas Green Room Award Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne Helpmann Award nominee Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne Broadway World Audience Award Canada 2013 Les Misérables in Toronto Tony Award nominee USA 2014 Les Misérables in New York Green Room Award nominee Australia 2014 Les Misérables in Sydney Broadway World Audience Award UK 2014 Miss Saigon in London Helpmann Award Australia 2015 Les Misérables in Melbourne Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2016 School of Rock in New York Broadway World Audience Award Asia 2016 Les Misérables in Manila Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2017 Cats in New York Green Room Award nominee Australia 2019 Evita at Sydney Opera House Green Room Award Australia 2019 School of Rock in Melbourne WhatsOnStage Award Nominee 2020 The Light in The Piazza London

www.mickpotter.com

Original Costume Designer

Andreane neofitou, costume design, christine rowland.

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.

Theatre includes: Movement Director: Alcina (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep), Henry V (MGC), Les Misérables the 25th anniversary tour (Cameron Mackintosh), The Power of Yes (National Theatre), Resurrection Blues (Old Vic), Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse), Nakamitsu (Gate), The Blue Room (West End), Punk Rock (Hammersmith Lyric), Cosí Fan Tutte (ENO), The Lost Child Project (David Glass Ensemble, Cambodia), Orestes (Shared Experience) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera).

Michael is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Film includes: Hamlet , Richard III and Henry IV .

Michael shares with Geoffrey Garratt a 2015 Helpmann Award nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical – Les Misérables .

Projection Realisation

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 twenty 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 2020 London and 2010 Australian cast albums 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; the cast album of Half A Sixpence and the recently released film and cast album of Les Misérables: The Staged Concert.

Other productions include Les Misérables (London, New York, The Netherlands, Spain, UK and US tours); Miss Saigon (London, New York, UK and US tours, The Netherlands); The Witches of Eastwick (London and UK Tour); Cats (London); Martin Guerre (Watermill); My Fair Lady (London, UK and US Tours); Avenue Q (London); Mary Poppins (London, New York, UK and US Tours); 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

Original Orchestrations

John cameron.

Oscar-nominated John Cameron created the orchestral score for every version of Les Misérables between 1979 and 2005 from the original Robert Hossein production in 1980 through the Royal Shakespeare Company, 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 as did the Les Miserables Symphonic album. He was nominated for an Olivier award as co-composer of Zorro the Musical. Other shows he has arranged include Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (currently revived at the Palladium) & Honk at the Royal National Theatre. Also at the RNT he composed music for John Caird’s Hamlet, starring Simon Russell-Beale. In 2014, Nils’ Wonderful Adventure a musical in Mandarin Chinese, with music and original English lyrics by John, won a Golden Lion Award in China for Best Children’s Musical.

As a composer, John’s 50+ movie scores Include the Oscar nominated score for A Touch of Class, The Ruling Class, the British classic Kes, The Mirror Crack’d, To End All Wars (conducting the LSO) and the Emmy Nominated score for The Path to 9-11.

His songwriting hits include Agnetha Faltskog’s If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind, Sweet Inspiration and Tap Turns On The Water.

John’s concert works include the cantata Missa Celtica recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and the choir of New College Oxford and Tara’s Brooch, a string quartet premiered at the Cadogan Hall London, and recently a song cycle Cante Jondo, setting Lorca’s Sigueriya poems for soprano Marie Angel. Recording artists John has worked with include Jose Carreras, Joseph Calleja, Donovan, Hot Chocolate, Heatwave and his own band CCS.

As well as developing the songs and the score for Mister Mayfair, a movie trilogy, John is currently working as composer/lyricist on four different Music Theatre projects, from Hard Times that he and John Caird are developing for Lorne Campbell and Northern Stage, Ruth The Musical (the story of Ruth Ellis) recently presented at The Actors Church, In Another Century, a love story set during the Easter Uprising in Dublin, and an as yet unnamed Kung Fu extravaganza.

Trevor Nunn

Trevor Nunn has now directed all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays. From 1968 to 1986, he was the longest serving Artistic Director of the RSC, directing much 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  Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia ,  The Coast of Utopia  and  Rock ’n’ Roll  by Tom Stoppard, and of  Cats ,  Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White 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), A Little Night Music  (London/New York),  Cyrano de Bergerac and Kiss Me, Kate  (Chichester Festival Theatre),  Flare Path ,  Ros e ncrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , The Tempest  and  The Lion in Winter  (Theatre Royal, Haymarket),  A Chorus of Disapproval  (West End), Beckett’s All That Fall  (London/New York), Relative Values and Agnes Colander  (Bath Theatre Royal/West End), Schikaneder (Vienna), Love in Idleness, Fiddler on the Roof (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 work includes: Antony and Cleopatra , The Comedy of Errors , Macbeth ,  Three Sisters , Othello  and  King Lear .  Film work includes:  Hedda , Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and Red Joan.

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 Olivier-award winning version of Bernstein’s  Candide  which is now playing in multiple productions world-wide.

His recent directorial credits include his new musical 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, Houston 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.

John’s directorial work for the RSC has included over 20 productions of Shakespeare as well as classic and new plays, including 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, co-directed with Trevor Nunn, winning numerous awards in the West End, Broadway and all around the world.

At Dramaten in Stockholm he has directed Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dance of Death, The Tempest, 12 th 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 Tarik O’Regan’s opera The Phoenix , both premiering at Houston Grand Opera. He also wrote and directed Children of Eden with music by Stephen Schwartz, Hard Times , with music by John Cameron and lyrics by Ranjit Bolt, and Jane Eyre, Daddy Long Legs and Knights’ Tale , all with music by Paul Gordon.

In 2020, the year of Covid, John has directed a concert version of his musical Knights’ Tale and a revival of Daddy Long Legs , both in Tokyo, also a new musical Estella Scrooge, a Christmas Carol with a Twist, co-written with Paul Gordon and Sam Caird, and filmed in a green screen studio in New York. These three productions all had to be directed remotely through Zoom.

Theatre Craft, his book about directing plays and musicals, is published by Faber and Faber.

Original 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.

David’s recent designs include The Wild Party and City of Angels for the Royal Academy of Music, The Sound of Music at Teatro Renault São Paulo and City of Arts Rio de Janeiro, This is the Hour (a showcase of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s songs) at Royal Academy of Music, Hardboiled (nominated for an Offie Award for Best Design), David Copperfield and Writer’s Block for the Watermill Theatre, Idiot-Syncrasy , Bilbao , and Tame Game and City , for Bloom Dance, which have toured internationally.

As an Associate Designer for Cameron Mackintosh, he’ll deliver the revived UK tour of Phantom of the Opera in 2020 and has recently delivered Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Hamilton in the West End, Miss Saigon in the West End and on UK tour, Les Misérables as a UK tour and in Tokyo, Mexico, São Paulo, Singapore, Manila, Seoul, Daegu and a US tour, and Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End. Other associate roles include Twelve Angry Men at the Birmingham Rep and the West End, Annie and Man of La Mancha in São Paulo and Rio. As an assistant, he has worked on over 40 theatre productions including Barnum , Funny Girl , Chaplin: The Musical , Noises Off , Sister Act, No Man’s Land and Oliver!

Outside of theatre, David has designed a coffee shop within a Wren church in the City of London, and the restaurant Deli Ohio in Canton, Ohio and is currently working on the design of a garden for the RHS at Chelsea Flower Show.

Associate Sound Designer

Nic studied at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London gaining a BA Honours in Theatre Sound.

He started his career touring and in London as a sound mixer, including CML’s My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins (UK Tours), Marguerite (London) and Mamma Mia! (International Tour).

Nic started his association with Mick Potter as the No. 1 mixer on the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Misérables and was involved in the 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena, London). For Mick, he has mixed The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour), The Wizard of Oz (London), Miss Saigon (London) and Half A Sixpence (London). He has also mixed The Light in The Piazza at the Royal Festival Hall with the Opera North Orchestra, and Carousel, Chess and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum with the ENO Orchestra.

Nic is Associate Designer for Mick Potter on The Phantom of the Opera worldwide with productions since 2014 including Moscow, Oberhausen, Stockholm, São Paulo, Copenhagen, World Tour, UK / Ireland Tour and the upcoming production at Sydney Opera House. Nic is thrilled to be a part of the return of The Phantom of the Opera in London. Also, for Mick, Nic is Associate Designer for Les Misérables worldwide including productions in Spain, South Korea, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, São Paulo, Mexico City, US and UK / European Tours, and for Miss Saigon in Tokyo and Vienna.

Associate Lighting Designer

Simon sherriff.

Simon started his career in stage lighting in 1992 at the Festival Theatre in Chichester, where he worked as a full-time electrician and projectionist for six years.

Lighting design credits include: Little Shop of Horrors and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Jersey Opera House Ltd, Cinderella (2013), Dick Whittington (2014) and Cinderella (2016) at the Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol for First Family Entertainment and Aladdin (2017) at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton for Qdos Entertainment.

Simon co-designed the lighting for the UK tour of Barnum , and was the associate lighting designer for the UK tour of Oliver! in 2013. He has worked in South Korea, Japan, Spain, Manila, Dubai and Australia as the associate lighting designer for the Cameron Mackintosh 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables . More recently, Simon was involved with the transfer of the Broadway production of An American in Paris to the Dominion Theatre in London, and residencies in Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan, as associate lighting designer. For Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, Simon is the associate lighting designer for Mary Poppins , working on the recent UK tour and current London production, and also residencies in both Tokyo and Osaka in Japan. Simon is the associate lighting designer for Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre in London and for the current UK tour.

Outside of theatre, Simon has a keen interest in aviation and holds a National Private Pilot’s Licence.

Projection Associate

George reeve.

Video design credits include: The Sound of Music (National Tour), The Pleasure Garden – for which he was nominated for an OFFIE Award – Dick Whittington and Tommy On Top (Above The Stag), RENT and Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre), Avalanche (Bloom Theatre), SIX (London & Broadway), SIX (The TonightShow), A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre), My Son’s A Queer, But What Can You Do? (Turbine Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (UK tour), Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (UK tour), WANNABE (UK tour), Cinderella In Concert (Cadogan Hall), Welcome Aboard (Viking Cruises), Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart).

Associate Designer and Animator credits include: Frozen (Theatre Royal Dury Lane & Theatre an der Elbe), Anastasia (International Associate Designer), Les Misérables (Gielgud & Sondheim Theatre), SpongeBob Live Television Broadcast (Nickelodeon), Starstruck (ITV), Frozen (North American Tour), TINA (Aldwych & Hamburg), Paramour (Cirque Du Soleil), Divas For Democracy (StageIt Stream), The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Flight (Royal Caribbean), Aladdin (Walt Disney Co.), Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Co.), All My Sons (Broadway).

Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer

Stefan musch.

Stefan’s experience, skills, knowledge and diversity allow him to move between the roles as Supervisor, Designer or Wig Maker.

He works for productions around the globe and is the winner of the UK Theatre Trust Award for Outstanding Achievement in Wigs & Make-Up.

Most recent theatre credits include: The Phantom of the Opera (London, 25th anniversary and international), Les Misérables (London, staged concert and international), Miss Saigon and Shrek (London and international), Frozen – The Play , Lady Windermere’s Fan and An American in Paris (London) and King Lear (Chichester and London).

Stefan also creates wigs for individuals in the pop music industry.

Costume Design Associate

Laura Hunt has an MA in Fashion and Textiles. Her work in theatre spans 20 years, recent credits for Cameron Mackintosh ltd include Les Misérables London Sondheim, UK Tour, London Concert & USA Tour, Along with previous set ups for Japan , Asia, Dubai & Brazil. Barnum for, Chichester & UK tour.

Other Theatre credits: For National Theatre The Lehman Trilogy inc Westend and Broadway transfers , Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra, Waste, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, A Taste of Honey, Scenes from an Execution, After the Dance and Translations . For The RSC, Hamlet (2016), Death of a Salesman, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Hamlet (2012), The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Silence, The Homecoming and Measure for Measure. For The Royal Court, Hangmen, Rock n Roll and The Seagull, Krapps Last Tape. For the Almeida , Three Sisters, Mary Stuart, Hamlet and The Oresteia at the Almeida and in the West End; For SFP, Dep Supervisor Harry Potter & Cursed Child , The Sunshine Boys and Old Times in the Westend and on Broadway For Shakespeares globe, The Secret Theatre and Romeo and Juliet. . Opera credits include Exterminating Angel at the Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House, NY MET Opera and Royal Danish Opera; How the Whale Became, Les Troyens and Il Trittico at the Royal Opera House; La Traviata at Glyndebourne; and L’Orfeo at Tokyo Opera City.

Dance credits include: As One and Elite Syncopations at the Royal Ballet; and Mad Hatters Tea Party at the Royal Ballet and ZooNation. As a stylist, Laura has worked on many Pop Promos and music videos with clients that include EMI &Virgin Records & CocaCola. As well as continued work with theatre Poster campaigns.

Orchestral Management

Sylvia addison.

SYLVIA ADDISON is one of London’s foremost Orchestral Contractors and clients include Theatre producers, composers, conductors, orchestrators, record producers and vocal artists in many fields of the music industry.

Theatre credits include: Back to the Future, Be More Chill, Beautiful, the Carole King Musical, Les Miserables Staged Concerts, White Christmas, BIG, the Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Blues in the Night, Adrian Mole, Fiddler on the Roof, Only Fools and Horses, Fun Home, Fat Friends, Five Guys named Moe, Dreamgirls, Rent, School of Rock, Mary Poppins, Lion King – London and tour, Elf the Musical, Mrs Henderson Presents, Bend it Like Beckham, Barnum UK Tour, Miss Saigon, Stephen Ward, Scottsboro Boys, Merrily We Roll Along, Finding Neverland, Top Hat, Phantom of the Opera 25 th Anniversary , Ghost, Betty Blue Eyes, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Wizard of Oz, Les Miserables, Love Never Dies, Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, Oliver!, Carousel, La Cage aux Folles, Gone with the Wind, The Witches of Eastwick, Dorian Gray, Drowsy Chaperone, Lord of the Rings, White Christmas, Daddy Cool, Evita, Acorn Antiques, The Woman in White,Tell Me on a Sunday, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, We Will Rock You, Bombay Dreams, The Full Monty, Play Without Words, Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar , Starlight Express , The Beautiful Game, Whistle Down the Wind, By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard, Grease, Closer to Heaven, La Cava, Maddie, Romance Romance, Once on this Island Something Wonderful, HONK!, Holiday on Ice, Burn the Floor, Edna the Spectacle

Associate Director

Sam trained at Guildford School of Acting, where he was also awarded the school’s singing cup. He has worked extensively as an actor, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre), Another Country (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Unexpected Host (York Theatre Royal), The Jungle Book (Nuffield, Southampton), Hiawatha (Newcastle Theatre Royal), Babes in the Wood (York Theatre Royal), Aladdin (Hawth, Crawley), An Ideal Husband (Redgrave, Farnham) and The Ten Commandments (Mercury workshop, The Place). West End: Les Misérables (Palace), Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s). UK tours: Les Misérables, Aspects of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Best of Brian Conley .

Concerts include: Les Misérables (25th Anniversary, The O2), Les Misérables (Classic Brits, Royal Albert Hall), One Touch of Venus (Barbican), Masters of Swing (Royal Albert Hall) and Tribute to Jack Tinker (London Palladium).

Directing includes: Resident Director of Les Misérables in Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Deputy Associate of Les Miserables (UK tour), Resident director for The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s), resident director of Les Misérables (Palace), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour), White Christmas (Sunderland Empire), Les Misérables in concert (Scandinavian arena tour) and On Eagle’s Wing (Belfast Opera House), associate director of Irish Wings (Dutch tour) and director of Les Misérables in concert (Powderham Castle and Broadlands), Celebration of Musical Theatre with Clive Anderson (Palace), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (RTE, Dublin Concert Hall), The Canadian Tenors (European tour) and Masters of the Musicals (UK tour).

Resident Director

Musical supervisor, alfonso casado trigo.

Alfonso’s professional relationship with Cameron Mackintosh started back in 2010 when he conducted Los Miserables in Madrid. He has conducted and supervised Les Misérables in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Dubai, Japan and Brazil, Miss Saigon in London, Japan and UK tour, and Phantom of the Opera (London) and was the conductor for Les Misérables: The Staged Concert , which was broadcast live around the world. He conducted the 25th anniversary gala of Miss Saigon (released on DVD worldwide) and was co-supervisor for the Les Misérables 30th anniversary in London. He is currently the Musical Supervisor of Les Misérables (London and Japan), guest supervisor for Mamma Mia! worldwide, as well as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has had regular collaborations with BBCCO, Bournemouth Symphony, RLPO, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, OBC and London Concert Orchestra. Among his recent projects as freelance conductor, Alfonso has appeared in Disney in Concert (ROSS), Candide (BSO, The Grange Festival), Simply Gershwin (LCO, Royal Festival Hall), Pedralbes Festival (Barcelona), Beatlemania (Royal Northern Symphonia), Royal Liverpool Philarmonic (New Year’s Eve Concert), Bernstein and the American Musical (Barcelona Symphony), Seville Symphony (classical repertoire) and more. He was the conductor for the film Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London whose score won an award at the Malaga Film Festival in 2019 and composed the soundtrack for the film Venus , which will premiere in early 2020. He recorded a Spanish classical music album with the BBCCO, soon to be released alongside soloists Juan Pérez and Magdalena Llamas. He conducted this orchestra again in August 2018 for Friday Night is Music Night (Snape, BBC Radio). Awards include Best Musical Director in Spain for Los Miserables and Best Musical Director in the West End for Miss Saigon .

Musical Director

Stuart morley.

Stuart studied piano and conducting at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where he was made an Associate in 2012. Musical Director credits include We Will Rock You , Elf , Big , Only Fools and Horses , Tommy , Sleepless , Brian May & Kerry Ellis’s Anthems , Starmus VI and The Show Must Go On.  Musical Supervisor credits include We Will Rock You (US & UK Tours, Brazil, Denmark, Romania, Germany, RCCL), Elf , Eugenius , Sleepless , Big , Strictly Ballroom, Whistle Down the Wind (The Watermill) and The Bodyguard (Denmark, Sweden). Stuart was Associate Musical Supervisor of the Olivier Award winning production of  Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour,  Choral Director for Chess in Concert and Associate Musical Director for the West End productions of Cabaret and Wicked .

Orchestration credits include the 2012 edition of Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé’s Barcelona , Big and Only Fools & Horses (West End), Monkee Business and Strictly Ballroom (UK Tours), We Will Rock You (UK & US tours), Close-Up (Menier Chocolate Factory), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse) , arrangements for the Bands of the Royal Air Force, BBC Festival of Remembrance, RAF100 , Dame Vera Lynn’s 100th Birthday Concert, The Last Night of the Proms , Queen and Adam Lambert Rhapsody Tour and the 2017 and 2023 Belfast Tattoo.

In 2018 Stuart completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music. He is proud to be on the teaching faculty at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Assistant Musical Director

Mark bousie.

Mark was born and grew up in Perth, Scotland and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is an Associate.

Credits in the West End include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Gielgud, Sondheim and the original production at Queen’s), Miss Saigon (Prince Edward), Crazy for You and Betty Blue Eyes (Novello), Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy), Evita (Adelphi) and Jumpers (Piccadilly).

Other musicals include: Barnum (Chichester) and Gigi (Regent’s Park Open Air). He recorded Stephen Warbeck’s original piano scores for Old Times (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville) and has worked extensively for the National Theatre (including From Morning to Midnight, Theatre of Blood, The Coast of Utopia, His Dark Materials ),

the RSC (the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, NYC) and Shakespeare’s Globe.

As a pianist and accordionist, his performing and recording credits include work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (the UK premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul at Symphony Hall), the BBC Concert Orchestra (John Williams Prom, Fiddler on the Roof Prom and Danny Elfman tribute) and Rambert. Mark performed in the live BBC broadcasts Liverpool

Nativity and Manchester Passion , and has played on numerous film soundtracks, including Beauty and the Beast, Whisky Galore! and The Children Act , for which he was piano coach to Emma Thompson.

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Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce full touring dates for the UK and Ireland tour of his acclaimed production of the Boublil and Schönberg’s “LES MISÉRABLES” .

The musical will open at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 24 November 2021 where it will run until 1 January 2022, before playing Liverpool Empire (5 – 22 January 2022), Bord G á is 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 25 th  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 where the Huffington Post proclaimed this new production, “Sizzles for the 21 st Century” and the New York Times called it, “Thrilling, Spectacular and Unforgettable”. 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 21 st century. The tour of this production has sold out in record breaking time in each venue it has played since opening in 2018. 

?????  ‘This reborn dream of a production looks and sounds fresher than ever. Sends shivers of excitement racing down the spine - You emerge feeling stirred and exhilarated’ Daily Telegraph

‘A production of awesome power and mind-blowing restaging’  Irish Times

????? ‘Les Miserables is arguably, the greatest musical of all time”  Edinburgh Evening News

‘A thrilling inspiration’ The Guardian

‘Packs an almighty punch and brings audiences to their feet every night’ The Independent

?????  ‘A five-star hit – Astonishingly powerful’ The Times

?????  ‘The mighty Les Mis is still revolutionary.  This new staging of one of the world’s longest-running musicals remains fit to burst the seams of the mightiest of stages’ Daily Mail

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 full touring dates for the UK and Ireland tour of his acclaimed production of the Boublil and Schönberg’s “LES MISÉRABLES” .

The musical will open at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 24 November 2021 where it will run until 1 January 2022, before playing Liverpool Empire (5 – 22 January 2022), Bord G á is 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 25 th  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 where the Huffington Post proclaimed this new production, “Sizzles for the 21 st Century” and the New York Times called it, “Thrilling, Spectacular and Unforgettable”. 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 21 st century. The tour of this production has sold out in record breaking time in each venue it has played since opening in 2018. 

?????  ‘This reborn dream of a production looks and sounds fresher than ever. Sends shivers of excitement racing down the spine - You emerge feeling stirred and exhilarated’ Daily Telegraph

‘A production of awesome power and mind-blowing restaging’  Irish Times

????? ‘Les Miserables is arguably, the greatest musical of all time”  Edinburgh Evening News

‘A thrilling inspiration’ The Guardian

‘Packs an almighty punch and brings audiences to their feet every night’ The Independent

?????  ‘A five-star hit – Astonishingly powerful’ The Times

?????  ‘The mighty Les Mis is still revolutionary.  This new staging of one of the world’s longest-running musicals remains fit to burst the seams of the mightiest of stages’ Daily Mail

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’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 and initial casting has now been announced for the UK dates – Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly will share the role of Jean Valjean and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden will share the role of Javert, leading a cast and orchestra of over 65.

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.

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.

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Les Misérables announces nationwide 40th anniversary community performance tour

A chance for amateur groups to give their own takes on the classic shows!

Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International (MTI) have announced a new UK-wide amateur theatre project, “Let the People Sing,” to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables .

The initiative, running from March to August 2025, will feature 11 community-wide productions across the country. For the first time, amateur groups in the UK have been invited to stage the full show while it continues its successful run in London’s West End. The selected cities include Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Norwich, Porthcurno (Cornwall), and Swansea.

Each of the 11 amateur societies will act as lead producers in their respective venues, collaborating with other local groups to produce community-wide productions. These groups will receive support and guidance from the West End and international associate creative teams to develop their original, non-replica productions.

Open casting calls for all 11 productions will be announced locally.

Mackintosh explained: “The phenomenon of Les Misérables continues to break new ground, just as Victor Hugo’s novel has since it was first published in 1862.

“The world’s longest running musical was first made available to students under 19 (in an edited schools’ edition) in 2002, to mark the bicentennial of Victor Hugo’s birth.

“As we approach the extraordinary landmark of the 40th record-breaking year of the iconic musical’s London run, alongside countless productions around the world, we are delighted to invite 11 of our leading amateur companies in the UK to stage, for the first time, the entire show in their own productions. This will involve many hundreds of amateur performers around the country, becoming part of our own yearlong celebrations.

“The success of this much-loved musical was famously made by the public – not the early critics – so what better way to enjoy this unprecedented event, than Let the People Sing!”

Sean Gray, Managing Director of MTI’s London office said: “ MTI cherishes our amateur theatre companies.  They bring our musicals to the whole country, including to towns and areas not regularly visited by national touring productions.  They nurture and develop talent in a unique and invaluable way, as well as providing opportunities for everyone who loves performing and making theatre to be a part of productions on all the country’s stages. Many of the great shows live on in amateur productions, often decades after their initial productions in the West End or on Broadway.

Although we have been able to license thousands of productions of Les Misérables School Edition to schools and youth groups, the remarkable success of the West End production in London and on tour means it hasn’t been possible to offer the show to our major amateur companies. But for one year, we are thrilled to have this opportunity to invite amateur theatre companies across the UK to produce eleven local productions, which we hope will be genuine local community projects. We already know how much excitement the project will generate, and we are really looking forward to guiding everyone towards a great national amateur celebration of Les Misérables in 2025 to mark the 40th anniversary of the London production. Let the people sing!”

The project will be staged at the following venues and dates: Grand Opera House Belfast (4 to 8 March 2025), Grand Theatre Leeds (3 to 12 April 2025), King’s Theatre Glasgow (23 to 27 April 2025), Minack Theatre Porthcurno (25 to 30 May 2025), Theatre Royal Nottingham (27 to 31 May 2025), the Alexandra Birmingham (10 to 14 June 2025), Norwich Theatre Royal (2 to 6 July 2025), Liverpool Empire (3 to 5 July 2025), Grand Theatre Swansea (10 to 19 July 2025), Bristol Hippodrome (12 to 16 August 2025) and Theatre Royal Brighton (13 to 23 August 2025).

A starry arena tour production will commence later this year as well.

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The company will be staging their own version of the show at Theatre Royal Brighton in August 2025 as part of the project. 

Cameron Mackintosh and Musical Theatre International have announced a new UK wide amateur theatre project to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Les Misérables arriving in the West End next year.

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Today it was announced that Brighton Theatre Group is among the lucky groups picked to produce the beloved mega-musical. The company will be staging their own version of the show at Theatre Royal Brighton in August 2025 as part of the project. 

Brighton Theatre Group will work collaboratively with Brighton & Hove Operatic Society, The Rattonians and Worthing Musical Theatre Company on this incredibly exciting community project aimed at celebrating the worldwide phenomenon.

Cameron Mackintosh commented: “As we approach the extraordinary landmark of the 40th record-breaking year of the iconic musical's London run, alongside countless productions around the world, we are delighted to invite 11 of our leading amateur companies in the UK to stage, for the first time, the entire show in their own productions. This will involve many hundreds of amateur performers around the country, becoming part of our own yearlong celebrations.

The success of this much-loved musical was famously made by the public - not the early critics - so what better way to enjoy this unprecedented event, than Let the People Sing!”

The production will take place at Brighton and Hove's beautiful Theatre Royal Brighton from Wednesday 13 – Saturday 23 August 2025 for 12 performances.

Open auditions will be held in late 2024 with show meeting and casting information to be announced in September 2024 via Brighton Theatre Group and Theatre Royal Brighton's social media platforms. 

Keith Shepherd, Chairman of Brighton Theatre Group, said: “What a privilege to be involved in this wonderful project! As the last of the 11 productions in August 2025 we're giving our local community plenty of notice, and hope you all share our excitement about this once in a generation opportunity!”

About Theatre Royal Brighton

Built in 1807 Theatre Royal Brighton is one of the oldest and most distinguished theatres in the country. The Grade II* listed building, which is located at the heart of the city's cultural quarter, represents an example of the finest regency architecture. The venue continues to delight audiences with a wide range of pre and post West End touring plays and musicals, as well as ballet, opera, music, comedy and children's shows. Theatre Royal Brighton is an ATG Entertainment venue.

About Brighton Theatre Group

Formed by the late Mavis Ward on 2nd May 1968, BTG benefits greatly from the talents of its company members be they performing, technical or production and is managed as a charity. The company is privileged to perform annually at Theatre Royal Brighton as well as other well-known venues and Theatres across the coast. The subsidiary company BTG Youth is a highly successful youth production company providing musical theatre experience and training to those aged between 7 and 19 years with many previous members moving on to either West End or Television, achieving a successful career for themselves within the industry. BTG is proud of its history and the friendly nature of the company, in turn, its members are equally proud to belong to a groundbreaking organisation that works to achieve excellence in musical theatre.

About Music Theatre International

Music Theatre International (MTI) was founded in 1952 by legendary Broadway songwriter Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker , today with offices in London, New York, and Melbourne. MTI's London office typically licenses over 6,500 productions a year, from schools and amateur societies to professionals, reaching audiences of more than 8 million annually. 

Across its catalogue of more than 400 titles, MTI represents an array of musicals including Broadway classics (Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, My Fair Lady); contemporary hits (Dear Evan Hansen, Mean Girls, Waitress); the ground-breaking works of Stephen Sondheim (Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd); global titles (Mamma Mia!, Billy Elliot, Matilda The Musical); Cameron Mackintosh -produced hits (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon); Disney (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid); and the Mackintosh and Disney-produced Mary Poppins. 

MTI is especially dedicated to the education sector and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of young performers. MTI's Broadway Junior series are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by primary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI's School Editions are musicals tailored to the needs of secondary school pupils.  MTI London produces an annual Junior Theatre Festival, Europe's biggest celebration of musical theatre for young performers, at the ICC in Birmingham. MTI is also proud of its user-friendly production resources, providing support to our customers across all aspects of musical theatre production.

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The World Tour will feature a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow. Initial casting has been announced for the UK and selected European dates. Further casting to be announced.

Click on the artist’s headshot to view their scheduled performance dates. Please note that the appearance of any artist is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice.

Michael Ball

PERFORMANCE DATES

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will play the roles of Javert and Jean Valjean respectively at the following locations and dates:

Belfast: 19, 20 & 21 Sep at 7.30pm and 25, 26, 27 & 28 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow: 3 & 4 Oct at 7.30pm, 5 Oct at 2pm, 6 Oct at 6.30pm Sheffield: 10 & 11 Oct at 7.30pm, 12 Oct at 2.30pm, 13 Oct at 6pm Aberdeen: 17 & 18 Oct at 7.30pm, 19 Oct at 2pm Manchester: 27 Dec at 7.30pm, 28 Dec at 2pm, 29 Dec at 1pm Newcastle: 2 & 3 Jan 7.30pm, 4 Jan at 1pm, 5 Jan at 6.30pm

Michael Ball is Britain’s leading musical theatre star, a double Olivier Award-winning, Grammy nominated, multi-platinum recording artist and a hugely popular radio and TV presenter. For over 30 years he has been at the top of his game, starring in musical theatre productions in the West End and on Broadway, winning critical acclaim, a devoted following and awards for his stage work and recording career.

Michael’s theatre include Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (ENO/Coliseum); Javert in Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre); Anatoly in Chess (ENO/Coliseum); Mack in Mack and Mabel (Chichester/UK Tour); Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd (West End) for which he won the Olivier Award for ‘Best Actor in a Musical’; Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (Original West End Cast) for which he won the Olivier Award for ‘Best Actor in a Musical’;  Kismet (English National Opera); Patience (New York City Opera); The Woman in White (West End/Broadway); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West End); Passion , The Phantom of the Opera , Aspects of Love (West End/Broadway) and creating the role of. Marius in Les Misérables (Original West End Cast). His television credits include the Victoria Wood BBC TV film, That Day We Sang , opposite his Sweeney Todd co-star, Imelda Staunton.

Michael has a successful radio broadcasting career which includes his own show, The Michael Ball Show on BBC Radio 2 on Sundays. He is also a popular TV presenter – he has hosted The Michael Ball Show on ITV1, his first TV travelogue, Wonderful Wales on Channel 5 and most recently an Easter Sunday special for the BBC.

He regularly tours the UK as a concert artist and has sold millions of albums over the last 30 years; he’s performed in Australia, China, USA, Japan and, in 2007, made his BBC Proms debut: An Evening with Michael Ball at the Royal Albert Hall which marked the first time a musical theatre star had been given a solo concert at the Proms. In 2016 he released Together, a collaborative effort with close friend and singer Alfie Boe, that featured performances of classic songs. The album became the UK’s best-selling album of 2016 and beat the likes of Little Mix and The Rolling Stones to the Christmas No.1 spot. Ball & Boe then released ‘Together Again’ which brought the pair yet another No.1 album in 2017, and ‘Back Together’ which landed them the No.2 spot in the Official Albums Chart. In 2020, Michael and Alfie released their first festive album ‘Together at Christmas’ featuring both old favourites and originals. Thanks to their latest release ‘Together in Vegas’, which entered the UK album chart at No.3 in October 2022, they have now sold over 1.5 million albums in the UK, received two Classic Brit Awards, sold out two headline arena tours and presented three ITV Specials.

During the various U.K. lockdowns, Michael started to pen new material — the result was ‘We Are More Than One’, an album more personal than ever before. After learning how to write and record remotely, every track had an inspiring story to tell.

His debut novel, ‘The Empire’ – published in Autumn 2022, became a Sunday Times Bestseller and he recently released his first ever memoir titled ‘Different Aspects’

Jean Valjean

Alfie Boe and Michael Ball will play the roles of Jean Valjean and Javert respectively at the following locations and dates: Belfast: 19, 20 & 21 Sep at 7.30pm and 25, 26, 27 & 28 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow: 3 & 4 Oct at 7.30pm, 5 Oct at 2pm, 6 Oct at 6.30pm Sheffield: 10 & 11 Oct at 7.30pm, 12 Oct at 2.30pm, 13 Oct at 6pm Aberdeen: 17 & 18 Oct at 7.30pm, 19 Oct at 2pm Manchester: 27 Dec at 7.30pm, 28 Dec at 2pm, 29 Dec at 1pm Newcastle: 2 & 3 at Jan 7.30pm, 4 Jan at 1pm, 5 Jan at 6.30pm

Multi-platinum selling recording artist, Alfie Boe OBE has established a reputation as one of the most powerful and prestigious UK born and bred voices. ‘The Nations favourite tenor’ also often referred to as ‘West End and Broadway Royalty’ has almost 3 decades of a whirlwind career under his belt so far. The Grammy nominated star has won a Tony Award, multiple Classical Brit Awards, a Silver Clef Award to name but a few.

Alfie’s recording career has not only acquired him eleven top 10 albums including two number 1’s but numerous sold-out headline tours in the UK as a solo artist and as part of his duo act with Michael Ball ‘Ball and Boe’. He also sold out a US tour with Classic Quadrophenia alongside Pete Townsend, Vegas with his solo ‘Showstoppers’ debut and ‘Lights On Broadway’ that he headlined in Japan.

Boe’s spellbinding voice has led him to some of the world’s most prestigious stages. From The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to the balcony at Buckingham Palace, The Horse Guards Parade for VE Day 70, multiple shows at The Royal Albert Hall, Opera Houses around the world, Theatre stages in The West End and Broadway, U.S Memorial Day at The West Lawn in Washington and many more. A firm favourite of The Royal Family, Alfie also released the official Platinum Jubilee National Anthem as a duet with Sarah Brightman.

Alfie progressed from singing Arias on the factory floor underneath cars during his apprenticeship as a mechanic in his home town, to receiving a place at The Royal College Of Music followed by The National Opera Studio and the Royal Opera House.

It was the moment the legendary Baz Luhrmann discovered him where things really started to propel. He landed his first Broadway role in La Boheme which resulted in him winning his Tony award. Alfie went on to play Alfredo in La Traviata , Tamino in The Magic Flute , Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni , Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutti , J. M. Barrie in Finding Neverland on Broadway, The Mikado , Billy Bigelow in Carousel , and the role he is best known for, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables .

Alfie’s spine-tingling rendition of ‘Bring Him Home’ continues to blow audiences away. He has played Jean Valjean in the West End and Broadway as well as celebrating the show’s 25th Anniversary at London’s O2 Arena and most recently, The All-Stars Concert version of the show alongside Michael Ball and Matt Lucas.

Alfie’s recording career took off when he was initially signed in 2006 by Classic FM where he released his first album. He then moved to EMI Records and Decca Universal where he went on to become one of the big success stories and acquired his multiple platinum sales and ten top 10 records. In 2016 he partnered with friend Michael Ball, (who he met on the set of Kismet) to form the duo ‘Ball and Boe’. The pair released a Number 1, double platinum album ‘Together’ followed by an equally successful release of ‘Together Again’. They have since had another 3 chart topping records and continue to sell out Arena tours across the UK.

In 2023 Alfie released his most recent solo album ‘Open Arms, The Symphonic Songbook’ on BMG Records. An eleventh top 10 record that showcases an eclectic mix of power ballads accompanied by beautiful orchestral arrangements. He sold out a headline solo tour in the UK and released a Sunday Times Bestselling Memoir book ‘Face The Music’. This followed his appearance in BBC1’s Freeze The Fear with Whim Hoff where fans really grasped an insight to his personal journey. Alfie is set to go back on the road in May this year for his Encore tour.

Killian Donnelly

Killian Donnelly and Bradley Jaden will play the roles of Jean Valjean and Javert respectively at the following locations and dates:

• Belfast: 21 & 28 Sep at 2.30pm, 24 Sep at 7.30pm
• Glasgow: 5 Oct at 7.30pm, 6 Oct at 1pm
• Sheffield: 12 Oct at 7.30pm, 13 Oct at 1pm
• Aberdeen: 19 Oct at 7.30pm, 20 Oct at 1pm
• Manchester: 26 & 28 Dec at 7.30pm, 27 Dec at 2pm
• Newcastle: 4 Jan at 7.30pm, 5 Jan at 12.30pm

European Dates

• Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg: 25 October – 27 October 2024
• Geneva, Switzerland: 30 October – 3 November 2024
• Zurich, Switzerland: 19 December – 22 December 2024
• Trieste, Italy: 7 November – 11 November 2024
• Milan, Italy: 14 November – 24 November 2024
• Copenhagen, Denmark: 27 November – 1 December 2024
• Oslo, Norway: 5 December – 8 December 2024

Killian Donnelly has just finished playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, having previously played the role to critical acclaim in both the West End production and the sell-out UK and Ireland tour. Killian recently played Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home at Gate Theatre, Dublin. His other theatre credits include the role of The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre,  Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway, a role he originated at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2015, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award, and Huey in the original London cast of Memphis at the Shaftesbury Theatre for which he was also nominated for an Olivier Award.  He created the role of Deco in The Commitments at the Palace Theatre and has also played Tony in Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, as well as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre. He first joined the West End company of Les Misérables in 2008, going on to play the role of Enjolras from 2009 to 2011. In 2010, he played the role of Courfeyrac in the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables at The O2 Arena and also played the role of Combeferre in the multi-award-winning film, which was re-released in cinemas in February 2024 to mark its 10 th Anniversary.

Bradley Jaden

Bradley Jaden and Killian Donnelly will play the roles of Javert and Jean Valjean respectively at the following locations and dates:

• Gothenburg, Sweden:  16 January – 19 January 2025
• Stockholm, Sweden:  23 January – 26 January 2025
• Malm ö, Sweden:  30 January – 2 February 2025

Bradley Jaden recently received rave reviews for his performance in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre. He also appeared as Raoul in Broadway Italia’s brand new production of  The Phantom of the Opera  in Trieste and most notably as Javert in  Les Misérables  at the Sondheim Theatre, a role he also played in the final cast of the musical at the Queen’s Theatre. Prior to that he starred as Enjolras in the concert staging of the production at the Gielgud Theatre. His other West End credits include appearing in the Gala cast of Old Friends at the Sondheim Theatre, Fiyero in Wicked at the Victoria Apollo Theatre, Thomas Percy in Treason: The Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Sir Lancelot in Camelot in Concert at the London Palladium, the UK tour of Ghost The Musical and Shrek The Musical at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

His TV credits include Emmerdale on ITV, Sugar Rush on Channel 4, and most recently EastEnders on BBC One.

Peter Jöback

Peter Jöback is scheduled to perform the role of Jean Valjean for all performances at the following locations: Gothenburg:  16-19 Jan 2025 Stockholm:  23-26 January 2025 Malmo:  30 January – 2 February 2025

Peter is an actor and crossover artist with multiplatinum record sales and tour sales in Scandinavia and beyond.

Training:  Swedish Music Conservatory in Stockholm.

Theatre credits include:  Robert in  Kristina , Malmö Opera, Gothenburg Opera, Cirkus Stockholm (Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson producers); Chris in  Miss Saigon , Theatre Royal Drury Lane (Cameron Mackintosh producer); Michael in  The Witches of Eastwick , Theatre Royal Drury Lane (Cameron Mackintosh producer); MC in Cabaret, Gladsaxe Theatre Copenhagen (Gladsaxe production); MC in  Cabaret , Tyrol Stockholm and Rondo Gothenburg (2Entertain producers); The Phantom,  Phantom of the Opera , Her Majesty’s Theatre (Cameron Mackintosh / RUG producers); The Phantom,  Phantom of the Opera , The Majestic NYC (Cameron Mackintosh producer); Sweeney Todd in  Sweeney Todd , Stockholm City Theatre producers; Candy Darling in  My life is a song , Cirkus Stockholm. (Lifeline and Villman producers); The Phantom,  Phantom of the Opera , Cirkus Stockholm (2Entertain producers); The Phantom in the 30th anniversary of  Phantom of the Opera  on Broadway; Daryl van Horne in  The Witches of Eastwick , Cirkus Stockholm (Cameron Mackintosh and 2Entertain producers); Jesus in  Jesus Christ Superstar , arena tour in Scandinavia, (United Stage and Live Nation producers) 

Film and TV credits include:  Several documentaries and shows of Peter’s own work.  My Heart at Stake  – 3 episode TV series SVT; The final four guest Phantoms in the 25th anniversary of  The Phantom of the Opera , Royal Albert Hall; Rolf in  Modus , Nordic Crime series, TV4 and BBC4; Simon in  I’ll Be Home For Christmas . Misofilm Cinema and TV4. Received a Swedish Oscar for the film.; Tom in  Diorama , Nordisk Film cinema;  Aladdin  – the Swedish voiceover in the Disney cartoon;  Stuart Little  – The Swedish voiceover in the film;  King Magnifico   – the Swedish voiceover in Disney’s Wish;   Peter is an established recording artist with international collaborations including Sia, Katie Pierson, Sissel Kyrkjeby and most recently Ed Harcourt, Kathryn Williams and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Peter also appears on the tribute album to Stephen Schwartz, ”Schwartz Songs” released in April 2024. Since 2010, Peter has run his own production company and record label, Sinclair Entertainment. In 2021 he was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal by King Carl XVI Gustaf for outstanding artistic contributions. Peter is also an ambassador for Water Aid and World Childhood Foundation.

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.

Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh has been producing shows since 1967 and remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals in theatre history.

As well as producing three of the world’s longest running musicals – Les Misérables , The Phantom of the Opera and Cats – his legendary productions also include Miss Saigon , Oliver! , Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Side By Side By Sondheim , Little Shop of Horrors , The Witches of Eastwick and Five Guys Named Moe . He has produced several hugely acclaimed revivals of My Fair Lady , Oklahoma! and Carousel as well as reinventing long running new productions of Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , The Phantom of the Opera and Oliver! Cameron is also co-producer with Jeffrey Seller of Hamilton in London and on Tour in the UK and recently presented the joyous Sondheim musical celebration Old Friends in the West End (with a terrific cast headed by legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga) that will soon arrive on Broadway.

In 2012, 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 one of the most successful movies ever of an original stage musical. To celebrate over 10 years since its release, the movie has been remixed and recently re-released in full Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in selected cinemas around the world, as well as a new home vision 4K Blu-ray disc and iTunes download version of the film.

The staged concert version of Les Misérables has proved to be just as successful as the original musical and is returning this autumn to stadiums and stages around the world in a much-anticipated spectacular Arena Tour – which is already mostly sold out in the UK. The concert version of Les Misérables has been filmed three times – at the Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Arena and the Gielgud Theatre – and is continually rescreened on TV and in cinemas throughout the world and, alongside his spectacular Royal Albert Hall production of The Phantom of the Opera , regularly breaks attendance records for live recording performances of musical theatre.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres, which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s most successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, now has a glorious auditorium and backstage and has been renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim, who passed away in 2021. The last show he and Cameron were working on, Old Friends , had an all-star gala premiere at the Sondheim Theatre in 2022 and was later screened on BBC TV.

In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor. The current Professor is world-renowned director, Gregory Doran. Music Theatre International, one of the world’s oldest and largest libraries of secondary rights 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 in June 2023, was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.

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.

2024 Season

The Muny Announces Full Cast, Design, Production Teams for Season-Opening ‘Les Misérables’

Jun 6, 2024

ST. LOUIS — The Muny has announced its full cast, design and production teams for Les Misérables , which opens the theatre’s 106th season and runs June 17-23 on the James S. McDonnell Stage in Forest Park.

“We are ready to storm the barricade of Muny 106 with this beautiful musical,” said Muny Artistic Director & Executive Producer Mike Isaacson. “The cast, crew and artistic team are striving to create a production you’ll remember for a lifetime.”

Joining the previously announced John Riddle (Jean Valjean), Jordan Donica (Javert), Teal Wicks (Fantine), Red Concepción (Thénardier), Jade Jones (Madame Thénardier), Ken Page (The Bishop of Digne), Emily Bautista (Éponine), Gracie Annabelle Parker (Cosette), Peter Neureuther (Marius), James D. Gish (Enjolras), Kate Kappel (Little Cosette), Grace Moore (Young Éponine) and Will Schulte (Petit Gervais/Gavroche) are Lee H. Alexander , Leah Berry , Patrick Blindauer , Matías De La Flor , Chris Hunter , Dan Klimko , Ángel Lozada , Daniel Brooks McRath , Sydni Moon , Grant Pace , Sarah Pansing , Nicholas Pattarini , Tim Quartier , Shelby Ringdahl , Matt Rosell , Grace Marie Rusnica , Liv Shivener , Sydney Short , Cecilia Snow , Kyle Timson , Noah Van Ess and Annie Zigman . The company also will be joined by the Muny Kids and Muny Teens Youth Ensemble.

The Les Misérables creative team is led by Director Seth Sklar-Heyn , with Choreographer Jesse Robb , Music Director James Moore and Associate Musical Director Michael Horsley .

The production includes Associate Choreographer Paige Parkhill , Scenic Designer Ann Beyersdorfer , Costume Designer Gail Baldoni , Lighting Designer Jason Lyons , Co-sound Designers John Shivers and David Patridge , Video Designer Shawn Duan , Wig Designer Ashley Rae Callahan and Production Stage Manager Willie Porter .

The Telsey Office is the official casting partner of The Muny.

As previously announced , 20 singers from the St. Louis Symphony Chorus will join the company as the supernumerary chorus for “Do You Hear the People Sing?,” “One Day More” and “Finale: Do You Hear The People Sing? (Reprise).” The singers are Nicholas Bashaw , Annemarie Bethel-Pelton , Rachel Buttram , Laurel Dantas , Mary Donald , Lea Frost , Megan Glass , John Herget , Matthew Jellinek , Jei Mitchell Evens , Hannah Nelson , Brian Pezza , Valerie Reichert , Greta Rosenstock , Paul Runnion , Matthew Stansfield , Philip Touchette , Robert Valentine , Nicole Weiss and Tristan Wood . Members of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus will appear as a courtesy and in partnership with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

The Muny artistic staff includes Artistic Director & Executive Producer Mike Isaacson , Associate Artistic Director Michael Baxter , Production Manager Tracy Utzmyers and Music Supervisor Michael Horsley .

Principal Cast Bios

JOHN RIDDLE (Jean Valjean) received a St. Louis Theater Circle Award for his performance of Anatoly Sergievsky in last season’s production of Chess . Other Muny: Disney’s The Little Mermaid , Titanic , Show Boat , Legally Blonde and others. Broadway: The Visit (OBC), Frozen (OBC) and Raoul in the final company of The Phantom of the Opera . Off-Broadway/NY: Cal Hockley in Titanique the Musical (Lortel nomination), The Secret Garden in Concert (Lincoln Center), Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods (Town Hall). National tour: Evita . Regional: Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodspeed, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Casa Mañana, Naples Opera. Other: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, American Pops Orchestra.

JORDAN DONICA (Javert) most recently starred as Sir Lancelot in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Camelot , for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He originated the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the Tony-nominated My Fair Lady (Lincoln Center Theater) and starred as Raoul in Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera. New York City Center Encores!: Into the Woods (Rapunzel’s Prince). Tour: Hamilton (first national tour, Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, SF/LA companies). Concerts: Washington National Opera, Pasadena Symphony, The New York Pops (Carnegie Hall), Indianapolis Symphony and Lincoln Center Theater’s Camelot . Featured performer at the American Songbook Hall of Fame. TV: Jordan Chase in the CW’s Charmed . Directing: The Exonerated in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Little Prints by Anna Mulhall.

TEAL WICKS (Fantine) On Broadway, Teal originated the roles of Lady in The Cher Show , Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland and Emma Carew in the revival of Jekyll & Hyde . She made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role to critical acclaim in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Off-Broadway and across the US, Teal has created lead roles in The Ballad of Little Jo (Two River Theater), The Blue Flower (Second Stage/A.R.T.), Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story (Signature Theatre NYC), The Life of the Party (TheatreWorks, with Andrew Lippa) and Fahrenheit 451 (59E59). TV/streaming appearances include The Peripheral (Amazon), The Night Agent (Netflix), NCIS: New Orleans, Evil , Elementary , The Good Wife , Chicago Justice .

RED CONCEPCIÓN (Thénardier) Broadway: Chicago (Amos Hart). National/International tours: Miss Saigon (The Engineer, US national and UK/Ireland tours). Asian and Philippine credits: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Adam/Felicia; Manila and Singapore; Gawad Buhay Outstanding Male Lead in a Musical and Aliw Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Equus (Alan Strang), The Normal Heart (Tommy), Annie (Rooster), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Lionel), West Side Story (A-rab) and more.

JADE JONES (Madame Thénardier) The Muny: Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins , The Color Purple. Off-Broadway: Vanities . Regional: Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (Belle), A.D. 16, The Amen Corner , Macbeth , Into the Woods , The Wiz , 110 in the Shade , Sweeney Todd , School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play. TV: Chicago P.D., Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20 (ABC).

KEN PAGE (The Bishop of Digne) has performed in over 45 shows on the Muny stage. Ken is widely known as the voice of Mr. Oogie Boogie in the classic Disney/Tim Burton animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas . He has performed the score live at The Hollywood Bowl, Barclays Center NY, LA’s Banc of California Stadium, Glasgow, London (SSE Arena, Wembley), Dublin and Tokyo. Film: Dreamgirls , Torch Song Trilogy , All Dogs Go to Heaven and more. Ken made his Broadway debut in the all-Black revival of Guys and Dolls as Nicely-Nicely Johnson (Theatre World Award). Other Broadway: Cats (Old Deuteronomy, OBC video/film cast), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (OBC, LA, Paris, Drama Desk Award for Best Actor, Grammy Award cast album), The Wiz (Lion). London’s West End: Children of Eden (Father, OLC), My One and Only in Concert (London Palladium). Mr. Page’s solo concert, Page By Page , was released on CD (LML Music). He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Artists (MAC), Project One Voice/Black Theatre and the St. Louis Arts Foundation.

EMILY BAUTISTA (Éponine) made her Broadway debut in the 2017 revival of Miss Saigon , where she understudied the lead role of Kim. She later returned to the role full time on the first national tour. In between the Broadway and touring productions of Miss Saigon , Emily took on the role of Éponine in Cameron Mackintosh’s North American touring production of Les Misérables . Following her time on tour, Emily made her London debut in the world premiere of Vanara: The Legend in the lead role of Ayla. On television, she is recognized for her role as Elodie on Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin . Additionally, Emily has made notable appearances in films The Compound (2021) and Which Brings Me to You (2023).

GRACIE ANNABELLE PARKER (Cosette) Regional: Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown, The Carnegie), Brigadoon (Fiona, Wagon Wheel), Legally Blonde (Ensemble). Gracie is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, BFA musical theatre.

PETER NEUREUTHER (Marius) Regional: Newsies (Jack Kelly) at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater. Peter is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

JAMES D. GISH (Enjolras)  Broadway: Wicked (Fiyero). Off-Broadway:  The Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio, New York City Center Encores!),  The Jerusalem Syndrome (Mickey Rose, York Theatre, OOBC). National tours: Beautiful (Gerry Goffin), Les Misérables (Feuilly). Recent regional: Daddy Long Legs (Jervis, Phoenix Theatre Co.), West Side Story (Tony), Newsies (Jack Kelly) and The Toxic Avenger (Toxic Avenger).

KATE KAPPEL (Little Cosette) was last seen at The Muny in The Sound of Music (Gretl von Trapp) and in the Youth Ensemble of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sister Act . Kate is 12 years old and just finished the sixth grade at South City Catholic Academy in St. Louis. She is a vocal student at Lisa Christine Studios and learns dance at the Professional Dance Center, where she is a member of the Ensemble competition team. Kate is a member of the Muny Kids and Muny Holiday troupes.

GRACE MOORE (Young Éponine) is 10 years old and is going into fifth grade, where she sings with her school choir and is a student house leader. Grace studies dance at Performing Arts Centre. She performs with the competition team and is a classroom helper. She studies voice with Kelly Stinnett Studios.

WILL SCHULTE (Petit Gervais/Gavroche) made his Muny debut in the Youth Ensemble of Beauty and the Beast last summer and is so excited to be performing with the Muny Kids touring troupe this summer. Will has also performed with Gateway Center for Performing Arts and was most recently seen as Kassim in Aladdin Jr. at his school. Will studies voice with Katie Kopff and also enjoys playing tennis. He will be attending St. Louis University High School in the fall.

About the Show

Les Misérables previously was produced at The Muny in 2007 and 2013. The show includes music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, with a book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. Set against the backdrop of post-Revolutionary France and based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, this celebrated musical follows the journey of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict seeking a fresh start, and his relentless pursuer, Javert. Its powerful songs and thrilling story of love, passion, sacrifice and redemption have been beloved the world over for generations.

Performances of Les Misérables begin at 8:15 p.m. nightly, June 17-23. Single-performance tickets and season tickets are on sale now at muny.org , by calling (314) 361-1900 or at the Muny Box Office in Forest Park.

To learn more about the Muny production of Les Misérables and the show’s history, visit muny.org/show/les-mis . For actor headshots, show logos, video and other assets, visit the Muny Press Room at muny.org/press .

Season 106 at The Muny also includes Dreamgirls (June 27-July 3), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (July 8-16), Fiddler on the Roof (July 19-25), Waitress (July 30-Aug. 5), In the Heights (Aug. 9-15) and Anything Goes (Aug. 19-25).

About The Muny

The Muny’s mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theatre, accessible to all, while continuing its remarkable tradition in Forest Park. As the nation’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theatre, we welcome more than 350,000 theatregoers each summer for seven world-class productions. Now celebrating 106 seasons in St. Louis, The Muny remains one of the premier institutions in musical theatre. For more information, visit muny.org.

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Musical sensation 'Les Misérables' returns to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre

ATLANTA - Considering it’s been seen by more than 130 million people around the world, there’s a good chance you already know the story and the music of "Les Misérables." But the cast and crew of the current national tour — which opened at The Fox Theatre on Tuesday night — say now is the perfect time to get reacquainted with the blockbuster musical.

This morning on Good Day Atlanta, we spent some time at the Fox with cast members from the "Les Misérables" national tour , which will remain on the historic Atlanta stage through Sunday before moving on to Tampa.

Based on the classic Victor Hugo novel of the same name, "Les Misérables" opened on Broadway in 1987, scoring a dozen Tony Award nominations and winning eight, including Best Musical. The show reached an even wider audience in 2012, when a film version starring Hugh Jackman and the Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway opened in movie theaters.

The current tour stars Broadway veterans Nick Cartell as Jean Valjean and Preston Truman Boyd as Javert, with Haley Dortch making her national tour debut in the role of Fantine (who sings one of the most famous songs in the show, "I Dreamed a Dream").

For more information on show times and ticket prices for "Les Misérables" at The Fox Theatre, click here . And click the video player in this article to check out our morning at the historic venue!

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