"five books recount previously unrecorded adventures from her original three visits. As P. L. Travers explains in her introduction to ""Mary Poppins in the Park"", ""She cannot forever arrive and depart."" The books were adapted by Walt Disney into a musical film titled ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. The film ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013) depicted the making of the 1964 film. In 2004, Disney Theatrical in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh (who had previously acquired the stage rights from Travers) produced a stage musical also called ""Mary Poppins"" in London's West End theatre. The stage musical"
"Richard Jay-Alexander Richard Jay-Alexander (born May 24, 1953) is an American Broadway producer and director, who has been part of the stage world for over 40 years. He was a dancer, singer and actor in two minor roles on Broadway and later branched into stage management. He served as Executive Director of the New York office of producer Cameron Mackintosh. Cameron Mackintosh is known for productions including ""Les Misérables"", ""Cats"", ""The Phantom of the Opera,"" ""Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Oliver!"" and ""Putting It Together."" Jay-Alexander ran Mackintosh's North American operations for twelve years. His recent directorial credits include"
"(1976), ""My Fair Lady"" (1978) and ""Tomfoolery"" (1980). In 1981, he produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Cats"", then considered an unlikely subject for a musical. It became the hit of the season and went on to become one of the longest running musicals on both sides of the Atlantic. After the success of ""Cats"", he approached the French writing team Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about bringing their musical ""Les Misérables"" (then a successful French concept album) to the London stage. The musical opened in 1985 at the Barbican before transferring to the Palace Theatre. ""Les Misérables"" had a shaky start"
"the 30th longest running show in Broadway history. Lyn's role as associate director of Mary Poppins came to an end in early 2013. 2,619 performances were made over six-year period on Broadway. Within a couple of months of his role of director Mary Poppins, Lyn became the associate director of Les Miserables during the year of its 25th year anniversary. Anthony Lyn Anthony Lyn is a Welsh theatrical director and actor, originally from Swansea in South Wales. During his early life, he performed in numerous shows at the Grand Theatre in Swansea. As an actor appeared in London's West End"
"responsible for ""Les Misérables"", which became the longest-running international musical hit in history. The team, in collaboration with Richard Maltby Jr., continued to produce hits, including ""Miss Saigon"", inspired by the Puccini opera ""Madama Butterfly"". The British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber saw similar success with ""Evita"", based on the life of Argentina's Eva Perón; ""Cats"", derived from the poems of T. S. Eliot (both of which musicals originally starred Elaine Paige); ""Starlight Express"", performed on roller skates; ""The Phantom of the Opera"", derived from the Gaston Leroux novel, ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra""; and ""Sunset Boulevard"" (from the classic film of"
"A very successful director of musicals, in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn directed the musical ""Cats"" (1981), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's history, and the first English production of ""Les Misérables"" in 1985, also with John Caird, which has been running continuously in London since opening. Nunn also directed the little-known 1986 Webber–Rice musical ""Cricket"", at Windsor Castle. Besides ""Cats"" and ""Les Misérables"" Nunn's other musical credits include ""Starlight Express"" and ""Sunset Boulevard"". He became Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre in September 1997, a position he retained until 2003. Later London credits include ""My Fair Lady"", ""South"
"Fred Boot Fred Boot (Groningen, 1965) is a Dutch theatre producer. Boot started working for Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties in 1991 and was responsible for the publicity and marketing of over twenty musical productions, such as The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Cyrano - The Musical, West Side Story, fifteen stage play’s (amongst others Duet, The Sunshine Boys, Torch Song Trilogy) and several revues, cabaret shows and foreign productions. He was also responsible for the corporate communication for Stage Entertainment and the publicity of foreign (co-)productions, such as The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Misérables in"
"Alicia Keys, Andre Rieu, Jason DeRulo, Josh Groban, Bruno Mars, Jill Scott, Alfie Boe, Roland Villazon, Lenny Kravitz, Regina Spektor, Justice, My Chemical Romance, Robert Plant, Ed Sheeran, Nickelback, David Gray, Muse, KD Lang, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rihanna, Josh Radin, Ray LaMontagne, Plan B. Other commercial and branding work includes Deezer, Vodafone, Pepsi, Reebok, Orange, Adidas, Ikea, Coca-Cola. He has directed and produced filmed theatrical productions in the West End, Broadway, Canada, Germany and Australia for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Newsies, The Lion King, Billy Elliot, Hamilton, Frozen The Musical, The Rockettes, Singin"
"was Claude-Michel Schönberg, with whom Boublil has since collaborated on a number of successful projects, including ""Les Misérables"" and ""Miss Saigon"". ""Les Misérables"" first opened in Paris in 1980. On 8 October 1985, an English-language production of ""Les Misérables"" produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird premiered in London at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Barbican Theatre. The show transferred to the West End's Palace Theatre on 4 December 1985. It is the longest-running musical in West End history. Productions based on the Nunn/Mackintosh staging of ""Les Misérables"" have been staged all over the world, including"
"David Hersey David Hersey (born November 30, 1939) is a lighting designer who has designed the lighting for over 250 plays, musicals, operas, and ballets. His work has been seen in most corners of the globe and his awards include the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for ""Evita"", ""Cats"", and ""Les Misérables"", the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for ""Cats"", ""Miss Saigon"", and ""Equus"", and the 1996 Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design. Hersey has been the lighting designer for National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and West End productions, as well as opera at the English National"
"and produced ""Hamlet"" (with Ralph Fiennes), ""42nd Street"", ""Urinetown"" and ""Into the Woods"" among seventeen Broadway shows. In London, he produced ""The Who's Tommy"", ""Chicago"", ""West Side Story"" and ""The Full Monty"". In Europe he oversaw numerous shows for Stage Entertainment, such as ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Miss Saigon"", ""Les Misérables"", ""The Lion King,"" ""Cats"", ""Titanic"" and ""Cabaret"". De Levita was a member of the Board of Stage Entertainment from 2000 till the end of 2005. In 2005 he started his own production company: Robin de Levita Productions. He developed two musicals with writer/choreographer Sarah Miles and composer/lyricist/record producer"
"for Nicholas Nickleby, ""Cats"", ""Starlight Express"", ""Les Misérables"" and ""Sunset Boulevard"". He won the 1987 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for ""Starlight Express"" and ""Les Misérables"" and has twice won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for ""Cats"" in 1983 and ""Starlight Express"" in 1987. He has won The Critics' Circle Award for set design and twice for the, first in 1989 for ""Miss Saigon"" and again in 1997 for ""Peter Pan"". Napier is a member of the American Academy of Achievement. He was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 1996 and is an Honorary Fellow"
"Musical, winning Tonys for ""Cats"", ""Les Misérables"", and ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and the Olivier Awards for productions of ""Summerfolk"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""Troilus and Cressida"", and ""Nicholas Nickleby"". In 2008 ""The Telegraph"" named him among the most influential people in British culture. He has also directed works for film and television. Nunn was born in Ipswich, England, to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper. As a small boy he loved reading but his parents had little money for books. However an aunt had more books, including a complete Shakespeare which he devoured whenever the family visited her."
"Trevor Nunn Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, like ""Macbeth"", as well as opera and musicals, such as ""Cats"" (1981) and ""Les Misérables"" (1985). Nunn has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a"
"of young idealists attempt to overthrow the government at a street barricade. ""Les Misérables"" was originally released as a French-language concept album, and the first musical-stage adaptation of ""Les Misérables"" was presented at the Palais des Sports in 1980. However, the production closed after three months due to that expiry of the booking contract. In 1983, about six months after producer Cameron Mackintosh had opened ""Cats"" on Broadway, he received a copy of the French concept album from director Peter Farago. Farago had been impressed by the work and asked Mackintosh to produce an English-language version of the show. Initially"
"to watch online. Reelkandi was founded by Earl Carpenter, a West End theatre stage actor who played the lead role in ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and who in August 2014 featured in the Broadway version of ""Les Misérables"". Earl Carpenter Earl Carpenter (born 9 May 1970) is an English musical theatre actor, recognised chiefly for his work in London's West End. He is known for his performances as Javert in the stage musical ""Les Misérables"" and as the Phantom in the London production of ""The Phantom of the Opera"". He recently starred played the Phantom in the 25th Anniversary"
"Peter Calandra Peter Calandra is a New York City based composer and pianist. He is most well known for his work composing music for film and television as well as conducting and playing piano in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. He holds a Master's Degree in Music Composition from Queens College, City University of New York. Calandra has played keyboard as part of a pit orchestra for a variety of musicals. Some of the Broadway musicals he is known for include ""Miss Saigon"", ""Les Misérables"", and ""the Phantom of the Opera"". He not only performed in but also served as"
"to the West End production of Les Misérables to play the lead role, Jean Valjean. He will reprise the role in the 2018 tour in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Killian Donnelly Killian Donnelly (born 25 June 1984) is an Irish musical theatre performer. He has appeared in musicals and plays, such as ""Les Misérables"", ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""The Commitments"", ""Memphis"" and ""Kinky Boots"". Donnelly is from Kilmessan, in County Meath, Ireland, where he was a member of the St Mary's Musical Society. He has one sister, Eimear, and one brother, Ciaran, who still live in Ireland. Donnelly"
"for accounts in his name only). Livent The Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada, Inc., also known as Livent, was a theatre production company in Toronto, Ontario, begun as a division of the motion picture exhibitor Cineplex Odeon. In 1989, after an internal struggle within the company, Cineplex executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb negotiated to buy the division, which then included the Pantages Theatre, Toronto, and rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Livent joined the mix when the only competition in the major Toronto theatrical world was Mirvish Productions, which was running ""Les Misérables"""
"the Opera"" was originally a novel by Gaston Leroux written as a serialisation from 1909 to 1910. It is the longest running show in Broadway history. There are numerous examples of novel adaptations in the field, including ""Cats"", which was based on ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" by T.S. Eliot and ""Les Misérables"", which was originally a historical novel by Victor Hugo. ""The Lion King"" was originally a Disney animated film and its theatrical adaptation has become the most successful musical in history. ""Chicago"" was adapted from a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was a reporter and"
"is Agent and Producer of . Together with Sgarbi he has planned the season 2007/2008 of the in Milan, the prestigious theater which has hosted the shows of La Scala Theater for three years, during its restoration works. More than 170 shows, a world preview and thirty national first performances, among which the performances of the musical ""Cats"" in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O'Brien's ""The Rocky Horror Show"" produced by Christopher Malcolm with which he started working since 1997 producing the world tour, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel and co-produced"
"Earl Carpenter Earl Carpenter (born 9 May 1970) is an English musical theatre actor, recognised chiefly for his work in London's West End. He is known for his performances as Javert in the stage musical ""Les Misérables"" and as the Phantom in the London production of ""The Phantom of the Opera"". He recently starred played the Phantom in the 25th Anniversary UK Tour, replacing John Owen-Jones, who left the tour in September. He made his return to Broadway in May 2015, reprising his role of Inspector Javert and recently a new show in Singapore ""Forbidden City"" As part of the"
"Les Misérables (2018 miniseries) Les Misérables is an upcoming BBC television miniseries of the French historical novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The series, adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by Tom Shankland, will star Dominic West, David Oyelowo, and Lily Collins. BBC Studios will handle distribution for the series. Based on the original novel, the series will not include the songs from the ""Les Misérables"" musical. The miniseries, which is set to consist of six episodes, is set to premiere on 30 December 2018. The Weinstein Company was initially set to co-produce the series and serve as"
"as Raoul. The production, still playing at Her Majesty's, celebrated its 10,000th performance on 23 October 2010, with Lloyd Webber and the original Phantom, Michael Crawford, in attendance. It is the second longest-running musical in West End (and world) history behind ""Les Misérables"", and third overall behind ""The Mousetrap"". A 25th-anniversary stage performance was held in London on 1 and 2 October 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall and was screened live in cinemas worldwide. The production was produced by Cameron Mackintosh, directed by Laurence Connor, musical staging & choreography by Gillian Lynne, set design by Matt Kinley, costume design"
"Les Misérables (musical) Les Misérables (; ), colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis or Les Miz (), is a sung-through musical based on the 1862 novel of the same name by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. The musical premiered in Paris in 1980, and has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. An English-language libretto and English lyrics were written by Herbert Kretzmer. The London production has run continuously since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after"
"8 October 2005. The Broadway production closed on 18 May 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical, following ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Schönberg oversaw the production of ""Les Misérables"" that returned to Broadway for an intended six-month engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre on 9 November 2006, although it later extended its run. Schönberg's ""Marguerite"" includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel ""La Dame aux camélias"" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, ""Marguerite"" is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who"
"in West Orange, New Jersey. Bohmer is the father of two daughters from a previous marriage, Cassidy and Austen. Ron Bohmer Ron Bohmer is an American actor and singer best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway. He has starred in numerous Broadway productions, including ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", ""Les Misérables"", and ""Fiddler on the Roof"", and toured the United States playing such parts as the Phantom in ""The Phantom of the Opera"", and Joseph Smith in ""The Book of Mormon"". As a concert soloist he has performed with symphony orchestras around the world. Bohmer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio"
"Janis Sidovský Janis Sidovský (born 1968) is a Czech producer, manager and publicity supervisor. Sidovský is the leading representative of PR in show business. Created a campaign for the Czech versions of the world's musical Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Miss Saigon and Grease, he also participated in domestic projects such as Cleopatra, Nu, pogodi! and Rebels. His experience with publicity theater and music lecturer at the state and private universities. As a producer and author created a 12-part series of the TV show ""Queen of Pop"", which is one of the most successful TV events in the Czech Republic. He"
"Raging Queens"", ""Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens"", ""Gutenberg! The Musical!"") produced by Simon Wallace (""Lindsay Kemp"", ""Absolutely Fabulous"", ""French and Saunders""). The concept cast includes: Gay Soper (""Godspell"", ""Les Misérables"", ""Sunday in the Park with George"") Nigel Richards (""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Floyd Collins"", Tom Waits's ""The Black Rider""), Valda Aviks (""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Mary Poppins"", ""Jerry Springer – The Opera""), Judith Paris (""Annie"", ""Oliver!"", ""My Fair Lady""), Olivier Award winner Leanne Jones (""Hairspray"", ""Tick, Tick... Boom!"", ""The Naked Truth""), Nathan Taylor (""Hedwig and the Angry Inch"", ""Taboo"", ""The Rocky Horror Show""), Juliet Gough (""Flashdance"", ""Miss"
"kind and/or have the ability to alter or augment live performances in real time. Tim Molyneux Tim Molyneux (born 1969) is an American actor, singer, writer, director and independent show producer of musical and theatrical productions. He is best known for producing and writing the song and dance vampire production show ""Bite"" which showed at the Stratosphere Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for an eight-year run, and for his cruise ship productions. He is the founder of ""Molyneux Entertainment"" which has premiered at least 14 other shows around the world. Tim Molyneux has been producing live entertainment since 1989."
"musicologist, Abell has helped restore clarity to musical theatre scores affected by accretions of revival productions and poorly preserved source materials, notably ""West Side Story"". Along with pianist and musicologist Seann Alderking, he edited a complete edition of Cole Porter's ""Kiss Me, Kate"", published in 2014. It is one of the first American musicals to be published in a critical edition. David Charles Abell David Charles Abell (born 1958) is an American orchestral conductor active in symphonic music, opera and musical theatre. Known for his television appearances worldwide as conductor of the ""Les Misérables"" and Anniversary concerts, he is recognised"
"tuner. He was formerly married to evening news anchor Béatrice Schönberg. In 2003, he married the English ballerina Charlotte Talbot. He has three children, a son and two daughters. Claude-Michel Schönberg Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944 in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include ""La Révolution Française"" (1973), ""Les Misérables"" (1980), ""Miss Saigon"" (1989), ""Martin Guerre"" (1996), ""The Pirate Queen"" (2006), and ""Marguerite"" (2008). Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. He wrote most of the music"
"career. Prior to working with the Filmorchester in the late '90s he was staff conductor at the opera houses in Saarbrücken, Bielefeld and Trier. He also led major musical productions of ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Les Misérables"" and ""42nd Street"" in Vienna, ""Miss Saigon"" in Stuttgart, """" in Amsterdam and ""Chicago"" in Berlin, Munich, Basel and Düsseldorf. At the Wiener Kammeroper he conducted productions of ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and ""Rigoletto"". He conducted in 2007 a new production of ""Les Misérables"" for the opera house in Meiningen, Germany. An advocate of genre-crossing symphonic projects, he has worked closely together"