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Front Row

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

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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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. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Claude-Michel Schonberg
Interviewed Guest:
Alain Boublil

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