Les Miserables tour — Page 2

"Oh the PBS guy has never, ever said Enjolras correctly."

He was a local one at the San Jose, CA affiliate from what I remember. I never saw a national guy do it (although I can imagine the butchering!).

Usually when people see Les Miz for the first time and develop any kind of crush on a male character (or performer), it's Enjolras or Marius. But at any rate, here's an old audition notice link...
http://forums.starsearchcasting.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=5878

NO ONE is in the show right now, seeing as it's on hiatus.

But next month, neither Ma-Anne nor Stephen will be back.

One of the other reasons it's not as good as the Broadway production was - they are using a synthesizer to replace a LARGE portion of the orchestra - NOO WAY does it sound anywhere near as good as the full orchestra at the Imperial!!!! (Dracula has the same problem - synthesizers are BAD!!!)

Hey =) Brand spankin' new to the boards. Just wanted to say Les Mis was the first show that absolutely blew me away. I loved it so much, but only saw it once on Broadway. I didn't realize they still had a tour going (well, starting up again at least). It'd be awesome to see it again. I saw it mid-2000 with J. Mark McVey, Gregg Edelmann, Jane Bodle, Nick Wyman, Fuschia, Jessica Boevers, Christopher Mark Peterson, Peter Lockyer, and Tobi Foster. With the exception of Tobi Foster as Cosette, I pretty much adored the cast.

bytheswordsword84 - I'm very curious who you saw, who your favorites are and why. Just watch, you'll hate everyone I loved. Haha. I've never followed Les Mis's cast history because I got into it so late in it's run and then I didn't see it again. I tried yahoo, but are there any comprehensive fan websites for Les Mis with castlists (mainly on Broadway)? I'm only familiar with some older cast members that I didn't see but know their work in other things like Alice Ripley, etc. I would love to familiarize myself more with the show's history. All I remember hearing is that they fired a bunch of people around 1996-1997 and recast the roles.

Also, I have a question about blind casting in Les Mis which is for anyone. Which roles have stuck to one race, which are more likely to be color blind, and which have had one or two people that have been of a different racial vein than was typically cast in the role? Was the color blind casting full-time, or were they usually understudies? Sorry if this has been asked before.

Kris2: www.broadwaylesmis.com
The most colorblind character ever is probably Eponine, who is often Asian or part Asian. Lea Salonga was the pioneer of sorts and it jumped off from there.Stella Lee understudied Eponine last year on the tour. Dina Lynne Mori****a was the regular Eponine and THEN an understudy previous to Stella. For a while, I believe all the professional English-speaking productions of Les Miz had an Asian Eponine: Rona Figueroa on Broadway, Diana Kaarina on tour, Natalie Jackson Mendoza in Australia, and Joanna Ampil in London.
The tour has also had two black Fantines: Thursday Farrar and Tonya Dixon. Johmaalya Adelekan understudied Fantine a few years ago on tour.

Les Miz tends to be pretty good with its color-blind casting, but only with the female characters. Brazil had a Valjean of Japanese background, although I don't believe there has ever been an Asian American or African American male lead in Les Miz in the US. Apparently there was to be a black Valjean a few years back (his name escapes me, but he replaced Carl Anderson recently on the JCS tour), but for whatever reason ended up not doing the role.

EponineT: It's Tewksbury, not Trewksbury.
Stella Lee's page on cafemusain.com

Updated On: 9/30/04 at 03:40 PM

Musetta you're out to get my spelling aren't you? :)

I totally agree with all the pseudo Miz freaks, Eponine. My friend is like that too and she always compares herself to Eponine and was going to sing On My Own for play auditions last year and sang Castle on a Cloud instead. It really makes me mad. I used to like Eponine the best. Now I'm in a Mme. Thenardier stint. I love her.

I saw the tour last March with Randal, Stephen, and Ma-Anne in Philly. I was blown away. Ma-Anne is no Lea, but she did a great job.

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She is probably the one I could play the best. I'm good at being burly and obnoxious.

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best cast I've seen was on tour in the great city of Cupertino, CA in 1993. Dave Clemmons as JVJ, Chuck Wagner as Javert, and two amazing understudies--one named Sarah Uriarte (this was pre-Berry) covering the role of Eponine and a young fellow named Brian D'Arcy James covering the role of Enjolras. of course I was 10 at the time so I had no idea. i want to cry everytime I look at that playbill and realize I'm unable to remember most of the show.

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Ugg. School Edition...

I saw Les Mis for the first time back in April in Huntsville Alabama and it was awesome I thought that Fantina and Jean Valjean were AWESOME........it moved my teacher to tears.
I was wondering if they were using synthesizers.

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