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==''[[Les Misérables]]'', the musical by [[Alain Boublil]] and [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]]==
 
==''[[Les Misérables]]'', the musical by [[Alain Boublil]] and [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]]==
  
''[[Les Misérables]]'' a musical produced by [[Cameron Mackintosh's Production]] by [[Alain Boublil]] and [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]] based on the novel by Victor Hugo.
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''[[Les Misérables]]'' a musical based on the novel originally adapted into French by [[Alain Boublil]] and [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]].
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Produced in English by [[Cameron Mackintosh]] and the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]],
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 09:23, 14 November 2023

Les Misérables is the name of a French historical novel by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)[1].

It is also the name given to various dramatised versions of the novel.

The original text

Les Misérables was originally written by Victor Hugo in 1862 and published by It is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

Les Misérables, the musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg

Les Misérables a musical based on the novel originally adapted into French by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.

Produced in English by Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company,

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

It was performed in Century City, Tsogo Sun and Pieter Toerien. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, the original text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton. Orchestral score by John Cameron, production supervisor Martin Koch, musical director Dale Rieling, sound by Terry Jardine/Autograph, assiciate producer Martin McCallum, executive producer John Robertson, designed by John Napier, lighting by David Hersey, costumes by Anfreane Neofitou, Asian/South African Tour directed by Matthew Ryan, directed and adapted by Trevor Nunn and John Caird.

Besides international performers, the South Africans in the cast were: Herbert Kretzmer, Isabel Byers, Sivuyile Ngesi,Nicholas Pretorius, Lindy Smith and Steven van Wyk.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

Programme of Les Misérables, as performed in Cape Town in 1996.

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