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“I always felt like there was a quality of play in life in L.A. that New York didn’t have,” Orlean says.

The barricade is also where the actor who plays Fantine, Lindsay Heather Pearce, sits for a time when she becomes part of the ensemble after singing the heart-wrenching “I Dreamed a Dream.”

Cohen, who plays bullied employee Otis, conjured up his character’s love for peanut M&M’s, while Temple, who plays the girlfriend of one of Manchester’s friends, saw her character as a hairdresser.

Harriet Dyer plays Colette, sweet and awkward and nominally the ensemble’s main character.

Investigators also found what was described in court filings as a video of a “gang-style execution” being played on a loop on a large screen.