:smack: You’re absolutely right. I always get those names confused.
I’ve never seen Miss Saigon, but I do like Schoenberg & Boublil’s Martin Guerre, though that one never did make it to Broadway.
I liked Martin Guerre, too. I was disappointed that it never found a home.
There’s just something about the music from **Les Mis ** that’s never appealed to me. I can’t say why because I do like individual songs from it and I do like their other two shows, but as a whole, it’s never worked for me. I have no idea why.
E.
For any Boublil/Schoenberg fan that isn’t aware, their latest musical The Pirate Queen is scheduled to hit Broadway!
Seeing the name triggered the memory – that’s who it was…
Ironically enough, the usage is probably defensible here. Eric Idle was the only member of the original Monty Python comedy troupe to work on Spamalot, so it could be called “his”. I’d put the ratio of old/new material at 35/65, so it was mostly “his” and his new collaboraters. Still, much of Spamalot is drawn directly from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was indeed a full troupe collaboration, so I would consider it more appropriately credited as “theirs”.
Yea, the music hasn’t aged all that well. Still the dancing, and assmuing a Broadway production would get good dancers, is still amazing. I look at the coreography and my knees and back start hurting, it’s just that tough a show to do and to see it done well is really cool.
Enjoy,
Steven