Just months after taking his final bow as Valjean in the last performance of the original production of Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre, Dean Chisnall will return to the role in the second year of Cameron Mackintosh’s record-breaking new touring production.
From 18 November Chisnall will play Valjean alongside current tour stars, Nic Greenshields (Young Frankenstein, Garrick Theatre) as Javert; Katie Hall (Cosette in Les Misérables in 2009) as Fantine; and Harry Apps who continues in his professional stage debut role of Marius.
Ian Hughes (Guys and Dolls, Savoy Theatre) will also join the cast as Thénardier with Helen Walsh (Man of La Mancha, London Coliseum) stepping into the role of Mrs Thénardier, Barnaby Hughes (currently appearing in Les Misérables Staged Concert at London’s Gielgud Theatre) taking over as Enjolras and recent Arts Educational School graduate Charlie Burn, making her professional debut as Cosette.
The cast will also include: Joseph Anthony, George Arvidson, Adam Boardman, Olivia Brereton, Danny Colligan, Rebecca Ferrin, Aimee Good, Jenna Innes, Ebony Jonelle, Robert Madge, Liam Marcellino, Emily Owens, Jordan Simon Pollard, Corinne Priest, Jamie Pritchard, Aaron Pryce-Lewis, Dean Read and Janne Snellen.
With more casting to be announced soon, Mackintosh has also confirmed further dates for 2020. The tour will now also visit Bristol Hippodrome (7 April to 9 May), Glasgow Theatre Royal (3 to 27 June), Leeds Grand Theatre (23 July to 15 August), Dublin Bord Gais Theatre (25 August to 12 September), Canterbury Marlowe Theatre (25 September to 24 October) and Hull New Theatre (28 October to 21 November).
Currently playing to packed houses in Newcastle until 5 October, the new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables returned to the road in this country for the first time in over a decade last year.
The new staging which features scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo has also already been seen in North America, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Manila, Singapore, Dubai and on Broadway.
Laurence Connor and James Powell direct with design by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt, projections by Fifty-Nine Productions and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Graham Hurman.
Produced on stage by Mackintosh, Les Misérables is the world’s longest-running musical, with 2019 marking its 35th year in London. The show’s celebrated score includes the songs, ‘I Dreamed a Dream’, ‘On My Own’, ‘Bring Him Home’, ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ and ‘Empty Chairs at Empty Tables’.
The new production of Les Misérables, with a separate company, is currently also on a record-breaking international tour. Sold out a year in advance through to January 2020, the tour has now been extended to Autumn 2020.
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel with additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird.
Angela Thomas
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