LES MISERABLES Tour Gets Ready to Hit the Road

Hi, Broadway World. We're the new cast of Le Miserab, and we are coming to a city near you

Come and see us! Yes! Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

One of the most successful and beloved musicals of all time, Le Miserab is relaunching their national tour

and we're here at the Gimney Studio to meet the company and bring you a sneak peek before they hit the road

Come day more, another day, another destiny. This ever-ending road to Calvary

These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time on table

Well, it is just magical. It is filled with such incredible music and storytelling and light

And especially in the face of what we've been dealing with these past two and a half years

it has been so uplifting being in a room with such incredible people working on a show as me

Magical as this. You know, this is such a special show to come from. a special show to come back to the show. I was able to launch the last tour. I did it for two

and a half years. So now to come back after COVID and do this again, it's really, really refreshing

It's such a young cast, but it brings such an energy. We're really excited to do it. We're

really excited to get on the road. To be to be back in this rehearsal room with

Lawrence Connor, James Powell, and the rest of the direction and production team has been a dream come true

Still I dream he'll come to me That we will leave the years together But there are dreams that cannot be There are stones we cannot weather

There was such a pause when this world, because of the pandemic

and I feel like we are a world that is still in need of healing

and this is a show that is about redemption and a survival of the human spirit

And if there is anything that has happened in this past year is that we have survived. survived and people are ready to come back to the theater and embrace a show with this message

at such a beautiful time. So we are, it's humbling and it's also such an honor to be able to do it again

I mean look, you know, we we were so damaged by all of that. It was heartbreaking, you know, and to see

empty theaters, nothing happening. I've had so many great colleagues dormant, not doing a thing. And to get back in the saddle again

and to be bringing young, new, fantastically talented kids around this country is just really exciting

So I'm really looking forward and I'm genuinely bowled over by this company

The last time that I did the show, right before, when I was in final callbacks for the role

my mom passed away from ovarian cancer the day before my final callback

And so there was so much that was wrapped up in singing that song and the sacrifices that Valjean makes for Cosette to go and find Marius

And then during the pandemic, my wife and I had a baby. And so now to have to sing that song and think about my own child

and the sacrifices that I make for her, I am surprised that I get through it every night

because it is such a heartfelt just moment in the show And it just so quiet and pure and it just feels so wonderful and again such an honor to get to sing this score especially that piece every night

You can take You can give

Let him be Let you If I die, let me die

Let him live. Let him live. Bring him home

What is so remarkable is the audiences that we've met that have seen it before

seen it before and maybe connected with it when they were teenagers, connected with characters

like Cosette and Epinette and Marius. And now they're bringing their children back to see the show

Their children are connecting with those characters and now they're connecting with Fontaine and Valjean

And so no matter when you see it, you can connect with the story, with the characters and with

the message of this beautiful, beautiful piece. I feel like the opportunity for us to make a divot on the long line

of history for these roles and then making space for the people who come after us is

unimaginable and exciting. Yeah especially being people of color I feel very honored to be able to take this mantle for the next generation and you know express it in a way that maybe hasn been expressed before And empty chairs and empty tables is just I feel so honored to be able to put my stamp on that and make it mine and share it

It's, I get chills every day. And, you know, it's the same kind of feeling that I got when I was, you know, nine years old and heard this music for the first time

And to be in this position to sing this music with all of these incredible professionals and vocalists and actors is, it's, I mean, it just like chills me every day. Yeah

My place is here. I hope it's live. One day my love

Tomorrow will be ready to secrets And all the things they go

One day to go We'll be ready for these Tomorrow is the judgment takes

Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in heaven has in store One more time, one more time, one

more day, one day more