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Les Misérables

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Les Misérables (1987). The musical play by Alain Boublil (book, lyrics), Claude‐Michel Schönberg (book, music), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics) turned Victor Hugo's novel into a sung‐through pop operetta. It was originally released as a recording, then given a Paris production before British producer Cameron Mackintosh ordered a revised and expanded script, which he mounted first in London and then in New York at the Broadway Theatre. Always more popular with audiences than critics, the impressive production supplanted La Plume de Ma Tante as the longest running Continental musical in Broadway history and continued on to chalk up a run of 6,680 performances. Notable songs: I Dreamed a Dream; On My Own; Bring Him Home; Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.

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