Viewfinder: Behind the Scenes at Les Miserables

Curtain to rise for performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Hartland High School.

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Hartland High School senior Molly Oxner uses an air brush to prepare senior Joshua Whitson (Jean Valjean) for rehearsal Monday in the dressing room at the high school.

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This clothesline and sign hang outside the Hartland High School auditorium to help set an atmosphere for the spring play this weekend, Les Miserables.

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This sign that says "Report Radicals" is one of many that have been put up along the walls outside the Hartland High School auditorium to help set the mood for this weekend's play, Les Miserables.

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Hartland High School senior Joshua Whitson (Jean Valjean) poses with junior Justin Digue (Javert) during cast and crew pictures for the play Les Miserables Monday at the high school.

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Conductor Chad Snider works with student musicians in the pit Monday during rehearsals for Les Miserables. Snider is a 2007 Hartland High School graduate who is a music education major at Eastern Michigan University.

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Sophomore Myckella Sage, a student director, scratches the head of sophomore Zak Malott as they wait during cast and crew pictures for the play Les Miserables on Monday at Hartland High School.

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Laura Matthews shoots Hartland High School senior Lexee Longwell (Fantine) and another cast member during Les Miserables cast and crew pictures as director Brian Richardson talks to those seated in the auditorium. Matthews daughter, Sarah, is in the play.

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Here is a series of photos from rehearsal Monday as Hartland High School students prepared for this weekend's spring play Les Miserables.

Perfromances are 7:30 p.m. Friday, 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the high school auditorium.

Tickets are $11 students and seniors and $13 for adults. One dollar of the ticket cost will benefit the families of Michael Anderson and the late Kendal Lividini. Lividini, a junior, died in January after a nine-month battle against cancer while Anderson, a freshman, currently is undergoing chemotherapy. To purchase them online, click here.

Here is the cast for the play:

Student	Character(s)
Joshua Whitson	Jean Valjean
Justin Digue	Javert
Lexee Longwell	Fantine
Alyssa Caswell	Cosette
Brendan Lindberg	Marius
Trent Slabaugh	Enjolras
Kaitlyn Barbee	Eponine
Dylan Kert	Thenardier
Melissa Mercieca	Madame Thenardier
Joey Parks	Gavroche
Jen English	Young Cosette, Worker, Woman
Matthew Milliken	Bishop, Combeferre
Paul Townsend	Bambitos, Grantaire
Adam Jacobs	Lesgles
Brad Isakson	Foreman, Courfeyrac
Jacob Scherba	Feuilly
Jake Sulkowski	Joly
Kaitlin Suchowesky	Babet
Zak Malott	Montparnasse
Abby Devitt	Revolutionary, Sister, Customer
Abby Killingbeck	Woman, Beggar, Revolutionary
Alex Sophabmisay	Woman, Beggar
Anna Nicklin	Customer, Woman
Becca Pindzia	Worker, Beggar, Woman
Chermine Stanley	Nasr, Customer, Revolutionary, Woman
Donna Kert	Woman, Customer
Emily Cesarz	Sister, Revolutionary
Felicia Hall	Woman, Claquesous, Revolutionary
Hannah DeBaene	Worker, Beggar, Revolutionary
Jessi Brown	Customer, Revolutionary
Jessica Schira	Customer, Woman
Julia Lemke	Sister, Customer, Revolutionary
Kathryn Schmidt	Woman, Customer
Katie Harris	Customer, Revolutionary
Kyle Keogh	Constable, Worker, Revolutionary
Michelle King	Young Eponine, Woman, Customer
Reed Bustran	Constable, Revolutionary
Sam Lavalley	Woman, Beggar, Revolutionary
Sarah Matthews	Worker, Beggar, Revoluationary
Tayler Karinen	Worker, Beggar, Woman
Tommy Baucus	Worker, Brujon, Revolutionary, Major Domo
Source: Hartland High School drama club

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Linda Bowen

10:41 pm on Friday, March 25, 2011

Just returned home from tonight's performance of Les Miserables. Excellent job all around! Congrats to these hardworking Hartland HS students for amazing singing, fabulous sets and gorgeous costumes! As a long-time fan of this musical, I was anticipating this performance for quite a while, and I was not disappointed.

Well done!