Original Les Mis star goes on tour

HUGH Jackman may have wowed cinema audiences as the Bishop of Digne in the Les Misérables movie but as any musical theatre fan will tell you – long before the Hollywood actor took on the role – Colm Wilkinson was Jean Valjean.

In June, the man known as “the voice of God” will play his first Edinburgh concert when he brings his Bring Him Home tour to the Playhouse, for an evening of music and stories.

With one of the most distinctive voices in the world, the Irishman is best known as the original Jean Valjean and Phantom, roles he created and embodied in the London, Toronto and New York productions of Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera.