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Show C-12 Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 3-5, 2019 The Park Record UTAH SYMPHONY’S 2019 DEER VALLEY® MUSIC FESTIVAL KUED will air non-musical ‘Les Misérables’ this month Masterpiece will run the episodes at various times Submitted by KUED APRIL 6 LOCALS SALE TWO HOURS ONLY! / 3pm – 5pm KIMBALL JUNCTION VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER (1794 OLYMPIC PARKWAY BLVD., PARK CITY, UT) SAVE UP TO 20% ON GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS . 6/28 CHRIS BOTTI WITH THE 6/29 MARIE OSMOND UTAH SYMPHONY WITH THE UTAH SYMPHONY * 7/5 PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION 7/6 BRAVO BROADWAY! LIFE IS A CABARET 7/10 MENDELSSOHN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO 7/12 A TRIBUTE TO ARETHA, QUEEN OF SOUL 7/13 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL FILM IN CONCERT 7/17 SCHUMANN’S CELLO CONCERTO 7/19 DISNEY IN CONCERT: A MAGICAL CELEBRATION 7/20 RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY WITH THE A blockbuster novel for over 150 years comes vividly to life in award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies’ multi-layered retelling of “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo. This enthralling television event (not a musical) airs in six episodes on Masterpiece, Sundays, April 14 May 19, on KUED. Dominic West (“The Affair,” “The Wire”) stars as Jean Valjean, the most famous fugitive in literature, with David Oyelowo (“Selma,” “Small Island”) as his relentless pursuer, Javert. Lily Collins (“Rules Don’t Apply,” “Love, Rosie”) appears as the tragic seamstress, Fantine; Ellie Bamber (“Nocturnal Animals”) plays her adolescent daughter, Cosette. One of the longest and most engaging novels ever written, with a plot that is as relevant today as in the socially tumultuous 19th century, “Les Misérables” is a challenging story to condense. But in a triumph of scripting, Masterpiece veteran screenwriter Davies (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Bleak House” and more than a dozen other productions) preserves Hugo’s intricate plotting, striking historical vignettes, powerful themes, and evocative characterizations, producing an epic television experience that is worthy of the original novel. “Les Misérables” opens after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which saw Napoleon’s final defeat by the English and their allies, a quarter of a century after the French Revolution. With Napoleon’s downfall, the French monarchy is restored - and the thwarted ideals of the republic go un- COURTESY BBC/LOOKOUT POINT/LAURENCE CENDROWICZ Dominic West is Jean Valjean, left, and David Oyelowo is Javert in Masterpiece’s “Les Misérables” that will air in KUED in April and May. derground. For most of that quarter century, Valjean has been serving a sentence of hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread. On his release the same year as Waterloo, he immediately resorts to petty crime, risking re-arrest and a life sentence – a fate deemed a virtual certainty by his former jailer Javert. After this unpromising start, Valjean begins his difficult journey to redemption. But always lurking in the background is Javert, determined to bring him to justice for breaking parole and robbing a child. Establishing himself under a new name in a provincial town, Valjean seems safe at last. He prospers as a businessman and is eventually appointed mayor. One day, he gives work to a needy young woman, Fantine, who hides the fact that she is the unwed mother of a child named Cosette. As the plot unfolds, the stories of mother and daughter become inextricably entwined with that of the fugitive. The story reaches its climax during the Paris Uprising of 1832 and features an iconic escape scene through the sewers of Paris, which made the underground tunnels one of the ‘Les Miserable’ on KUED Episode 1 • Sunday, April 14, 2019 – 8 p.m. • Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – 2 a.m. • Friday, April 19, 2019 – 11 p.m. Episode 2 • Sunday, April 21, 2019 – 8 p.m. • Tuesday, April 23, 2019 – 1:30 a.m. • Friday, April 26, 2019 – 11p.m. Web: For information, visit kued.org. most famous engineering marvels in the world. Writing in 2017, Princeton University scholar and translator David Bellos put Victor Hugo’s masterpiece in context. “Among all the gifts France has given to Hollywood, Broadway and the common reader…, ‘Les Misérables’ stands out as the greatest by far.” ‘Les Misérables’ is a Lookout Point and BBC Studios production for BBC One, co-produced with Masterpiece. 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