Next month, the bp Mar­i­onettes kicks off its busy 2015 sea­son with a restag­ing of its crit­i­cal­ly-ac­claimed pro­duc­tion of Les Mis�rables at Queen's Hall. Run­ning for just three nights, the pro­duc­tion co­in­cides with the world­wide com­mem­o­ra­tions of the 30th an­niver­sary of what has been called "the world's favourite mu­si­cal." Les Miz opened in Lon­don in 1985.

A re­lease from the Mar­i­onettes said af­ter months of at­tempt­ing to se­cure per­for­mance space fol­low­ing the over­whelm­ing re­sponse to its orig­i­nal run last Ju­ly, the Mar­i­onettes' Les Miz re­turns to Queen's Hall from May 22 to 24.With a cast and crew of near­ly 200 (in­clud­ing two vis­it­ing string play­ers from the US, one of whom played for Les Miz on Broad­way), pa­trons are ad­vised that no ex­ten­sions or tele­vi­sion broad­casts are pos­si­ble.

In Ju­ly, the bp Mar­i­onettes put the youth cen­tre stage. Twen­ty years ago, the group em­barked on a path to cre­ate a train­ing and per­for­mance space for tal­ent­ed young peo­ple.The Youth Chorale was formed two decades ago in Ju­ly 1995, fol­lowed by the chil­dren's choir in 2012, and to­geth­er the two cho­rus­es boast 100 young singers from more than 50 pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary and ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions.

Mem­bers have gone on to be­come pro­fes­sion­al mu­si­cians and the­atre mak­ers as well as award-win­ning schol­ars, and it is this suc­cess that the groups cel­e­brate on Ju­ly 10.Bring­ing the year to a close is the cher­ished an­nu­al tra­di­tion for so many pa­trons: Christ­mas with the Mar­i­onettes from De­cem­ber 3-7 at Queen's Hall.

The 2015 sea­son is proud­ly sup­port­ed by Mar­i­onettes ti­tle spon­sor bpTT, and by me­dia part­ner Flow Trinidad (Colum­bus Com­mu­ni­ca­tions). The Mar­i­onettes al­so wel­come First Cit­i­zens and the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board as sup­port­ing spon­sors of Les Miz.For all the lat­est, vis­it the Mar­i­onettes' Web site and its Face­book page (face­book.com/mar­i­onetteschorale).

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�2 Show­times for Les Miz are 7.30 pm Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, and 5 pm Sun­day.

Ear­ly tick­et reser­va­tions are al­ready pour­ing in, and can be made through mem­bers; via the Mar­i­onettes Web site (www.mar­i­onetteschorale.com); by call­ing or e-mail­ing the Mar­i­onettes at 790-1751 or or­ders@mar­i­onetteschorale.com; and at the Queen's Hall Box Of­fice (start­ing the week be­fore the show).

All tick­ets bought by May 16 are $20 off, while stu­dents and un­der-18s re­ceive $20 off tick­ets to all per­for­mances (proof of age is re­quired for those un­der 18 and valid stu­dent ID re­quired for ter­tiary lev­el stu­dents; dis­counts may not be com­bined).