Les Miserables - The Staged Concert

The Les Mis facebook account has said that there will be a performance schedule for Alfie/John on the ticket website as soon as they go on sale so at least there's that!

Really miffed theres no DMT+ presale for this, its been worth the membership this year alone to get excellent Mary Poppins tickets but its gonna be a right bun fight in general sale tomorrow! xx

Can someone explain to me, as you would a child, in simple terms what is going to happen? And please only if you actually know for yourself

Whilst I really really appreciate that the ‘names’ they are using to sell this production are bona fide talented MT performers, I can’t help but think that Ball and Fletcher are spectacularly miscast in their roles. Ball is one of my favourite Male MT Perforners but has a natural comedic timing which is wasted on Javert - not saying that Javert isn’t an iconic and complex role, just saying that I think there are better roles for Ball and other actors more suited to playing Javert. Also, the decision to make the temporary (if one can class 4 months as temporary) production a concert production seems cheap and somewhat lazy. Concert productions should be saved for one-offs IMO. Won’t be paying megabucks to see this, although will likely go if there are any offers on.

Quite. I can't understand why they are doing it as a concert for four months. I can understand they might not want to install the original production in another theatre but if they can install the tour production in theatres all round the country for only 3-4 week runs then why on earth can't/won't they install it in a WE theatre for 4 months?

Ahhh thanks, that would indeed make my day :-)
(Though no e-mail about it yet!)

The who is doing what show schedule will be announced as soon as tickets go on sale tomorrow. Says the official Facebook page.

He and Hans Peter Janssens were the best JvJ/Javert pairing I’ve ever seen. John Owen-Jones is brilliant (and knows it). What a voice yet equally as talented an actor. Amazing nuance when he wants to.

I'm probably going to try for an Alfie show - I agree JOJ (is that as disrespectful as KMP?) is a better Valjean, but I am a bit bored of him now, and have never seen Alfie do the role live.

Any more word on a 10am presale?

What I think will happen is Alfie will take the usual Monday off as well as both shows on Thursday. He would never take Friday or Saturdays off as they are the most subscribed performances.

AB should go to the Gielgud Theatre and ask Patti LuPone to give him a masterclass in acting through song and how to knock it out of the park 8 shows a week.

I would imagine that JOJ will act as standby as well as doing his scheduled performances.

I was thinking actually, I’m a little surprised that JOJ is doing this. To my memory he’s never explicitly ruled out playing JVJ again, but given CamMac regularly lauds him as the best Phantom/JVJ and gets him to do all the anniversary specials, it seems a little insulting that he’s now been asked to play second fiddle to Alfie Boe. I won’t deny that Boe will sell more tickets, especially now that he and Ball have their little double act going, but JOJ is far more deserving of legend status among Les Mis casts. Then again, being asked to be a part of this concert production in any way is probably quite an honour, and I think there are very few people who would say no to CamMac.