[NEohioPAL] "Les Miserables, School Edition" at Rabbit Run Theater

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FOR:               Rabbit Run Community Arts Association

                        P. O. Box 235, 49 Park St.

                        Madison, OH  44057

                        

CONTACT:    Karen Ziegler, Publicist

                        440-428-5913

 

DATE:                        June 23, 2009

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Les Miserables, School Edition Comes to Rabbit  

                                                        Run Theater

 

What story has more appeal than one of restoration and redemption?  Victor
Hugo’s epic work Les Miserables is just such a story.  Considered a classic
for 150 years, it is the inspiration for the Broadway musical by the same
name.

 

Les Miserables, School Edition, opens at Rabbit Run Theater in Madison
Thursday, June 25.  Les Miserables, a musical by Alain Boublil and
Claude-Michel Schönberg, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert
Kretzmer, was a smash Broadway hit in 1987 and received eight Tony awards
including Best Musical.

 

The musical is specially performed by young adults and contains all the
familiar and best-loved melodies from the Broadway production including  I
Dreamed a Dream, One Day More, and Do You Hear the People Sing?

 

Set in early 19th century France, Les Miserables is an epic story of
redemption and restoration.  A convict for 19 years for stealing a loaf of
bread, Jean Valjean breaks parole and is relentlessly pursued for 20 years
by prison guard, become police official, Javert.  Valjean gains
responsibility for an orphan girl and struggles to provide and protect her
while eluding the persistent Javert all amidst student turmoil and
revolution in the streets of Paris.  

 

Some of Northeast Ohio’s most talented young actors are part of the cast.
Lake Catholic graduate (2009), James Penca portrays Jean Valjean.  Penca was
most recently seen as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Lake Catholic’s spring
musical, Jekyll and Hyde.  He has also appeared in the Rabbit Run
productions of Titanic, the Musical and Swing.  Javert is played by another
Lake Catholic student, Kyle Lorek.  This is Lorek’s first appearance at
Rabbit Run.

 

Caitlin Rose, 2009 graduate of Madison High School is Fantine.  Rose has
made numerous appearances in area community theaters including G. B.
CommunityTheater, Geauga Lyric Theater Guild in addition to Rabbit Run. 

 

Cossette is portrayed by Mayim Hamblen, recently seen in Geauga Lyric
Theater Guild’s production of Once On This Island.  Kelly Smith is cast as
Eponine.  Smith’s theatrical credits include The Beck Center, Fine Arts
Association as well as Rabbit Run Theater.  The student Marius is played by
Adam Cooper in his first appearance at Rabbit Run.

 

“We’ve wanted to do Les Miserables, School Edition for awhile,” said show
director Brint Learned and executive director of Rabbit Run Community Arts
Association.  “The timing was right to take on this epic show.  Normally our
young adult production’s run for one week, but this show is so popular and
familiar to people, and with the cast we have put together, one week just
wouldn’t be enough.”

 

Les Miserables, School Edition opens Friday, June 26 and runs through July
11.  All shows begin at 8 p.m.  Historic Rabbit Run Theater is located at
5648 W. Chapel Rd. in Madison and is one of the few remaining barn theaters
in Ohio.  

 

Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office at 440-428-7092, Wednesday
through Sunday, 3 to 7 p.m.   Tickets may also be purchased on line at
www.rabbitrunonline.org <http://www.rabbitrunonline.org/> .  Special rates
and packages are available for groups of 20 or more and may be reserved by
calling RRCAA at 440-428-5913.

 

Rabbit Run Theater is operated by Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, a
comprehensive fine arts organization.  RRCAA is partially funded by the Ohio
Arts Council.  Additional funding has been provided by Brotzman’s Nursery,
Phoenix Residential, Inc., Walmart and NPR radio, WKSU.  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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