Cameron Mackintosh announces that Lucie Jones will return to the role of ‘Fantine’ in the West End production of Boublil and Schönberg’s LES MISÉRABLES for 8 weeks only from 23 December 2024 to 15 February 2025 and that Katie Hall will join the Arena Spectacular World Tour from 26th December 2024 to 16th February 2025.
Multi award-winning musical theatre actress, singer and radio presenter Lucie Jones returns to Les Misérables having previously performed the roles of ‘Fantine’ at the Sondheim Theatre and ‘Cosette’ at the Queens Theatre. Other notable credits in Wicked, Waitress, Pippin, Ghost, The Baker’s Wife, A Christmas Carol, Legally Blonde, American Psycho, RENT, We Will Rock You, and The Wedding Singer. Lucie recorded her own album, “Lucie Jones – Live at The Adelphi”, in 2021, was a finalist on The X Factor in 2009 and on the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017.
Katie Hall who is currently playing ‘Fantine’ in London will perform the role in the World Tour of LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR for a limited time from 26 December 2024, in Manchester, Newcastle, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmo & Amsterdam, before returning to the Sondheim Theatre from 17 February 2025. Katie Hall has performed the roles of ‘Cosette’ and then ‘Fantine’ in Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, Queens Theatre, at the 25th Anniversary Concert, and on UK and International tours. She also appeared in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables. Further stage credits include The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, English National Opera’s Sweeney Todd, productions with Grange Park Opera including Fiddler on the Roof and Oklahoma!, Schikaneder for VBW, Vienna and she has performed at the BBC Proms in The Golden Age of Broadway.
The cast of LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre also includes Ian McIntosh as ‘Jean Valjean’, Stewart Clarke as ‘Javert’, Jacob Dachtler as ‘Marius’, Amena El-Kindy as ‘Éponine’, Annabelle Aquino as ‘Cosette’, Luke Kempner as ‘Thénardier’, Claire Machin as ‘Madame Thénardier’, and Robson Broad as ‘Enjolras’.
The company is completed by Matt Bateman, Michael Baxter, Emily Olive Boyd, Daniel J Brian, Ella May Carter, Adam Colbeck-Dunn, Matthew Dale, Irfan Damani, Sophie-May Feek, Matt Hayden, Christopher Jacobsen, Jessica Johns-Parsons, Sam Kipling, Anouk van Laake, Mia Lamb, Sarah Lark, Matthew McConnell, Aaron-Jade Morgan, Ben Oatley, Adam Pearce, Jordan Simon Pollard, Danielle Rose, Jonathan Stevens, Georgia Tapp, Noah Thallon, and Imaan Victoria.
