Melba Moore as "Fantine" in Les Mis
Melba Moore as "Fantine" in Les Mis
#0Melba Moore as "Fantine" in Les Mis
Posted: 11/20/05 at 12:20amDoes anyone know her exact run dates she did in the Broadway run as "Fantine"?? I cannot find the timeline. Thanks all!
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Marlothom
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#1re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 11/20/05 at 12:38amI know i saw her during my senior year; 1996 if that helps
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#2re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 11/20/05 at 12:44amAccording to Ibdb.com, she played the role Jan 9 - Mar 1995.
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#3re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/4/14 at 1:25am
I just stumbled on this ad, and was wondering about how she was. Is anyone who saw her willing to share their memories?
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#4re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/4/14 at 2:17amI was only like, 13, but I remember her looking a little zonked, but she was otherwise good.
#5re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/4/14 at 3:08amShe was an enjoyable mess as Mama on the "Chicago" tour
#6re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/4/14 at 3:19amWasn't she also in the Brooklyn tour with Diana DeGarmo? Yeesh.
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#7re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 9:46amI saw Moore. That's when the show was tired and in less than great shape. She was fine, but entirely unmemorable. Nothing stood out, and I think we expected her to find something new in the role. Or take the roof off.
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#8re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 10:56amWas she in the cast when Mackintosh came in and fired everyone?
#9re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 11:08am
No. That cast was Ivan Rutherford, Florence Lacey, Tamra Hayden, Michelle Riggs, and Tom Donoghue. Only Chris Innvarr (who was playing Javert) was spared.
That happened in late 96/early 97.
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#10re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 1:16pmno Christina Michelle Riggs was also spared... she was Eponine then was changed to Cosette if I remember correctly...
#11re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 1:33pmYou're kidding...that's the cast I saw! Les Mis was my first broadway show. I was maybe six.
#12re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 1:33pmYou're kidding...that's the cast I saw! Les Mis was my first broadway show. I was maybe six.
#13re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 1:45pmIvan also stayed, but was the Valjean alternate once Robert Marien came in.
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#14re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 2:46pmRutherford was magnificent in the recent Chicago production of Les Miz this spring. (with Quentin Earl Darrington from the Ragtime revival as his Javert)
#15re: Melba Moore as 'Fantine' in Les Mis
Posted: 7/5/14 at 4:54pmRight. I forgot that Rutherford was essentially demoted rather than being fired.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
