Les Miz Performance Rights
Les Miz Performance Rights
#1Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:02pmAnyone have any idea when they will be released? The revival's closed, but now there's another tour. Anyone got any inside info? An educated guess?
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#2re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:05pm
The rights have been avaliable for a LONG LONG time. They were released around the time that the original production was closing off Broadway and the tour was going strong.
It became one of if not the first musical to release its rights for amature productions while any major professional production was going on.
Of course there are still the same basic rules and regulations of mounting an amature production. You have to make sure your far enough from where the professional one is taking place ect ect ect.
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#2re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:09pm
I find that hard to beleive, for two reasons. One is that the MTI Website says that its Currently Restricted, and I know a theatre in western north carolina that's been wanting to do it for years but can't get the rights. Maybe I'm misinformed about something, but I'm pretty sure the right are still restricted (excepting the school version).
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#3re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:09pm
I don't think it's been that long.
What was the first regional production? Pioneer Theatre? I don't remember, but I don't think it was when the tour was still out there.
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Updated On: 1/9/08 at 03:09 PM
#4re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:10pm
"What was the first regional production? Pioneer Theatre? I don't remember, but I don't think it was when the tour was still out there."
Yeah, I seem to recall that it was released to prestigious regional theatres only very recently.
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#5re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:23pmA local university near me wanted to do it this year and were unable to get the rights. I know that it can't tour while showing on Broadway, maybe the same rules apply for amateur productions. I think the only version they could get was the high school version.
#6re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:24pm
I know that it can't tour while showing on Broadway
WRONG.
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Mr. Tuttle
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#7re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:30pm
"The rights have been avaliable for a LONG LONG time. They were released around the time that the original production was closing off Broadway and the tour was going strong.
It became one of if not the first musical to release its rights for amature productions while any major professional production was going on."
Wow. Talk about someone who has no clue about the industry.
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#8re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:35pmSo sorry!! I must have been misinformed. I'm quite sure that I read somewhere that the only place to see it in North America would be on Broadway because there were no tours as long as it was playing there. My mistake. Forgive a poor southern girl.
#9re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:37pm
Yeah, the show opened on Broadway in 1987 and the tour opened in 1988...
If you check out the shows that have opened on Broadway in, oh, the past 30 years you'll find out a lot of them had concurrent tours.
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#10re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:08pm
By: PAM KRAGEN - Staff Writer
Vista's Moonlight Amphitheatre will close its 2008 season in style next summer with the San Diego regional theater premiere of "Les Miserables."
The Claude-Michel Schonberg-Alain Boublil musical has only been seen in San Diego County when national tours have stopped through town (the most recent visit in 2004) and in student productions, but Moonlight's production will be the first-ever locally produced professional staging of the Tony -winning musical
"Les Mis," based on Victor Hugo's epic novel on the French Revolution, will run just two weekends next August, closing a shortened, three-show summer season so the city can begin construction on Moonlight's new and long-awaited stage house.
Kathy Brombacher, founding artistic director of Moonlight Stage Productions, said she's thrilled about landing the rights for "Les Mis."
Securing production rights to hot musicals is a difficult task. If a popular show is touring or being produced anywhere in the region, local theaters have to wait (often for years) for a window to open. Among the shows Moonlight has been trying for several years to secure are "Cats," "Hairspray" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
Brombacher said she's now looking into whether to rent or build sets and costumes for the production and Moonlight vet Elan McMahan will serve as musical director.
Two Vista natives who grew up on the Moonlight stage ---- Eric Kunze of Vista and Gina De Luca (formerly Feliccia) ----- both starred in the national tour of "Les Mis." Although Kunze lives in Vista and De Luca lives in San Marcos, Brombacher said she hasn't pre-cast any roles yet.
Although the other two shows of the season have not been announced, Brombacher said the season is likely to include "Guys and Dolls."
The summer season has been cut from four shows to three to give construction crews more time to finish the new theater building that was approved by voters last year. The season will also open a little later next year, July 9, to accommodate the annual San Diego Symphony pops concert, which will be moved to June.
Brombacher said she's anticipating record ticket sales for "Les Mis," especially because it's only scheduled to run for two weekends. Tickets will go on sale first to current season ticketholders (who represent about half of all ticket sales), then new season subscribers before single tickets are available to the public, so patrons wanting good seats may want to consider subscribing.
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#11re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:26pm
The Walnut Street Theatre in Philly is producing Les Mis this May.
www.walnutstreettheatre.org
#12re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:31pm
And Josh Young is playing Marius.
http://josh-young.com/news.html
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Mr. Tuttle
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#13re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:19pm
What theatre can't get the rights to do Cats?
Hell. Junor high schools are doing it.
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#14re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/10/08 at 1:46pmI hear that the top theater in my city has secured rights to it for their upcoming season. I'm picking my 16bars for it as we speak!
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#15re: Les Miz Performance Rights
Posted: 1/10/08 at 2:11pmI was informed, by an employee of MTI, that the amateur rights are available for the school version (obviously) but as far as the Broadway version, those rights are only avaialable to professional organizations, hence the boom of regional theatres doing the show. Amateur rights for colleges, community theatres, etc. are expected in early 2009.
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