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From the page to the stage AN EXHIBITION chronicling the transformation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables from page to stage is being held at Wodonga Library this week. The exhibition, which includes displays and a curator’s talk tomorrow at 6.30pm, will finish up on Friday. Curator Anais Lelloche has been giving talks to schools before the evening curator’s talk for the public on Thursday. Ms Lelloche will guide school age audiences through the illustrated story of Les Miserables as seen through the eyes of the novel’s young characters - Fantine, Cosette, Gavroche and Eponine. The talk will detail what it meant to be a child, a single mum or a street urchin in revolutionary France and how these characters influence the present. The evening talk for adult audiences celebrates the development of Les Miserables from one of the greatest novels of the 19th century into arguably the most successful and beloved stage musical of all time. Ms Lelloche will talk about the life and times of Victor Hugo, the writing of his great novel, and the many theatrical, filmic, illustrative and musical adaptations of Les Miserables
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The current Les Miserables exhibition at Wodonga Library. that have been made over the past 150 years. She will also give an insight into how an exhibition that goes from “page to stage” was made. The travelling exhibition complements the exhibition at the State Library of Victoria which runs until 9 November. Born in Besancon, France, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is considered one of the greatest and most important French authors of all time. Best known for his novels Les Miserables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) he is also famous for his poetry, theatre, novels, essays
and drawings. Throughout his life, he actively defended the common man and sought to abolish the death sentence. First published at the age of 15, he was soon after recognised by the King for his poetry and entered politics as a congressman in 1845. It was during this time he began writing his masterpiece, Les Miserables. After an attempt to overthrow Napoleon III in 1851 he was forced into exile and in 1860, after nearly a decade of intense political turmoil, he set out to revise and complete this epic novel.
Make this a great night THE music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is timeless - songs including Walk Like A Man, Oh What A Night and Big Girls Don’t Cry are instantly recognizable - decades after they were first released. So it’s hardly surprising that there are tributes and stage shows and movies dedicated to this amazing act. Independent Motown producer and creative consultant George Solomon has put together his own tribute - Oh What A Night - A Musical Tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Season. Speaking from Las Vegas ahead of the tour Solomon described Oh What a Night - as a loving tribute to the music of Valli and the group. He said that the most amazing thing about this show is that the singers, himself Joe Conti, Paul Holmquist, Nick Petris and Rick Morgan can all take the lead vocals. Solomon, who wrote the show, began performing professionally at age 15. Born and raised in a small town near Pittsburgh called Monongahela, he left home right out of high school and moved to New York city where, in a short time, he went on to receive the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Actor in Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn. He has had the good fortune to perform with, and/or
The cast of Oh What A Night. write for, a variety of major stars including Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Harry Connick Jr, Liza Minnelli and many others. Solomon has been profiled on TV’s Entertainment Tonight and CNN’s Showbiz Today. Joe Conti is a real Jersey boy having been born in Englewood, New Jersey. His theatre credits include Footloose, The Wedding Singer, West Side Story, Cabaret, Thoroughly Modern Millie, South Pacific and Godspell. Film and television credits include Bear City, Law And Order: SVU and As The World Turns. Paul Holmquist, who is also the choreographer of Oh What a Night! - A Musical Tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, began his professional performing ca-
reer appearing at Disneyland in the United States as one of the Kids of the Kingdom. Rick Morgan grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where, at an early age, he studied at the France Academy of Dance. He began performing professionally at the age of 14 playing the role of the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver. By 18 he was appearing in national and international tours of some legendary Broadway musicals including The Unsinkable Molly Brown starring Debbie Reynolds, Mame starring Juliet Prowse, Anything Goes starring Lesley Uggums, 42nd Street with Tammy Grimes and Lee Roy Reams and Gypsy with Betty Buckley. He went on to perform in The Debbie Reynolds Show in Las Vegas and on tour. He has worked with and/ or shared the stage with such stars as Donald O’Connor, Jerry Lewis, Robert Goulet, Rip Taylor, and Don Rickles. Nick Petris, a native of Los Angeles, is thrilled to be sharing the stage down under for the Triumphant Return Tour with this Oh What a Night! His favorite theatre credits include The Music Man, Cabaret, Anything Goes and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Oh What a Night is on Friday 5 September at the Commercial Club, Albury. Bookings on (02) 6057 2000.
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