Les Miserables - UK & Ireland Tour

Bit personal....

Hi all new to posting but have been lurking on the site for awhile really enjoying all the info and wit from the different posts. I'm an avid musical theatre goer, day seats and Rush tickets being my first choice as I work in London but live in the Midlands.

I've just booked to see Les Mis in Birmingham in April as the husband won't go to London. The tickets are hellish expensive compared to London but that's his Christmas present sorted.

Looking forward to seeing Killan Donnelley last saw him in Kinky.

Saw this at Curve and thought it was excellent. Sound team did a great job and proved how good the casting  team was.

Killian is a very strong Valjean. Nic Javert is as credible as others have said, and Stars got a great reception. Katie Hall combines beauty and power in hr singing, and does an excellent job charting Fantine's decline smoothly without any sudden leaps downhill. Great to see her back from Austria. The Thenardiers are as good as expected .

What was interesting was that the combination of some of the very best established names,  very young and often new, leads and an  ensemble with a lot of newcomers,  worked very well for me. Enjolras looks young but sounds strong and like a leader. Marius looks even younger, but has an impressively strong vocal. Cosette also looks young but she has a beautiful voice to match the look. Eponine i thought was really good - enough feral to suggest her parents, but well placed in the firmament of likeable Eponines, and sounding well up there with the best of them. Thank the lord she's avoided the pitfalls of the annoying riffs, and making street Eponine unlikable. Tegan Bannister is one to watch. The ensemble is also impressive- it sounds great in the big numbers, and characters like the Bishop were strikingly good. Actually the ensemble numbers were well up there with the Titanic group sound - where some of the ensemble came from, if i read right.

The changes from the original were interesting. I thought some added, some didn't. The projections of the galley and the sewers worked well - not so the river for me. Not sure the Enjolras and Gavroche leaving scenes work as well - the revolve has its moments. The arrangement of the scenery missed some moments -with Fantine's bed scene viewed from an odd angle , and no Cosette appearing by mothers bed. And the barricade seems to have gone from the absurd Great Wall of China substitute in the film to the opposite extreme. it looks like the one Captain Mainwaring threw up in Dads Army and wouldn't stop anything much above an airgun pellet.

And there's some odd (American?) political correctness creeping in . Spitting on Valjean is out - but you can slap him. Wine substitute is off the menu. And there was no Heimlich maneuver producing vomit pie. Katie gives great slap, so that works. But the inn scenes i think are better laughwise with the old gags in.

Big, long, standing Ovation when i went. The largely sold out audiences to come should be pleased.

A tambourine and a kazoo

I have a ticket for this in my name and used my ATG account but it was paid for using my mum's card, does she need to collect the ticket from the box office or will it be fine for me to do so on the day?

Well this is good.

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Southampton next Oct/Nov

They are going to replace the original production with this ‘new’ one.

Expect it to be announced soon.

Pretty sad if they do that. The legacy of will be devalued in my opinion. No revolve 😢

If they combined elements of the tour with the original it could be fabulous and fresh. Keep the revolve but bring in some of the better elements of the tour such as the projections and Javerts leap.

but wouldn't it the. lose it's longest running musical title ass it's a different production?!

I agree it would be a shame as the original is still the better version