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Claude-Michel Schönberg

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ComposerBook Writer b. 1944

French composer of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.

Also credited on5 works

Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
Les Misérables
The Pirate Queen
Miss Saigon (2017 Revival)

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In the literature5 passages

  • Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944- ) were French pop songwriters who had ventured into the world of theatrical spectacle in 1973 at the Palais des Sports in Paris with La Revolution Française . They were enamoured of Jesus Christ Superstar , West Side Story and Oliver! In fact, it was the latter show that would give them the…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • The cast dissolved in tears on stage in London during the early rehearsals of Les Misérables after Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg introduced a new song, ‘Bring Him Home’, which was needed for a climactic moment in the second act. Valjean’s beautiful prayer over the wounded body of his soon to be son-in-law begins quietly with t…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • Originally conceived in 1979 by the French team of composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil (with the collaboration of poet Jean-Marc Natel), the pop opera gives dramatic life to Victor Hugo’s sprawling 1,200 page novel of suffering and salvation during a tumultuous period in French history. The story takes the valiant…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Pop operas continued to be huge hits: Lloyd Webber’s Cats (1981; 1982) and an English staging of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables (1985; 1987) racked up a combined New York run of 14,165 performances. But the jewel in the crown was—is, for it continues strong at this writing, after some twenty-five years—Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s 1980 musical based loosely on the story of Madam Butterfly , reset in the Vietnam War.ebooks/Woolford, Julian/How Musicals Work_ And How to Write Your Own (Theatrebook) - Julian Woolford.txt

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