Les Misérables in London welcomes Bonnie Langford & Jac Yarrow

Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to welcome Bonnie Langford and Jac Yarrow into the West End production of Boublil and Schönberg’s worldwide phenomenon LES MISÉRABLES, for four-weeks only from 15 July to 10 August 2024, prior to them joining the cast of LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR, which embarks on its highly anticipated World Tour from 19 September 2024.

Bonnie Langford as Madame Thénardier and Jac Yarrow as Marius will join the current cast of LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre including Milan van Waardenburg as Jean Valjean, Stewart Clarke as Javert, Katie Hall as Fantine, Amena El-Kindy as Éponine, Lulu-Mae Pears as Cosette, Luke Kempner as Thénardier, and Djavan van de Fliert as Enjolras.

Will Callan as Marius, and Claire Machin as Madame Thénardier will be returning to their roles from 12 August 2024.

The company is completed by Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Brad Barnley, Michael Baxter, Emily Olive Boyd, Rosy Church, Ben Culleton, Matthew Dale, Matt Dempsey, Sophie-May Feek, Matt Hayden, Tom Hext, Christopher Jacobsen, Jessica Johns-Parsons, Yazmin King, Sam Kipling, Anouk van Laake, Harry Lake, Sarah Lark, Ellie Ann Lowe, Ben Oatley, Adam Pearce, Jordan Simon Pollard, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams and Ollie Wray.

Bonnie Langford’s most recent appearance in the West End was in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre, having also appeared in the Gala cast of the show at the Sondheim Theatre. Her many other West End credits include Miss Evangeline Harcourt in Anything Goes, Roz Keith in 9 to 5 The Musical and Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street. She created the role of Rumpleteaser in the original production of Cats and starred as Roxie Hart in Chicago, in both the West End and on Broadway, Bonnie made her theatre debut in the West End at the tender age of seven in Gone with the Wind at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The following year she played ‘Baby June’ in Gypsy opposite Angela Lansbury at the Piccadilly Theatre, making such an impact that the producers took her to America with the show for a highly successful run on Broadway. For this performance, at the age of ten, Bonnie was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

Equally successful on stage and television, Bonnie won a British Soap Award for her role as Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders and most recently reached the final of ITV’s The Masked Dancer. Bonnie also appeared in the 2006 series of ITV1’s Dancing On Ice, skating her way to the final and returned for the All Stars season in 2014. Her other television credits include The Catherine Tate Show and BBC’s Doctor Who where she has just returned to her role of the Doctor’s assistant, Melanie Bush.

Jac Yarrow made his professional and West End debut as the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, for which he was nominated for the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Musical and won The Stage Debut Award for Best West End Debut. He reprised the role of Joseph for the UK and Ireland Tour of the show and a run at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. He was most recently seen in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre and as Pippin in Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

LES MISÉRABLES will enter its 40th record-breaking year in London this October. To kick off the celebrations, the show will embark on its first World Tour with the highly anticipated LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR, that commences in the UK in September, and will over the next year visit Belfast, Glasgow, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Manchester, Newcastle, Luxembourg, Geneva, Trieste, Milan, Copenhagen, Oslo, Zurich, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmö, Amsterdam before moving to Australia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and beyond, with more worldwide destinations to be announced. Simultaneously, and for the first time ever, 11 leading amateur companies in the UK will present their own staging of the full show across the country in 2025.

The staged production continues to triumph around the globe with local language productions currently on or in preparation, and it continues to break box office records on tour in the US. Earlier this year, the remastered and remixed Oscar-winning movie was released again in several countries around the world.

Boublil and Schönberg’s magnificent iconic score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the classic songs, I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, Stars, Bring Him Home, Do You Hear the People Sing?, One Day More, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Master Of The House and many more. Several of its songs have become real life anthems of revolution wherever in the world people are fighting for their freedom. Seen by over 130 million people worldwide in 53 countries and in 22 languages, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

Cameron Mackintosh’s production of LES MISÉRABLES is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton and adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. Orchestrations are by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke and Stephen Brooker with original orchestrations by John Cameron. The production is directed by James Powell and Laurence Connor, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo with costumes by Andreane Neofitou, Christine Rowland and Paul Wills, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, projections realised by Finn Ross & Fifty Nine Productions, musical staging by Geoffrey Garratt, and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Alfonso Casado Trigo.

BONNIE LANGFORD BIOGRAPHY
BONNIE LANGFORD has packed a wealth of experience in her outstanding career which has embraced success in theatre, television, film and radio in both Britain and America.

Most recently, Bonnie starred in Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End. She also, returned to her role of the doctors assistant, Melanie Bush in Doctor Who on BBCTV and Disney Plus worldwide.

West End theatre includes: Evangeline Harcourt in Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre; Roz Keith in 9 to 5, The Musical (Savoy Theatre); Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and filmed for DVD and cinema release in the UK and Ireland, across America and streamed on Broadway HD and PBS America); Rumpleteaser in the Original London cast of Cats (The Gillian Lynne Theatre); Mabel and Kate in The Pirates Of Penzance (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and London Palladium); Peter in Peter Pan - The Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Sally in Me And My Girl (Adelphi Theatre); Charity in Sweet Charity (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Harold Pinter Theatre and Playhouse Theatre); Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre) and Roxie Hart in Chicago (Adelphi Theatre, Cambridge Theatre and on Broadway).

She made her theatre debut in the West End at the tender age of seven in Gone with the Wind at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The following year she played ‘Baby June’ in Gypsy opposite Angela Lansbury at the Piccadilly Theatre, making such an impact that the producers took her to America with the show for a highly successful run on Broadway. For this performance, at the age of ten, Bonnie was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

UK tours include: 42nd Street; Charlie Girl; Oklahoma!; Guys and Dolls; Fosse; Spamalot; 9 to 5, The Musical; Anything Goes and numerous Royal Variety Performances and Royal Galas. Bonnie performed her concert ‘An Evening With Bonnie Langford’ to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of Richmond Theatre, she also hosted both ‘The Music Of The Night’ and ‘Let’s Face The Music’ concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. She regularly performs her own cabaret shows at The Pheasantry and Crazy Coqs in London.

Television and film includes: Carmel Kazemi in BBC’s EastEnders for which she won ‘Best Newcomer’ at the 2015 British Soap Awards, a BAFTA for best continuing drama and nomination for ‘Best Serial Drama Performance’ at the 2019 National Television Awards; Lena Marelli in Bugsy Malone (dir. Alan Parker); Violet Elizabeth Bott in Just William (ITV); The Lena and Bonnie Show (ITV); The Hot Shoe Show (BBC); Hotel Babylon (BBC); Agatha Christie’s Marple (ITV); The Catherine Tate Show (BBC); Melanie Bush on Doctor Who (BBC) and The Masked Dancer as Squirrel. Bonnie was the subject of ITV’s This Is Your Life. In 2006, she learned to ice skate on the ITV show Dancing on Ice, skating her way to the final and returning for the All Stars season in 2014. Recordings include: ‘Bonnie Langford Now’, ‘Jazz at the Theatre‘ and numerous Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish.

JAC YARROW biography
Jac was born in Cardiff and graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) from The Arts Educational School, London in 2019.
He made his professional debut as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. For his performance, Jac garnered extraordinary critical and public acclaim. He was nominated for the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actor In A Musical; the 2020 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor In A Musical; and won The Stage Debut Award 2019 for Best West End Debut and was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical.

Jac reprised the role of Joseph for the UK & Ireland Tour, as well as a run at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto.

Other Theatre includes: the Olivier-nominated production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre opposite Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga; a return to the London Palladium for two Christmas seasons in Pantoland at The Palladium.

Concerts include: Archie in At Last, It’s Summer (London Palladium); Prince Topher in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cadogan Hall).
Television includes: Musicals: The Greatest Show (BBC); Angelo Bernardone in Glow & Darkness (Dreamlight International); Jamie Dalton in BAFTA-winning In My Skin (BBC).

Most recently, Jac starred as Pippin in Pippin - 50th Anniversary Concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.