TICKETS FOR CAMERON MACKINTOSH’S PRODUCTION OF LES MISÉRABLES AT THE PALACE THEATRE MANCHESTER GO ON SALE NEXT WEEK
Following weeks of anticipation, general sale tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s highly-acclaimed Broadway production of the Boublil and Schönberg musical Les Misérables, will be available to book from Tuesday 5thJune 2018, ahead of the show’s run at the Palace Theatre Manchester from 19 February – 30 March 2019.
Bookings can be made by telephone, online or in person at the Palace Theatre Box Office, which will be opening early for the event at 10am. Tickets for the musical are set to be sought-after, with the exciting announcement last month that the West End’s current Jean Valjean Killian Donnelly will be playing the role in the show’s UK tour.
Prior to his run in Les Misérables, he played the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway, a role he originated at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2015, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of Les Misérables to celebrate the shows 25th anniversary in 2009, it has taken the world by storm. Modern audiences have embraced this production as Les Mis for the 21st century as it plays to packed houses all over the world in many languages. It also inspired the hugely successful movie version starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne.
This brilliant new staging has scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, and has been seen in North America, South America, Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Manila, Singapore, Dubai and Broadway.
Based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Boublil and Schönberg’s magnificent score of Les Misérables includes the songs, ‘I Dreamed a Dream’, ‘On My Own’, ‘Stars’, ‘Bring Him Home’, ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’, ‘One Day More’, ‘Empty Chairs at Empty Tables’, ‘Master Of The House’ and many more. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 45 countries and in 22 languages, Les Misérables is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Les Misérables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has 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 original adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. The original Les Misérables orchestrations are by John Cameron with new orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke and additional orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen Brooker.
The production is directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and additional costumes by Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt, projections by Fifty-Nine Productions and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Graham Hurman.
Tickets can be booked by telephone, online or in person at the Palace Theatre Box Office, Oxford Street, Manchester. For more information, or to book, visit www.atgtickets.com/Manchester or call 0844 871 3019.