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Les Misérables is one of the world’s most well established musicals and has been seen the world over by more than 55 million people.

However, it was considered to be a flop when it first opened in Paris back in 1980 and it wasn’t until Cameron Macintosh readapted it to suit a British audience two years later that it became a firm favourite amongst theatre lovers.

Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, it features a complicated plot set over 30 years in the nineteenth century.

Set with the backdrop of the French Revolution, it is based centrally around Jean Valjean, a man who has felt injustice and class struggle in a political climate which is both unsympathetic and tyrannical.

For merely stealing a loaf of bread Jean is sentenced to almost 20 years in prison but he manages to escape and builds a new and successful life using an assumed identity. However, this does not stop the determined Inspector Javert from pursuing him.

This is a genuine tall of spirit, strife and belief and features an array of well-known numbers including ‘Castle on a Cloud’ and ‘I Dreamed a Dream’, which was recently made famous to a wider audience by Susan Boyle.

2013 Les Miserables Cast Changes

Commencing in January 2013 there will be a number of changes to the cast of the London musical “LES MISÉRABLES” at the Queen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

From Monday the 14th January 2013 to Saturday the 15th June 2013 Celinde Schoenmaker will play the role of ‘Fantine’. Fantine is a young factory worker who falls in love with a rich student. Later Fantine becomes pregnant but is abandoned by her lover and subsequently forced to look after her child Cosette on her own. Originally a pretty and naive girl, she eventually sinks to becoming a sick, unstable prostitute, with most of the money she earns sent to support The Thenardiers who look after her daughter, Cosette. Celinde Schoenmaker will be making her London West End debut as ‘Fantine’, having recently graduated from Fontys Conservatoire Tilburg in The Netherlands.

From Monday the 28th January 2013 to Saturday the 15th June 2013 Vicky Entwistle will play ‘Madame Thénardier’. Vicky Entwistle is well known for playing ‘Janice Battersby’ in the long-running soap opera “Coronation Street”, which she played for 13 years. Vicky’s recent stage credits include ‘Mrs Baldry’ in the 2012 tour of “Funny Peculiar” and also played the role as the ‘Wicked Queen’ in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.

From Monday the 28th January 2013 to Saturday the 15th June 2013 Jamie Ward will play ‘Marius’.

Gerónimo Rauch will continue to star as the lead actor ‘Jean Valjean’. Cameron Blakely continue in the role as ‘Monsieur Thenardier’. Samantha Dorsey continues her role as ‘Cosette’.