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What are your favourite musicals and why?

Wed, 12 Sept 2001, 10:20 pm
The Review Master41 posts in thread


Hi all,

Now just what is your favourite musical/s and why ? I hope to get a great response from this one! (if i get any that is)

My all time favourites list include Les Miserables (of course!), also the King and I, Oliver, My Fair Lady. There are more of course but I don't want to go into too many right now.

I'll talk about why I adore these musicals when i get some kind of feedback on the topic.


The Review Master

Alain Boublil

Thu, 20 Sept 2001, 10:18 pm


Hi Amanda,


Yes, I as a loyal Les Mis Fan (as you) realize that Shonberg, is the musical part in the collaboration of "Boublil & Shonberg", and and yes I also know that Herbert Kretzmer, as I mentioned before, wrote the lyrics for Les Mis, and a splendid job he did!

Boublil may have not had a hell of a lot to do with the musical composition related aspects, he did work with Jean-Marc Natel on the French lyrics, but I think it was generally Boublil& Shonberg who came up with the concept of adapting Hugo's work- so he played a key role in that partnership and creation of the musical produced by Mackintosh.

Boublil, as is seen in "The Heat is on- The Making of Miss Saigon", also played a similar role- this time working with Richard Maltby JR who translated the lyrics into english.

But in saying as the RM said "music of Boublil & Shonberg", that was a very generalised statement about the whole production in general.

Thanks for your point of order, the Review Master is aware...



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