Breaking News: LES MISERABLES to Return to Broadway's Imperial Theatre; Opening Night Set for March 23, 2014! — Page 4

I was under the impression they were just doing a sit down with the current tour which sucked French balls by the way.

They have worn this show down to the nub. I wont even watch my bluray for another 3 years.

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If this is that horrible, re-imagined 25th Anniversary crapfest then it needs to stay as far away from Broadway as humanly possible.

I was under the impression they were just doing a sit down with the current tour which sucked French balls by the way.


I don't think so (to the first part): https://www.broadwayworld.com/equity-audition/LES-MISERABLES-Broadway-Theatre-TBA-2013-6277

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My guess is you'll get a few Broadway mainstays, but for the most part it will be unknowns. They can pay them nothing, etc. The show is the star.

Also, I agree that this production lacks the "wow" factor of the original. The sets fine and projections are fine for a tour, but on Broadway I expect something really special. I liked Javert's death, but I wish the perspective switched to overhead near the end of the song and then he jumped. Would have been a cooler effect.

I don't see this lasting for years, but you never know.

I'm also pretty sure the physical production is going to end up in NYC after Toronto, and the timeline seems to fit that.

Earl Carpenter is playing Javert in Toronto with Ramin at JVJ.

For those who are asking why people bother to dreamcast, I echo that it's fun. I've been doing it for 30 years, albeit largely with movies, and often tongue-in-cheek.

Russell Crowe certainly played Javert in the movie in a comically deadpan way. What, that wasn't intentional? If it was, I'd say he should be cast as Thenardier!

Alun Armstrong, the fellow who played Thenardier in London and was cast in the 10th anniversary show, was sublime, in my opinion. Unfortunately, he's much too old for the role now. I can't think of a comic singer/actor the right age.

I'd like to see one of the recent Raouls in "Phantom," Kyle Barisich or Sean MacLachlen, as Javert. They're both fine actors with incredible baritone voices, and I'd like to see both of them become stars.

There are many fine tenors who can play JVJ. I just wish Colm Wilkinson hadn't gotten too old for the role -- I'd love to see him live. Ramin Karimloo has the voice, but I've always thought he's too physically small for the role; JVJ has to be huge and strong as an ox.

As for the SBs -- Sierra Boggess and Samantha Barks -- bring them on!

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The set for this show is extremely awkward. It's a super narrow proscenium, and the stage is really deep. The sight lines on the side are terrible. The set pieces are way too big for the small stage, and the stage is always way too crowded with these huge imposing wood structured set pieces that reconfigure into barricades. It worked for a tour, but I wouldn't call this Broadway material.

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What about Vicki Lawrence?

I just always think it's wrong to bring a tour onto Broadway. It will always come off as "cheap" compared to the other shows. And with something like this which thrived primarily on it's "spectacle," it seems strange to make it lack so much of that spectacle.

John Owen Jones or Anthony Warlow as JVJ please.

They are in a completely different league than Ramin Karimloo.