Phillip Alongi and Anthony Logan Cole Headline Summerstage's Reimagined LES MIS, 7/16-8/3

Celebrated opera tenor Phillip Alongi (Butterfly, Carmen, Tosca) will portray Jean Valjean opposite Anthony Logan Cole (Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel) as Inspector Javert in Leonia Summerstage's newly reimagined production of Les Miserables.

The cast will also feature Megan Larsen as Fantine, Katie Riley as Eponine, Caitlin Alongi as Cossette, Tim Larsen as Marius, with Kevin Hack as Enjolras and James Lesko and Marisa Gore as the Thenardiers. The cast is rounded out by Joel Mingo, Wayne Spector, Kerry Dunn, Stephen P. Taylor, Thomas Pflanz, Duane Granston, Christopher Milone, Kyle Dunn, John Villa, Steven H Taylor Jr., Gregory Schultz, Angela Iannacone, Julie Roccanova, Jennifer Midura, Marissa Lynn Keegan, Theresa Taylor, Debora Davidson, Christa Carlucci and Fabiana Decicco with Jeff Kishinevskiy as Gavroche, Megan Gunderman as Young Eponine, and Alessandra Baldacchino as Young Cossette.

This intimate new production of the Les Miserables, directed by Ray Yucis, will play The Civil War Drill Hall Theatre in Leonia, NJ from July 16-August 3rd. This production will mark Summerstage's 15th season under Executive Producer Dr. Frank Livelli. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving sister's child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.

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Summerstageatleonia@gmail.com