Producers of the forthcoming World Tour of the Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular have announced initial casting – and it’s great!
Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly will share the role of Jean Valjean in the show, with Michael Ball and Bradley Jaden sharing the role of Javert.
All four stars will play selected dates and venues, and there are no current details on which venues they will play.
The epic concert version of Les Miserables will feature a cast and orchestra of over 65, and a total crew of over 110. Further casting will be announced soon.
The show will open at the SSE Arena Belfast on 19 September 2024, to 28 September 2024, and then play Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena from 3 to 6 October 2024, Sheffield’s Utilita Arena from 10 to 13 October 2024, Aberdeen’s P & J Live Arena from 17 to 20 October 2024, Manchester’s AO Arena from 26 to 29 December 2024, and the Utilita Arena Newcastle from 2 to 5 January 2025
London dates are yet to be announced.
The Tour will also play dates in Geneva, Trieste, Milan, Copenhagen, Oslo and Zurich, plus dates in Sweden, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North and South America and more.
Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular will be expanded from the hugely successful Les Misérables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 performances in the West End.
Les Miserables is now in its 39th year, and will run throughout the upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations for the world’s longest running musical in 2025.
The tour is produced by Cameron Mackintosh (Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera) and Nick Grace (Walking with Dinosaurs, Batman Live).
Cameron Mackintosh said in a statement: “The spectacular world arena tour of the Les Misérables concert has been a dream of mine for many years. With Les Mis’ 40th phenomenal year starting this October, there couldn’t be a better time for it to happen. A dream concert deserves a dream cast and I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that the first UK leg of the tour, which opens in Belfast in September and is already more than two thirds sold out, will star Alfie Boe or Killian Donnelly as Jean Valjean and Michael Ball or Bradley Jaden as Javert, heading a cast and orchestra of over 65. Many other favourite Les Misérables performers, chosen from all over the world, will be announced in a few weeks’ time. After the UK, the world tour will play many cities across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Korea, Japan and several other Asian cities before it returns to Europe and beyond. With the Les Misérables movie now being re-released in cinemas across the world in its completely remixed digital glory, sounding and looking better than ever, and with the London and North American productions still regularly breaking attendance records, Les Misérables is a true phenomenon – The People’s Musical – and the only musical ever to be simultaneously a hit on stage, screen and in concert arenas. Boublil and Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and I owe our inspiration to the genius of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece.”
Alfie Boe and Killian Donnelly recently appeared in the National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals event, singing “Bring Him Home’ from Les Misérables alongside Swedish star Peter Jöback, who joins the cast of Les Mis as Jean Valjean in London from tomorrow, 13 February, to 9 March 2024, and Dutch star Milan van Waardenburg, who joins the show as Jean Valjean from 11 March 2024.
More about tickets to the Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular world tour
Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular – UK Tour Dates
THURSDAY 19 – SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2024
SSE Arena, Belfast
THURSDAY 3 – SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2024
SSE Hydro, Glasgow
THURSDAY 10 – SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 2024
Utilita Arena, Sheffield
THURSDAY 17 – SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2024
P&J Live, Aberdeen
THURSDAY 26 – SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2024
AO Arena, Manchester
THURSDAY 2 – SUNDAY 5 JANUARY 2025
Utilita Arena, Newcastle
More destinations including London to be announced.
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