Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Les Misérables matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature63 passages
First there was difficulty finding a suitable Broadway house. Les Misérables moved to the Imperial to make the Broadway available, and while the Broadway is one of New York’s larger houses, it is much smaller than London’s Drury Lane (a significant fact when the production includes sets such as a life-size helicopter),… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p279
Cats begat the Cameron Mackintosh empire of spectacular productions: Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Miss Saigon, and crash- chandeliers, huge barricades, and helicopters became the hallmarks of the Broadway musicals of 1980s and early ‘gos. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p65
the team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables and Miss Saigon), book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p15
When Enchanted Evenings appeared in 1997, Lloyd Webber’s Cats, directed by Trevor Nunn, was on the verge of surpassing Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch’s A Chorus Line as Broadway’s longest running show, and Phantom stood in fourth place behind the then still running Les Misérables, Cats, and A Chorus Line on the al… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p22
Evita, Les Misérables, and Phantom are musically integrated in the sense that they use a relatively small repertoire of motives and themes and recycle these melodies continuously, usually with new lyrics (i.e., contrafacta, a term used extensively in Joseph Swain’s chapters on Lloyd Webber and BoublilSchönberg). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p463
Less explored are the creative choices Lloyd Webber and Prince—in collaboration with the Midas-touched producer of Les Misérables the previous year, Cameron Macintosh (b. 1946)—made in their conversion of Leroux’s novel and the comparably influential 1925 classic silent film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon C… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p465
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