Boubil & Schoenberg: What's next?

Well, both Miss Saigon and Martin Guerre were pretty terrible, let's hope whatever they do it isn't full of "power ballads"!.

Terrible? No way! I love the music from both!

I have a program also that advertised the movie musical of Les Miserables. It showed Cossette holding 2 movie tickets. With the Caption "In 1992 she will be going to the movies." On the bottom it noted to be produced by Tri-Star and Colombia pictures.

Come on producers! Lets do this one !

I too would like to know if anyone knows what B & S are up to. Do they still write for the theater? If so, what are they writing? Heck, are they still a team? Anyone know?

Adam

Updated On: 5/14/05 at 02:57 AM

Miss Saigon=tiresome. You are better off seeing Madame Butterfly.

i prefer miss saigon to madame butterfly... i find the latter tiresome..

Add me to the very big fans of this wonderful duo ! Actually I was thinking about them after seeing Les Mis again in London last week ! What a shame that they probably called it quits, both Les Mis ans Miss Saigon were fantastic and they could add so much more to a musical theater full of jukebox musicals nowadays !

Updated On: 5/14/05 at 05:39 AM

Perhaps someone could mount their first musical, La Revolution Francaise. I don't believe it's ever been done in English.

I definetly liked the music in Miss Saigon, but the concept always annoyed me. A musical based off another musical? I certainly want to see more out of these two, just maybe with more creative story lines.

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Updated On: 2/7/06 at 11:27 AM

I for one can't stand their poppy power ballads. I'm glad they seperated, maybe they'll grow in other directions artistically and I'll like them. Les Mis and Miss Saigon are ok. Saigon is full of problems and the music isn't very exciting. Martin Guerre just sucks. I'd take Webber...well some of it, before I listened to one of their shows. However I'd rather listen to something good.

Thanks for the Pirate Queen info! Very interesting.

Hmmm. I always find it humourous when poeple say ohoh they split up due to a show or they are no longer working together when LOW AND BEHOLD.. there it is.. Another show.

I wish them the best. I dont really enjoy the MG score as much as the others but it is still better then some of this other stuff.

The London cast of Miss Saigon... HOLY CRAP THERE AMAZING! But everytime I meet someone who hates Miss Saigon, they susally say "well I bought the broadway recording... what a waste of money". I burn them the london cast, and in about 5 days they come up to me and say its the best musical EVER.

There was actually no Broadway recording for MISS SAIGON, but I get your point. The Boublil/Schonberg scores shine with the right people.

I don't quite understand the contempt for Boublil & Schonberg, because I find their music absolutely sublime. For those who find the scores to LES MIZ and MISS SAIGON similar, I counter them by saying that most of Sondheim (whom I love) also sounds similar; it's just the musical style of the composer. Schonberg composes lush, majestic and unapologetically romantic music. Certainly he has a better grasp of melody and theatricality than Andrew Lloyd Webber (I still stand by the opinion that most songs from PHANTOM are dramatically superfluous).

I, for one, can't wait to see how the PIRATE QUEEN project turns out, but I recognize that unfortunately Broadway has changed yet again and probably doesn't embrace their type of operatic and melodramatic musical anymore.

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