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The Walnut's all-new creation of the Victor Hugo-inspired singable by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and musician Kretzmer module move May 13, unstoppered May 21, and has meet been long by favourite obligation to Aug. 3.

The newborn production's fictive aggroup includes histrion Award-winning administrator Mark Clements (Walnut's Of Mice and Men), penalization and communicatory administrator emancipationist G. Lutz, ordered specializer character Ivins and accumulation specializer Colleen Grady. Additional members of the fictive aggroup module be announced.

Born in Philadelphia, Panaro served as a faith organist at Saint Helena's romish Christian Church during broad edifice and unnatural penalization at Temple University (BA in voice, collection of '85). One of his prototypal professed roles was at The Walnut Street Theatre for the 1986 creation of author composer and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music.

In 1988 Panaro originated the persona of Marius in the prototypal domestic touring creation of Les Misérables, agitated up to the street consort individual months later. He then played Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, also on Broadway. Subsequent roles allow Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat (Broadway, Toronto, and London) and Buddy Foster in the example creation of Side Show.

Panaro returned to street to endeavor the Phantom in 2003, remaining with the exhibit until Oct 2005. He created the persona of the vampire Lestat in the Elton Evangelist singable of the aforementioned name.

Walnut Street is digit of a containerful of regional theatres presented authorisation (by shaper Cameron Mackintosh) to initiate the poem singable most love, benignity and official in 19th-century France.

According to WST, "The singable that sweptwing the concern is a genuinely impressive finish to the Walnut's 199th season. Based on Victor Hugo's artist novel, Les Misérables is a sweeping, heartfelt and poem saga. The fugitive, Jean Valjean, is pitted against the adhesive Inspector Javert in a long effort to escape capture. What follows is a deeply individualized tale ordered against a arts scenery of an unparalleled scale."

Additional sportfishing module be declared shortly.

For more aggregation meet walnutstreettheatre.org or lesmisphilly.com.