Les Miserables
Where:
Decker Theatre-Champaign Central High School, Champaign
When:
Wednesday Apr 15, 2009 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Thursday Apr 16, 2009 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Friday Apr 17, 2009 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Saturday Apr 18, 2009 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Sunday Apr 19, 2009 7:00 pm
to 10:00 pm
Description:
The musical is based on the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. 7 p.m. April 15-19. Set in early 19th-century France, it follows the intertwining stories of a cast of characters as they struggle for redemption and revolution. The characters include a paroled convict named Jean Valjean who, failing attempts to find work as an honest man with his yellow ticket of leave, breaks his parole and conceals his identity; the police inspector Javert who becomes obsessed with finding Valjean; Fantine, the single mother who is forced to become a prostitute to support her daughter Cosette; Cosette, who, after her mother's death, becomes Jean Valjean's adopted daughter and who eventually falls in love with a revolutionary student named Marius Pontmercy; the Thénardiers, the unscrupulous innkeepers who initially foster Cosette, and who thrive on cheating and stealing; Éponine, their young daughter who is hopelessly in love with Marius; Gavroche, a young beggar boy and the young son of the Thénardiers; and a student leader Enjolras who plans the revolt to free the oppressed lower classes of France. The main characters are joined by an ensemble that includes prostitutes, student revolutionaries, factory workers, and others. Price TBA.For more information:
Call 351-3911, or visit http://www.gomaroons.com
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