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Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg...
...Michel Schonberg...
Oddly for a work so plot-heavy and meticulously told, Les Miserables began life as a score rather than a libretto, appeared as a record album before it reached the stage, and languished for five years between the French and British productions. The original creators, Composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length...
...world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial impact, it is extraordinarily ambitious and exciting. Its complex story unfolds with clarity and urgent speed, although at times it seems overeager to please with romantic or comic distractions. Claude-Michel Schonberg's score is almost operatic in its emotional intensity and its use of themes and variations, yet it provides hummable pop tunes. Like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Les Miserables originated as a double-record album. That version, by French authors, was staged at the 4,500-seat Palais des Sports...
...prostitute Jenny in Bertolt Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. The Weills fled Nazism for the U.S. and, especially after Weill's death in 1950, Lenya renewed her career on the Broadway stage (Cabaret) and in spoofy films (From Russia With Love). Said Music Critic Harold Schonberg: "She can put into a song an intensity that becomes almost terrifying...