Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Emma White
Featured Actor Joined: 2/11/13
#1Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/13/13 at 10:37pmAm I bad at math, or did Victoria Clark play Madame Thenardier at the age of 28?
brettarnett
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/09
#2Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 5:25amVictoria Clark was Madame Thernardier in the first national tour. I have the cast list from the souvenir brochure. Carolee Carmello was in the ensemble of this same tour, as was Olga Merediz (In the Heights) and Hugh Panaro (Marius).
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#3Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 6:37amShe screams Fantine, I wonder why she didn't play that role instead...
#4Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 7:11am
Diane Fratantoni was Fantine on that tour. Wouldn't be surprised if Carolee understudied that role.
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#5Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 8:21amCarolee understudied Cosette
#6Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 8:45am^Nice to know! Thanks.
#7Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 9:37amDidn't she understudy both Fantine and Cosette?
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#8Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 11:19amCarolee definitely understudied Fantine. I saw this tour company in DC. The day I saw the show, Diane Fratantoni was out and Carolee was on in the role. I still have the understudy slip in my program! She was very good in the part but I had no idea then that she'd become a star years later. Developed a major crush on Hugh Panaro though--the hottest Marius I have ever seen.
#9Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 11:46amWas this the same tour where Melissa Errico played Cosette?
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#10Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 12:45pm
Yes, I was going to mention that Melissa Errico was the Cosette. She was so pretty. Now this makes me want to dig out all my old show programs and find out who else I've seen (especially in tour companies) that went on to become a "name" on Broadway....
Updated On: 11/14/13 at 12:45 PM
#11Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 12:46pmI have the souvenir brochures from the first national tour, bus and truck and the LA company, but Melissa Errico isn't listed in any of them. The lists I have are from the original companies of each. I know she toured with Les Miz, but not sure which company and when.
#12Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 1:13pmA friend saw Melissa Errico as Cosette in Detroit... so whichever company that was. I think it was the 3rd national (bus and truck).
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#13Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 1:33pmI thought Melissa was the Cosette opposite Hugh Panaro on that tour. I know she was Cosette on one of the tour casts I saw. I'll have to go back and look at all my Les Mis programs to find out which.
#14Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 1:44pmErrico was 18 when she played Cosette, and she was born in 1970. So 1988 would be right. I think I remember her playing opposite Panaro, so that makes sense too. So much talent on one tour...so many future big names.
#15Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 2:06pmI'll check when I get home from work.
Ceej
Stand-by Joined: 3/30/07
#16Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 4:42pm
I saw the tour in Boston in '90. The cast I can remember from memory was:
Valjean - J. Mark McVey
Javert - Robert DuSold
Cosette - Melissa Errico
Fantine - Susan Dawn Carson
Eponine - Jennifer Naimo
Marius - Peter Gunther
Sorry - can't remember more and don't have the Playbill handy.
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#17Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/14/13 at 8:28pm
Ok. Checked my playbill from 1988. Tamara Jenkins was Cosette at that point in the tour. I think Melissa was after that. Victoria Clark definitely was Madame Thenardier.
Updated On: 11/14/13 at 08:28 PM
#18Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/15/13 at 8:27amClark was the original Mme. Thenardier in the first national tour, which played Boston, DC, Philly, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and LA, with returns to the first four cities. Panaro was the original Marius. Errico was Cosette in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and Boston--she never played opposite Panaro. Speaking of women who covered Cosette and Fantine, Barbara Walsh covered both in part of that tour! This was also the tour where Anne Hathaway's mother, Kate McCauley, briefly played the Factory Girl/Fantine cover. Laurie Beechman played Fantine in the second Philly run.
#19Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/15/13 at 10:04am
The 1st National Tour's Philly Stop (Fall '88 - Spring '89) was my first time seeing the show (seeing any show actually) so I have very fond memories of Victoria Clarke as Mme. Thenardier. If I remember, she played opposite Neal Ben-Ari as Thenardier.
Half that cast eventually got called up to the Broadway company (Schulman, Pistone, Panaro, Kolinski) and I think Melissa Errico was in the wave of replacements that came after the call ups. I could be wrong, but I know she wasn't in the company in the first Philly run.
I believe Ann Crumb also opened the tour as Fantine. I know a recording exists that identifies her in the role from that time period.
#20Victoria Clark in Les Miserables?
Posted: 11/15/13 at 10:09amWasn't that also the same tour that had Jarrod Spector (long-running Frankie in Jersey Boys; now in Beautiful) as one of the Gavroches?
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