Bay Ridge theater company is granted the rights to stage ‘Les Miserables’
A Brooklyn actress will be able to step into the role that won Anne Hathaway an Academy Award, thanks to Jeff Samaha, a Bay Ridge-based theater impresario. His theater company, Jeff Samaha Theater Productions/Ridge Chorale, has done something that local theater troupes would die to do – win the licensing rights to mount a full-scale production of the musical “Les Miserables.”
Samaha’s company was recently granted the rights by the licensing firm representing the musical’s creators.
The company will be holding open auditions for the show on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday June 16, at Bay Ridge Prep, 8101 Ridge Boulevard, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. “We’ve already had 90 people sign up to audition. There’s a great deal of excitement out there about this,” Samaha told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The show itself will take place in September. The tentative production dates are Sept. 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22. The performance venue has not yet been announced.