Photo Coverage: Alfie Boe, Montego Glover and Alex Finke Take First Bows in Broadway's LES MISERABLES!
By: Jessica Fallon Gordon Sep. 02, 2015
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Just last night, Tony Award-nominee Montego Glover and Alex Finke and Alfie Boe joined the company of Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil's Les Miserables on Broadway. Glover succeeds Erika Henningsen as Fantine, while Finke (making her Broadway debut) replaces original cast member Samantha Hill. Boe takes over for Tony Award nominee Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night, and brings you photos from the curtain call and after party below. Plus check out the beautiful tribute to late castmember Kyle Jean-Baptiste on the Imperial marquee.
Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, Les Miserables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score includes the classic songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "Do You Hear the People Sing?," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "Master Of The House" and many more.
Cameron Mackintosh's production of Les Miserables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, original adaption by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and additional material by James Fenton. The original Les Miserables orchestrations are by John Cameron with new orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke, Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen Brooker.
The new production is directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, with set and image design by Matt Kinleyinspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter and projections realized by Fifty-Nine Productions. Musical staging is by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt. Musical supervision is by Stephen Brooker and musical direction by James Lowe.
Photo Credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon
Alex Finke, Montego Glover, Alfie Boe and the cast
Alex Finke and the cast
Alfie Boe and the cast
Alfie Boe and the cast
Alfie Boe and the cast
Montego Glover and the cast
The Imperial Theatre remembers Kyle Jean-Baptiste
The Imperial Theatre remembers Kyle Jean-Baptiste
The crowd gathered to pay tribute to Kyle Jean-Baptiste
The Imperial Theatre remembers Kyle Jean-Baptiste
Montego Glover and Melba Moore
Montego Glover and Kyle Scatliffe
Alfie Boe and Sarah Boe
Alex Finke and Chris McCarrell
Alfie Boe and Alex Finke
Alfie Boe and Alex Finke
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