Les Mis 'coming home' in world first licensing deal
LES MISERABLES will be 'brought home' and performed in Guernsey thanks to a world-first deal.
Guernsey is to join a handful of places across the world which have been granted a licence to perform the hit stage show, and Gadoc is the first amateur dramatic society anywhere to be entrusted.
Until now the licence for the musical had been kept firmly in two places – London's West End and Broadway in New York – but now Guernsey is set to join that illustrious group thanks to Gadoc chairman Lisa Johnston, 50, pictured.
'I have been directing at Gadoc for six years and built up a good relationship with Josef Weinberger, which is a big licensing house in the UK, and said to them my dream was to bring Les Miserables over. They said they might be able to get a dialogue with Cameron Mackintosh. I nearly fell off my chair, asking had been very tongue in cheek.'
Over the next six months a 'lot of negotiating back and forth' took place before she received a call from Josef Weinberger.
