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...whose one certainty is that he was born to live the American Dream -- a hope he will never fulfill. The propulsive narrative works at all times as both romantic melodrama and astringent metaphor. If neither as sprawling nor as thrilling as Les Miserables, the previous musical from French creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, the new show is vastly more relevant and thought provoking...
Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme WRITER-REPORTERS: Naushad S. Mehta, Alain L. Sanders...
...night that Les Miserables opened in London in October 1985, lyricist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg asked their producer, Cameron Mackintosh, if they now had an assured career in the theater. When he said yes, the two French creators told the impresario they had a new project: they wanted to update the Madama Butterfly story. This time their inspiration was not a 1,000-page Victor Hugo novel but a single news photograph of a Vietnamese mother and daughter parting at an airport. The mother had raised her child with one goal: to locate the girl's father...
WRITER-REPORTERS: Naushad S. Mehta, Alain L. Sanders...