Alain Boublil

"I HAVE A HEART LIKE THE SEA A MILLION DREAMS ARE IN ME" 4 The Ultimate Sacrifice by CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG I well remember that autumn afternoon in Paris. Between two chords of the keyboard, I broke for coffee and thumbed through a magazine someone had left on the piano. I had no idea...

m-':':- The idea of turning Les Misérabks into a musical came to me one evening in 1979 during a visit to London, where I had come - naturally - to see musicals. To the French, Victor Hugo's classic novel has the status of a national monument, and I was well aware at the outset that such an...