MPAC to host auditions for Les Miserables

MORRISTOWN — MPAC’s third produced youth musical will be Les Miserables. The show will be staged Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31.

Auditions will take place Thursday, Jan. 29, Monday, Feb. 2 and Wednesday, Feb. 4 at the Theatre.

The show will be directed by Cathy Roy. Musical Director is Kevin Lynch.

Les Misérables is a sung-through musical based on the novel by the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him by a tremendous act of mercy. But he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector, Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a host of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.

Previously, MPAC had produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2013) and Hairspray (2014).

Details on casting and auditions can be found at www.mayoarts.org/education/musical.

The Mayo Performing Arts Center is located at 100 South St. in Morristown.