It was named after Jean Valjean, the main character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, who was known as 24601 during his 19 years in prison.
The Bagne of Toulon was the notorious prison in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of Jean Valjean, the hero of Les Misérables, the novel by Victor Hugo.
Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, referred to as Bishop Myriel or Monseigneur Bienvenu, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
In 1862 the author Victor Hugo wrote to his publisher asking how his most recent book, Les Misérables, was getting on.
In 1862, he made the authorised British translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which was reissued in 1864 and 1879.
In October 2001, she directed the Romero Company's annual production at the Melbourne Trades Hall Auditorium, an inventive adaptation by Damien Mead of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
Montreuil is the setting for part of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, where it is identified only as M -sur-M in past translations.
Patron-Minette was the name given to a street gang in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables and the musical of the same name.
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On 8 October 1985, an English-language production of Les Misérables produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Trevor Nunn premiered in London at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Barbican Theatre.
During her audition, Kathy sings as Scottish amateur singer Susan Boyle who gained worldwide attention for her performance of the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Misérables on the reality show Britain's Got Talent.
In 2002, Grehan performed at the Odyssey Belfast for "One Enchanted Evening," alongside Peter Corry, Brian Kennedy, Joanna Ampil (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Jesus Christ Superstar), and Jeff Leyton (Les Misérables).
Ciaran has also played numerous theatre roles including 'Dandini' in Cinderella, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Hawth Theatre, Gaveroche in Les Misérables, 'Lozzo' in Off The Streets Project, 'Scot' in Brassed Off and Vince in Two Princes, both the latter for Theatr Clwyd.
Famous examples of sewer dwelling are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stephen King's It, Les Miserables, The Third Man, Ladyhawke, Mimic, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Jet Set Radio Future.
She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond, Les Misérables on Broadway (1993), and as Maria in West Side Story in Vienna and Munich (1995).
At the end of the 19th century, with a growing interest in photography displacing documentary drawing, Bayard moved to illustrating novels, including Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, L'Immortel by Alphonse Daudet, "Robinson Crusoé by Daniel De Foë", and From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.
Francesca has appeared in productions of Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, and Evita and also appeared, and sang, in a few operas, including Les Misérables, Carmen and Hänsel und Gretel.
In Les Misèrables Victor Hugo refers to his works as "stupid romances" which the favourite reading of Madame Thénardier.
Gabrio is possibly best recalled for his roles as Jean Valjean in the 1925 Henri Fescourt-directed adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Cesare Borgia in the 1935 Abel Gance-directed biopic Lucrèce Borgia and as Carlos in the 1937 Julien Duvivier-directed gangster film Pépé le Moko, opposite Jean Gabin.
His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory.
During post-production lead actress Samantha Barks won the role of Éponine in the film version of Les Misérables.
He has played the leading parts in a number of musicals: Twice as Judas, twice as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, as Marius in a highly successful staging of Les Miserables as Freddy Trumper, and The American in Chess.
Music from Star Wars to Les Misérables, Soul Man to Wind Beneath My Wings to Robbie Williams to Big Band Medleys to St Louis Blues, their repertoire includes movie themes, classic songs & music from the West End, Big Band/Swing numbers and a few military marches too.
He also translated Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables from French into Sinhala as Manuthapaya which became quite popular among readers.
He started acting at a very young age, playing the role of Jacob in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang at Young People's Theatre in Toronto, and later Gavroche in the original Toronto production of Les Misérables at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 1988.
He has performed in various theater roles such as On Golden Pond, Prairie Lights, Big: The Musical, Les Misérables and Guys and Dolls.
In Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean receives a sentence of five years hard work in the galleys for the small crime of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's children.
Mandalay Pictures is a film production company whose productions include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Donnie Brasco, Seven Years in Tibet, Wild Things, Les Misérables, The Deep End of the Ocean, Sleepy Hollow, The Score, and Into the Blue.
Toumassatou has participated in various theatrical plays, such as Aristophanes' Iphigenia in Aulis and The Clouds, and a theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, as well as in television series', such as in the critically acclaimed soap opera Vera sto Dexi, which made her popularity rise.
Cameron Mackintosh then cast Meredith as Eponine in Les Miserables a role she played in both London and Manchester.
Since 1992 Mikkel Rønnow has been Musical Director for more than 20 Danish musical productions, including Chess (Danish premiere), West Side Story, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Copacabana (Scandinavian premiere), Grease, Cabaret, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar.
NCS's Senior Musical Theatre has put on sold-out productions of: Les Misérables,2004 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 2005 Fiddler on the Roof, 2006 Annie 2006, West Side Story, 2007, 42nd street 2008,Wizard of Oz 2009, and Anne of Green Gables, the musical, in 2010.
She performed in many musicals such as Cats the Musical, Miss Saigon, The Music of Lloyd Webber Concert Tour (understudying Sarah Brightman), Oh What A Night, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as the lead Frugue girl in Sweet Charity, and took the role of Eponine in the 10th Anniversary Australasian Tour of Les Miserables.
He disagreed with the philosophy of Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's famous novel, which seemed to imply that a change of outward conditions would effect a change of character, that the social arrangement was radically wrong, and that the "paralysis of the person" was contingent on "the narrowness of the lot", which ran counter to his beliefs.
Other versions have been rendered by singer Barbara Jones, Colm Wilkinson of Les Misérables and Jesus Christ Superstar fame, Duffy and the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.
When she was younger she appeared with fellow soap actress Eden Riegel in the Broadway production of Les Misérables.
Other roles include leads as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Svetlana in the original London production of Chess, Fantine in Les Misérables, Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar and Deborah Warner's Medea.
The shows to be performed on the Main Stage are Les Misérables, The Christmas Schooner, Crazy for You, The Mousetrap, The Three Musketeers, and Gypsy.
Félicité de Genlis appears as a character in the works of the following writers, among others: Honoré de Balzac (Illusions perdues), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and Jane Austen (Emma).
After his graduation, Thor starred in Jesus Christ Superstar on West End and later in Les Misérables where he played a few of the major roles.
His government's composition was essentially made up of second-line political figures, and his government was jokingly referred to as "Os miseráveis de Victor Hugo" ("The miserables of Victor Hugo"), a play on the French author Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables.
The first play in 1928 was Gerhart Hauptmann's ‘Der arme Heinrich’, in 2011 Waldbühne Sigmaringendorf showed Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking.
The fall musicals in recent years have included Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, Les Misérables, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Working (musical), "Guys and Dolls", and The Music Man.
Regional credits include projections for the national tour of Les Misérables, Jason Robert Brown's 13 at the Mark Taper Forum and NERDS for the Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Daniel Huttlestone, actor best known for his role as Gavroche in the 2013 movie Les Misérables
The school's latest head of drama, Matthew Connor-Hemming, has directed five productions, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and four musicals, Oliver!, Calamity Jane, Les Misérables, and most recently, The Wizard of Oz.
In 2007, he recorded his own album, This Is the Moment, which includes "The Music of the Night", from The Phantom of the Opera, and "Bring Him Home", from Les Misérables.
James Cundall is a producer of live entertainment with over 80 productions to his name - musicals such as Les Misérables, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Chicago, Singin' in the Rain, Oliver, Cabaret, and We Will Rock You; spectaculars such as Cirque du Soleil's Alegría and Riverdance; plays such as The Blue Room and Talking Heads; and solo performers such as Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Elaine Paige, Clive James and Jamie Oliver, to name just a few.
The same magazine's review of the film (21 November 1927) points out that it owes much of its plot to American movies, including Kick In (directed by George Fitzmaurice in two versions, 1917 and 1922; Japanese title The Collapse of Civilisation Bunmei no hakai「文明の破壊」) and Les Misérables (1918, directed by Frank Lloyd).
Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables
Jean Val Jean, a 1935 English-language retelling of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables by Solomon Cleaver