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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memories of A World on Fire | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Exit to the Land of Hope | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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