Schönberg/ Boublil oeuvre

[Pasdechat]

Posted: 8/20/16 at 4:10am

With Miss Saigon coming back to Broadway and the Regent Les Mis revival, I got a fresh appreciation for the Schoenberg/ Boublil collaborations and wondered why apart from these two shows I don't really know anything else by them. Is it really only Pirate Queen and Martin Guerre? If so, does anyone have any insights on why they haven't been more "productive"? 

 

 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 8/20/16 at 4:43am

Pirate Queen is rightfully Forgotten.

Wasn't MARGUERITE on the West End by them?? Or were their names just attached for publicity?

I would recommend their french concept album LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE, it has some great 70's rock style stuff and I still enjoy it despite the lack of English. There was a reading of a new translation last year and I've hard a bootleg is available from ahem certain sources.

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 8/20/16 at 8:03am

LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE has the most gorgeous music... They are working out an English version to bring to New York.

Schönberg has a lot of orchestral works you can check out including several ballets that are available on Apple Music.

I liken them to Bizet.... Not as many operas but he still gave us Carmen and Pearl Fishers and those two are pretty great!  

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/20/16 at 3:11pm

Marguerite is Michel Legrand and (ugh) Kretzmer. I can't remember the specifics--Boubil either did the original French lyrics and story it just story. At any rate their names were used to advertise it which, as a huge Legrand fan is kinda sad to me. Isn't he at least somewhat known to the English?  

shoenberg's Wuthering Heights ballet is beautiful

Updated On: 8/20/16 at 03:11 PM

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 8/21/16 at 9:40am

That's why MARGUERITE was so unmemorable when we saw it in the West End. Didn't care for the lead actress, found the show repetitive and predictable, never latched onto a tune that could give liftoff. Mostly a meh evening. The set, however, was a beautiful jewel box of a grand salon, all done out of glass or plexi. Beautiful to look at, dreary to sit through.