Word: boublil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boublil's followers, however, are not prepared to give up on the haredi presence in Neve Rotem. "This war will continue," says El-Harar, "until it is understood that we are in fact brothers, and we have to receive each other well." Until such a day arrives, the croaking of the frogs at dusk will continue to be only one of the sounds disturbing the quiet at Neve Rotem...
...Miserables After 10 years on Broadway, the Alain Boublil-Claude-Michel Schonberg musical had fallen into serious disrepair. So directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird became their own show doctors, replacing much of the cast and giving the production a thorough overhaul. Mon Dieu! Les Miz is back and as rousing as ever. Now, about Miss Saigon...
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...
...miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...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...