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Alain Boublil (born 5 March 1941) is a French national musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End.
Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini 's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
Alain Boublil. Writer: Les Misérables. Alain Boublil was born in Tunisia and imigrated to Paris, France at 18. He worked in music publishing before writing lyrics for French pop music. He became enamored with musical theatre and began working with another composer, Claude-Michel Schonberg.
- March 5, 1941
Les Misérables ( / leɪˌmɪzəˈrɑːb ( əl ), - blə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB (-əl), -RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl] ), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz ( / leɪˈmɪz / lay MIZ ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of ...
Alain Boublil, who now has a home in L.A., will see his two biggest hits — “Les Misérables” and “Miss Saigon” — come to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in quick succession.
Writer: Les Misérables. Alain Boublil was born in Tunisia and imigrated to Paris, France at 18. He worked in music publishing before writing lyrics for French pop music. He became enamored with musical theatre and began working with another composer, Claude-Michel Schonberg.
Nov 21, 2017 · The lyricist Alain Boublil is the creator of some of the world’s most popular and award winning musicals including Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and Martin Guerre, written with his long-time...
