Photo Coverage: Les Miserables Opening Night Arrivals

Les Miserables, in its highly anticipated Broadway return, opened on Thursday, November 9th at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) on after beginning previews on Saturday, October 24th. The epic musical is set to play a limited six-month engagement.

The show stars Alexander Gemignani (Sweeney Todd, Assassins) as noble on-the-run convict Jean Valjean, Norm Lewis (Chicago, The Wild Party, Side Show) as his persistent adversary Javert, with Tony Award-winner Gary Beach (La Cage aux Folles, The Producers) as Thenardier, Celia Keenan-Bolger (Spelling Bee) as Eponine, Tony-nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega (Bernarda Alba, Anna in the Tropics, Rent) as Fantine, Jenny Galloway as Madame Thenardier, Aaron Lazar (The Light in the Piazza) as Enjolras, Adam Jacobs as Marius, and Ali Ewoldt as Cosette.

With music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, with original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and additional material by James Fenton, Les Miserables is based on the sprawling novel by Victor Hugo. Directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, Les Miserables originally ran on Broadway from 1987 through 2003.

Visit www.lesmis.com for more information.

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

Rosie O'Donnell


Rosie O'Donnell


Rosie O'Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O'Donnell

Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Jeff Calhoun

Jeff Calhoun

Sara Gettelfinger

Sara Gettelfinger


Jeffrey Schecter, J. Elaine Marcos, J. Robert Spencer (Director) and Joshua Wade filming a scene from their independent film Farm Girl in New York

Jeffrey Schecter, J. Elaine Marcos, J. Robert Spencer and Joshua Wade

Matthew Morrison

Matthew Morrison

Christopher Jahnke

Christopher Jahnke and guest

Cameron Mackintosh

Claude-Michel Schonberg

Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg

Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers