Final Leads Announced for LES MISERABLES Broadway Revival - Find Out Who's Enjolras and The Thenardiers

[Rob]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 1:59pm

Click Here to Read Breaking News: Final Leads Announced for LES MISERABLES Broadway Revival - Find Out Who's Enjolras and The Thenardiers

[RW3]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:04pm

Congrats to all!!!!!

[brotherhoodofman]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:08pm

Excited for Keala Settle -- she was fantastic in Hands on a Hardbody. Disappointed though since this probably means she won't transfer with Sideshow from LaJolla to DC!

[BwayTday]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:09pm

Let the many comments to the effect of "A black Enjolras??? But...." commence.

But yes congrats to all! I think Keala Settle will be wonderful.

[Tag]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:13pm

Are they going to put him in the blonde wig?

But seriously, if they were going to bring anyone over from the UK, they should have brought Wendy Ferguson. She currently steals the show, as Madame Thénardier, every night in the current London cast of the original version. (As she did as Carlotta in the Phantom 25th performance)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:17pm

KEALA!!!!!!!!

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:23pm

Very excited for Keala Settle. Loved her in Hardbody and I think that she's going to make a great Mme. Thenardier!

All we need is the full ensemble now to make comments on EVERYTHING.

[Wickedmonkey332]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:28pm

So freaking excited for Keala- I LOVE THAT WOMAN.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 2:50pm

I saw Jason Forbasch in Miss Saigon at Northshore and in his bio he said he'd be doing Les Miz on Broadway. He played Enjorales on tour. I guess he won't be in that part.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 3:01pm

Jason Forbach is going to be Feuilly.

And Edward Baruwa and Shaun Escoffery, who are black and played Enjolras in London, weren't wigged.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 3:19pm

Fantastic choice for Madame Thenardier! Keala will be great. I like how the 2 other were their parts in the other places. Great cast :)

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 3:22pm

Love Keala!!!!!

[bwayrose7]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 6:06pm

RippedMan- Jason Forbach is understudying Enjolras on Broadway, and regularly playing Feuilly as LIzzieCurry already said.

Don't know much about this group, but congrats to them! I'll make the obligatory mention about Enjolras, but only because I've only ever seen one Enjolras (Forbach) who wasn't blond like in the book. But, hey, as long as he can sing the part, works for me! Looking forward to how this production turns out.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 6:06pm

"Jason Forbach is going to be Feuilly."

Is he not understudying as well?

[thesecretyouknow]

Posted: 11/23/13 at 12:53am

I was lucky enough to see Kyle Scatcliffe sing the part of Enjolras for a concert earlier in the year and got a video of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt-5l9eGNpw

[grumpyoptimist]

Posted: 11/23/13 at 5:08am

Love Keala, still think she shoulda won the Tony. That said, don't mourn her loss in SideShow, her talent is largely wasted in the show as presently structured. You get just enough of her (short snippets in two numbers where she gets to let loose) to feel cheated that you didn't get more. Have seen SideShow twice in the last week, both times my friends (neither of whom saw Hardbody) mentioned that with no prompting from me. Excited for her in this showcase cast. Even if there's this: “'Ironically, I have never seen a production of the show,' Settle told Broadway.com as news of her Les Miz casting was announced."
Mistress of the House! Keala Settle on Going ‘Balls to the Wall’ With Pals Will Swenson & Caissie Levy in Les Miserables

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 11/26/13 at 10:35pm

Anyone know if they have yet cast the kids for the show? Now that she is leaving Matilda, I would personally vote for Sophia Gennusa as young Cosette. She would be perfect...

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 1/6/14 at 8:46pm

Have they announced who will play the bishop? Are they going to get Colm Wilkinson to do a couple nights?

Updated On: 1/6/14 at 08:46 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/6/14 at 9:46pm

They've announced the whole cast, but not specifically who will be the Bishop.

[Tag]

Posted: 1/6/14 at 10:02pm

Terance Reddick seems to be the only ensemble member with an operatic background. Which is how the Bishop role was cast in the current Toronto run.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/6/14 at 10:04pm

Preempting the black Enjolras outrage, should there be one, I present Thomas Alexandre-Dumas (1762-1806), a general-in-chief of the Army of the French Republic, and yes, a man of color (the son of a French noblewoman and his black slave); and the father and grandfather of two world famous novelists who were contemporaries of Hugo: Alexandre Dumas pere and Alexandre Dumas fils.








there were black Europeans in times gone by, get over it Updated On: 1/6/14 at 10:04 PM