Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil on Miss Saigon and Les Miserables

Arts news, reveiws and interviews. John Wilson talks to composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil about their musicals Miss Saigon and Les Misérables.

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In a special edition of Front Row, John Wilson talks to the writers of two of the biggest stage musicals of all time - Miss Saigon and Les Misérables. Composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil discuss their working process and how they bring a French sensibility to a modern American artform, as their musical, Miss Saigon - now in its 25th anniversary year - is reinvented for a new production.

Producer Ella-mai Robey.

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Mon 21 Apr 201419:15

BBC Radio 4

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Miss Saigon is on at the Prince Edward Theatre, London from Saturday 3 May 2014.

Les Misérables: Barricade

Photograph by Michael Le Poer Trench

Role	Contributor
Presenter	John Wilson
Interviewed Guest	Claude-Michel Schonberg
Interviewed Guest	Alain Boublil
Producer	Ella-mai Robey

Mon 21 Apr 201419:15
BBC Radio 4

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