Regional Les Mis Productions?

The odds of that are slim since Le Mis had a sitdown production here twenty years ago.

Plenty of cities that have had Les Miz sit-downs have had regional productions in that area.

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Do you mean regional? or Community Theatre?

We have several excellent community theatre companies in the area. Last season Meadowvale theatre did a fine production of MISS SAIGON. This fall they are doing SWEENEY TODD. So a production of LES MIZ is not an impossibility.

We don't have regionals here that generally do large scale musicals. Canstage goes for smaller shows (LITTLE SHOP, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN') when they do commercial musicals.

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Yes but CanStage co-produced Sweeney with a Vancouver theatre - where it received a warmer reception. And weren't both Hair and Urinetown co-produced with Aubrey Dan before he started his own series of shows?

There is no musical in this upcoming season. Berkeley is being turned into a space for smaller theatre to co-produce (Blackbird, Wild Dogs and Hard Sell). The mainspace (Bluma) opens Frost/Nixon shortly and will follow that up with It's a Wonderful Life, a Southern version of Miss Julie (Summer something), one other play and it closes with Doubt.

The show I forgot was Shirley Valentine.

And having just read the press release for It's a Wonderful Life, it is being staged as a live radio show. Almost the actors can sing and dance (and it's being directed by Donna Feore) but it would seem they won't be required to use that musical training.

Yup, a rental (just as Theatre Francais or Obsidian do). But I'm looking forward to A New Brain.