Tony nominee Montego Glover is set to take on the role of Fantine in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables at the Imperial Theatre. She will follow Erika Henningsen in the role.
The famed Broadway show also celebrated a recent first when Kyle Jean-Baptiste became the first black Jean Valjean on Broadway.
Glover earned a Tony nomination as leading lady of the musical Memphis, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for the same role, and most recently co-starred on Broadway in the musical It Shoulda Been You, which closed last week. About her award winning role in Memphis, Glover said, “It’s literally a dream come true for me. First to present Memphis on Broadway, and second to originate the role of Felicia Farrell. When I read the first draft years ago I thought the piece had such heart and potential, and that it deserved a Broadway stage. It’s been so amazing to be a part of all of it actually happening!”
She continued with, “My favorite musical ever is Memphis…seriously. I have never been so intimately involved with a project, nor have I ever had the opportunity to grow so completely both as an artist and as a woman than with this project. Memphis is special because of what it says and what it has allowed me to learn.”
Her Broadway debut was as an understudy for Celie and Nettie in the musical The Color Purple, and she’s also been in Aida, Ragtime, Dreamgirls, She Loves Me, Oklahoma, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Westside Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Once On This Island, among other productions.
The score 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.
Based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Miserables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. The current principal cast of Les Misérables features Earl Carpenter as Javert, Gavin Lee as Thenardier, Erika Henningsen as Fantine, Samantha Hill as Cosette, Rachel Izen as Madame Thenardier, Brennyn Lark as Eponine, Chris McCarrell as Marius and Wallace Smith as Enjolras. The score 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.
