West End Whingers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Marguerite may not be a corker, but we certainly weren't throwing tomatoes. Marguerite is the new Michel Legrand musical with book and lyrics by the Les Miz team of Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg (plus director Jonathan Kent) and lyricist Herbert Kretzmer . Yes, that's the same Kretzmer who wrote the iconic Peter Sellers/Sophia Loren hit “Goodness, Gracious Me”...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
... Miserables was a smash in 2007, and is a hot ticket this spring. Les Miz writers Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schönberg will be a major draw again with their Vietnam-era re-imagining (with co-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr.) of the Madame Butterfly story, Miss Saigon, May 1-16, 2009.For the first time in over 25 years, the theatre will produce three musicals in a single season....
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
... which included musical selections by such artists as Cy Coleman, Andre Thomas, David Conte and Claude-Michel Schönberg."Education is one of the four pillars of our mission," says Artistic Director Dr. Jonathan Palant. "My goal is to educate the audience about Wilde and what he was about. The readings all have to do with the musical selections on the first half."The Turtle Creek...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Arkansas Rep Has Les Miz, Tommy and More Lined Up for 2008-09Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock, AK, will open its 33rd season with a resident production of the international smash musical Les Miserables, Sept. 12-Oct. 12.Producing artistic director Robert Hupp will direct the Victor Hugo-inspired musical by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer. The...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... years of hiding from Javert as Les Miserables opens on Broadway. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg based their book on the novel by Victor Hugo. Music is provided by Schonberg and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. Trevor Nunn stages. Colm Wilkinson and Terrence Mann star as the arch enemies. It will become the third-longest-running Broadway show in history.1998 The hills are revived!...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
... South Florida regional production of Cameron Mackintosh's international hit, which has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, book by Schönberg and Alain Boublil.The Florida premiere of Havana Bourgeois by Carlos Lacámara of Los Angeles, will play May 6-June 7, 2009. "Set in Cuba from 1958-1960, Havana Bourgeois explores the impact...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Broadway's Panaro, a Philly Native, Will Be Jean Valjean at Walnut StreetBy 03 Mar 2008 Hugh Panarophoto by Ben StrothmannThe Walnut Street Theatre will welcome Broadway veteran and Philadelphia native Hugh Panaro as Jean Valjean to its three-month production of the musical, Les Misérables. The Walnut's all-new production of the Victor Hugo-inspired musical by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Les Miserables, one of the most successful theatrical musicals ever, was written by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg on a libretto by Alain Boublil in France during 1980. It has been running in the West End of the London theatre district going on a record setting 23 years and is currently ranked as the third longest running show in the history of Broadway, behind only Phantom...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
... Fields as Sofia – a role she originated in the Broadway production. Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams plays soul-singer Shug Avery, while "American Idol"'s LaToya London portrays Nettie.Les Miserables will be presented in a new original staging Sept. 19-28. The award-winning musical based on the classic Victor Hugo novel features a book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Arif Ansari Entertainment reporter, BBC News Julian Ovenden (left), Ruthie Henshall and Alexander Hanson star in the showThe three men who wrote the hugely successful musical Les Miserables have reunited to create a new stage show, Marguerite.Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Herbert Kretzmer wrote the music and lyrics for Les Miserables, which has been translated into...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
As the last century approached its end, the big question in musical theater was who would replace the foreigners. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg had dominated the '80s and '90s with sweeping epics that were estab...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Miss Saigon, a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, is set initially in Saigon during the last days of American presence in Vietnam. It's the saga of an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl who fall in love only to be separated. The ensuing scenes follow their struggles to find each other.
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
... and redemption."Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Les Miserables was penned by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the classic novel by Victor Hugo. It features music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, with original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and additional material by James Fenton.Les Miz was first...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
RELATED ARTICLES: 29 Oct 2007 -- 23 Oct 2007 -- 05 Sep 2007 -- 23 Jul 2007 -- 29 Jun 2007 -- 29 Oct 2007 -- 23 Oct 2007 -- 05 Sep 2007 -- 23 Jul 2007 -- 29 Jun 2007 -- Another Day, Another Destiny: Broadway Revival of Les Miz ClosesJohn Owen-Jones in Les Misérablesphoto by Michael Le Poer TrenchThe barricades will fall. The second Broadway engagement of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
Ampil, whose work in Miss Saigon was captured on the expansive international complete symphonic recording of the Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil musical, counts among her West End and European musical credits both Eponine and Fantine in Les Miserables, as well as Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Musical of Musicals, I Sing! and Hair.
