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

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

21/04/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil on Miss Saigon and Les Miserables

John Wilson talks to Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil about writing Miss Saigon.

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.

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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