A major new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Martin Guerre will be part of Matthew Warchus’ final season as artistic director of The Old Vic.
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First amateur productions of Les Misérables to be staged in 2025
For the first time in the UK 11 amateur theatre companies have been invited to present their own production of Boublil and Schönberg’s global phenomenon Les Misérables.
First dates for Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular world tour
Cameron Mackintosh has announced the initial dates and venues for Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular – the major new world touring production based on the record-breaking Les Misérables – The Staged Concert.
Miss Saigon – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Miss Saigon continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 19 August 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ In fact, this production remains a refreshing new look on a musical theatre big-hitter, managing to challenge perspective and narrative while retaining the original’s tragic power.
Boublil and Schönberg planning re-worked Martin Guerre
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg have revealed they are working on a revised production of their musical Martin Guerre with a possible London run at a major West End theatre in 2024. In an interview with Australian newspaper The Age, the Les Misérables and Miss Saigon writers revealed the pair had revisited their least successful […]
Tribute to Cameron Mackintosh is centrepiece for Sky Arts Christmas programming
Stephen Sondheim is among the musical theatre greats featured in a major new documentary celebrating the life and work of Cameron Mackintosh to be screened on Sky Arts this festive season. Filmed ten days before the legendary composer passed away, Sondheim’s contribution will add poignancy to the two-hour programme which also includes interviews with other […]
Full casting announced for Les Misérables UK and Ireland tour
Full casting has been announced for the acclaimed UK and Ireland touring production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables, reopening at Glasgow Theatre Royal on 23 November 2021 where it will run until 31 December. Joining the previously announced Dean Chisnall as Jean Valjean, Nic Greenshields as Javert and Katie Hall as Fantine will be […]
Online live fundraiser to feature song from lost Lionel Bart musical
Maureen Lipman will give a world exclusive performance of the title song from a lost musical by Lionel Bart and Roger Cook as part of an online live fundraiser in February. Lipman will sing the title song from Next Year In Jerusalem (a musical inspired by the life of Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir which has […]
CD and DVD Review: Les Misérables – The Staged Concert
LES MISERABLES – The Staged Concert – DVD and CD (CD – First Night – 093624888635; DVD – Universal – 832 111 3) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ At least seven cast recordings in English and 26 foreign language cast recordings – do we really need another? That was the thought […]
West End run of Les Miserables – The Staged Concert is extended by two weeks
Cameron Mackintosh has announced a two-week extension to the run of Les Misérables – The Staged Concert due to extraordinary public demand. Playing at the Sondheim Theatre over the Christmas period, the run which begins on 5 December 2020 is now extended to 31 January 2021. Cameron Mackintosh said: “The phenomenal speed at which the […]
Five Questions With: Jack Miles
JACK MILES has written and composed the new folk musical St. Anne Comes Home which will be a part of the Iris Theatre Summer Festival in the courtyard of the Actors’ Church, St Pauls in Covent Garden on 29 and 30 August 2020. London can be lonely. But on the steps of St. Anne’s Church two people […]
Pirate Queen UK premiere concert raises over £10,000 for charity
First-time theatre producer Tom Gribby has presented Leukaemia UK with a cheque for over £10,000 raised from the special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum in February. Handing over a cheque for £10,058, Gribby [pictured left] said: “I am delighted at the amount raised from the Pirate Queen […]
Claude-Michel Schönberg to make a special guest appearance in The Barn’s Annabel Mutale Reed concert
Tony Award-winning composer, librettist and record producer Claude-Michel Schönberg will be making a special guest appearance in concert The Barn Presents: The Music of Annabel Mutale Reed, celebrating the work of musical theatre playwright, lyricist and director Annabel Mutale Reed. The concert will debut on the Cirencester venue’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels on 11 […]
Hannah Waddingham, Steph Parry and Emma Norman join The Pirate Queen charity performance
Hannah Waddingham, Steph Parry and Emma Norman are the latest additions to the line-up for the special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum on Sunday 23 February 2020. A triple Olivier Award nominee for her performances in Kiss Me, Kate, A Little Night Music and Spamalot, Waddingham will […]
Les Misérables The Staged Concert – At The Cinema
Les Misérables The Staged Concert live and as live at the cinema. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thirty-four years after being Les Misérables’ first Marius, Michael Ball played Inspector Javert “probably for the last time” in the staged concert version which went live into cinemas nationally on 2 December and “as […]
Original Les Misérables production to move to the Gielgud – new production to open at refurbished Queen’s in December
Theatregoers have just a few months left to see the world’s only original production of Cameron Mackintosh’s record-breaking Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre before the London venue closes for four months of refurbishing work. After taking its final bow at the Queen’s Theatre on 13 July 2019, the original 1985 production will continue in […]
Full cast for record-breaking Les Misérables tour
Rehearsals have begun for the November launch of the eagerly-anticipated new UK and Ireland tour of Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables. Returning to the road in this country for the first time in over a decade, the production is already set to break records ahead of its opening season at […]
Killian Donnelly to play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables UK tour
Kinky Boots star Killian Donnelly will play Jean Valjean in Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed touring production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables which will return later this year nearly a decade after its last UK tour. Currently playing Jean Valjean in the West End production of the hit show, Donnelly will give his final performance at […]
Broadway production of Les Misérables to tour UK and Ireland
Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables will return later this year nearly a decade after the show’s last UK tour sold out within days. Opening at Curve Leicester for a season from 3-24 November, the recent Broadway production will arrive on this side of the Atlantic following a successful tour […]
Doctor Faustus – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Paradise in Augustines
Doctor Faustus continues at Paradise in Augustines until 27 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ To find a new way to explore the Faustus story is a challenge for any writer, and to achieve a piece where the audience is unexpectedly taken to new places and exploring new relationships within familiar archetypes […]
Stop – A New Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – C south
Stop – A New Musical continues at C south until 28 August (then visits The Cockpit, London from 30 August to 2 September). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This a gem of a show – written by Leo Munby (music) and Annabel Mutale Reed (book and lyrics), there is dazzling talent in this […]
Cast revealed for Miss Saigon touring production
Cameron Mackintosh has announced principal casting and further dates for the UK touring production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon which is due to hit the road this summer. Award-winning Red Concepcion (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) will take on the role of The Engineer. Taking on the part of Kim will be Sooha […]
Miss Saigon – Broadway Theatre, New York
Miss Saigon continues at the Broadway Theatre, New York until 13 January 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Miss Saigon is back on Broadway in all its breathtaking pop opera glory – and then some. Cameron Mackintosh has transported this revival, which closed in London in February 2016, to the New […]
Miss Saigon sweeps the board at WhatsOnStage Awards
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Miss Saigon won a record-breaking nine WhatsOnStage Awards at a star-studded ceremony last night at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre. The 15th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, voted for by the theatre-going public, were hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Steve Furst (the latter is currently appearing in Made in Dagenham at the Adelphi […]
Frances Ruffelle – Paris Original – St James Studio Theatre
Frances Ruffelle performs her show Paris Original at the St James Theatre Studio, London. Frances Ruffelle is one of those impressively versatile performers who has no problems shifting tickets for any of her shows, the Tony Award-winning actress here doing a three-night stint at the perfectly suited and highly intimate St James Studio. Being the […]
Interview – Frances Ruffelle brings her one-woman show Paris Original to the St James Studio
FRANCES RUFFELLE’s cabaret show Paris Original – running for three nights between 1–3 October at London’s St James Studio – is a celebration of French singers and songs, ranging from Françoise Hardy and Edith Piaf to Francis Lai and Claude-Michel Schönberg. The show, which premiered at the Crazy Coqs in October last year, represents something of a golden Gallic […]
Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London (booking until 25 April, 2015). The familiar heart-thudding beats of a helicopter herald the dramatic opening of a new production of Miss Saigon that is every bit as powerful and thrilling as the original show was 25 years ago. The Prince Edward Theatre, now beautifully refurbished, […]
Les Misérables – Imperial Theatre, New York
Les Misérables continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. All those hard-living, hard-suffering, hard-singing people of 19th century France, known collectively as Les Misérables, are back on Broadway, and as the French would say, they are still tres formidable. This giant-sized pop opera, based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel, first hit […]
Mackintosh reveals Miss Saigon 2014 cast
Cameron Mackintosh has announced principal casting for his forthcoming new production of Miss Saigon. Assembled from around the world, the cast includes Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer, Eva Noblezada as Kim, Alistair Brammer as Chris, Tamsin Carroll as Ellen, Hugh Maynard as John and Rachelle Ann Go as Gigi. Miss Saigon returns to the […]
Frances Ruffelle – French Connection
Frances Ruffelle’s new cabaret, Paris Original, will be a celebration of French singers and songs. The show premieres at the Crazy Coqs from 8–12 October and represents something of a golden Gallic thread that has run through her career. This began when, at the age of 19, she originated the role of Eponine in Les […]
Miss Saigon – public booking opens
Public booking for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon will open at 10am on Monday, 9 September 2013. Miss Saigon will return to the West End on 3 May, 2014 at the Prince Edward Theatre in the musical’s 25th anniversary year, booking for performances through to 25 October. […]
