After waiting at an “open call” audition for 5 hours Jacquelyn booked the role of Cosette in the original National Tour “The Marius Company”.  She went on to open the San Francisco Company, nicknamed “The Shake Rattle and Roll Company” after surviving the 1989 disastrous earthquake.  In 1990, she made her Broadway debut, at The Broadway Theatre, becoming the third actress to portray Cosette joining Hugh Panaro as Marius and Natalie Toro as Eponine.  That fall Les Miserables moved to its new home at The Imperial Theatre.