![]() ![]() Then again, with the live-singing approach they are taking, this may work perfectly. Crowe’s distinct vocal style and lack of conventional musical theatre training indicate that this will be a slightly different interpretation of Javert, who is usually sung in a more classical style. He has released several albums through these many projects, as well as appearing in productions of Blood Brothers, Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Russell Crowe began his career as a musician, and has performed both as a solo artist and in various bands, beginning in the 1980s. Basically, he’s kind of like a crazy stalker, the kind that makes the object of their attention go into a witness protection program. ![]() He has a firm belief that people are unable to change, and that Valjean will always be a criminal and therefore deserves to be brought to justice. You’d be surprised, thinking maybe he has other things to do, but nope. He is the policeman who first released Valjean, and when JVJ breaks his parole Javert becomes obsessed with finding him. Inspector Javert is the big bad of Les Misérables. We’re looking forward to seeing what he can do. That said, despite his fancy footwork Jackman will still have to pull out all the stops to play this musically and emotionally challenging role. A genuine triple threat (singer, dancer, actor, eye-candy…make that a quadruple threat), he won a Tony Award for his performance in The Boy from Oz, as well as having hosted the Tonys three times and the Oscars once. Honestly, if you haven’t seen this man sing in a film or on stage we suggest you climb out from that rock you’ve been nesting under. And then he has a fairly eventful life, some things happen to him as he tries to flee from his past, but we won’t spoil it for you. After realizing that in the eyes of the public, he will always be a criminal, he decides to break parole and start afresh, with a new name and a new look (and some help from a friendly Bishop). Jean Valjean is an ex-convict who has finally been released after serving 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. ![]() The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.”ĬLICK HERE for more info on Paramount’s production of Les Misérables.Meet the protagonist of our story and all-round good guy – this is the man to keep your eye on. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. Hugo writes how laws and his society create “hells on earth.” He declaims the problems of the age being “the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night…a social asphyxia.” Of his ambitions for his novel, he wrote of “humankind’s wounds, those huge sores that litter the world…” and that, “Wherever men go in ignorance or despair, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children lack a book to learn from or a warm hearth, LES MISERABLES knocks at the door and says, “Open up, I am here for you.” At the end of the novel, he states, “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is…a journey from night to day, from corruption to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Valjean is pursued by Inspector Javert, and the contrast between these two men propels a sequence of events that compel the differences of one who lives forgiven and the other unforgiving. The tale tells how, after a brutal, dehumanizing 19-year prison sentence, Jean Valjean embarks on a path to redemption doing good and supporting the students of the June Rebellion of 1832 in Paris. It is upon his epic, four volumes and some 1,900 pages that composers Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg adapted their internationally-acclaimed musical still running in London after 30 years, produced in 43 countries and translated into 21 languages. Victor Hugo’s LES MISERABLES debuted over 150 years ago in 1862 and to this day is considered one of the most significant novels in world literature. Check out this first look at Les Miserables Director Jim Corti’s notes on creating Paramount’s largest Broadway production yet. ![]()
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