LES MISERABLES now in rehearsals!

This tweet from Hugh Jackman --


http://twitter.com/#!/RealHughJackman

>>RealHughJackmanHugh Jackman

first day of rehearsal with colm wilkinson...what an honour...the original valjea. such a legend.

26 minutes ago<<<


The movie is finally happening - after such a long wait! But how evocative that the first scenes being rehearsed are those involving the first stage Valjean and his incarnation in the movie musical. True, the scenes are likely those involving Valjean and the Bishop of Digne ( Colm's new role in the saga of Valjean), but still this brings us back to when LesMis started on its becoming the much loved musical it is today.

May I say BREAK A LEG ?!!

Updated On: 2/1/12 at 08:31 PM

Exciting! I wish them all well. Break-A-Leg!!!

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Can we now merge all the Carrie and Les Mis threads?

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Here's the original tweet from Julia Worsley: https://twitter.com/#!/JuliaClaireW/status/165165440274939904/photo/1

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I hope she's not posting shots of the shooting script, unless she wants to lose her job and find the police at her door. I'm sure she's under an NDA.

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I'm not sure how rehearsals work, at least this week. Hugh was (supposedly) seen on a plane today flying back into Newark, Russell I think is still in Australia (he presented an award at some show on Monday I think) and as of Wednesday Anne was still in NYC.

Sort of seeing the first page of the script -- I'm sure that would piss off so many attorneys.

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have Sasha Baron Cohen & Helena Bonham Carter been seen around rehearsals?? Neither were confirmed for their roles.

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It's all an elaborate hoax. Perhaps they're planning on releasing it at the start of April?

about the first page, that you can kinda see from the flash on the camera from the picture.

All I managed to get (and I spent a good hour this afternoon looking at it)

is that it opens with something about France in the 1870's (I think)

Then it goes to Tulone (SP?) (I think) during the day, and there a is a bunch of text I can't make out, and then it goes right into the convicts doing "Look Down".

Thats all I managed to get, from the page.

I guess we either have to wait for the movie, or the script to be leaked (which might happen), This script can't be that locked up. (unless Universal thinks this is super important).

I am more interested in wondering why Hugh was flying back to America, and we know that last week Anne was out in London. She flew from LA.

Updated On: 2/2/12 at 09:41 PM

My guess is that full rehearsals won't start until next week, after Eddie Redmayne finishes up in Richard II. And yeah, since there are few scenes that require everybody at the same time, the actors will probably be flying in and out of London as required.

HBC and SBC haven't officially been confirmed, but Redmayne spoke about seeing Carter at a Les Miz rehearsal a few weeks ago, and a reporter congratulated Cohen on getting the part of Thenardier and he thanked her in reply which seems to indicate that he does in fact have the part. So I think they're pretty much confirmed, more or less.

https://twitter.com/#!/RealHughJackman/status/166993412275453952/photo/1

what an honour...singing a new song with the composer, claude michel, at rehearsals for les mis!

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It had been reported earlier that there was was going to be a new song (so it can qualify for the Oscars) but it never said who would sing it. This confirms that it's for Hugh, or at least he's one of the singers if it's not a solo.