Casting Announced for 2014 Broadway Staging of Les Mis

Ramin Karimloo 

Joining the cast of the new Les Miserables headed to Broadway this Spring are Ramin Karimloo (West End and current star of Les Misérables in Toronto, and The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies in London) as Jean Valjean; Will Swenson (Tony Award-nominated star of Broadway’s Hair and Priscilla Queen of the Desert) as Javert; Caissie Levy (West End and Broadway star of Ghost and Hair and Elphaba in Broadway’s Wicked) as Fantine and Nikki M. James (Tony Award winner for The Book of Mormon) as Eponine. 

 The official opening night for Les Miserables is
Sunday, March 23. Additional casting, including the roles of Marius,
Cosette, Enjolras and the Thenardiers, will be announced in the coming
weeks.

This newly re-imagined Les Miserables is still breaking box-office records
and receiving rave reviews across North America, grossing more than $160
million. Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Les Miserables is written by Alain
Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor
Hugo. It has music by Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
and original French text by Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, original
adaption by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and additional material by James
Fenton.

The new 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 Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound
by Mick Potter and projections by Fifty-Nine Productions.

Read a review of the tour of the new staging, which played at the Bushnell in Hartford, CT, here. (And look for an interview here with J. Mark McVey, who has played the role of Jean Valjean more often than any other actor, coming soon on Reflections in the Light).