WHAT IS THE RUNNING TIME?

2 hours 50 minutes including a 15-minute interval

WHAT IS THE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE?

https://london.lesmis.com/ticket-information/ for further information

WHAT IS THE AGE RECOMMENDATION?

The age recommendation is 7+. Everyone, regardless of age, must have their own ticket to enter the theatre. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by and sat next to a ticketholder who is at least 18 years old. Children under the age of 3 will not be admitted. Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break but we cannot guarantee admittance into the performance.

ARE PHOTOS OR VIDEO RECORDING ALLOWED?

We are happy for you to take photos inside the theatre before the show begins. Please share them on social media and tag us! Photography, video and sound recordings of any kind are strictly prohibited during the performance.

DOES THE SHOW USE ANY SPECIAL EFFECTS?

The performance includes gunfire, smoke and flashing light effects.

IS THERE MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE AT THE THEATRE?

Yes there is, in the theatre foyer. It is also available https://store.playbill.co.uk/lesmis .

DO YOU OFFER BACKSTAGE TOURS?

For reasons of health and safety we are unable to offer any public access backstage.

CAN I BUY A PROGRAMME?

Yes, this is available before and after the show and also during the interval, inside the theatre.

DO YOU HAVE A CLOAKROOM AT THE VENUE?

Yes. The cloakroom is able to accept coats and small bags for a small charge. We are unable to accept larger bags or suitcases.

DO YOU HAVE A LOST AND FOUND?

If you have any enquiries regarding lost property at Sondheim Theatre please email customer services. Lost property will be kept at the theatre for one month.

WHERE IS THE NEAREST LONDON UNDERGROUND STATION?

The nearest train station is Charing Cross. The nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus. The nearest bus stops are serviced by numbers 14, 19, 38.

IS THERE SECURITY IN OPERATION AT THE VENUE?

Before your visit, please read our ‘Welcoming You Safely’ guidance here. For everyone’s safety and security, we continue to conduct regular security checks at our theatres and, working with Global Support Services, we use highly trained detection dogs to provide additional security spot checks. Please only bring one small bag that can be stored under your seat. To store larger items, please contact Stasher.com before you arrive. We provide 100% fresh air through our ventilation systems.

There is no specific dress code at the theatre.

ARE THERE ANY PLANNED PERFORMANCES FOR PATRONS WITH SPECIAL ACCESS NEEDS?

We currently offer Captioned and Audio Described performances. For performance dates and additional information, visit our Access page here. For more information

IS THERE AN ACCESS TOILET?

There is an adapted toilet in the Foyer via a ramped corridor. Please ask a member of staff for assistance.

IS THE THEATRE WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE?

Wheelchair access is via the fourth side door on Wardour Street. Level transfers are available in Dress Circle Row D or wheelchair parks in the Schönberg Loge. We set aside this seating for wheelchair users so please get in touch before booking.

IS THERE ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE HARD OF HEARING?

For those with partial hearing loss, Sennheiser Infrared Enhanced Hearing headsets are available. These headsets are available from the cloakroom.

HOW MANY STEPS ARE THERE TO THE AUDITORIUM?

There is step free access from the Foyer to the Dress Circle Row D. There are 18 steps from the foyer up to the rear Dress Circle, 21 steps from the Foyer down to the Stalls and 39 steps from the Foyer to up the Grand Circle. Please note that this area is quite steep.

CAN I EXCHANGE MY TICKETS?

If you bought directly with us, you can exchange your tickets up to 48 hours prior to your performance. https://help.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/4412466733970-How-do-I-exchange-my-tickets- for more information

HOW LONG IS THE SHOW RUNNING FOR?

The show is open-ended. Tickets are currently on sale through to 30 September 2023.

WHAT HAPPENS IF A PRODUCTION OR PERFORMANCE IS CANCELLED?

In the event that the production or performance you have booked for is cancelled, we will e-mail you as soon as possible using the address given when making your booking and offer you an exchange, or a refund, subject to availability. If you have booked through a third party ticket agent, you will be contacted by your point of sale.

WHEN WILL I GET MY E-TICKETS?

Your e-tickets will be sent immediately upon booking. They will appear as a PDF attachment to your confirmation email.

CAN I BRING A GROUP OR SCHOOL PARTY?

Absolutely. https://london.lesmis.com/ticket-information/ for further details

Cast & Creative | Les Misérables London

Cast
Creative

Cosette

Annabelle Aquino

Cosette

Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 2023. Credits whilst training include: Beth in Merrily We Roll Along (Louise Shephard), Clarissa in Little Women (Becky Hope-Palmer), and Aysha in Children of Eden (Oliver Lidert). Other credits include: Next to Normal and The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Studio Theater, Dominican Republic)

Bamatabois / Babet

Matt Bateman

Bamatabois / Babet

Training – The Royal Academy of Music. Theatre – Annas/cover Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour), Ensemble/cover Happy Man, James Morse and Alfredo in Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre), Swing/cover Count, Doctor, Fishmonger and Lamplighter in The Magician’s Elephant (The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon), White Rabbit/Mad Hatter in Alice in Streamingland (Phoenix Arts Club), Adolfo Pirelli/Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Jeweller/first cover Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Billy/Eugene Fodor in Crazy for You (The Watermill Theatre), Charles Dickens in Dickens Abridged (National Tour) and Hefty Hugh in What the Ladybird Heard (National Tour). Television – Backing vocals for Maria Friedman on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Swing

Michael Baxter

Swing

Michael trained at Guildford School of Acting. Since then he’s had a diverse career as an Actor and Musician. Theatre: The Choir Of Man (Arts Theatre, London), Jesus Christ Superstar (Frinton Summer Theatre, Frinton), Les Misérables (25th Anniversary Tour), Les Misérables (O2 Arena), Wonderful Town (Barbican Theatre), Gypsy (Wales Millennium Centre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Ljubljana Festival), Seventh Time Around (Soho Theatre) and The Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford Collection). Musical Director credits include: Cinderella (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre), Guys and Dolls (New Wimbledon Theatre), David Phelps: Live in London (IndigO2 at the O2 Arena), Jack and the Beanstalk (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Direct From The West End (Theatre Royal, Windsor), The Falsetto and The Fingers (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Barry Manilow’s Copacabana (Westminster University).

Madame

Emily Olive Boyd

Madame

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre includes: Swing/cover Madame Thenadier/cover Factory Girl in Les Misérables (UK Tour); Ensemble & Cover Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (UK Tour); Ensemble & Cover Madame Morrible in Wicked (UK/International Tour); Alice & Cover Bernie in The Commitments (Palace Theatre) and Ruth Two Bears in Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse). Workshops include: Theresa in Angela’s Ashes; Father Ted.

Jean Prouvaire

Daniel J. Brian

Jean Prouvaire

Training: Guildford School of Acting. Credits Include: Ensemble/Cover Sky/Cover Eddie in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre); Jack Trott in Jack & The Beanstalk (Ludwig Theatre Arts). Credits Whilst Training Include: Peter/Ensemble in Applause; Cry-Baby in Cry-Baby; Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd; Ensemble/Radio Host & Sound Man in Holiday Inn.

Enjolras

Robson Broad

Enjolras

Training: The Centre Performing Arts College

Theatre includes: Dick Jones in Street Scene – Opéra National de Paris, Ensemble/Cover Christian & Duke in the Original London Cast of Moulin Rouge (Piccadilly Theatre), Ensemble in Moulin Rouge – Australia (Regents Theatre), Swing in Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre), Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park)

Ensemble

Ella May Carter

Ensemble

Professional Training: Urdang Academy, The Dang Academy Credits whilst in Training: Ensemble/ Cover Isle in Spring Awakening (Tania Azevedo/ Ainsley Ricketts); Liz in Cell Block Tango (Genevieve Nicole/ The Urdang Academy); Bebe Benzenheimer in A Chorus Line (The Urdang Academy); Featured singer in Lucie Jones: Leave A Light On (Lambert Jackson).

Javert

Stewart Clarke

Javert

Training: University of Warwick Theatre credits include: ‘Warden’ in Mandela (Young Vic), ‘Ernst Ludwig’ in Cabaret (Kit Kat Club), ‘The Squip’ in Be More Chill (Shaftesbury Theatre), ‘Perchik’ in Fiddler on the Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End), ‘Dino’ in The Rink (Southwark Theatre), ‘Guiseppe Zangara’ in Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), ‘Christopher Baldry’ in The Return of the Solder (Hope Mill Theatre), ‘Jesus’ in Godspell in Concert (Lyric Theatre), ‘Johnny Nogerelli’ in Cool Rider Live (Lyric Theatre), ‘Sam Wheat’ in Ghost The Musical (UK National Tour), ‘Eddie Arch’ in Loserville (Garrick Theatre), ‘Valentin’ in Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Stanley Kowalski’ in A Streetcar Named Desire (The Curve), ‘Stuart Dakin’ in The History Boys (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Gaston’ in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Melchior Gabor’ in Spring Awakening (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Larry’ in Closer (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Adolfo Pirelli’ in Sweeney Todd (National Youth Music Theatre), ‘Cornelius/ Envy/ Knight/ Duke’ in Dr Faustus (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Leo Frank’ in Parade (The Company Music Theatre), ‘Arturo Ui’ in The Resistible Rise of Arturi Ui (Warwick Arts Centre), ‘Lysander’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warwick Arts Centre) Film and television include: ‘Guiseppe Zangara’ in The Moonstone (King Bert Productions for BBC), ‘Young Man 1’ in Easy Virtue (Ealing Studios). Stewart was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical in 2020, for his performance in Trevor Nunn’s Fiddler on the Roof in the West End, following its run at The Menier Chocolate Factory.

Grantaire

Adam Colbeck-Dunn

Grantaire

Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Theatre includes: On-Stage Swing (Cover Harry) in Standing At The Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre), GI (Cover John) in Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible). Wilbur/Mr Pinky in Hairspray (RCCL), Buttons in Cinderella (Newark Palace Theatre), Scarecrow/Hunk in The Wizard of Oz, Bundles McCloskey, Fred McKracken & Harold Ikes in Annie, Wishee Washee in Aladdin, Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Buttons in Cinderella (all at Cork Opera House), Mr Stevens/Dex in Aliens Love Underpants (UK Tour & Underbelly Festival), The Soldier/The Writer in Hello Again (The Hope Theatre), Man in Cole (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Baker/Judah/Mrs Potiphar in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Frinton Rep), Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre), Spend Spend Spend and Billy (The Union Theatre) and I Love You Because (Jermyn Street Theatre). Recordings: Ushers: The Front of House Musical. Workshops: B*ST*RDS.

Marius

Jacob Dachtler

Marius

Training: Guildford School of Acting graduated in 2023 Professional credits include: Adam in Mamma Mia! The Party (The O2); Jacob Fry in Babies The Musical (Lyric Theatre); Will in Halls The Musical (Turbine Theatre) Workshops include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Workshop); Thomas in 1666 (Workshop) Jacob would like to thank his friends and family for their ongoing support; especially his Mum, Dad, and two younger brothers Toby and Todd Instagram – @jacob.dachtler

Swing

Matthew Dale

Swing

Matthew hails from Middlesbrough and graduated from ArtsEd, London with a BA Hons in Musical Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre) A Christmas Carol (RSC), Half a Sixpence (Noël Coward Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh Ltd); Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Smallest Show on Earth (Runaway Entertainment); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour/ATG); Spamalot (UK Tour/ATG); Christmas in New York, (Prince of Wales Theatre); Olivier Awards 2011 & 2012, (Theatre Royal and Royal Opera House, London).

Lesgles

Irfan Damani

Lesgles

Theatre credits include: Claire’s Dad in The Time Traveller’s Wife (Apollo Theatre), Patrick Star in The SpongeBob Musical (UK Tour), Raj in Billionaire Boy (Garrick Theatre), Gangsta Granny (UK Tour), The New Musketeers (Trinity Theatre), Aliens who saved Christmas, (Trinity Theatre), Ishq The Musical (Sadler’s Wells Theatre). TV and Film credits include: Casualty (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Breeders (Sky Atlantic), Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again!, Namaste England. Instagram: @DamaniIrfan

Éponine

Amena El-Kindy

Éponine

Training: University of Chichester Conservatoire in Musical Theatre. Theatre credits include: Avalon in Robin Hood (Liverpool Everyman Theatre), Shirelle in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (UK Tour), Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).

Swing

Sophie-May Feek

Swing

Training: Moutview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theatre credits include: Cover Fantine & Factory Girl in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Sophia in Death Takes a Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre); Sandra in Made in Dagenham (New Wolsey Theatre & Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Jackie Tower in Six-Five Rock n Roll Express (Assembly Halls).

Theatre whilst training include: Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre; Wardrobe Mistress in Kiss Me, Kate; Jacqueline Kennedy in First Lady Suite.

Fantine (except 23 December – 15 February)

Katie Hall

Fantine (except 23 December – 15 February)

Training: National Youth Music Theatre. Theatre includes: Cunegonde in Candide (The Grange Festival); Laurey Williams in Oklahoma! (Grange Park Opera); Maria Anne Miller in Stephen Schwartz’s Schikaneder (VBW, Vienna) directed by Trevor Nunn; Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera and BBC Proms/Royal Albert Hall), Johanna in Sweeney Todd (English National Opera) opposite Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel; Maria in West Side Story (National Tour), Christine in Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of The Phantom of the Opera (National Tour), before which she alternated the role in the West End (Her Majesty’s Theatre), as well as the 25th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall); and Cosette in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre and International Tour), as well as the 25th Anniversary Concert (o2 Arena). Concerts: Katie regularly performs as a soloist in numerous concerts internationally, including The Golden Age of Broadway at the BBC Proms; with Voices of the West End, The Three Phantoms, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; at the Cheltenham Music Festival; and on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night. Television includes: Josh (BBC); Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (BBC) and I’d Do Anything (BBC), both spearheaded by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Film includes: Les Misérables (Working Title Films) directed by Tom Hooper. Most recently, Katie starred as Fantine in the new UK and Ireland Tour of Les Misérables.

Montparnasse / Pimp

Matt Hayden

Montparnasse / Pimp

Training: Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford); The 12 Tenors (international tour); Eric Young-Love in Privates on Parade (Union Theatre). Other credits include: VOXX – The West End Tenors.

Combeferre

Christopher Jacobsen

Combeferre

Christopher is from Cardiff, South Wales and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour), Lt. Joe Cable in South Pacific (Kilworth House), Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory), Les Misérables – the Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Enjolras in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre) Alternate Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), Tony Candolino in Master Class (Theatre Royal Bath, UK Tour) 1st Cover Jean Valjean in the 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables (International Tour).

Film Includes: Julian in Max, Nick in Onset and Luke in Deadpan.

Factory Girl

Jessica Johns-Parsons

Factory Girl

Training: The Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Credits whilst training: Mrs Reed / Mrs Fairfax in the first European production of Jane Eyre, written by John Caird.

Fantine – 23 December- 15 February

Lucie Jones

Fantine – 23 December- 15 February

Theatre includes: ‘Genevieve’ in The Baker’s Wife (Menier Chocolate Factory) ‘Catherine’ in Pippin (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); ‘Katie’ in Super You (Lyric Theatre); ’Jenna Rink’ in 13 Going on 30 (Battersea Arts Centre); ‘Fantine’ in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); ’Elphaba’ in Wicked (Apollo Victoria: Winner of Best Takeover at WhatsOnStage Awards & West End Wilma Awards); ‘Jenna Hunterson’ in Waitress (Adelphi & UK Tour: Winner of Best Takeover & Best performance at the West End Wilma Awards); ‘Fantine’ in Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Sondheim Theatre); ‘Martha Percy’ in Treason (Cadogan Hall); ‘Heidi’ in Title of Show (London Coliseum); ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ in A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre); ‘Maureen’ in RENT (The Other Palace and UK Tour); ‘Elle Woods’ in Legally Blonde (Leicester Curve, UK Tour and South Korea Opera House: Winner of the Best Actress in a Musical Award); ‘Victoria’ in American Psycho (Almeida); ‘Molly’ in Ghost (International Tour); ‘Emily’ in A Christmas Carol (Lyceum); ‘Lou’ in Girlfriends (Bishopsgate Institute- LMTO); ‘Meatloaf’ in We Will Rock You (International Arena Tour); ‘Holly’ in The Wedding Singer (UK Tour) and ‘Cosette’ in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre). Television includes: Midsomer Murders and The Sarah Jane Adventures. X factor finalist, 2009. Eurovision finalist, 2017. In 2020, Lucie performed a sold-out concert at London’s Adelphi Theatre. Accompanied by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, the concert was recorded for a live album- “Lucie Jones – Live at The Adelphi”. In 2021, Lucie performed a sold out solo Christmas show at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the west end and at St David’s Hall, Cardiff. In 2023, Lucie embarked upon a UK solo tour with the Fulltone orchestra. Lucie has recently played a run of solo shows at Cadogan Hall, London. Instagram: @luciejones1 Twitter: @luciejones1 TikTok: @thatluciejones

Thénardier

Luke Kempner

Thénardier

Luke Kempner is an acclaimed stand-up comic, impressionist and actor widely recognised for his popular sketch videos which have amassed over 10 million views online. Television credits include: A regular host on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch, Love Island Aftersun, Spitting Image, The Last Leg, Big Brother’s Bit On The Side, Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, Stand-Up Sketch Show, Murder in Successville, The Imitation Game, and Celebrity Karaoke Club. Luke’s many voices are also regularly heard on The Now Show on BBC Radio. Theatre credits include: 25^th Anniversary tour of Les Misérables, Avenue Q and South Pacific as well as starring in the West End production of Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical and his brand new Edinburgh Fringe show, Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical which follows success with previous shows including The Only Way Is Downton. Luke also co-hosts the Shit, I Married a Twin podcast with The Mac Twins.

Swing

Sam Kipling

Swing

Sam trained at The Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Miss Violet Plumb in All-Male The Mikado (Wilton’s Music Hall & UK Tour), Gilbert Chilvers in Betty Blue Eyes (Union Theatre), George in Tasting Notes (Southwark Playhouse), Josephine in All-Male HMS Pinafore (Wilton’s Music Hall, Theatre Royal Winchester), Sir Clifford Chatterley in Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Shaftesbury Theatre), Edith in All-Male The Pirates of Penzance (Palace Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall), Anri/Olivia/Bird in Mythosphere (Stone Nest), Charlie in The Habit of Art (The Lowry, Leeds Grand Theatre), Charlie Cricket in The Astonishing Adventures of Pinocchio (Hertford Theatre), Male Ensemble/Cover Fairy Queen in All-Male Iolanthe (UK Tour), Tenor in Thursford Christmas Spectacular and Alf Mabberley in Brass the Musical (The Union Theatre). Workshops include: King Ralph (ATG Productions). Twitter: @SamKipling96 Instagram: sam_kipling

Ensemble

Anouk Van Laake

Ensemble

Training: Fontys School for the Arts (Tilburg, Holland) Theatre includes: Ensemble/1st cover Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera (West End), Alternate Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera (UK & Ireland Tour), lead vocalist in The Great Andrew Lloyd Webber Gala, Aloysia in Mozart! (Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp). Television includes: Appeared in the Dutch version of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria (Op zoek naar Maria) (Warner Bros.), Jamie in Campus 12 (Studio 100).

Ensemble

Mia Lamb

Ensemble

Training: ArtsEd London, Musical Theatre Graduate 2024 Credits whilst training include: Mrs Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone (ArtsEd); Ensemble in Made in Dagenham (ArtsEd); Pippin West End 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Olivier Awards 2024 (Royal Albert Hall).

Swing (Assistant Musical Staging)

Sarah Lark

Swing (Assistant Musical Staging)

Training: Royal Academy of Music. (graduated with distinction). Theatre credits include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Gielgud), Oklahoma! (BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables (Queen’s), Beauty and the Beast (Chatham), Miss Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Union Theatre), Strawberry Seller, covered and played Nancy in Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carrie’s War (UK tour), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), covered and played Sophie and Lisa in Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales), Lucy Van Pelt in Snoopy the Musical (Jermyn Street/New Players Theatre), Scottie Fitzgerald in Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Little Girl in The Witches of Eastwick (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and Whistle Down the Wind (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Estate). Television credits include: I’d Do Anything (finalist), Just Up Your Street, The Healer, The Biz, Barrymore and The X Factor with Mamma Mia! Film credits include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Holmes & Watson. Workshops include: Miss Dixon in Time’s Up (Shaftesbury Theatre), Delphina in Twang (Lionel Bart Estate), Rita in Billy (Kenny Wax Ltd), Collette in Mathilde and Sgt Pike in His Grace’s Betting Shop (Menier Chocolate Factory). Concerts include: Dress Circle Benefit (Her Majesty’s), Broadway to West End (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), WhatsOnStage Awards (Prince of Wales), April McScoop in Betwixt (New Ambassadors Theatre) and Hello Jerry (Jermyn Street Theatre). Sarah has also headlined Cabaret performances at the Jermyn Street Theatre, Lauderdale House and, most recently, the Pheasantry. Recordings include: The Witches of Eastwick, Oliver! (2009 live), Postman and the Poet, Roberta Jones in Bluebird, Nancy in songs from Oliver!, Scrapbook, Raise the Curtain, Surrounded by Sounds, Unwritten Songs and Acoustic Overtures.

Madame Thénardier

Claire Machin

Madame Thénardier

Theatre Credits include: Mrs Brill in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Whore/Claire in Amour (Charing Cross Theatre); Violet Butterfield in Flowers for Mrs. Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre); Alice Beane in Titanic (UK Tour); Rosie in MAMMIA MIA! (Cyprus); Cora in Girls the Musical (Phoenix Theatre London); Barbara Castle in Made in Dagenham (Queens Theatre); Alice Beane in Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre); Mamma Gladys in the original cast of Memphis (Shaftesbury Theatre); Mabel in The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre & Shaftesbury Theatre); Mrs. Metcalf in Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre); Widow Corney in Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane & UK Tour); Tim’s Mother & Asphynxia in Salad Days (Riverside Studios); Mamie Eisenhower in First Lady Suite (Union Theatre); Ms Darbus in High School Musical (Churchill Theatre & UK Tour); Miss Lark, Mrs Brill & Mrs Corry in the original cast of Mary Poppins (Bristol Hippodrome & Prince Edward Theatre); Clara Eynsford Hill in My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Les Miserables (Palace Theatre); Charlotte in Oliver! (London Palladium). In 2017 Claire was nominated for the Laurence Olivier award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Cora in The Girls. Claire was nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Supporting Female in a Musical for her role has Whore/Claire in Amour. She also won and was nominated for the WhatsOnStage award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Gladys in Memphis. Claire also performed her one woman show ‘An Old Fashioned Love Story‘ at the New London Theatre and has also been involved in various workshops supporting new writing. TV/Film Credits include: Grandma Who in The Grinch Musical (NBC); Mrs Nathan in Vanity Fair for (ITV/Mammoth Screen); Louise in Miss Marple (BBC); Sharon in The Ritz (BBC); Les Miserables (Working Title Films).

Courfeyrac

Matthew McConnell

Courfeyrac

Matthew is a Northern Irish actor trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Theatre credits include: Teen Angel/Vince Fontaine in Grease (RCCL); Featured Tenor in Thursford Christmas Spectacular; Claudio in A Merry War (Birmingham Rep) and most recently, Vocalist in Rock On! Instagram – @matthewmcconnellhey

Valjean

Ian McIntosh

Valjean

Most recently to be seen as Jesus Christ in the National Tour of Tim Sheader’s critically acclaimed Jesus Christ, Superstar, Ian was also previously nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Barry Mann in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre) – a role he created in the West End. Additional theatre credits include: Galileo Figaro in We Will Rock You (London Coliseum); Deco Cuffe in The Commitments (UK & Ireland Tour); Galileo Figaro in We Will Rock You (20th Anniversary Tour); Galileo Figaro in We Will Rock You (UK Tour); Young Ben Stone in Follies (National Theatre); Sid Worley in An Officer and A Gentleman (UK and Ireland Tour); Bud in Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (The Criterion); Ray/Alternate Deco Cuffe in The Commitments (Palace Theatre); Alternate Drew Boley in Rock of Ages (Garrick & Shaftesbury Theatres); An Evening with Duncan Sheik & Stephen Sater (The Other Palace); Hair (European Arena Tour); High School Musical 2 (UK and Ireland Tour), Can’t Buy Me Love (UK Tour) Film: Anaesthetist in the film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (Netflix). Vocal Artist: Lead vocalist on Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five Animated Series – Disney Channel Worldwide. Workshops: Hugo’s Father in Hugo; Frank Sinatra in Sammy the Musical; Irving Radovich in Roman Holiday (London & Shanghai); Pip in The Navigator; Pink’s Father in The Wall – Pink Floyd Musical; Nick in The Famous Five; Michael in The Canary Girls. Follow Ian on Insta/twitter: @ianmcintoshuk

Ensemble

Aaron-Jade Morgan

Ensemble

Training: Guildford School of Acting Credits Whilst Training: Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Gospel Trio in Violet; Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly; Fay Apple in Anyone Can Whistle

Joly

Ben Oatley

Joly

Training: Guildford School of Acting (2023 graduate). Theatre whilst training: Chieftan O’Flaherty in The Pirate Queen; Buzz Richards in Applause; Whiffle in Cry-Baby. Other credits: Roles We’ll Never Play (Union Theatre); Maxie Boswell in Becoming Nancy (workshop).

Bishop of Digne / Brujon

Adam Pearce

Bishop of Digne / Brujon

Training: Guildford School of Acting and The National Youth Music Theatre. Theatre: Kobus in original cast of Mandela (Young Vic), Hotep in original cast of The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre) Magaldi Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) Viktor in original cast of Mark Knopfler’s Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum) Max Von Mayerling, Sunset Boulevard (UK Tour), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre) Officer Barrell in Original London Cast of Urinetown (The Other Palace) Crabbe in original cast of Tori Amos’ The Light Princess (National) Sweeney Todd (Adelphi & Chichester Festival) Squelch in original cast of Love Never Dies (Adelphi) Athelstan in original Cast of Knights of the Rose (Arts) Baker in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita (Adelphi), Alice in Wonderland (Leeds Playhouse) Television & Film: Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4) The Prince of Egypt (DreamWorks) Sunset Boulevard, (Curve) A Tale Of Two Cities (PBS), The Current War (Weinstein Company) and Les Misérables (Working Title). Recordings: Mandela, The Prince of Egypt, Treason, Guy Fawkes, The Light Princess, Les Miserables (Film Cast Recording) Love Never Dies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Tale of Two Cities. Concerts and Workshops: Treason (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Children of Eden 30th Anniversary (Cadogan Hall) From Here To Eternity, Love Never Dies, Purience, Only The Brave, Eugenius.

Factory Foreman / Claquesous

Jordan Simon Pollard

Factory Foreman / Claquesous

Theatre credits include: 1st cover Javert in Les Misérables (UK Tour), Raoul cover in Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Perchik in Fiddler On The Roof (Grange Park Opera), Erik in the workshop of The Sorcerer’s Appentice at Wilton’s Music Hall 2016. International theatre credits: Jordan was a cast member of The Phantom Of The Opera international tour occasionally appearing as Raoul between 2012-2015. While training at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia from 2008-2010, Jordan played Demetrius in the Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Joseph in QPAC’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ben in Dirty Apple with Opera Queensland, Italy/Sweden in Eurobeat:Almost Eurovision and he also regularly sang as a guest artist with The Queensland Pops Orchestra. Jordan then joined The Ten Tenors in 2010 and was fortunate enough to record 2 albums, appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show, sing at various sporting events and perform over 500 concerts across 30 countries in his time with the group.

Swing

Danielle Rose

Swing

Training: BA Musical Theatre, Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Danielle made her professional debut as Alternate Katherine Howard / Anne Boleyn in the West End production of Six The Musical. Theatre credits include: Ushers (The Other Palace).

Feuilly

Jonathan Stevens

Feuilly

Training: Royal Northern College of Music Credits whilst training: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theatre credits include: Bobby C in Saturday Night Fever (RCCL), Ensemble in National Gilbert & Sullivan Company tours (2018 & 2019)

Ensemble

Georgia Tapp

Ensemble

Training: The Boston Conservatory of Music UK Theatre Credits: u/s Lorraine in Back To the Future (Adelphi Theatre); u/s Cinderella in Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Carmen Diaz in Fame (UK Tour/Troubadour Wembley Park) US Theatre Credits: u/s Ellen in Miss Saigon (Diablo Light Opera); Olive Ostrovsky in 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Ellie in Some Enchanted Evening (Cape Playhouse); Natalie in All Shook Up and Jill in Equus (Forestburgh Playhouse). Other: Lead Vocalist for Celebrity Cruise Lines & Aida Cruise Lines.

Swing

Noah Thallon

Swing

Noah graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2024. Credits whilst training include: Damien in Mean Girls, Joe in 9 to 5 and George in Sunday in the Park with George.

Ensemble

Imaan Victoria

Ensemble

Imaan has recently graduated the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre whilst training includes: Osbert The Avenger, Merrily We Roll Along, Fuente Ovejuna, Hamlet, Into The Woods.

Gavroche

Alexander Beaumont

Gavroche

Oliver Benson

Gavroche

Harry Georgiou

Gavroche

Oscar Hubble

Gavroche

Samuel Sturge

Gavroche

Clark Young

Little Cosette

Mila Isaacs

Little Cosette

Maya Marinova

Little Cosette

Saskia Sibley

Young Éponine

Olivia Brooks

Young Éponine

Lola Patel

Young Éponine

Angelica Quynh-An Nguyen

Producer

Cameron Mackintosh

Producer

With the fully staged production of LES MISÉRABLES reopen in London alongside HAMILTON, MARY POPPINS and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA now lockdown restrictions have been lifted, and with LES MISÉRABLES and OLIVER! due to open in Tokyo over the next few months followed by MISS SAIGON in Austria and MARY POPPINS in Tokyo and Sydney next year, Cameron remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals, with over 50 shows either on or in pre-production internationally.

Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS – the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4^th decades – MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITHCES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving as successful as the original productions.

In 2013, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of LES MISÉRABLES which is the most successful movie ever of an original stage musical.

The sold-out staged concert of LES MISÉRABLES at the Gielgud Theatre in 2019 was also broadcast live to over 600 cinemas and is now the highest grossing one-night live event performance of all time – a unique achievement in the history of Musical Theatre and has enjoyed another successful five month season at the Sondheim, despite having a five month hiatus due to Covid.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21^st century. They house many of London’s successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been rebuilt and renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.

Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.

Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and he is the first British producer to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor. He is also the president of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics

Alain Boublil

Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics

Alain Boublil conceived the musicals, La Révolution Française (the first-ever staged French rock opera) and Les Misérables. He is the author of the librettos and original lyrics for those works as well as for Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and The Pirate Queen, all in collaboration with lifelong creative partner, composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, as well as Marguerite with music by Michel Legrand. He also co-produced with Claude-Michel the original cast albums of all his shows. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film, Les Misérables. He is the author/lyricist of Abbacadabra, a fairy tale musical including ABBA classic songs, of the stage adaptation of the Demy/Legrand film, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, as well as author of the musical play, Manhattan Parisienne, and the play, The Diary of Adam and Eve, which Alain is rewriting as a musical scored by Max Pretends. He wrote a prize-winning French novel, Les dessous de soi. His many awards include two Tonys, two Grammys, two Victoire de la Musique and a Molière Award for Les Misérables as well as an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon, a Laurence Olivier Award for Martin Guerre and a Best Song Oscar nomination for the movie version of Les Misérables. He received a New York Chapter Honors Grammy for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. Alain devised the Do You Hear The People Sing?’ concerts, a symphonic promenade through Boublil and Schönberg musical history and creative process, which has played around the world, most recently for an unforgettable starry night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last July. Alain and Claude-Michel are at this moment working on a new production of Les Misérables in French for which Alain has re-written part of the lyrics and which has finally taken Paris by storm. In conjunction with this new French production they have just completed a book of reminiscences of their amazing 50-year collaboration and friendship, published in October 2024 in France and entitled ‘J’avais rêvé…’. Alain was nominated on July 14 2024 to the Légion d’honneur in France in recognition of his services to the arts in the world. He is long married to singer, actress, director, Marie Zamora, the Paris Cosette of 1991, and is the proud father of four sons.

Book & Music

Claude-Michel Schönberg

Book & Music

Born in 1944 to Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil, he is the book co-writer and the composer of La Révolution Française, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen. In 2008, his musical Marguerite, in collaboration with Alain Boublil, Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer, opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Schönberg has supervised overseas productions and co-produced several international cast albums of his shows. In 2001, he composed his first ballet score, Wuthering Heights, which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. His ballet Cleopatra, which opened in 2011, was his second collaboration with David Nixon and his seventh complete score. In 2012, Schönberg co-wrote the screenplay and reconceived the music for the Les Misérables musical movie. His shows have won many awards over the years, most recently the WhatsonStage audience awards for Best West End Show and Best Musical Revival for the London production of Miss Saigon. Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and Grammy Award winner for his outstanding contribution to the creative community, Schönberg and Alain Boublil were honoured at a New York Pops gala concert in Carnegie Hall celebrating their 40-year collaboration. Schönberg was appointed Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University and is now an Emeritus Fellow. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music where he is a guest Professor. He has received the Légion d’honneur in France in recognition of his services to the arts in the world. Schönberg married the English ballerina, Charlotte Talbot, in 2003. He is the father of one son and two daughters.

Lyricist

Herbert Kretzmer

Lyricist

Herbert Kretzmer was born in South Africa where he began a career in journalism, writing the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. He lived in London from 1954, pursuing twin careers as newspaperman and songwriter. He joined the Daily Express in 1960 and later became its senior drama critic, a post he held for 18 years. He later won two national press awards as the television critic for the Daily Mail. As a lyricist, he wrote weekly songs for That Was the Week That Was. He won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers/Sophia Loren comedy song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’. Other award-winning lyrics include two songs written with, and for, Charles Aznavour: ‘Yesterday When I Was Young’ and the chart-topping ‘She’. He wrote the book and lyrics for the West End musical Our Man Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Millicent Martin, and the lyrics for The Four Musketeers, starring Harry Secombe as D’Artagnan. He also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (ABBA), Anthony Newley and Michel Legrand. Kretzmer was the recipient of two honorary doctorates and was appointed OBE in 2010.

Director

James Powell

Director

James co-directed the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, first staged in 2009. He has subsequently directed the production worldwide – including, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, Korea, Germany, Dubai, New York and the current UK and US tours. He directed the staged concert version of Les Misérables in Scandinavia in 2002 and the 25th Anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena in 2010.

James’ other directorial work includes Dirty Dancing in London, Australia, Toronto, Holland, Germany and both US tours. He was Associate Director on the original production of Mary Poppins in Bristol, West End and Broadway, and has since gone on to direct both UK tours, as well as productions in Holland, Australia, Switzerland, Dubai, Germany and Japan.

Other work includes Batman Live (UK tour), The Witches of Eastwick and Singin’ In The Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse) where he was Staff Director.

James recently directed Les Misérables the Staged Concert at the Gielgud Theatre.

James resumed his position of Associate Director for Mary Poppins in the West End. His production of Les Misérables is now on at the Sondheim Theatre.

Director

Laurence Connor

Director

Director: Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Chess (English National Opera); Unmasked (The Other Palace); Miss Saigon (Broadway, West End, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan and Korea); School of Rock (Broadway, West End, US Tour, Australia, China and Korea); Les Misérables (Broadway, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK and US tours); Oliver! (UK tour).

He directed the 25th anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th anniversary concert of Les Misérables at the O2 in London, both of which were simultaneously broadcast in cinemas worldwide and subsequently released on DVD.

DVD credits: Jesus Christ Superstar (world arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables (O2 Arena) and Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre).

Awards: Miss Saigon on Broadway (Tony nomination for Best Revival); Miss Saigon (UK – Manchester Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical, Korea – Best New Foreign Production and Best Ensemble in a Musical, and Australia – the Green Room Award for Best Director of a Musical) and Les Misérables (UK – Best Musical at the Manchester Evening News Awards).

Set & Image Designer

Matt Kinley

Set & Image Designer

Matt graduated from the Motley Theatre design course in 1994 and spent the next decade working at the National Theatre in London as a designer, design associate and draughtsman. Matt left to work within commercial theatre, developing many large productions and adapting them for tour. As part of a long working partnership with Cameron Mackintosh, Matt initially adapted the original versions of My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins as well as co-designing the recent international productions of Miss Saigon.

In 2009, he was invited to redesign Les Misérables for its 25th anniversary production as a UK tour. The success of the new staging has seen subsequent productions and tours across the world, alongside presentations on Broadway and the new West End show at the Sondheim.
Matt also designed the 25th anniversary concerts of Les Misérables at the O2 Arena and The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as the recent Les Mis concert at the Gielgud. Matt also designs a wide variety and scale of productions, both in the UK and internationally, with a long history of developing large-scale musical theatre in São Paulo, Brazil.

Lighting Designer

Paule Constable

Lighting Designer

Paule is a multi-award winning lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. Paule is an associate of the National Theatre and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Recent theatre credits include: The Visit, Ocean At The End Of The Lane, Master Harold And The Boys, Pericles, Nine Night, Pinocchio, Follies (Olivier Nominated, Knight Of Illumination Award 2018), Angels In America, (Olivier Nominated, Also Broadway, Tony Award Nominated) Mosquitoes, Common, The Red Barn, The Threepenny Opera; Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time (National Theatre/Apollo/Gielgud/Ethel Barrymore, NY/World Tour), And War Horse. (National Theatre/New London Theatre/Vivian Beaumont, NY/World Tour) (National Theatre); The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam); Local Hero (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Moderate Soprano (West End); Ear For Eye, Clybourne Park (Also West End), Posh, Krapps Last Tape, The Country, Dublin Carol, and The Weir (Royal Court; Also West End & Broadway); Luise Miller, Ivanov (Donmar At The Wyndhams), The Chalk Garden, Othello, Proof, Little Foxes and Bondagers (Donmar Warehouse); Happy Days, Feast, The Good Soul Of Szechuan, Generations and Vernon God Little, Wolf Hall (Also West End & Broadway), The Prince Of Homburg, The Seagull and Tales From Ovid, (Rsc); Seventeen, Herons, Blasted and Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith).

Her Opera designs have been seen all over the world. In dance she lit the new revival of Swan Lake, as well as Romeo and Juliet, The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Play Without Words, Dorian Gray and Highland Fling ror Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Paule has won the Oliver Award for Best Lighting Design a record five times (for Ocean At The End Of The Lane, Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time, The Chalk Garden, Don Carlos and His Dark Materials) and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design twice (for Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time and War Horse). She has also won the Knight of Illuminations Award for Best Lighting Design for Follies, Saint Joan and for Barnum, the LA Drama Desk Award for Les Misérables, War Horse and Sleeping Beauty, the New York Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for both Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time and War Horse and the Australian Helpmann Award for Les Misérables in Sydney. Paule was the first recipient of the Opera Award for Lighting and received the Hospital Award for Contribution to Theatre.

Sound Designer

Mick Potter

Sound Designer

Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London, New York and worldwide), Bombay Dreams (London, New York), The Woman In White (London, New York), the largest ever production of Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), the critically acclaimed West End production of Evita (London, Broadway, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour), Zorro The Musical (London, Paris and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit productions of The Sound Of Music (London, Toronto, UK Tour, Asia, Australia) and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London), Sister Act (London, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Berlin),the world premiere of Love Never Dies (London, Melbourne and Sydney, Tokyo, Hamburg, US Tour, UK Tour), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of The Wizard of Oz (London, Toronto, US Tour, Australia), the world premiere of Betty Blue Eyes (London), the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Celebration (02 Arena London), The Phantom Of The Opera 25th Anniversary Celebration (Royal Albert Hall, London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of The Phantom Of The Opera (UK Tour, US Tour), the Broadway revival of Evita (New York, US Tour, Australia, China), Barnum (Chichester, UK Tour), Tim Rice’s From Here To Eternity (London), Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon (London, Tokyo, New York, UK Tour ,US Tour and worldwide), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock (New York, London, US Tour, Australia, China), Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera, London, New York),Cats Broadway revival (New York, US Tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester, London), Carousel (English National Opera, London), The Phantom Of The Opera 30^th Anniversary celebration(New York), Chess (English National Opera, London), New International Tour The Phantom Of The Opera (Worldwide 2019), Man of La Mancha (English National Opera, London), The Light in The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall), Les Misérables The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre London), Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre London), The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour 2020).

Mick created all new sound designs for The Phantom of The Opera (London, New York, worldwide) and all new sound designs for Les Misérables (New York, worldwide, and most recently at the newly named Sondheim Theatre London).

Awards:
Olivier Award UK 2005 The Woman in White in London
Parnelli Award USA 2006 The Phantom of The Opera in Las Vegas
Green Room Award Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne
Helpmann Award nominee Australia 2011 Love Never Dies in Melbourne
Broadway World Audience Award Canada 2013 Les Misérables in Toronto
Tony Award nominee USA 2014 Les Misérables in New York
Green Room Award nominee Australia 2014 Les Misérables in Sydney
Broadway World Audience Award UK 2014 Miss Saigon in London
Helpmann Award Australia 2015 Les Misérables in Melbourne
Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2016 School of Rock in New York
Broadway World Audience Award Asia 2016 Les Misérables in Manila
Drama Desk Award nominee USA 2017 Cats in New York
Green Room Award nominee Australia 2019 Evita at Sydney Opera House
Green Room Award Australia 2019 School of Rock in Melbourne
WhatsOnStage Award Nominee 2020 The Light in The Piazza London

www.mickpotter.com

Original Costume Designer

Andreane Neofitou

Original Costume Designer

Andy’s iconic costume designs for the huge hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon have been seen in London and on Broadway (gaining her a Tony nomination for Les Mis), with productions continuing to play worldwide. Les Misérables became the West End’s longest running show at 35 years, and a major new production of Miss Saigon recently toured the U.S. following successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among Andy’s other costume designs are Timon Of Athens with David Suchet, The Baker’s Wife and Gone With The Wind – all three directed by Trevor Nunn, Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre) directed by John Caird, Bizet’s Carmen (Royal Albert Hall), as well as the musicals The Far Pavilions (West End), and the mega-hit Grease (Dominion Theatre/UK and European tours). Other international credits include Nabucco directed by Elijah Moshinsky (The Met, New York), Miss Julie (Athens), the musical Jane Eyre directed by John Caird (Broadway/Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and Cameron Mackintosh’s revised version of Martin Guerre (USA). Andy’s costume designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company include The Changeling directed by Michael Attenborough, The Merchant Of Venice with Antony Sher, The Fair Maid Of The West directed by Trevor Nunn (inaugural production Swan Theatre), Hedda Gabler with Glenda Jackson, Once In A Lifetime, Peter Pan, and Nicholas Nickleby at Stratford and on Broadway, the latter winning Andy the Outer Circle Critics’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design. Film credits include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead with Richard Dreyfuss directed by Tom Stoppard and Still Life with Roger Daltrey.

Costume Design

Christine Rowland

Costume Design

Christine Rowland has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre. She was resident Costume Supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and Head of Costume at the RSC. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York and Japan), Oliver! (London, UK tour, Toronto and Sydney), The Witches of Eastwick (London and Melbourne), My Fair Lady (London and USA tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Mary Poppins (London, UK tour, New York, USA tour, Holland, Australia, Vienna and Stuttgart), Les Misérables 25th anniversary production (USA and UK tours, O2 concert, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, New York, Dubai, Brazil and Mexico). Other musicals include: The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company, London), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London/New York) and Gypsy (New York).

Costume Design

Paul Wills

Costume Design

Theatre Designer credits includes: King Lear (The Duke of York’s); Admissions (Trafalgar Studios); The Monstrous Child (Royal Opera House); Frozen (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Lady Windemere’s Fan, Di and Viv and Rose (The Vaudeville); American Buffalo (Wyndham’s Theatre); Mrs Henderson Presents (Noël Coward Theatre); Measure for Measure (Theatre For A New Audience, New York); Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC and The Lincoln Centre, Washington); Running Wild (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & UK Tour); Kinky Boots, Shakespeare in Love, King-Kong (The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town); The Snapper (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Making Noise Quietly, Anna Christie, The Man who had all the Luck, The Cut (Donmar Warehouse); The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (The Sam Wanamaker Theatre); Richard II, Doctor Faustus, Frontline, The Lightning Child (Shakespeare’s Globe); Occupational Hazards, A Human Being Died That Night(Hampstead Theatre); Routes, Breathing Corpses, The Acid Test (Royal Court); My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible); Drum Belly, Our Few and Evil Days (The Abbey); Howie the Rookie (The Project, The Barbican, BAM); Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Fortune (The Metropolitan Theatre, PARCO, Tokyo); An Enemy of the People (Theatre Cocoon, Bunkamura, Tokyo); Secret Theatre, Blasted, Saved (Lyric Hammersmith); The Hypochondriac, Home, A Steady Rain (Theatre Royal, Bath); A Number (The Chocolate Factory)

Musical Staging

Geoffrey Garratt

Musical Staging

Geoffrey trained at the Bird College of Performing Arts. As a performer, Geoffrey has appeared in Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, Matador, Mr Cinders, Martin Guerre, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story and Oliver!

Geoff’s most recent work includes Associate Choreographer on the recently opened revival of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward, additional choreography for the recent West End hit revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward), which transferred to Broadway (Landmark Theatre, New York), musical staging for the Broadway revival of Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre, New York) which opened in Toronto, and the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables. Geoff has subsequently worked on Les Misérables in Australia, Japan and Korea. He has worked as an associate choreographer on Mary Poppins since the original production in and subsequently in the USA, Holland, Australia, Mexico and in Brazil. He has worked as Associate Choreographer on Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the UK and USA national tours, Holland, Australia and Toronto, and as Additional Choreographer for productions of Miss Saigon in Japan, Holland, Australia, Korea, Brazil and the UK tour.

Other Associate Choreography credits include The Witches of Eastwick (West End and Australia) and Betty Blue Eyes (West End). Choreographic credits also include The Witches of Eastwick (UK tour), Jack and the Beanstalk (Barbican), Encore! Mr Producer and Hey! Mr Producer (Jean Ann Ryan Productions USA), Blues in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fascinating Aïda (UK tour) and Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Additional Musical Staging

Michael Ashcroft

Additional Musical Staging

Theatre includes: Movement Director: Alcina (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep), Henry V (MGC), Les Misérables the 25th anniversary tour (Cameron Mackintosh), The Power of Yes (National Theatre), Resurrection Blues (Old Vic), Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse), Nakamitsu (Gate), The Blue Room (West End), Punk Rock (Hammersmith Lyric), Cosí Fan Tutte (ENO), The Lost Child Project (David Glass Ensemble, Cambodia), Orestes (Shared Experience) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera).

Michael is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Film includes: Hamlet, Richard III and Henry IV.

Michael shares with Geoffrey Garratt a 2015 Helpmann Award nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical – Les Misérables.

Projection Realisation

Finn Ross

Projection Realisation

Finn Ross trained at, and is proud to be an Honorary Fellow of, Central School of Speech and Drama and designs video for live performance. He has won two Oliviers, a Tony and three Drama Desks & four What’s on Stage Awards. Theatre includes: Tammy Faye, Spring Awakening (Almeida); My Neighbour Totoro (RSC); Dancin (Broadway); Back to the Future (West End); Frozen (West End) Les Misérables (International); Sweet Charity (Donmar), Mean Girls (Broadway), Bat out of Hell (West End and International), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End & Broadway), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway/West End/Tour); Jagged Little Pill, In the Body of the World (American Reparatory Theatre & Broadway); American Psycho (Broadway & Almeida); Betrayal (Broadway); Chimerica (Almeida & West End); The Tempest (The RSC & Barbican); Master and Margarita, All My Sons, Shunkin (Complicite). Opera includes: The Hours (The Met); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); Missa Solemnis (LA Phil); Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Klinghoffer, Death in Venice, Damnation of Faust, Don Giovanni, (ENO); Hänsel und Gretel, Zäuberflote, A Dog’s Heart (DNO, Amsterdam); La clemenza di Tito, Mr Brouček (Opera North); Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Béatrice et Bénédict, Turn of the Screw (Theatre an der Wien); Rinaldo, (Glyndebourne). Dance includes: Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet); The Nutcracker (Atlanta Ballet); The Feeling of Going (Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Opera). Music includes: Lewis Capaldi (2022 Tour); Azimuth (Al Ula); Coldplay (Music of the Spheres); Sam Fender (17 Going Under); Foals (Life is Yours); Herbert Grönemayer (20th Anniversary Concert); Mark Ronson (Midnight Feeling), J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Instillation (Guangzhou, China): Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International).

Projection Realisation

59 Productions

Projection Realisation

59 Productions is a multi-award-winning design studio and production company with offices in London and New York. Recent works include: Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival/Brisbane Festival), An American in Paris (Broadway/London/US tour), Junk (Lincoln Centre Theater), Oslo (Lincoln Center/National/Harold Pinter Theatre), The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre), Five Telegrams, Bloom and Deep Time (Edinburgh International Festival), The Last Ship (Northern Stage/UK tour/US tour), Moments of Silence (Imperial War Museum), Reflections: Guggenheim Bilbao 20th Anniversary (Guggenheim Museum), A Perfect Harmony (Freer/Sackler galleries/Smithsonian Institution), Paul Auster’s City of Glass (Home/Manchester/Lyric Hammersmith) Wonder.land (Manchester International Festival/National), David Bowie (V&A), Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Big Fish (Broadway), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne Berlin), War Horse (National/worldwide tours), Les Misérables (world tour) and the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Designs for opera include: Satyagraha (LA Opera), Marnie (Metropolitan Opera/ENO), Candide and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera), Brigadoon (New York City Center), Pearl Fishers (LA Opera), Metropolitan Opera 50th Anniversary Gala, Two Boys and The Enchanted Island (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Sukanya, Morgen und Abend and Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera), The Shining (Minnesota Opera), Satyagraha (ENO) and Al gran sole carico d’amore (Berlin State Opera/Salzburg Festival).

Orchestrations

Stephen Metcalfe

Orchestrations

Stephen Metcalfe is a composer, orchestrator and record producer for ﬁlm and theatre. For the past twenty years he has worked as Head of Music at Cameron Mackintosh Ltd., where he has developed, edited and contributed orchestrations to the scores for all of Cameron Mackintosh’s productions in the UK and worldwide.

Stephen produced the 2008 London cast album of Oliver; the UK Tour cast album of Les Misérables; the 2020 London and 2010 Australian cast albums of Mary Poppins; the DVD release of the Les Misérables concert at the O2 Arena; the original London cast album of Betty Blue Eyes; the 2014 London cast album and the 25th Anniversary film of Miss Saigon; the cast album of Half A Sixpence and the recently released film and cast album of Les Misérables: The Staged Concert.

Other productions include Les Misérables (London, New York, The Netherlands, Spain, UK and US tours); Miss Saigon (London, New York, UK and US tours, The Netherlands); The Witches of Eastwick (London and UK Tour); Cats (London); Martin Guerre (Watermill); My Fair Lady (London, UK and US Tours); Avenue Q (London); Mary Poppins (London, New York, UK and US Tours); Oliver! (London, UK Tour); Hair (London); Betty Blue Eyes (London); Barnum (Chichester, UK Tour); Half A Sixpence (Chichester, London) and Hamilton (London).

Stephen orchestrated and produced the double-platinum award winning soundtrack albums for the Universal Pictures ﬁlm of Les Misérables, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

Orchestrations

Christopher Jahnke

Orchestrations

Theatre includes: Orchestrator: Porgy and Bess (Broadway/London; Best Orchestrations Tony nomination), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, Cry Baby and Grease (2007), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance and Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga (The Sound of Music, 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), The Wiz Live!, Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Escape to Margaritaville and Memphis. Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, Secret Garden, The Three Musketeers, The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins and Wicked.

Musical Supervisor & Orchestrations

Stephen Brooker

Musical Supervisor & Orchestrations

Stephen Brooker is Executive Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh worldwide. He was musical director and conductor for Universal Pictures’ film of Les Misérables.

Musical Supervision: Old Friends – Stephen Sondheim Celebration (May 2022), Mary Poppins (Australia May 2022), Sister Act (2022) The Show Must Go On (Palace Theatre 2021), Les Misérables (Worldwide), Miss Saigon (Worldwide), White Christmas, Mary Poppins (Worldwide), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert, Sunset Boulevard, The Woman in White, Half A Sixpence, Les Misérables O2 Concert, The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Performance, Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert, OLIVER!, My Fair Lady, Cats, Hair, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Barnum, Peter Pan, and Chess.

Musical Direction: The Woman in White, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Show Must Go On, Lautrec, Betty Blue Eyes, Cats, Shall We Dance, Hair, Fame, The Secret Garden, Chess, Carmen Jones, Saturday Night Fever, and South Pacific.

Stephen conducted the Classical Brit Awards and was composer and conductor for the original production of Burn the Floor. For the Imagination group, he has written, produced and conducted music for: Jaguar/Range Rover, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Ford Motors, Toyota Cars, Volvo Cars, Sony Eriksson, BMW, British Airways, Holiday Inn and Canon. Orchestral conducting includes: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Hamburg Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London and Manchester Concert Orchestras and the Ukraine Opera and Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the Royal Choral Society in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. Recordings include Disney Film Classics and Crazy for Gershwin (BBC Concert Orchestra), the studio recording of Hair, cast recordings of The Secret Garden, The Woman in White and South Pacific. He was orchestrator and conductor for Walt Disney’s award-winning Animator’s Palette and Cinderellabration (Disneyland Tokyo).

He produced the ‘live’ recording of OLIVER! Starring Rowan Atkinson, the 25th Anniversary recording of Les Misérables and the Dutch and Australian recordings of Mary Poppins. Stephen conducted the Oscars – The 85th Academy Awards and is an Australian Helpmann Award winner for Mary Poppins.

https://stephenbrooker.co.uk

Original Orchestrations

John Cameron

Original Orchestrations

Oscar-nominated John Cameron created the orchestral score for every version of Les Misérables between 1979 and 2005 from the original Robert Hossein production in 1980 through the Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway, tour and concert versions, winning the New York Drama Desk Award for Orchestration in 1986 and the National Broadway Theatre Award in 2002. The New York cast album won a Grammy as did the Les Miserables Symphonic album. He was nominated for an Olivier award as co-composer of Zorro the Musical. Other shows he has arranged include Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (currently revived at the Palladium) & Honk at the Royal National Theatre. Also at the RNT he composed music for John Caird’s Hamlet, starring Simon Russell-Beale. In 2014, Nils’ Wonderful Adventure a musical in Mandarin Chinese, with music and original English lyrics by John, won a Golden Lion Award in China for Best Children’s Musical.

As a composer, John’s 50+ movie scores Include the Oscar nominated score for A Touch of Class, The Ruling Class, the British classic Kes, The Mirror Crack’d, To End All Wars (conducting the LSO) and the Emmy Nominated score for The Path to 9-11.

His songwriting hits include Agnetha Faltskog’s If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind, Sweet Inspiration and Tap Turns On The Water.

John’s concert works include the cantata Missa Celtica recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and the choir of New College Oxford and Tara’s Brooch, a string quartet premiered at the Cadogan Hall London, and recently a song cycle Cante Jondo, setting Lorca’s Sigueriya poems for soprano Marie Angel. Recording artists John has worked with include Jose Carreras, Joseph Calleja, Donovan, Hot Chocolate, Heatwave and his own band CCS.

As well as developing the songs and the score for Mister Mayfair, a movie trilogy, John is currently working as composer/lyricist on four different Music Theatre projects, from Hard Times that he and John Caird are developing for Lorne Campbell and Northern Stage, Ruth The Musical (the story of Ruth Ellis) recently presented at The Actors Church, In Another Century, a love story set during the Easter Uprising in Dublin, and an as yet unnamed Kung Fu extravaganza.

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Trevor Nunn

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Trevor Nunn has now directed all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays. From 1968 to 1986, he was the longest serving Artistic Director of the RSC, directing much of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, and of Cats, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes: Timon of Athens and Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady from the Sea (Almeida), Hamlet, Richard II and Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), A Little Night Music (London/New York), Cyrano de Bergerac and Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre), Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), A Chorus of Disapproval (West End), Beckett’s All That Fall (London/New York), Relative Values and Agnes Colander (Bath Theatre Royal/West End), Schikaneder (Vienna), Love in Idleness, Fiddler on the Roof (West End). Opera includes: Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Così fan tutte and Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House). Television work includes: Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello and King Lear. Film work includes: Hedda, Lady Jane, Twelfth Night and Red Joan.

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John Caird

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John Caird is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm and a freelance writer and director of plays, musicals and operas.

His National Theatre productions include Hamlet, Money, Humbleboy,The Seagull, Stanley, Trelawney of the Wells, Peter Pan and his own Olivier-award winning version of Bernstein’s Candide which is now playing in multiple productions world-wide.

His recent directorial credits include his new musical Knights’ Tale and Hamlet both in Tokyo, Don Giovanni at WNO in Cardiff, McQueen at the Haymarket Theatre, Tosca in Chicago, Houston and LA, Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Stratford Festival in Canada, La Bohème in San Francisco, Houston and Toronto, Parsifal in Chicago, Twelfth Night in Tokyo, and his own musical Daddy Long Legs off-Broadway, in Tokyo and all across the US.

John’s directorial work for the RSC has included over 20 productions of Shakespeare as well as classic and new plays, including Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Beggar’s Opera, Twelfth Night, Peter Pan, Our Friends in the North, Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables – the last two productions, co-directed with Trevor Nunn, winning numerous awards in the West End, Broadway and all around the world.

At Dramaten in Stockholm he has directed Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dance of Death, The Tempest, 12^th Night, Gertrud and Merry Wives of Windsor. Other productions include Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre, Becket at the Haymarket and Song & Dance at the Palace Theatre. For BBC TV he adapted and directed Henry IV Parts I and II.

He wrote and directed the Siegfried and Roy Spectacular in Las Vegas. He wrote the libretti for André Previn’s opera Brief Encounter, and for Tarik O’Regan’s opera The Phoenix, both premiering at Houston Grand Opera. He also wrote and directed Children of Eden with music by Stephen Schwartz, Hard Times, with music by John Cameron and lyrics by Ranjit Bolt, and Jane Eyre, Daddy Long Legs and Knights’ Tale, all with music by Paul Gordon.

In 2020, the year of Covid, John has directed a concert version of his musical Knights’ Tale and a revival of Daddy Long Legs, both in Tokyo, also a new musical Estella Scrooge, a Christmas Carol with a Twist, co-written with Paul Gordon and Sam Caird, and filmed in a green screen studio in New York. These three productions all had to be directed remotely through Zoom.

Theatre Craft, his book about directing plays and musicals, is published by Faber and Faber.

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Jean-Marc Natel 1942 – 2019

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Jean-Marc Natel studied art at the Beaux Arts in Toulon before he turned to poetry and had two volumes of his poems published. In 1968 he moved to Paris, where he met Alain Boublil who introduced him to songwriting with the daunting task of co-writing the lyrics for Les Misérables. He wrote songs for a variety of artists and some of his poetry was set to music by Franck Pourcel.

Additional Material

James Fenton

Additional Material

James Fenton was educated at the Durham Choristers’ School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has worked as a political and literary journalist on The New Statesman, was a freelance reporter in Indo-China, spent a year in Germany working for The Guardian, was theatre critic for The Sunday Times for five years, chief book reviewer for The Times from 1984 to 1986, South East Asian correspondent for The Independent from 1986 to 1988 and a columnist for them until 1995. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

James Fenton was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. He won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2007.

Recent work includes a new selection of poems, Yellow Tulips. It contains some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children in Exile, through to the unforgettable love poems of Out of Danger. He edited the New Faber Book of Love Poems in 2006. Further publications include School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts, A Garden of a Hundred Packets of Seeds, Samuel T Coleridge Selected Poems, William Blake Selected Poems, his reportage as a war correspondent All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of South-East Asia, and the collection of essays The Strength of Poetry.

Plays and libretti include: The Orphan of Zhao and Tamar’s Revenge (RSC), Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic), The Tsunami Song Cycle (BBC), Rigoletto (ENO) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera).

Associate Set Designer

David Harris

Associate Set Designer

David’s recent designs include The Wild Party and City of Angels for the Royal Academy of Music, The Sound of Music at Teatro Renault São Paulo and City of Arts Rio de Janeiro, This is the Hour (a showcase of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s songs) at Royal Academy of Music, Hardboiled (nominated for an Offie Award for Best Design), David Copperfield and Writer’s Block for the Watermill Theatre, Idiot-Syncrasy, Bilbao, and Tame Game and City, for Bloom Dance, which have toured internationally.

As an Associate Designer for Cameron Mackintosh, he’ll deliver the revived UK tour of Phantom of the Opera in 2020 and has recently delivered Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Hamilton in the West End, Miss Saigon in the West End and on UK tour, Les Misérables as a UK tour and in Tokyo, Mexico, São Paulo, Singapore, Manila, Seoul, Daegu and a US tour, and Half a Sixpence at Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End. Other associate roles include Twelve Angry Men at the Birmingham Rep and the West End, Annie and Man of La Mancha in São Paulo and Rio. As an assistant, he has worked on over 40 theatre productions including Barnum, Funny Girl, Chaplin: The Musical, Noises Off, Sister Act, No Man’s Land and Oliver!

Outside of theatre, David has designed a coffee shop within a Wren church in the City of London, and the restaurant Deli Ohio in Canton, Ohio and is currently working on the design of a garden for the RHS at Chelsea Flower Show.

Associate Sound Designer

Nic Gray

Associate Sound Designer

Nic studied at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London gaining a BA Honours in Theatre Sound.

He started his career touring and in London as a sound mixer, including CML’s My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins (UK Tours), Marguerite (London) and Mamma Mia! (International Tour).

Nic started his association with Mick Potter as the No. 1 mixer on the 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Misérables and was involved in the 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena, London). For Mick, he has mixed The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour), The Wizard of Oz (London), Miss Saigon (London) and Half A Sixpence (London). He has also mixed The Light in The Piazza at
the Royal Festival Hall with the Opera North Orchestra, and Carousel, Chess and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum with the ENO Orchestra.

Nic is Associate Designer for Mick Potter on The Phantom of the Opera worldwide with productions since 2014 including Moscow, Oberhausen, Stockholm, São Paulo, Copenhagen, World Tour, UK / Ireland Tour and the upcoming production at Sydney Opera House. Nic is thrilled to be a part of the return of The Phantom of the Opera in London. Also, for Mick, Nic is Associate Designer for Les Misérables worldwide including productions in Spain, South Korea, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, São Paulo, Mexico City, US and UK / European Tours, and for Miss Saigon in Tokyo and Vienna.

Associate Lighting Designer

Simon Sherriff

Associate Lighting Designer

Simon started his career in stage lighting in 1992 at the Festival Theatre in Chichester, where he worked as a full-time electrician and projectionist for six years.

Lighting design credits include: Little Shop of Horrors and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Jersey Opera House Ltd, Cinderella (2013), Dick Whittington (2014) and Cinderella (2016) at the Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol for First Family Entertainment and Aladdin (2017) at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton for Qdos Entertainment.

Simon co-designed the lighting for the UK tour of Barnum, and was the associate lighting designer for the UK tour of Oliver! in 2013. He has worked in South Korea, Japan, Spain, Manila, Dubai and Australia as the associate lighting designer for the Cameron Mackintosh 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables. More recently, Simon was involved with the transfer of the Broadway production of An American in Paris to the Dominion Theatre in London, and residencies in Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan, as associate lighting designer.
For Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, Simon is the associate lighting designer for Mary Poppins, working on the recent UK tour and current London production, and also residencies in both Tokyo and Osaka in Japan. Simon is the associate lighting designer for Les Misérables
at the Sondheim Theatre in London and for the current UK tour.

Outside of theatre, Simon has a keen interest in aviation and holds a National Private Pilot’s Licence.

Projection Associate

George Reeve

Projection Associate

Video design credits include: The Sound of Music (National Tour), The Pleasure Garden – for which he was nominated for an OFFIE Award – Dick Whittington and Tommy On Top (Above The Stag), RENT and Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre), Avalanche (Bloom Theatre), SIX (London & Broadway), SIX (The TonightShow), A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre), My Son’s A Queer, But What Can You Do? (Turbine Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (UK tour), Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (UK tour), WANNABE (UK tour), Cinderella In Concert (Cadogan Hall), Welcome Aboard (Viking Cruises), Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart).

Associate Designer and Animator credits include: Frozen (Theatre Royal Dury Lane & Theatre an der Elbe), Anastasia (International Associate Designer), Les Misérables (Gielgud & Sondheim Theatre), SpongeBob Live Television Broadcast (Nickelodeon), Starstruck (ITV), Frozen (North American Tour), TINA (Aldwych & Hamburg), Paramour (Cirque Du Soleil), Divas For Democracy (StageIt Stream), The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Flight (Royal Caribbean), Aladdin (Walt Disney Co.), Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Co.), All My Sons (Broadway).

Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer

Stefan Musch

Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer

Stefan’s experience, skills, knowledge and diversity allow him to move between the roles as Supervisor, Designer or Wig Maker.

He works for productions around the globe and is the winner of the UK Theatre Trust Award for Outstanding Achievement in Wigs & Make-Up.

Most recent theatre credits include: The Phantom of the Opera (London, 25th anniversary and international), Les Misérables (London, staged concert and international), Miss Saigon and Shrek (London and international), Frozen – The Play, Lady Windermere’s Fan and An American in Paris (London) and King Lear (Chichester and London).

Stefan also creates wigs for individuals in the pop music industry.

Costume Design Associate

Laura Hunt

Costume Design Associate

Laura Hunt has an MA in Fashion and Textiles. Her work in theatre spans 20 years, recent credits for Cameron Mackintosh ltd include Les Misérables London Sondheim, UK Tour, London Concert & USA Tour, Along with previous set ups for Japan , Asia, Dubai & Brazil. Barnum for, Chichester & UK tour.

Other Theatre credits: For National Theatre The Lehman Trilogy inc Westend and Broadway transfers, Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra, Waste, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, A Taste of Honey, Scenes from an Execution, After the Dance and Translations . For The RSC, Hamlet (2016), Death of a Salesman, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Hamlet (2012), The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Silence, The Homecoming and Measure for Measure. For The Royal Court, Hangmen, Rock n Roll and The Seagull, Krapps Last Tape. For the Almeida, Three Sisters, Mary Stuart, Hamlet and The Oresteia at the Almeida and in the West End; For SFP, Dep Supervisor Harry Potter & Cursed Child, The Sunshine Boys and Old Times in the Westend and on Broadway For Shakespeares globe, The Secret Theatre and Romeo and Juliet.. Opera credits include Exterminating Angel at the Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House, NY MET Opera and Royal Danish Opera; How the Whale Became, Les Troyens and Il Trittico at the Royal Opera House; La Traviata at Glyndebourne; and L’Orfeo at Tokyo Opera City.

Dance credits include: As One and Elite Syncopations at the Royal Ballet; and Mad Hatters Tea Party at the Royal Ballet and ZooNation. As a stylist, Laura has worked on many Pop Promos and music videos with clients that include EMI &Virgin Records & CocaCola. As well as continued work with theatre Poster campaigns.

Orchestral Management

Sylvia Addison

Orchestral Management

SYLVIA ADDISON is one of London’s foremost Orchestral Contractors and clients include Theatre producers, composers, conductors, orchestrators, record producers and vocal artists in many fields of the music industry.

Theatre credits include: Back to the Future, Be More Chill, Beautiful, the Carole King Musical, Les Miserables Staged Concerts, White Christmas, BIG, the Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Blues in the Night, Adrian Mole, Fiddler on the Roof, Only Fools and Horses, Fun Home, Fat Friends, Five Guys named Moe, Dreamgirls, Rent, School of Rock, Mary Poppins, Lion King – London and tour, Elf the Musical, Mrs Henderson Presents, Bend it Like Beckham, Barnum UK Tour, Miss Saigon, Stephen Ward, Scottsboro Boys, Merrily We Roll Along, Finding Neverland, Top Hat, Phantom of the Opera 25^th Anniversary , Ghost, Betty Blue Eyes, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Wizard of Oz, Les Miserables, Love Never Dies, Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, Oliver!, Carousel, La Cage aux Folles, Gone with the Wind, The Witches of Eastwick, Dorian Gray, Drowsy Chaperone, Lord of the Rings, White Christmas, Daddy Cool, Evita, Acorn Antiques, The Woman in White,Tell Me on a Sunday, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, We Will Rock You, Bombay Dreams, The Full Monty, Play Without Words, Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar , Starlight Express , The Beautiful Game, Whistle Down the Wind, By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard, Grease, Closer to Heaven, La Cava, Maddie, Romance Romance, Once on this Island Something Wonderful, HONK!, Holiday on Ice, Burn the Floor, Edna the Spectacle

Associate Director

Sam Hiller

Associate Director

Sam trained at Guildford School of Acting, where he was also awarded the school’s singing cup. He has worked extensively as an actor, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre), Another Country (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Unexpected Host (York Theatre Royal), The Jungle Book (Nuffield, Southampton), Hiawatha (Newcastle Theatre Royal), Babes in the Wood (York Theatre Royal), Aladdin (Hawth, Crawley), An Ideal Husband (Redgrave, Farnham) and The Ten Commandments (Mercury workshop, The Place). West End: Les Misérables (Palace), Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) and The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s). UK tours: Les Misérables, Aspects of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Best of Brian Conley.

Concerts include: Les Misérables (25th Anniversary, The O2), Les Misérables (Classic Brits, Royal Albert Hall), One Touch of Venus (Barbican), Masters of Swing (Royal Albert Hall) and Tribute to Jack Tinker (London Palladium).

Directing includes: Resident Director of Les Misérables in Concert (Gielgud Theatre), Deputy Associate of Les Miserables (UK tour), Resident director for The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s), resident director of Les Misérables (Palace), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour), White Christmas (Sunderland Empire), Les Misérables in concert (Scandinavian arena tour) and On Eagle’s Wing (Belfast Opera House), associate director of Irish Wings (Dutch tour) and director of Les Misérables in concert (Powderham Castle and Broadlands), Celebration of Musical Theatre with Clive Anderson (Palace), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (RTE, Dublin Concert Hall), The Canadian Tenors (European tour) and Masters of the Musicals (UK tour).

Resident Director

Jo Parsons

Resident Director

Jo trained at the Guildford School of Acting, where he was awarded the Principal’s Cup in his graduating year. He worked on many productions as an actor, including Madagascar (UK National Tour), Spamalot (The English Theatre), Les Misérables (Queens Theatre), A Bedfull of Foreigners (UK Tour), All Male Pirates of Penzance (Hackney Empire & Australian Tour), the award-winning Thrill Me (Greenwich Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour) and many wonderful years in both Evolution and Qdos Pantomimes. Jo is the creator of The Show Shanties and the founder of The Other Guys Entertainment. Directing Credits: Resident Director- Les Misérables (UK and Ireland Tour) Madagascar (UK Tour), Spamalot the Monty Python Musical (The English Theatre). Associate Director- Orpheus The Mythical (The Other Palace). Director- The Blues Brothers and The Rat Pack Live (Edinburgh Fringe)

Musical Supervisor

Alfonso Casado Trigo

Musical Supervisor

Alfonso’s professional relationship with Cameron Mackintosh started back in 2010 when he conducted Los Miserables in Madrid. He has conducted and supervised Les Misérables in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Dubai, Japan and Brazil, Miss Saigon in London, Japan and UK tour, and Phantom of the Opera (London) and was the conductor for Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, which was broadcast live around the world. He conducted the 25th anniversary gala of Miss Saigon (released on DVD worldwide) and was co-supervisor for the Les Misérables 30th anniversary in London. He is currently the Musical Supervisor of Les Misérables (London and Japan), guest supervisor for Mamma Mia! worldwide, as well as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He has had regular collaborations with BBCCO, Bournemouth Symphony, RLPO, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, OBC and London Concert Orchestra. Among his recent projects as freelance conductor, Alfonso has appeared in Disney in Concert (ROSS), Candide (BSO, The Grange Festival), Simply Gershwin (LCO, Royal Festival Hall), Pedralbes Festival (Barcelona), Beatlemania (Royal Northern Symphonia), Royal Liverpool Philarmonic (New Year’s Eve Concert), Bernstein and the American Musical (Barcelona Symphony), Seville Symphony (classical repertoire) and more. He was the conductor for the film Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London whose score won an award at the Malaga Film Festival in 2019 and composed the soundtrack for the film Venus, which will premiere in early 2020. He recorded a Spanish classical music album with the BBCCO, soon to be released alongside soloists Juan Pérez and Magdalena Llamas. He conducted this orchestra again in August 2018 for Friday Night is Music Night (Snape, BBC Radio). Awards include Best Musical Director in Spain for Los Miserables and Best Musical Director in the West End
for Miss Saigon.

Musical Director

Stuart Morley

Musical Director

Stuart studied piano and conducting at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where he was made an Associate in 2012. Musical Director credits include We Will Rock You, Elf, Big, Only Fools and Horses, Tommy, Sleepless, Brian May & Kerry Ellis’s Anthems, Starmus VI and The Show Must Go On. Musical Supervisor credits include We Will Rock You (US & UK Tours, Brazil, Denmark, Romania, Germany, RCCL), Elf, Eugenius, Sleepless, Big, Strictly Ballroom, Whistle Down the Wind (The Watermill) and The Bodyguard (Denmark, Sweden). Stuart was Associate Musical Supervisor of the Olivier Award winning production of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Choral Director for Chess in Concert and Associate Musical Director for the West End productions of Cabaret and Wicked.

Orchestration credits include the 2012 edition of Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé’s Barcelona, Big and Only Fools & Horses (West End), Monkee Business and Strictly Ballroom (UK Tours), We Will Rock You (UK & US tours), Close-Up (Menier Chocolate Factory), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse), arrangements for the Bands of the Royal Air Force, BBC Festival of Remembrance, RAF100, Dame Vera Lynn’s 100th Birthday Concert, The Last Night of the Proms, Queen and Adam Lambert Rhapsody Tour and the 2017 and 2023 Belfast Tattoo.

In 2018 Stuart completed his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music. He is proud to be on the teaching faculty at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Assistant Musical Director

Mark Bousie

Assistant Musical Director

Mark was born and grew up in Perth, Scotland and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is an Associate.

Credits in the West End include: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Gielgud, Sondheim and the original production at Queen’s), Miss Saigon (Prince Edward), Crazy for You and Betty Blue Eyes (Novello), Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy), Evita (Adelphi) and Jumpers (Piccadilly).

Other musicals include: Barnum (Chichester) and Gigi (Regent’s Park Open Air). He recorded Stephen Warbeck’s original piano scores for Old Times (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville) and has worked extensively for the National Theatre (including From Morning to Midnight, Theatre of Blood, The Coast of Utopia, His Dark Materials),

the RSC (the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, NYC) and Shakespeare’s Globe.

As a pianist and accordionist, his performing and recording credits include work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (the UK premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul at Symphony Hall), the BBC Concert Orchestra (John Williams Prom, Fiddler on the Roof Prom and Danny Elfman tribute) and Rambert. Mark performed in the live BBC broadcasts Liverpool

Nativity and Manchester Passion, and has played on numerous film soundtracks, including Beauty and the Beast, Whisky Galore! and The Children Act, for which he was piano coach to Emma Thompson.

Stage Management Team

Company Manager

MATT BYHAM

Deputy Company Manager

MATT HOY

Stage Manager

JON KINDON

deputy stage manager

PAUL BAMFORD

Assistant Stage Manager

JOSH CROFT

assistant Stage manager

LIZZY GETHINGS

assistant Stage manager

NIAMH O’DONOGHUE

assistant Stage manager