Roundabout to Replace LIPS TOGETHER with LES MISERABLES

Roundabout Theatre Company's Artistic Director Todd Haimes announced this morning that the company's Broadway production of Terrance McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, which was postponed after the sudden departure of star Megan Mullally, will be replaced by a revival of the popular musical Les Misérables.

"Though the original Broadway production of Les Misérables ran for over sixteen years, and the first Broadway revival just closed a little more than two year ago," says Haimes, "we feel that Roundabout subscribers who did not have the opportunity to see this wonderful production during the seventeen and a half total years it has been on Broadway since 1987 will enjoy the opportunity to finally experience what they've been missing. So when Cameron Mackintosh offered us a chance to put one of his very fine touring companies into the American Airlines Theater we jumped at the chance."

"We're celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of Les Misérables' West End premiere," says producer Mackintosh. "For twenty-five years I've had productions of this show playing every corner of the planet. I got sets to fit any stage, costumes to fit any actor and a couple thousand performers who can do this show in their sleep. And often do. Until I fire them. Just kidding. You want a production of Les Misérables? Give me an hour to make some phone calls and when your check clears it's all yours. Glad to be back, Broadway. Let me know when you're ready for another Cats."

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