Monday, 31 August 2015

To begin with Black Actor to Play Les Miserables’ Valjean Dies at 21

THE ENTIRE LES MISERABLES FAMILY IS SHOCKED AND DEVASTATED BY THE SUDDEN AND TRAGIC LOSS OF KYLE, A REMARKABLE YOUNG TALENT AND TREMENDOUS PERSON WHO MADE MAGIC – AND HISTORY – IN HIS BROADWAY DEBUT,” THE SHOW SAID IN A STATEMENT
Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first dark man and most youthful to play Jean Valjean in Broadway’s Les Miserables, died in New York, the production and neighborhood reports said.The 21-year-old made his Broadway debut toward the end of July in the wake of being an understudy as the hero of the long-running show. 

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