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Queer Actress Headlines ‘Les Miserables,’ Atlanta Fringe Festival Features LGBTQ Work

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For out performer Haley Dortch, being in the cast of the musical, “Les Miserables,” is a career highlight. The actress plays Fantine in the ever-popular production hitting the Fox Theatre courtesy of Broadway in Atlanta on June 4.

While in college, she was looking for a summer job and saw an open call for the show. She didn’t have an agent and wasn’t a union actor, so the odds didn’t seem to favor her.

Yet Dortch’s philosophy was that the worst the producers could say was no, so she taped an audition and sent it in. It worked.

For Dortch, “Les Miserables” seems timeless and universal. “So many scenes seem so relevant to what is going on today about what you believe in and what you want to stand for,” she said. “That is our entire epilogue — will you join our crusade?

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