Currently set for the reading are Angela Lansbury and Aaron Lazar, along with the newly announced Aaron Tveit. Tveit - whose Broadway credits include NEXT TO NORMAL and CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and who will be seen as Enjolras in the highly anticipated LES MISERABLES film this December - will play Dimitri, the con man who brings Anastasia to the Empress (Lansbury) in an attempt to collect a reward.
On Twitter Watch, Hugh Jackman wrote 'Filming for les miserables has finished!!! Thank you Tom and the whole crew! Amazing. 24601 signing out! '
Tweeting and writing about theatre has brought me back into the community I lost when I was an actor. The solitary act of tweeting became a means to connect with thousands of theatre-lovers like me. As my list of readers grew longer, I also sought out other voices sharing their words & thoughts with the digital world. It has been a delight to join a community, not unlike the casts I knew in my acting days, of passionate consumers of theatre. I want to thank every person who has shared their fervor by way of written word.
At the end of May, theatre fans were treated to an all new trailer for the highly-anticipated LES MIS film, dominated by Anne Hathaway's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from her role as Fantine. Now Hathaway is speaking out about what is was like to play the iconic role. On singing 'I Dreamed a Dream,' she told NY Magazine: 'I apparently looked like I was ready to face the guillotines. They just kept telling me and the cast to ignore the iconic nature of Les Miz and of the song. I had to sing it as if it had never been sung or heard before.'
Something's afoot at various Nashville area and Tennessee theaters this summer with all sorts of fun and frivolity being served up for audiences. Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre offers its sparkling revival of Fiddler On The Roof, starring Derek Whittaker and Debbie Kraski, while at Dickson's Renaissance Center, the Renaissance Players presents its new production of Bye Bye Birdie, starring Carl Blunt, Michelle Valenti, Marilyn Fair and Brad Burns. Meanwhile, up in Clarksville-at The Roxy Regional Theatre-audiences are enjoying 101 Dalmatians Jr. The Musical, featuring favorite Ryan Bowie in the role of a lifetime: Cruella DeVille.
Director Richard W. Browder (who plays Bernard) directs a cast that includes Asa Ambrister, Patrick Goedicke, George W. Manus Jr., Thomas Prunier, Ryan Vogel, Zach Parker, Peter Depp (from the Sundance Channel's Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys) and Blair Thompson (who took to his dressing room and refused to answer our questions-well, not really, but it sounds more interesting than "he missed the deadline, apparently.")
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK: HARVEY returns to Broadway, Anne Hathaway dreams a dream, Norm Lewis get a caricature, and so much more!
PREMIUM RUSH is headed for theaters on August 24th, 2012 from Sony Pictures. The action, suspense thriller is directed by David Koepp and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung, Dania Ramirez, Aasif Mandvi, Nick Damici and Aaron Tveit.
Today we continue our expansive look at the most memorable moments from the sixty-plus years of the Tony Awards by saluting one of the biggest hit musicals of all time that is about to hit the silver screen in a big budget adaptation starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway - the emotionally devastating and faith-affirming LES MISERABLES.
The moment Broadway babies have been waiting for has at long, long last finally arrived - the LES MIZ movie trailer just hit the internet in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. As many suspected - and as the leaked, low-quality work print teaser indicated a few weeks back - the song selection showcased was, indeed, Anne Hathaway's impassioned and plaintive "I Dreamed A Dream", and, just as suspected, the trailer absolutely delivered in giving us the decadence, drama, epic imagery and all-consuming emotion we expected.
It's here! Today, Cameron Mackintosh released the trailer for the upcoming movie of the long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social injustice. Check it out below - the trailer is dominated by Anne Hathoway's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from her role as Fantine.
Ya está listo online el primer tráiler oficial de 'Les Miserables', dirigida por Tom Hopper y protagonizada por Hugh Jackman, Russell Crow, Anne Hathaway y Amanda Seyfried, que llegará a las pantallas españolas el 28 de diciembre con estreno en USA el 14 del mismo mes.
Not only did Hugh Jackman and producer Cameron Mackintosh give Les Misérables movie fans a Friday treat with this picture, taken on the Les Mis set, they have also revealed that the first movie teaser trailer will be available next Wednesday, May 30!
CollegeHumor brings you Hugh Jackman, 'At Harlem Village Academies, Mr. Jackman auditions for his toughest role yet: not auditioning.' Watch Jackman's teacher interview below!
Filming for the upcoming Les Miserables movie is well underway, and new footage of the show's original Valjean, Colm Wilkinson - who is playing the Bishop in this film incarnation - has just surfaced! Click below to hear from Wilkinson on set!
Colm Wilkinson, who originated the role of Jean Valjean in both the original London and Broadway productions of LES MISERABLES, will make a special appearance in the upcoming LES MIS film as the merciful Bishop. A picture was just released of Wilkinson in his Bishop garb opposite Hugh Jackman, Jean Valjean in the film.
Ya se ha filtrado en internet el primer tráiler de la adaptación cinematográfica de 'Les Misérables', cuyo estreno tendrá lugar el próximo mes de Diciembre.
Hugh Jackman takes a moment to wish everyone a happy Mother's Day from the set of the Les Misérables film.Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) takes a moment to wish everyone a happy Mother's Day from the set of the Les Misérables film. Check out the video below!
The Les Misérables film just released a new Facebook photo featuring Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) chatting with Isabelle Allen (Young Cosette) on the Les Mis film set. Check out the photo below!
Russell Crowe often posts on Twitter about the Les Miserables film, sometimes in character, and he recently retweeted a picture of himself in his Javert garb, which was then posted by the Les Miserables movie's official Twitter.
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