MPAC Sets LES MISERABLES as Spring Youth Musical

MPAC's third produced youth musical will be Les Miserables. The show will be staged Friday, May 29th - Sunday, May 31.

Auditions will take place Thursday, January 29; Monday, February 2; and Wednesday, February 4 at the Theatre.

The show will be directed by Cathy Roy. Musical Director is Kevin Lynch.

LES MISERABLES is a sung-through musical based on the novel by the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy. But he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector, Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a host of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.

Previously, MPAC had produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2013) and Hairspray (2014).

Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2014-2015 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts