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LES MISÉRABLES: The Arena Spectacular

• Date 26 - 29 Dec , 2024
• Doors Open 26th December - 6:30PM, 27th December (Matinee) - 1PM, 27th December (Evening) - 6:30PM, 28th December (Matinee) - 1PM, 28th December (Evening) - 6:30PM, 29th December - 12PM
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Cameron Mackintosh's production of Boubil and Schönberg’s  LES  MISÉRABLES ARENA SPECTACULAR  will embark on a World Tour this September, opening with strictly limited UK dates. As the beloved musical phenomenon enters it's 40th revolutionary year in London, this spectactular production will have ane extraordinary new design specifically created for larger venues. 

The Arena Spectacular will be performing in over 15 countries and regions worldwide and initial casting has now been announced for the UK dates – Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly will share the role of Jean Valjean and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden will share the role of Javert, leading a cast and orchestra of over 65.

Victor Hugo’s classic tale is an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. With a magnificent score of iconic songs including “I Dreamed a Dream”, “On My Own”, “Bring Him Home”, “One Day More” and more, this epic and uplifting story is undisputedly one of the world’s favourite musicals.

Further casting to be announced. Les Misérables will feature a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow. Please note that the appearance of any artist is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice

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The pair will share the role of Jean Valjean opposite Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden as Javert.

The first casting for the upcoming international arena tour of  Les Misérables has been revealed, with the event set to be led by some of the long-running musical's most distinguished alumni.

Sharing the role of Jean Valjean will be Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly , while Javert will be handled by Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden. Boe, Donnelly, Ball, and Jaden have only been announced for the tour's U.K. stops, though the production is expected to come to North America in 2025. Additional casting is to be announced.

The tour is set to launch from SSE Arena Belfast September 19, with further dates planned in Glasgow, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Manchester, and Newcastle. Next up on the manifest are engagements in Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

"The spectacular world arena tour of the Les Misérables concert has been a dream of mine for many years," says producer Cameron Mackintosh. "With Les Mis ' 40th phenomenal year starting this October, there couldn't be a better time for it to happen. ... Many other favorite Les Misérables performers, chosen from all over the world, will be announced in a few weeks’ time. After the U.K., the world tour will play many cities across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Korea, Japan, and several other Asian cities before it returns to Europe and beyond."

The new tour has been crafted for arenas and large theatres with audiences between 3,000 and 5,000, and will feature a U.K. company of more than 65 actors and orchestra members.

An arena tour for a musical is rare, but not unprecedented. Rock operas Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who's Tommy both played arenas in their heyday, and an arena tour of Broadway's ill-fated Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was initially expected to follow the Main Stem run.

Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo . It has music by Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer , original French text by Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel , additional material by James Fenton , and an adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird . Following a French production in 1980, the English translation premiered via Royal Shakespeare Company in 1985, transferring to London's West End later the same year and to Broadway in 1987. The musical became one of a string of British-originating musical juggernauts, becoming the West End's longest-running musical and one of Broadway's longest-running shows as well. The original London production closed in 2019, reopening with an updated physical production and staging later the same year. The musical's longtime West End home, the Queen's Theatre, hosted Les Misérables The Staged Concert , on which this arena spectacular is based, in the interim between the two productions.

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Cameron Mackintosh announces World Tour of ‘LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR’

Cameron Mackintosh , in association with Nick Grace Management , have announced the World Tour of LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR , opening with European dates – including limited UK dates – from September 2024.

Already booked to perform in over 15 countries worldwide including the UK, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and beyond, the World Tour will begin as the stage musical enters its 39 th revolutionary year and will run throughout the upcoming 40 th anniversary celebrations for the world’s longest running musical in 2025. After which it is planned to play North and South America.

LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR will be expanded from the hugely successful Les Mis é rables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 record-breaking performances in the West End.

The production will have an extraordinary new design specifically created for arenas (and large theatres) with audiences of between 3,000 – 5,000.  This spectacular production will have a UK company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew, featuring a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow.

Exact dates, cities, venues, casting and on sale details will begin to be revealed this Autumn.

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Cast for Les Misérables arena tour announced

The show will play across the world, with a select number of UK dates

Initial casting has been revealed for the world tour of Les Misérables the Arena Spectacular.

The production will have an extraordinary new design specifically created for arenas (and large theatres) with audiences of between 3,000 to 5,000. A UK company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew will feature, with guest stars appearing at various stops. It is expanded from the concert staging of the show seen in the West End, where it played across 2019. 

The long-running musical is based on the novel by Victor Hugo and features music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. It tells the tale of a former convict who tries to find salvation in revolutionary France.

The tour will open at the S S E Arena Belfast on 1 9 September 2024 , where it will play until 2 8 September 2024 . F oll o wing B elfa s t, the pr oduction will play li mited dates at Glasgow ’ s S S E Hyd ro Arena from 3 to 6   October , Sheffield ’ s Util ita Are na from 10 to 13 October and Aberdeen ’ s P & J Live Arena from 1 7 to 20 O ctober .

Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly will share the role of Jean Valjean and Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden will share the role of Javert in the UK.

It will then c ommence its European leg in Luxembou rg fr om 2 5 to 27 Octo b er, f ol lowed by Geneva, Trieste, Milan , Copenhagen, Oslo and Zurich . Its final UK dates will be in Manchester at the AO Arena on 2 6 to 29 December and at the Util ita Are na, Ne wcastle from 2 to  5 January 2025 before moving o n to S w eden, Au stralia, Taiwan, Japa n and S outh Korea .

T ickets go on general sale Thursday 12 October 2023 for the UK dates and some European dates . Priority booking will be available from tomorrow. The concert will run through out the upcomi ng 40 th anniversary celebrations for the musical in 2025 . A fter that, it will play both N orth and S o uth A merica .

Ball will appear in:

Belfast: 19, 20 and 21 Sep at 7.30pm and 25, 26, 27 and 28 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow: 3 and 4 Oct at 7.30pm, 5 Oct at 2pm, 6 Oct at 6.30pm Sheffield: 10 and 11 Oct at 7.30pm, 12 Oct at 2.30pm, 13 Oct at 6pm Aberdeen: 17 and 18 Oct at 7.30pm, 19 Oct at 2pm Manchester: 27 Dec at 7.30pm, 28 Dec at 2pm, 29 Dec at 1pm

Boe will appear in:

Belfast: 21 and 28 Sep at 2.30pm, 24 Sep at 7.30pm Glasgow: 5 Oct at 7.30pm, 6 Oct at 1pm Sheffield: 12 Oct at 7.30pm, 13 Oct at 1pm Aberdeen: 19 Oct at 7.30pm, 20 Oct at 1pm Manchester: 26 and 28 Dec at 7.30pm, 27 Dec at 2pm Newcastle: 4 Jan at 7.30pm, 5 Jan at 12.30pm

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Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular tour dates and venues announced; no London dates revealed

The initial dates and venues have been revealed for the World Tour of the Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular , although no London date have been announced.

The show will open at the SSE Arena Belfast on 19 September 2024, where it will play until 28 September 2024.

Following Belfast, the production will play limited dates at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena from 3 to 6 October 2024, Sheffield’s Utilita Arena from 10 to 13 October 2024 and Aberdeen’s P & J Live Arena from 17 to 20 October 2024.

The Tour will starts its European leg, with dates in Luxembourg from 25 to 27 October 2024, and then Geneva, Trieste, Milan, Copenhagen, Oslo and Zurich.

Its final UK dates will be in Manchester at the AO Arena from 26 to 29 December 2024, and at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle from 2 to 5 January 2025, before moving on to Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. A tour in North and South America is also planned.

The World Tour begins as the stage musical enters its 39th year, and will run throughout the upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations for the world’s longest running musical in 2025.

Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular will be expanded from the hugely successful Les Misérables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 performances in the West End.

The Arena Spectacular will get a major new design specifically created for arenas (and large theatres) with audiences of between 3,000 – 5,000. This spectacular production will have a UK company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew featuring a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh said in a statement: “I’m thrilled to announce the initial venues where this spectacular production of Les Misérables will run. This much anticipated world tour will be a unique opportunity for many celebrated performers to play their favourite roles for short periods in different parts of the world, so fans will get the chance to see their favourite stars (and mine!) in their favourite musical. Over the show’s nearly 40 years existence, it has also proved to be the launch pad for an extraordinary list of stars around the world, in many different languages and countries. Both the show and the score of Les Mis continues to win poll after poll around the world as the public’s favourite musical of all time containing so many of the most memorable and beloved songs ever written for the musical theatre. The euphoria of the cast reunion performances of Miz are legendary and always prove a sell-out so I look forward to this unique event being the ultimate demonstration of Do You Hear The People Sing ever!”

The tour is produced by Cameron Mackintosh ( Les Miserables , The Phantom of the Opera ) and Nick Grace ( Walking with Dinosaurs, Batman Live ), who is one of the world’s leading producers and general managers of international touring productions and in the last 25 years has presented shows in 59 countries worldwide including BATMAN LIVE – World Arena Tour, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Arena Spectacular, BLUE MAN GROUP World Tour and the ongoing MAMMA MIA! UK & International Tour.

The critically acclaimed production of Les Misérables continues to play at the Sondheim Theatre, where it will soon be celebrating its 39th revolutionary year.

Tickets for the Arena Spectacular will go on sale on 12 October 2023.

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Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular – Tour Dates

THURSDAY 19 – SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2024 SSE Arena, Belfast

THURSDAY 3 – SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2024 SSE Hydro, Glasgow

THURSDAY 10 – SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 2024 Utilita Arena, Sheffield

THURSDAY 17 – SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2024 P&J Live, Aberdeen

FRIDAY 25 – SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 2024 Rockhal, Luxembourg

THURSDAY 7 – MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2024 Teatro Stabile Del FVG, Trieste

THURSDAY 14 – SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2024 Teatro Arcimboldi, Milan

THURSDAY 5 – SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER 2024 Oslo Spektrum, Oslo

THURSDAY 26 – SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2024 AO Arena, Manchester

THURSDAY 2 – SUNDAY 5 JANUARY 2025 Utilita Arena, Newcastle

Geneva Arena, Geneva Dates to be announced

Hallenstadion, Zurich Dates to be announced

Royal Arena, Copenhagen Dates to be announced

More destinations including London to be announced.

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Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular

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Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular is coming to over 15 countries and regions worldwide including the UK, Luxembourg, Geneva, Milan, Trieste, Copenhagen, Oslo, Zurich, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and beyond, with more worldwide destinations to be announced.

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Preston Truman Boyd

Haley Dortch

Haley is honored to make her national tour debut as Fantine. A special thanks to teachers, the Les Mis team, and Tara Rubin Casting. So much love to her friends, family, and her dog, Boba. And Go Blue! @haleydortch

Matt Crowle

Matt hails from Chicago where his Joseph Jefferson Award-winning and nominated performances include  The Santaland Diaries  (Goodman Theatre),  The Producers  (Leo Bloom, Mercury Theatre Chicago),  A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder  (The D’Ysquith Family, Porchlight Music Theatre),  Mary Poppins  (Bert, Paramount Theatre),  South Pacific  (Luther Billis, Drury Lane Oakbrook),  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum  (Hysterium, Porchlight Music Theatre),  Singin’ In The Rain  (Cosmo Brown, Drury Lane Oakbrook),  Merrily We Roll Along  (Charley Kringas, Porchlight Music Theatre), and  Bye Bye Birdie  (Albert Peterson, Drury Lane Oakbrook).  Broadway and National Tours: Monty Python’s Spamalot ,  Doctor Dolittle  (with Tommy Tune).  Television:  Night Sky, The Chi, Empire . Love and thanks to Ma, Pa, Jim, Sam, and my Erin. www.mattcrowle.com

Madame Thénardier

Victoria huston-elem.

Devin Archer

National Tours: Miss Saigon, Bright Star, Mamma Mia! Las Vegas: Mamma Mia!, Ace. Other: Sweeney Todd, The Last Five Years, RENT, Tarzan, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific. Northwestern Wildcat. Love and gratitude to my family, friends, The Mine and Tara Rubin Casting. @devinjarcher

Mya Rena Hunter

Jake David Smith

Delaney Guyer

Little Cosette / Young Éponine

Ava buesing.

Azalea Wolfe

Leo Caravano

Milo Maharlika

Kyle is a Chicago based actor and pro wrestling fan. Honored to join this company. Regional: Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane, Marriott Lincolnshire, Rocky Mountain Repertory, and Fireside Theatre, among others. TV: NBC’s “ C hicago Med ,” The CW’s “ 4400 .” Represented by DDO. Wouldn’t be here without Amanda, Jared or Dad. @smyleadams

Bamatabois / Babet

David andino.

Daniel Gerard Bittner

Pittsburgh-born-and-raised performer, and recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He has recently made his Broadway Debut in The Phantom of the Opera as Monsieur Reyer/Hairdresser. Dan would like to thank his family and friends for all of their love and support! 

Jenna Burns

Jenna is incredibly grateful to be back on stage! Most recently seen touring with the North American company of The Phantom of the Opera (Christine Daaé u/s). Thanks to Bloc, Tara Rubin Casting, and her husband Kevin. Soli Deo Gloria. @jennanicoleburns 

Ben Cherington

National tour debut. Credits include Pittsburgh CLO, ACT of Connecticut, and Clinton Showboat Theatre. Gratitude for all the places and people Ben calls home. BFA Carnegie Mellon University. @bencherington

Factory Foreman / Brujon

Steve czarnecki.

Kelsey Denae

Kelsey is absolutely thrilled and honored to return to the barricades!  National Tours: Les Misérables (Wig Maker/Fantine US) Regional: 9 to 5, Smokey Joe’s Café, Show Boat, Always Patsy Cline . Proud member of AEA. Huge thanks to TRC and my team at Hudson Artists; to my family and Jacob. @kk_denae 

Arianne DiCerbo

Over the moon touring with the first musical she ever saw.  Several national tours as crew, now enjoying the “change of scenery!”  Film: Abe (featured), Cabaret: Fringe-Sight is 2020 at Don’t Tell Mama, NYC. Love to GDK. ariannedicerbo.com  

Genevieve Ellis

Jean Prouvaire

David young fernandez.

Michelle Beth Herman

Bishop of Digne / Lesgles

Randy jeter.

Cameron Loyal

Danny Martin

Mikako Martin

National tour debut! Woohoo! Some of her favorite credits include: A Gentleman’s Guide (Sibella), Joseph (Narrator), and Kinky Boots (Lauren U/S). Eden is so grateful for all of her besties. A big old thank you to her role model parents, Nick, Sandy, Dustin, and Marc. I love you all endlessly. BWMT @edenelizabethmau Xoxo.

Andrew Marks Maughan

Nicole Morris

National Tour: An Officer and a Gentleman (Ensemble/Seeger u/s), Regional/Summer Stock: Hairspray (Dynamite), Mamma Mia! (Sophie), Footloose (Rusty). BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College. @nicole_morris

Ashley Dawn Mortensen

Ashley is excited to be rejoining the barricade on the road. Broadway: Les Misérables (swing). National Tour: Wicked (Elphaba understudy), Les Misérables. Regional: Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), White Christmas (Betty Haynes),  The Sound of Music (Maria), How to Succeed… (Rosemary). Graduate of NYU CAP21. Special thanks to Will and everyone at Nicolosi. @shebakesyoueat

Tim Quartier

Juliette Redden

Factory Girl

Julia ellen richardson.

Julia is thrilled to be returning to the Les Misérables family! Pre-Covid Tour: Swing/Factory Girl u.s. Other credits: Hello Dolly (Irene Molloy), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Aquata), Christmas Carol (Belle). To my family & friends: “I love you more!” ig/tt: @missjuliarich 

Matt Rosell

Christopher Robin Sapp

The Buddy Holly Story (Buddy Holly, Argyle Theatre), Pirates of Penzance (Frederic, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players), Tangled (Flynn Rider, Disney Cruise Line), Eileen 100th Anniversary (Dinny, VHRP LIVE!), Titanic (Thomas Andrews, College Light Opera Company). @ChristopherRobinSapp 

Greta Schaefer

National tour debut! Emily is a recent graduate of Northwestern University where she studied theatre and psychology. She is beyond grateful to the Les Misérables team, Gray Talent Group, and her amazing family and friends for their endless love and support. 

Veronica Stern

Kaitlyn Sumner

Montparnasse

Christopher james tamayo.

Swing, Dance Captain

Kyle timson.

Kyle is thrilled to be returning to the barricade after spending 2 plus years on the previous US Tour! Previously seen as Shrek on the International Tour of Shrek The Musical. @kylertimson Love to friends, family, Rachel, and Lily! For Baba.

J.T. is thrilled to be joining the Les Misérables Tour! Previous credits include the Rent 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour (Mark) and the R ent 20th Anniversary Tour (Swing, Angel/Collins u/s). Special thanks to Michael and the Roster Agency family as well as Tara Rubin Casting. All the love to his family and friends. 

Cameron Mackintosh

With the fully staged production of LES MISÉRABLES reopen in London alongside HAMILTON, MARY POPPINS and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA now lockdown restrictions have been lifted, and with LES MISÉRABLES and OLIVER! due to open in Tokyo over the next few months followed by MISS SAIGON in Austria and MARY POPPINS in Tokyo and Sydney next year, Cameron remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals, with over 50 shows either on or in pre-production internationally.

Cameron’s Original productions include LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CATS – the three longest running musicals of all time, now in their 4 th decades – MISS SAIGON, MARY POPPINS (co-produced with Disney), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, SONG AND DANCE, TOMFOOLERY, MARTIN GUERRE, THE WITHCES OF EASTWICK, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. He also reinvented modern versions of OLIVER!, FOLLIES, HALF A SIXPENCE, BARNUM and MY FAIR LADY. His new versions of LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! are now proving as successful as the original productions.

In 2013, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of LES MISÉRABLES which is the most successful movie ever of an original stage musical.

The sold-out staged concert of LES MISÉRABLES at the Gielgud Theatre in 2019 was also broadcast live to over 600 cinemas and is now the highest grossing one-night live event performance of all time – a unique achievement in the history of Musical Theatre and has enjoyed another successful five month season at the Sondheim, despite having a five month hiatus due to Covid.

Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21 st century. They house many of London’s successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been rebuilt and renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim.

Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies.

Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and he is the first British producer to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor. He is also the president of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics

Alain boublil.

Alain Boublil is the author of the librettos and lyrics for the musicals La Révolution Française , Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen , all in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg, as well as Marguerite with music by Michel Legrand. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Les Misérables . He is the author/lyricist of ABBAcadabra , a fairy tale musical with songs by ABBA; of the stage adaptation of the Demy/Legrand film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ; as well as author of the plays The Diary of Adam and Eve and Manhattan Parisienne , a new work with classic and new songs, being rewritten and soon to reopen with a new title. He wrote a prize-winning French novel, Les Dessous de soi .

His many awards include two Tonys, two Grammys, two Victoire de la Musique and a Molière Award for Les Misérables , as well as an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon , a Laurence Olivier Award for Martin Guerre and a New York Chapter Honors Grammy for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. Boublil and Schönberg’s 40-plus-year collaboration was celebrated in May 2016 at Carnegie Hall as honorees of the New York Pops’ 33rd birthday gala. Boublil was recently appointed to the board of directors of the New York Pops. He lives in New York with his wife, actress/singer Marie Zamora, and is the father of four sons.

Book & Music

Claude-michel schönberg.

Born in 1944 of Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil, he is the book co-writer and the composer of La Révolution Française , Les Misérables , Miss Saigon , Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen . In 2008, his musical Marguerite , in collaboration with Alain Boublil, Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer, opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Claude-Michel has supervised overseas productions and co-produced several international cast albums of his shows. In 2001, he composed his first ballet score, Wuthering Heights , which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. His ballet Cleopatra , which opened in 2011, was his second collaboration with David Nixon and his seventh complete score. In 2012, Claude-Michel co-wrote the screenplay and re-conceived the music for the Les Misérables musical movie. His shows have won many awards over the years, most recently the WhatsOnStage Audience Awards for Best West End Show and Best Musical Revival for the London production of Miss Saigon . Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and Grammy Award winner for his outstanding contribution to the creative community, Mr Schönberg and Alain Boublil were honoured at a New York Pops gala concert in Carnegie Hall, celebrating their 40-year collaboration. Mr Schönberg was appointed visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University – a position funded by the Mackintosh Foundation – and is now an emeritus fellow. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music where he is a guest professor. Mr Schönberg married the English ballerina Charlotte Talbot in 2003. He is the father of one son and two daughters

Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer was born in South Africa where he began a career in journalism, writing the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. He lived in London from 1954, pursuing twin careers as newspaperman and songwriter. He joined the Daily Express in 1960 and later became its senior drama critic, a post he held for 18 years. He later won two national press awards as the television critic for the Daily Mail. As a lyricist, he wrote weekly songs for That Was the Week That Was. He won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers/Sophia Loren comedy song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ . Other award-winning lyrics include two songs written with, and for, Charles Aznavour: ‘Yesterday When I Was Young’ and the chart-topping ‘She’ . He wrote the book and lyrics for the West End musical Our Man Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Millicent Martin, and the lyrics for The Four Musketeers, starring Harry Secombe as D’Artagnan. He also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (ABBA), Anthony Newley and Michel Legrand. Kretzmer was the recipient of two honorary doctorates and was appointed OBE in 2010.

James Powell

James co-directed the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables , first staged in 2009. He has subsequently directed the production worldwide – including Japan, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, Korea, Germany, Dubai, New York and the current UK and US tours. He directed the staged concert version of Les Misérables in Scandinavia in 2002 and the 25th anniversary concert at London’s O2 Arena in 2010.

James’ other directorial work includes Dirty Dancing in London, Australia, Toronto, Holland, Germany and both US tours. He was Associate Director on the original production of Mary Poppins (Bristol, West End and Broadway), and has since gone on to direct both UK tours as well as productions in Holland, Australia, Switzerland, Dubai, Germany and Japan. Other work includes Batman Live (UK tour), The Witches of Eastwick and Singin’ in the Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse) where he was Staff Director.

James recently directed Les Misérables: The Staged Concert at the Gielgud Theatre and resumed his position of Associate Director for Mary Poppins in the West End.

Laurence Connor

Director: Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Chess (English National Opera); Unmasked (The Other Palace); Miss Saigon (Broadway, West End, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan and Korea); School of Rock (Broadway, West End, US Tour, Australia, China and Korea); Les Misérables (Broadway, US Tours, UK Tours, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK and US tours); Oliver! (UK tour).

He directed the 25th anniversary concert of  The Phantom of the Opera  at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th anniversary concert of  Les Misérables  at the O2 in London, both of which were simultaneously broadcast in cinemas worldwide and subsequently released on DVD.

DVD credits:  Jesus Christ Superstar  (world arena tour);  The Phantom of the Opera  25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables  (O2 Arena) and Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre).

Awards: Miss Saigon on Broadway (Tony nomination for Best Revival); Miss Saigon (UK – Manchester Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical, Korea – Best New Foreign Production and Best Ensemble in a Musical, and Australia – the Green Room Award for Best Director of a Musical) and  Les Misérables  (UK – Best Musical at the Manchester Evening News Awards).

Set & Image Designer

Matt kinley.

Matt graduated from the Motley Theatre design course in 1994 and spent the next decade working at the National Theatre in London as a designer, design associate and draughtsman. Matt left to work within commercial theatre, developing many large productions and adapting them for tour. As part of a long working partnership with Cameron Mackintosh, Matt initially adapted the original versions of My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins as well as co-designing the recent international productions of Miss Saigon .

In 2009, he was invited to redesign Les Misérables for its 25th anniversary production as a UK tour. The success of the new staging has seen subsequent productions and tours across the world, alongside presentations on Broadway and the new West End show at the Sondheim. Matt also designed the 25th anniversary concerts of Les Misérables at the O2 Arena and The Phantom of the Opera at theRoyal Albert Hall, as well as the recent Les Mis concert at the Gielgud. Matt also designs a wide variety and scale of productions, both in the UK and internationally, with a long history of developing large-scale musical theatre in São Paulo, Brazil.

Lighting Designer

Paule constable.

Paule is a multi-award-winning lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. She is an associate of the National, the Lyric Hammersmith and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. Recent theatre credits include: The Ocean at the End of the Lane , Master Harold and the Boys , Pericles , Nine Night , Pinocchio , Follies (Olivier nominated, Knight of Illumination Award 2018), Angels in America (Olivier nominated, also Broadway, Tony Award nominated), Mosquitoes , Common , The Red Barn , The Threepenny Opera , Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , (National/Apollo/Gielgud/ Ethel Barrymore, NY/ world tour) and War Horse (National/New London/ Vivian Beaumont, NY/world tour), Local Hero (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Cherry Orchard (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam), The Moderate Soprano (West End), ear for eye , Clybourne Park (also West End), Posh , Krapps Last Tape , The Country , Dublin Carol and The Weir (Royal Court, also West End and Broadway), Luise Miller and Ivanov (Donmar at the Wyndham’s), The Chalk Garden , Othello , Proof , The Little Foxes and Bondagers (Donmar Warehouse), Happy Days , Feast , The Good Soul of Szechuan , Generations , Vernon God Little , Wolf Hall (also West End and Broadway), The Prince of Homburg , The Seagull and Tales From Ovid (RSC), Seventeen , Herons , Blasted and Three Sisters (Lyric). Her opera designs have been seen all over the world. In dance, she lit the new revival of Swan Lake , as well as Romeo and Juliet , The Red Shoes , Sleeping Beauty , Play without Words , Dorian Gray and Highland Fling for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

Paule is a Royal Designer for Industry and has won the Oliver Award for Best Lighting Design a record four times (for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , The Chalk Garden , Don Carlos and His Dark Materials ) and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design twice (for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse ). She has also won the Knight of Illuminations Award for Best Lighting Design for Follies , Saint Joan and for Barnum , the LA Drama Desk Award for Les Misérables , War Horse and Sleeping Beauty , the New York Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for both Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse and the Australian Helpmann Award for Les Misérables in Sydney. Paule was the first recipient of the Opera Award for Lighting and received the first Hospital Award for Contribution to Theatre.

Sound Designer

Mick potter.

Mick has a BA Honours degree in Creative Design from the Central School of Art and Design London. Mick has designed the sound for numerous world premiere productions including: Saturday Night Fever (London/New York), Bombay Dreams (London/New York), The Woman in White (London and New York), The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), Evita (London), Zorro: The Musical (London/Paris/worldwide), The Sound of Music (London/Toronto/UK tour/Asia/Australia), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London), Sister Act (London/Hamburg/Stuttgart/Barcelona/Berlin), Love Never Dies (London/Melbourne/Sydney/Tokyo/Hamburg/US tour), The Wizard of Oz (London/Toronto/US tour/Australia), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Les Misérables 25th anniversary celebration (O2 Arena, London), The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary celebration (Royal Albert Hall), The Phantom of the Opera (UK tour/US tour), Evita (New York/US tour/Australia/China), Barnum (Chichester/UK tour), From Here to Eternity (London), Miss Saigon (London/Tokyo/New York/UK tour/US tour/worldwide), School of Rock (New York/London/US tour/Australia/China), Sunset Boulevard (English National Opera, London/New York), Cats (New York/US tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester/London), Carousel and Chess (English National Opera, London), The Phantom of the Opera 30th anniversary celebration (New York), The Phantom of the Opera (worldwide), Man of La Mancha (English National Opera, London), The Light in The Piazza (Royal Festival Hall/World tour) and Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre, London).

Mick created all new sound designs for The Phantom of The Opera (London/New York/worldwide) and all new sound designs for Les Misérables international 25th anniversary production (London/New York/worldwide).

Awards include: Olivier Award in 2005 for The Woman in White (London), Parnelli Award in 2006 for The Phantom Of The Opera (Las Vegas), Green Room Award Australia in 2011 for Love Never Dies (Melbourne), Broadway World Audience Award in 2013 for Les Misérables (Toronto), Broadway World Audience Award in 2014 for Miss Saigon (London), Helpmann Award Australia in 2015 for Les Misérables (Melbourne), Broadway World Audience Award in 2016 for Les Misérables (Manila) and Green Room Award Australia in 2019 School of Rock (Melbourne). Nominations include: Helpmann Award in 2011 for Love Never Dies (Melbourne), Tony Award in 2014 for Les Misérables (New York), Green Room Australia in 2014 for Les Misérables (Sydney), Drama Desk Award in 2016 for School of Rock (New York) and Drama Desk Award in 2017 for Cats (New York).

Original Costume Designer

Andreane neofitou.

Andy’s iconic costume designs for the huge hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon have been seen in London and on Broadway (gaining her a Tony nomination for Les Misérables ) with productions continuing to play worldwide. Les Misérables became the West End’s longest-running show at 32 years, and a major new production of Miss Saigon is currently playing a US tour following successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. Among Andy’s other costume designs are Timon of Athens with David Suchet, The Baker’s Wife and Gone With the Wind – all three directed by Trevor Nunn, Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre) directed by John Caird, and Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as the musicals The Far Pavilions (West End), and the mega-hit Grease (Dominion Theatre/UK and European tours).

Other international credits include Nabucco directed by Elijah Moshinsky (The Met, New York), Miss Julie (Athens), Jane Eyre: The Musical directed by John Caird (Broadway; Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and Cameron Mackintosh’s revised version of Martin Guerre (USA).

Andy’s costume designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company include The Changeling directed by Michael Attenborough, The Merchant of Venice with Antony Sher, The Fair Maid of the West directed by Trevor Nunn (inaugural production Swan Theatre), Hedda Gabler with Glenda Jackson, Once in a Lifetime , Peter Pan , and Nicholas Nickleby at Stratford and on Broadway, the latter winning Andy the Outer Circle Critics’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design.

Film credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with Richard Dreyfuss directed by Tom Stoppard and Still Life with Roger Daltrey.

Costume Design

Christine rowland.

Christine Rowland has worked in both subsidised and commercial theatre. She was resident Costume Supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and Head of Costume at the RSC. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York and Japan), Oliver! (London, UK tour, Toronto and Sydney), The Witches of Eastwick (London and Melbourne), My Fair Lady (London and USA tour), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Mary Poppins (London, UK tour, New York, USA tour, Holland, Australia, Vienna and Stuttgart), Les Misérables 25th anniversary production (USA and UK tours, O2 concert, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, New York, Dubai, Brazil and Mexico).

Other musicals include: The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company, London), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London/New York) and Gypsy (New York).

Theatre Designer credits includes:  King Lear  (The Duke of York’s);  Admissions  (Trafalgar Studios);  The Monstrous Child  (Royal Opera House);  Frozen  (Theatre Royal Haymarket);  Lady Windemere’s Fan ,  Di and Viv and Rose  (The Vaudeville);  American Buffalo  (Wyndham’s Theatre);  Mrs Henderson Presents  (Noël Coward Theatre);  Measure for Measure  (Theatre For A New Audience, New York);  Hamlet ,  The Two Gentlemen of Verona  (RSC and The Lincoln Centre, Washington);  Running Wild  (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre & UK Tour);  Kinky Boots ,  Shakespeare in Love ,  King-Kong  (The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town);  The Snapper  (Gate Theatre, Dublin);  Making Noise Quietly ,  Anna Christie ,  The Man who had all the Luck ,  The Cut  (Donmar Warehouse);  The Four Seasons : A Reimagining  (The Sam Wanamaker Theatre);  Richard II ,  Doctor Faustus ,  Frontline ,  The Lightning Child  (Shakespeare’s Globe);  Occupational Hazards ,  A Human Being Died That Night (Hampstead Theatre);  Routes ,  Breathing Corpses ,  The Acid Test  (Royal Court);  My Fair Lady  (Sheffield Crucible);  Drum Belly ,  Our Few and Evil Days  (The Abbey);  Howie the Rookie  (The Project, The Barbican, BAM);  Yerma  (West Yorkshire Playhouse);  Fortune  (The Metropolitan Theatre, PARCO, Tokyo);  An Enemy of the People  (Theatre Cocoon, Bunkamura, Tokyo);  Secret Theatre ,  Blasted ,  Saved  (Lyric Hammersmith);  The Hypochondriac ,  Home ,  A Steady Rain  (Theatre Royal, Bath);  A Number  (The Chocolate Factory)

Musical Staging

Geoffrey garratt.

Geoffrey trained at the Bird College of Performing Arts. As a performer, Geoffrey has appeared in Cats , Fiddler on the Roof , Matador , Mr Cinders , Martin Guerre , Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , West Side Story and Oliver!

Geoff’s most recent work includes Associate Choreographer on the recently opened revival of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward, additional choreography for the recent West End hit revival of Miss Saigon (Prince Edward), which transferred to Broadway (Landmark Theatre, New York), musical staging for the Broadway revival of Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre, New York) which opened in Toronto, and the UK and Ireland tour of Les Misérables . Geoff has subsequently worked on Les Misérables in Australia, Japan and Korea. He has worked as an associate choreographer on Mary Poppins since the original production in and subsequently in the USA, Holland, Australia, Mexico and in Brazil. He has worked as Associate Choreographer on Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the UK and USA national tours, Holland, Australia and Toronto, and as Additional Choreographer for productions of Miss Saigon in Japan, Holland, Australia, Korea, Brazil and the UK tour.

Other Associate Choreography credits include The Witches of Eastwick (West End and Australia) and Betty Blue Eyes (West End). Choreographic credits also include The Witches of Eastwick (UK tour), Jack and the Beanstalk (Barbican), Encore! Mr Producer and Hey! Mr Producer (Jean Ann Ryan Productions USA), Blues in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fascinating Aïda (UK tour) and Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Additional Musical Staging

Michael ashcroft, projection realization.

Finn Ross has won two Oliviers, a Tony and three Drama Desk awards. Recent work includes: Theatre:  Back to the Future (West End); Les Mis é rables (WestEnd);   Sweet Charity  (Donmar),   (Broadway);  Mean Girls   (Broadway),  Bat out of Hell  (West end and International), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End & Broadway),  Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ( Broadway/West End/Tour) ; Dusty  (Touring) ;   Jagged Little Pill ,  In the Body of the World & The Crossing   (American Reparatory Theatre & Broadway);  American Psycho  (Broadway & Almedia);  Betrayal  (Broadway);  Chimerica  (Almeida & West End);  The Tempest  (The RSC & Barbican);  Master and Margarita ,  All My Sons ,  Shunkin  (Complicite) Opera:   The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny  (Royal Opera House);  Missa Solemnis  (LA Phil); Benvenuto Cellini,  Death of Klinghoffer ,  Death in Venice ,  Damnation of Faust ,  Don Giovanni , (ENO);  Hänsel und Gretel,  Zäuberflote,  A Dog’s Heart  (DNO, Amsterdam);  La   clemenza di Tito ,  Mr Brouček  (Opera North);  Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Béatrice et Bénédict ,  Turn of the Screw  (Theatre an der Wien);  Rinaldo , (Glyndebourne);  Dance:  Anna Karenina (The Joffrey Ballet);  The Nutcracker  (Atlanta Ballet);  Le Petit Prince  (National Ballet of Canada);  Frankenstein  (Royal Ballet);  The Feeling of Going  (Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Opera) Commercial:  J Balvin Fornightmares (Fortnight), W Hotel Instillation (Guangzhou, China): Schlumberger AGM (Paris), Oracle (Las Vegas), Rolling Stones Exhibitionism (International)

59 Productions

59 Productions is a multi-award-winning design studio and production company with offices in London and New York. Recent works include: Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival/Brisbane Festival), An American in Paris (Broadway/London/US tour), Junk (Lincoln Centre Theater), Oslo (Lincoln Center/National/Harold Pinter Theatre), The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre), Five Telegrams , Bloom and Deep Time (Edinburgh International Festival), The Last Ship (Northern Stage/UK tour/US tour), Moments of Silence (Imperial War Museum), Reflections: Guggenheim Bilbao 20th Anniversary (Guggenheim Museum), A Perfect Harmony (Freer/Sackler galleries/Smithsonian Institution), Paul Auster’s City of Glass (Home/Manchester/Lyric Hammersmith) Wonder.land (Manchester International Festival/National), David Bowie (V&A), Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Big Fish (Broadway), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne Berlin), War Horse (National/worldwide tours), Les Misérables (world tour) and the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Designs for opera include: Satyagraha (LA Opera), Marnie (Metropolitan Opera/ENO), Candide and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera), Brigadoon (New York City Center), Pearl Fishers (LA Opera), Metropolitan Opera 50th Anniversary Gala , Two Boys and The Enchanted Island (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Sukanya , Morgen und Abend and Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera), The Shining (Minnesota Opera), Satyagraha (ENO) and Al gran sole carico d’amore (Berlin State Opera/Salzburg Festival).

Orchestrations

Stephen metcalfe.

Stephen Metcalfe is a composer, orchestrator and record producer for film and theatre. For the past 19 years he has worked as Head of Music at Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, where he has developed, edited and contributed orchestrations to the scores for all of Cameron Mackintosh’s productions in the UK and worldwide.

Stephen produced the 2008 London cast album of Oliver! , the UK tour cast album of Les Misérables , the Australian cast album of Mary Poppins , the DVD release of the Les Misérables concert at the O2 Arena, the original London cast album of Betty Blue Eyes , the 2014 London cast album and the 25th anniversary film of Miss Saigon and the cast album of Half a Sixpence .

Other productions include Les Misérables (London/New York/the Netherlands/Spain/UK tour/US tour), Miss Saigon (London/New York the Netherlands/UK tour/US tour), The Witches of Eastwick (London/UK tour), Cats (London), Martin Guerre (Watermill), My Fair Lady (London/UK tour/US tour), Avenue Q (London), Mary Poppins (London/New York/UK tour/US tour, Oliver! (London/UK tour), Hair (London), Betty Blue Eyes (London), Barnum (Chichester/UK tour), Half a Sixpence (Chichester/London) and Hamilton (London).

Stephen orchestrated and produced the double-platinum award-winning soundtrack albums for the Universal Pictures film of Les Misérables , for which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

Christopher Jahnke

Theatre includes: Orchestrator: Porgy and Bess (Broadway/London; Best Orchestrations Tony nomination), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde , Cry Baby and Grease (2007), Dessa Rose , A Man of No Importance and Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga ( The Sound of Music , 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), The Wiz Live! , Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Escape to Margaritaville and Memphis . Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success , Ragtime , Secret Garden , The Three Musketeers , The Witches of Eastwick , Mary Poppins and Wicked .

Musical Supervisor & Orchestrations

Stephen brooker.

Stephen Brooker is Executive Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh worldwide. He was musical director and conductor for Universal Pictures’ film of Les Misérables. 

Musical Supervision: Old Friends – Stephen Sondheim Celebration (May 2022), Mary Poppins (Australia May 2022), Sister Act (2022) The Show Must Go On (Palace Theatre 2021), Les Misérables (Worldwide), Miss Saigon (Worldwide), White Christmas , Mary Poppins (Worldwide), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert, Sunset Boulevard, The Woman in White, Half A Sixpence, Les Misérables O2 Concert, The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Performance, Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert, OLIVER!, My Fair Lady, Cats, Hair, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Barnum, Peter Pan, and Chess .

Musical Direction: The Woman in White, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Show Must Go On, Lautrec, Betty Blue Eyes, Cats, Shall We Dance, Hair, Fame, The Secret Garden, Chess, Carmen Jones, Saturday Night Fever, and South Pacific.

 Stephen conducted the Classical Brit Awards and was composer and conductor for the original production of Burn the Floor. For the Imagination group, he has written, produced and conducted music for: Jaguar/Range Rover, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Ford Motors, Toyota Cars, Volvo Cars, Sony Eriksson, BMW, British Airways, Holiday Inn and Canon. Orchestral conducting includes: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Hamburg Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London and Manchester Concert Orchestras and the Ukraine Opera and Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the Royal Choral Society in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. Recordings include Disney Film Classics and Crazy for Gershwin (BBC Concert Orchestra), the studio recording of Hair , cast recordings of The Secret Garden , The Woman in White and South Pacific . He was orchestrator and conductor for Walt Disney’s award-winning Animator’s Palette and Cinderellabration (Disneyland Tokyo).

 He produced the ‘live’ recording of OLIVER! Starring Rowan Atkinson, the 25th Anniversary recording of Les Misérables and the Dutch and Australian recordings of Mary Poppins . Stephen conducted the Oscars – The 85th Academy Awards and is an Australian Helpmann Award winner for Mary Poppins.

 https://stephenbrooker.co.uk

John Cameron

Academy Award-nominated John Cameron created the orchestral score for every version of Les Misérables between 1979 and 2005, including the original Robert Hossein production in 1980 through the RSC, Broadway, tour and concert versions, winning the New York Drama Desk Award for Orchestration in 1986 and the National Broadway Theatre Award in 2002. The New York cast album won a Grammy. His movie scores include: the Academy Award-nominated A Touch of Class , the British classic Kes and the Emmy-nominated Path to 9/11 . Other television and movie scores include: The Ruling Class, To End All Wars, Jack the Ripper, The Mirror Crack’d and ABC’s Little House on the Prairie . His songwriting hits include Agnetha Fältskog’s ‘If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind’. John’s concert works include the cantata Missa Celtica, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and the choir of New College, Oxford. He was nominated for an Olivier Award as co-composer of Zorro the Musical . Other shows he has arranged include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat .

Trevor Nunn

Theatre includes: From 1968 to 1986, Trevor Nunn was the longest serving artistic director of the RSC, directing most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. From 1997 to 2003, he was director of the National Theatre, where his productions included The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes: Timon of Athens and Skellig (Young Vic), The Lady from the Sea (Almeida), Hamlet, Richard II and Inherit the Wind (Old Vic), King Lear and The Seagull (RSC), Scenes from a Marriage (Coventry and St James Theatre), A Little Night Music (London/New York), Cyrano de Bergerac, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre), Birdsong, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest and The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) , A Chorus of Disapproval (West End) , All That Fall (London/New York) and Relative Values (Bath Theatre Royal/West End) .   

Opera includes: Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Così fan tutte and Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne and Salzburg) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House).

Television includes: Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Three Sisters, Othello and King Lear.

Film includes: Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.

John Caird is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, principal guest director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, and a freelance writer and director of plays, musicals and operas. His National Theatre productions include Hamlet , Money , Humbleboy , The Seagull , Stanley , Trelawney of the Wells , Peter Pan and his own new Olivier award-winning version of Bernstein’s Candide . His recent directorial credits include Knights’ Tale and Hamlet , both in Tokyo, Don Giovanni at WNO in Cardiff, McQueen at the Haymarket Theatre, Tosca in Chicago, Houston and LA, Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Stratford Festival in Canada, La Bohème in San Francisco and Toronto, Parsifal in Chicago, Twelfth Night in Tokyo, and his own musical Daddy Long Legs off-Broadway, in Tokyo and all across the US. His directorial work for the RSC has included more than 20 productions of Shakespeare as well as classic and new plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Romeo and Juliet , The Beggar’s Opera , Twelfth Night , Peter Pan , Our Friends in the North , Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables – the last two productions winning numerous awards in the West End, Broadway and all around the world.

At Dramaten in Stockholm, he has directed Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Dance of Death , The Tempest , Twelfth Night , Gertrud and Merry Wives of Windsor . Other productions include Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre, Becket at the Haymarket and Song & Dance at the Palace Theatre. For BBC TV, he adapted and directed Henry IV Parts I and II . He wrote and directed the Siegfried and Roy Spectacular in Las Vegas. He wrote the libretti for André Previn’s opera Brief Encounter and for The Phoenix with music by Tarik O’Regan, both premiering at Houston Grand Opera. He also wrote and directed Children of Eden with music by Stephen Schwartz, as well as Jane Eyre , Daddy Long Legs and Knights’ Tale , all with music by Paul Gordon. Theatre Craft , his book about directing plays and musicals, is published by Faber and Faber.

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Jean-marc natel 1942 – 2019, additional material, james fenton.

James Fenton was educated at the Durham Choristers’ School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. He has worked as a political and literary journalist on The New Statesman, was a freelance reporter in Indo-China, spent a year in Germany working for The Guardian, was theatre critic for The Sunday Times for five years, chief book reviewer for The Times from 1984 to 1986, South East Asian correspondent for The Independent from 1986 to 1988 and a columnist for them until 1995. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

James Fenton was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999.  He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. He won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2007.

Recent work includes a new selection of poems, Yellow Tulips .  It contains some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine , to the dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children in Exile , through to the unforgettable love poems of Out of Danger . He edited the New Faber Book of Love Poems in 2006.  Further publications include School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts, A Garden of a Hundred Packets of Seeds, Samuel T Coleridge Selected Poems, William Blake Selected Poems, his reportage as a war correspondent All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of South-East Asia, and the collection of essays   The Strength of Poetry.

Plays and libretti include: The Orphan of Zhao and Tamar’s Revenge (RSC), Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic), The Tsunami Song Cycle (BBC), Rigoletto (ENO) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera). 

Associate Set Designer

David Harris

Christine peters.

Associate Sound Designer

Associate Projection Designer

Simon Harding

Associate Lighting Designer

Karen Spahn

Wigs, hair & make-up designer, stefan musch.

Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (London, 25th Anniversary, U.K. Tour, International), Les Misérables (London, Staged Concert, International), Miss Saigon, Shrek (London, International), King Lear (Chichester, London). London: A n American in Paris, Frozen: The Play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Book of Mormon, Hairspray, Gone with the Wind, Wicked, Lord of the Rings . Germany: Disney’s Aida, Elisabeth, Tabaluga and Lili, Cat s (also 1st national tour). Film: Young Woman and the Sea, Spencer, Maleficent, Cinderella, Flawless, The Merchant of Venice . Events: Royal Variety Show (2014, 2016), Her Majesty’s the Queen Platinum Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace. U.K. Theatre Trust Award for Outstanding Achievement in Wigs and Make-Up.

Musical Coordinator

John miller.

Over 100 Broadway shows. Recent: Once On This Island; Hello, Dolly!; Indecent; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; A Bronx Tale; The Great Comet of 1812; Waitress; Something Rotten!; Beautiful; Jersey Boys . Musician (bass): Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bette Midler, Peter, Paul and Mary, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra. johnmillerbass.com

Intimacy Director

Leigh zimmerman, felicia rudolph / tara rubin casting.

Selected Broadway and national tours: KPOP (upcoming), Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Big Fish, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera . Selected Off-Broadway: Sing Street, Trevor, Between the Lines, Clueless, Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love. Regional: Yale Rep, Asolo Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe. Film: Here Today.

Merri Sugarman / Tara Rubin Casting

Exclusive tour booking, press & marketing, bond theatrical group.

Bond Theatrical Group is an independently-owned booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour booking and marketing shows include & Juliet, A Beautiful Noise, A Soldier’s Play, Annie, Blue Man Group, CATS, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Clue, Clueless, Company, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Girl from the North Country, Harmony, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lempicka, Life Of Pi, Les Misérables, Peter Pan and The Lehman Trilogy . More at bondtheatrical.com

General Management

Gregory Vander Ploeg

Associate director, corey agnew.

Corey is happy to be back with Les Misérables . Favorite credits include: Les Misérables (Associate and Resident Director – Mexico, Toronto, Australia, U.S. Tours), Matilda (Deputy-Associate and Resident Director – South Korea, Toronto, U.S. national tour), Mary Poppins (Associate, Resident and Children’s Director – Broadway, Australian Premier, 1st and 2nd U.S. Tours), The Sunshine Boys (Soulpepper Theatre), Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions). Corey is passionate about teaching acting and coaches many successful college applicants: agnewactingstudio.com

Musical Supervisor

James moore.

Broadway: Miss Saigon, On the Town, Gigi, Follies, South Pacific, Ragtime, Steel Pier, Company. National tours: The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Crazy for You; And the World Goes ‘Round – The Songs of Kander and Ebb. Regional: Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Paper Mill, The Muny. Symphonic: Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, The Santa Barbara Symphony. Recordings: On the Town, Follies. Education: Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. 

Musical Staging Associate

An honors graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Robb’s career covers a wide variety of work including Broadway, Cirque Du Soleil, Disney, Momix, Prime Video, RWS Entertainment Group, Opera Philadelphia, and Turner Classic Movies. Broadway: Associate Choreographer: Miss Saigon and The Cher Show . Additional Credits: Miss Saigon (co-staged Tony Awards Broadcast performance, North American Tour, Vienna); Stratford Festival of Canada, Theatre Calgary, Ogunquit Playhouse, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Ordway, The Cape Playhouse, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the North Shore Playhouse among others. jesserobb.com

Resident Director

Brendan stackhouse, musical director, executive producer, seth sklar-heyn.

Broadway: Miss Saigon, Les Misérables (Executive Producer); The Phantom of the Opera (Production Supervisor); Miss Saigon, Evita, A Little Night Music, Finian’s Rainbow, Good Vibrations (Associate Director); Mary Stuart, Rock’n’Roll, Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director); The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director). National tour: The Phantom of the Opera (Associate Director) and Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the national tours of Frost/Nixon and Evita (2012 revival) and recently directed Ragtime at the Ogunquit Playhouse. Seth serves as Executive Producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. in N.Y. Graduate of Vassar College.

Trinity Wheeler

Broadway: 1776 (dirs. Diane Paulus and Jeffrey Page), Les Misérables . National tours: The Sound of Music (dir. Jack O’Brien), Finding Neverland, Once on This Island, Waitress, The SpongeBob Musical, Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Elf the Musical, The Producers, The Wedding Singer, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Young Frankenstein starring Roger Bart, and Rent starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. Current projects: Les Misérables, Hairspray, 1776, Peter Pan (dir. Lonny Price). Host of Rhapsody Radio (Apple Podcasts, Spotify). Love to Alan, Colin, Richard, Sawyer, Huck, Curry and Alfie.  @trinityonbroadway  

NETworks Presentations

Company manager, chris danner, associate company manager, elle aghabala, production stage manager, ryan w. gardner, stage manager, claire farrokh, assistant stage manager, hollis duggans-queenss.

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Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular taking centre stage in Aberdeen

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Cameron Mackintosh, in association with Nick Grace Management, is delighted to announce initial dates and venues for the World Tour of LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR, including five shows at P&J Live from the 17th to 20th October 2024.

Following Belfast, the production will play limited dates at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena 3–6 October, Sheffield’s Utilita Arena 10-13 October and Aberdeen’s P&J Live 17 – 20 October. The Tour will then commence its European leg in Luxembourg from 25 - 27 October, followed by Geneva, Trieste, Milan, Copenhagen, Oslo and Zurich. Its final UK dates will be in Manchester at the AO Arena 26 - 29 December and at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle 2 – 5 January 2025 before moving on to Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

To sign up for priority booking which will open on Tuesday 10 October 2023, please go to lesmis.com/worldtour

Cameron Mackintosh said today “I’m thrilled to announce the initial venues where this spectacular production of Les Misérables will run. This much anticipated world tour will be a unique opportunity for many celebrated performers to play their favourite roles for short periods in different parts of the world, so fans will get the chance to see their favourite stars (and mine!) in their favourite musical. Over the show’s nearly 40 years existence, it has also proved to be the launch pad for an extraordinary list of stars around the world, in many different languages and countries. Both the show and the score of Les Mis continues to win poll after poll around the world as the public’s favourite musical of all time containing so many of the most memorable and beloved songs ever written for the musical theatre. The euphoria of the cast reunion performances of Miz are legendary and always prove a sell-out so I look forward to this unique event being the ultimate demonstration of Do You Hear The People Sing ever!”

The World Tour begins as the stage musical enters its 39th revolutionary year and will run throughout the upcoming 40thanniversary celebrations for the world’s longest running musical in 2025. After which it is planned to play North and South America.

LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR will be expanded from the hugely successful Les Mis é rables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 record-breaking performances in the West End. It will have an extraordinary new design specifically created for arenas (and large theatres) with audiences of between 3,000 – 5,000. This spectacular production will have a UK company of over 110 actors, musicians and crew featuring a core cast with a great number of celebrated Les Mis guest stars appearing as their schedules allow.

Nick Grace is one of the World’s leading producers and general managers of international touring productions and in the last 25 years has presented shows in 59 countries worldwide including BATMAN LIVE – World Arena Tour, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Arena Spectacular, BLUE MAN GROUP World Tour and the ongoing MAMMA MIA! UK & International Tour.

The critically acclaimed production of Les Misérables continues to play at the Sondheim Theatre, where it will soon be celebrating its 39th revolutionary year, and several other local language productions around the world. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Oscar-winning movie, a remastered and remixed version was released in 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital in September.

Louise Stewart, Head of Entertainment, Exhibitions and Marketing says “Aberdeen, get ready to hear the people sing… We are ecstatic to welcome one of the world’s favourite musicals ‘Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular World Tour’ to P&J Live in 2024. With the people of the north-east getting not one but five incredible shows of this amazing adapted production for the big stage – it will be spectacular with a score of iconic songs!”

Three Mobile customers can get access to presale tickets on Tuesday 10th October, venue presale on Wednesday 11th October and general on-sale starts Thursday 12th October – all at 10am!

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Best UK musicals on tour 2024: From Disney to West End shows coming to UK venues near you

Travel from the prisons of Chicago to the barricades of Paris without leaving your city this spring. Here are the best musicals on tour.

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Stephen Sondheim wrote a song called There's No Place Like London – but was he right?

While the West End is undoubtedly the birthplace of musicals (sorry Broadway, but it's true), we can't help but notice that most major shows have outgrown their London home and moved out over the last few years.

From renowned classics like The Wizard of Oz and Chicago to more recent hits like Dear Evan Hansen, many shows are making their way across the country on tour.

This recent upswing in travelling musicals can only be considered a good thing as, instead of spending your weekends buying expensive train tickets into town, you can find a top quality West End show right on your doorstep.

Most of these touring shows also bring big names to your local area, like Michael Ball and Alfie Boe in Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular or Strictly Come Dancing's Johannes Radebe in Kinky Boots .

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Plus, seats are bound to be cheaper - as we've covered in our how to get cheap theatre tickets piece, the cost of West End performances has gone up massively in the past few years.

Not convinced? That's OK, you can still take a look at our guide to the best West End shows . But otherwise, here are the best musicals to see on tour.

Wondering about the best family-friendly options? Here are the best kids theatre shows , or check out the best Shakespeare plays .

• What musicals are on tour in 2024?

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• Musicals on tour Manchester
• Musicals on tour Birmingham
• Musicals on tour Leeds
• Musicals on tour Milton Keynes
• Musicals on tour Dublin
• Musicals on tour Edinburgh

What musicals are on tour in the UK for 2024?

This musical has been defying gravity since its first West End opening in 2006, and while you can still see it at its London home – the Apollo Victoria Theatre – until 2025, you can also catch it as it flies around the UK this year.

You can find the full list of Wicked UK tour dates , but for now all you need to know is that this so very, very popular show will be stopping in Dublin, Cardiff, Manchester and more.

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The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy's house will be crash-landing in dozens of UK cities this year, with some performances even featuring JLS star Aston Merrygold . But no matter where you're based, you can join Dorothy, Toto and their three friends as they skip down the Yellow Brick Road from April to August 2024.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Got heaven on your mind? Don't miss the production of Jesus Christ Superstar when it hits your city. The Andrew Lloyd Webber classic will be running from now until August 2024, with stops in Oxford, Wimbledon, Sunderland and more. Plus, if you're based in Llandudno or Southend, you'll be able to catch comic wizard Julian Clary as Herod.

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Shrek the Musical

Shrek the Musical is returning to London's Eventim Apollo this August, but not before rocking up in Birmingham, Derry, Northampton and Canterbury. Featuring our favoured many-layered ogre and his friends, Donkey and Princess Fiona (played by Strictly Come Dancing's Joanne Clifton), Shrek will be touring from now until 31st August.

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Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular

Les Misérables is going on a tour like no other this autumn. Kicking off in the UK this September, the show, and its cast of over 65 people, will be travelling to arenas in more than 15 countries, including Luxembourg, Australia, Taiwan, Italy, South Korea and more.

The UK performances will take place in Belfast, Sheffield, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester and Newcastle, starring icons of the musical: Killian Donnelly, Bradley Jaden, Alfie Boe and Michael Ball.

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Only Fools and Horses the Musical

This September, Only Fools and Horses the Musical will be heading out on tour, starring comedy legend Paul Whitehouse as Grandad. Whether you're a fan of the TV series or not, prepare to laugh your head off at the antics of Del Boy and Rodney, as they get caught in yet another whacky scheme. Plus, you'll be treated to musical contributions from the iconic Chas & Dave.

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Mary Poppins

You won't need a spoonful of sugar to enjoy this classic musical. From November 2024 to May 2024, Mary Poppins is taking her bag and umbrella to Bristol, Edinburgh, Plymouth and Manchester – further dates to be announced soon.

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Heathers the Musical

This summer, step into the drama and secrets of Westerberg High, where three girls called Heather rule all. Whether you're in Bath, Milton Keynes or Chester, you can join Veronica Sawyer in this tale of lies, teen angst... and maybe murder? Find the full list of dates in our Heathers the Musical guide.

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Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen follows a young - and very anxious - boy who gets unintentionally caught up in a web of lies of his own making. The musical shot to fame in 2016, featuring Pitch Perfect star Ben Platt, and now it's heading on its first ever UK tour this year. Kicking off in September, the show will be heading to 26 venues across the country – does anybody have a map?

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Chicago's tour will get going in October and run all the way until August 2025. It's a show of lies, murder and fame - but above all, jazz. Make sure you don't miss this razzle-dazzling musical when it arrives.

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We've got chills, and they're multiplying! Grease is currently touring until November, so make sure you get tickets to see Danny, Sandy, the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds at a theatre near you. There are worst things you could do.

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The Book of Mormon

Hello! Iconic comedy musical The Book of Mormon will be stopping in Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham and more this autumn.

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Not only is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat going on tour, but the Edinburgh date will star musical theatre icon Donny Osmond as the Pharaoh. This fabulously colourful musical is not one to miss when it arrives in your city.

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Still not sure what to see? That's OK - below we've also broken down the touring musicals by city, so you can see what's coming into your area and when.

Musicals on tour in Manchester

• The Wizard of Oz | 24th Apr – 5th May 2024
• An Officer and a Gentleman | 30th Apr – 4th May 2024
• Bonnie & Clyde | 7th – 11th May 2024
• Aladdin | 22nd May – 7th Jul 2024
• & Juliet | 9th – 20th Jul 2024
• Hairspray | 16th – 27th Jul 2024
• 101 Dalmatians | 30th Jul – 10th Aug 2024
• The Book of Mormon | 11th Sep – 5th Oct 2024
• Burlesque | 3rd Oct – 2nd Nov 2024
• Grease | 8th – 12th Oct 2024
• Chicago | 4th – 9th Nov 2024
• Only Fools and Horses | 11th – 23rd Nov 2024
• Elf | 12th – 17th Nov 2024
• Blood Brothers | 19th – 3oth Nov 2024
• Wicked | 3rd Dec 2024 – 12th Jan 2025

Musicals on tour in Birmingham

• Shrek | 9th Apr – 14th Apr 2024
• Jesus Christ Superstar | 22nd – 27th Apr 2024
• Blood Brothers | 30th Apr – 4th May 2024
• Sister Act | 13th – 18th May 2024
• Come From Away | 21st May – 1st Jun 2024
• The Wizard of Oz | 11th – 16th Jun 2024
• Six | 18th – 22nd Jun 2024
• Hamilton | 25th Jun – 31st Aug 2024
• 101 Dalmatians | 2nd – 6th Jul 2024
• Grease | 15th – 20th Jul 2024
• Pretty Woman | 20th – 24th Aug 2024
• Bonnie & Clyde | 3rd – 7th Sep 2024
• Here You Come Again – The new Dolly Parton Musical | 10th – 14th Sep 2024
• A Chorus Line | 10th –14th Sep 2024
• Hairspray | 16th – 21st Sep 2024
• Aladdin | 9th Oct – 3rd Nov 2024
• Dear Evan Hansen | 22nd – 26th Oct 2024
• Here & Now – The Steps Musical | 9th – 24th Nov 2024
• The Book of Mormon | 3rd – 28th Dec 2024

Musicals on tour in Leeds

• Come from Away | 30th Apr – 11th May 2024
• Here You Come Again – The new Dolly Parton Musical | 11th May – 8th Jun 2024
• Pretty Woman | 14th – 25th May 2024
• Six | 28th May – 1st Jun 2024
• Dear Evan Hansen | 5th – 9th Nov 2024
• & Juliet | 18th – 30th Nov 2024
• Blood Brothers | 3rd – 7th Dec 2024
• Elf | 23rd – 24th Dec 2024

Musicals on tour in Milton Keynes

• Aladdin | 24th Apr – 19th May 2024
• Everybody's Talking About Jamie | 10th – 15th Jun 2024
• Bonnie & Clyde | 28th – 22nd Jun 2024
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 2nd – 7th Jul 2024
• The Wizard of Oz | 16th – 21st Jul 2024
• Grease | 5th – 10th Aug 2024
• Hairspray | 2nd – 7th Sep 2024
• Heathers | 10th – 14th Sep 2024
• Six | 24th – 28th Sep 2024
• 101 Dalmatians | 1st – 5th Oct 2024
• Chicago | 12th – 19th Oct 2024
• An Officer and a Gentleman | 21st – 26th Oct 2024
• Elf | 6th – 10th Nov 2024
• Here You Come Again – The new Dolly Parton Musical | 19th Nov – 23rd Nov 2024

Musicals on tour in Dublin

• Aladdin | 20th Mar – 14th Apr 2024
• Madagascar | 11th – 14th Apr 2024
• Grease | 23rd Apr – 4th May 2024
• The Wizard of Oz | 28th May – 8th Jun 2024
• Come From Away | 11th – 22nd Jun 2024
• Pretty Woman | 2nd – 13th Jul 2024
• Bonnie & Clyde | 16th – 20th Jul 2024
• Wicked | 23rd Jul – 15th Sep 2024
• 101 Dalmatians | 17th – 21st Sep 2024
• Hamilton | 17th Sep – 16th Nov 2024

Musicals on tour in Edinburgh

• Hamilton | 28th Feb – 27th Apr 2024
• Pretty Woman | 2nd – 13th Apr 2024
• Madagascar | 25th – 27th Apr 2024
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 28th May – 1st Jun 2024
• Six | 11th – 15th Jun 2024
• Grease | 25th – 29th Jun 2024
• Bonnie & Clyde | 2nd – 6th Jul 2024
• Here You Come Again – The new Dolly Parton Musical | 23rd – 27th Jul 2024
• Come From Away | 17th – 21st Sep 2024
• A Chorus Line | 24th – 28th Sep 2024
• Blood Brothers | 24th – 28th Sep 2024
• Hairspray | 7th – 12th Oct 2024
• The Book of Mormon | 15th Oct – 2nd Nov 2024
• Only Fools and Horses | 5th – 9th Nov 2024
• & Juliet | 12th – 16th Nov 2024
• 101 Dalmatians | 19th – 23rd Nov 2024
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat | 3rd Dec – 29th Dec 2024

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Moscow/Zelenograd and New Moscow

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Zelenograd and New Moscow are two large parts of Moscow city, that lie (often far) outside consolidated residential zone of the city, which lies within and just beyond the MKAD (Moscow Ring Road).

Zelenograd was added in Moscow in 1968 as one of the leading scientific centers. New Moscow was added to Moscow in 2012, forming Novomoskovky and Troitskiy Administrativniy Okrugs with plans of new vast expansion. New Moscow territory is yet to change according to its new city status. Even though suburbial kind construction intensifies in Novomoskovsky Administrativniy Okrug, Troitskiy Administrativniy Okrug still mostly has a rural feel.

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Vnukovo and Ostafyevo airports are situated in New Moscow proper, though from Ostafyevo airport you still have to go through the "old" Moscow. It is possible to get from Sheremetyevo to Zelenograd without going to the old city - you have to change to 400 minibus on Leningrad highway or on local train on Planernaya. From Domodedovo airport you'll have to go through the old city anyway (the route through Domodedovo and Podolsk will take more time).

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Local trains connect Zelenograd with Leningrad Train Station, Tver, Klin and Konakovo. Local trains from Kiev Train Station pass through northern part of New Moscow between Novoperedelkino and Krekshino. To go to Zosimova Pustyn you may want to go all the way to Bekasovo, but trains there are infrequent. It is possible to get to New Moscow through Podolsk, but you'll have to change to bus there.

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Most frequent bus to Zelenograd is bus 400 from Rechnoi Vokzal. It has special pricing. Buses are primary way of public transport to get to New Moscow, new buses are often added. Most buses start from Yugo-Zapadnaya and Tepliy Stan metroes, and Podolsk train station. Troitsk serves as a bus hub.

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Zelenograd is accessible by M10 highway. Major highways in New Moscow are M3, A101, Warsaw highway Podolsk - Kresty (joining with A101), first "Beton Ring" A107 and Borovsk highway Peredelkino - Vnukovo - to join with M3. M10 and A101 are often highly congested, M3 may be less prone to it, except Moscow vicinity, and crossing with A107, A107 is congested near M3 crossing, which is northwest of New Moscow; Warsaw highway is congested in Podolsk, and you'll have to pass congested M2 to get there from MKAD.

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Mourners and curious visitors stream to the grave to see the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, the famous revolutionary and one-time leader of the Soviet Union.

Armoury Chamber

Visit one of Moscow’s oldest and most revered museums and discover more about Russian royal life and military history.

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Molzhaninovsky District

When in Molzhaninovsky District, you can plan a visit to Church of the Nativity in Cherkizovo and Ezhi Monument, some noteworthy sights in the nearby area.

Northern Administrative Okrug

If you're spending time in Northern Administrative Okrug, check out sights like Adrenaline Stadium or Arena CSKA and hop on the metro to see more the city at Rechnoy Vokzal Station or Vodny Stadium Station.

North-Western Administrative Okrug

While you're in North-Western Administrative Okrug, take in top sights like Otkrytiye Arena or Russian Submarine Museum, and hop on the metro to see more the city at Tushinskaya Station or Skhodnenskaya Station.

You might take some time to check out the abundant dining options in Presnensky. Spend some time visiting top spots like Russian White House, and catch the metro at Ulitsa 1905 Goda Station or Vystavochnaya Station to see more of the area.

You might enjoy the shopping while in Shelepikha. Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum is a notable sight, and you can get around town at Kutuzovskaya Station or Mezhdunarodnaya Station to see more of the city.

You might enjoy the cafes while in Tverskoy. Hermitage Garden is a notable sight, and you can get around town at Mayakovskaya Station or Chekhovskaya Station to see more of the city.

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• Shatury Museum of Local Lore
• Crocus City Hall
• Moscow City
• Crocus Expo Center
• Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy
• Victory Park
• VEGAS Crocus City
• Ostankino TV Tower
• Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
• T-34 Tank History Museum
• Museum of Cosmonautics
• Monument to the Conquerors of Space
• Ezhi Monument
• Bukhta Radosti
• Petrovsky Palace
• Technopark Skolkovo
• Mega Khimki Mall
• Arkhangelskoye Estate
• Pirogovo Golf Club
• Pavshinskiy Bridge
• Adrenaline Stadium

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