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"A Place For Us," the "West Side Story" 50th Anniversary tribute album features a special new recording of "Tonight" sung by Hugh Panaro and Kristin Chenoweth Or,click here to purchase "Tonight" at iTunes
Order "Simply Barbra Duets" featuring Hugh Panaro on "If We Were In Love"
"Broadway Damage" a romantic comedy featuring Hugh Panaro as David
Hugh redefines the role. He brings this sexy creature to the front, but he also has this childlike persona that could break down like a five-year old at any moment. He's breathtaking. ~ Stephen Buntrock, Martin Guerre
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Biography | Les Miserables | Concerts | Solo Album | An Evening With Sir Tim Rice | Touring With Barbra Streisand The Leading Men II | Company | Bucks County Cabaret | Lestat | The Phantom of the Opera | Great Expectations Martin Guerre |Side Show | Other Roles | Other Recordings | Multimedia | Main Gallery | Articles & Interviews | Forum Fan Photos | The Quilt | Links | Panarophiles | HPN Site Staff | E-mail | F.A.Q. | HOME Congratulations to Hugh for his Barrymore Award nomination for his recent portrayal of Jean Valjean at The Walnut Street Theatre. The production has received a total of eleven nominations. 2008 Barrymore Awards - theatrealliance.org “I'm thrilled, I'm awed, and I'm also determined to play Valjean in my own way, as a more complex character and not just as a saint, the way he's often portrayed.” From the official press release: "We are proud to welcome Hugh Panaro back to Philadelphia, where his love for theatre began. He is a treasure of the American stage, a versatile leading man who will bring his energy and raw talent to the Walnut’s new production of Les Misérables." Click here to read the official announcement at walnutstreettheatre.org Official site - LesMisPhilly.com A Philly Native Will Be Valjean At Walnut Street - from Playbill,com Barricade Bunch In Philly - from Playbill.com San Turntable, Walnut Street Launches Les Miz, with Panaro and Schoeffler - from Playbill.com Bring Him Home - Hugh talks Les Miz and coming back to Philly - Where Magazine Re-imaginng a classic - from phillyburbs.com Walnut Street's Hot-Selling Les Miz, With Schoeffler and Panaro, Opens in Philly - from playbill.com Podcast Interview - D.C. Theatre Scene.com Hugh Panaro - A New Valjean For A New Les Miserables - walnutstreettheatre.org Photo Gallery - updated August 26
Hugh Panaro as Jean Valjean - with Julie Craig as Cosette "The show's chief asset is Broadway veteran Hugh Panaro's robust, passionate, and delicately sung performance as Jean Valjean, the convict who must make a new life for himself all the while running from the doggedly unforgiving Inspector Javert (rendered powerfully, if sometimes woodenly, by Paul Schoeffler). Panaro, who has long scraggy hair and a Robinson Crusoe-like beard as the show begins, transforms remarkably over the 17 years covered in the musical. After Valjean's release from prison, the actor emerges with matinee-idol good looks that eventually give way to an elder statesman hunkyness that brings to mind Charlton Heston before his NRA days." - review from Theatermania.com
"Regardless of where or how “Les Miz”
is produced, its success generally rides on the actor playing
Valjean--one of the most demanding roles of all time. Broadway vet
Hugh Panaro fills the difficult bill in a seemingly effortless
fashion. - review from the Courier Post Hugh Panaro as Marius Pontmercy - First National Tour and Broadway "Both women are ostensibly swooning over Marius, a student revolutionary with a matinee-idol mane of hair. Hugh Panaro looks the part, like the 19th-century equivalent of a Duran Duran member, and he sings with a clear, expressive tenor." "In an unusual move, the Les Miserables company at the Kennedy Center is giving one of its star performers Saturday night off. Hugh Panaro, who portrays Marius, is to sing at the fifth annual Human Rights Campaign Fund dinner at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. Panaro will sing his sad lament from the show, "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables." In the show, the song is for comrades who have died at the barricades, but it will have a different emotional hue when sung at the black-tie AIDS benefit."
Hugh's beautiful and touching performance of "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables" at the Bucks Country Cabaret Mizzin' Around With Hugh Panaro - article from Philadelphia People, 1988 --- Page updated August 1, 2008
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