New cast members to join West End’s Les Misérables

Cameron Mackintosh’s hit West End production of Les Misérables will welcome a number of new cast members to the stage of the Sondheim Theatre early next month.

From 6 July, the cast will include Ian McIntosh (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Aldwych, The Commitments, UK and Ireland tour) as Jean Valjean, Oliver Savile (Into the Woods, Bridge Theatre, Annie Get Your Gun, London Palladium) as Javert, Martha Kirby (The Last Five Years, Barn Theatre/UK tour, Evita, Leicester Curve) as Fantine, Harry Hepple (Hello, Dolly!, London Palladium, Assassins, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre) as Thénardier, Mina Anwar (The Book Thief, Belgrade Coventry/Curve Leicester, Life of Pi, Sheffield Crucible/Wyndham’s Theatre) as Madame Thénardier, Jess Folley (Burlesque: The Musical, Manchester Opera House/Savoy Theatre) as Éponine, Thiago Phillip Felizardo (West End and professional debut) as Marius, Joe Griffiths-Brown (The Phantom of the Opera, His Majesty’s Theatre, Frozen, Theatre Royal Drury Lane) as Enjolras and Lucia McLaughlin (West End debut) as Cosette. Will Callan (Les Misérables, Sondheim Theatre, Cruel Intentions, UK and Ireland tour) will play Marius from 17 July to 11 August.

The company will be completed by Joanna Adaran, Madeline Banbury, Nicholas Carter, Tom Carter-Miles, Fergus Dale, Matthew Dale, Zak Devlin, Lily De-La-Haye, Sophie-May Feek, Lyndsey Gardiner, Pablo Gómez Jones, Simi Jolaoso, Seán Keany, Chris Kiely, Sarah Lark, Sarah-Marie Maxwell, Ben Nicholas, William Pennington, Jak Skelly, Lukin Simmonds, Rosie Strobel, Georgia Tapp, Genevieve Taylor, Lee V G, Isobel Vaughan-Palmer, Danny Whelan and Joey Zerpa-Falcon.

Australian leading lady Stefanie Jones will join the production from 7 September to make her West End debut as Fantine. The actress will arrive in the West End fresh from her acclaimed and award-winning performance in the title role in the UK and Ireland tour of Cameron Mackintosh and Disney’s hit production of Mary Poppins.

Now in its 41st record-breaking year in London, the hit production is currently booking through to March 2027.

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. It has music by 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.

Orchestrations are by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke and Stephen Brooker with original orchestrations by John Cameron. The production is directed by James Powell and Laurence Connor and designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, projections realised by Finn Ross and Fifty Nine Productions, musical staging by Geoffrey Garratt and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Alfonso Casado Trigo.

Angela Thomas