Alain Boublil
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Alain Boublil (born 5 March 1941) is a French national
Life and career
Boublil was born in Tunisia, to a
On 8 October 1985, an English-language production of
Les Misérables
Productions based on the Nunn/Mackintosh staging of Les Misérables have been staged all over the world, including a second French production which opened in Paris in 1991. Worldwide, Les Misérables has been seen by over 50 million people, with a total box office gross of over $1.8 billion.
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon opened in London on 20 September 1989 where it played for 10 consecutive successful years at the Drury Lane Theatre. It spawned two US touring companies, a Toronto production and has been seen by more than 13.2 million people in North America for a gross of $612 million.
Other works
With Javier Arroyuelo and Rafael Lopez Sanchez, Boublil worked on the French translation of The Rocky Horror Show for its French premiere in 1975.[4][5]
Alain and Daniel Boublil created Abbacadabra, a French children's musical based on songs from the pop group ABBA, for French television in 1983.
Martin Guerre reached the West End in 1996 and won the 1997 Olivier Award for Best Musical. Productions on tour in the UK and the US, and Europe followed, but the show failed to repeat the success of its two predecessors.
Boublil has also written the play Le Journal d'Adam et Eve, based on two short stories by Mark Twain. It premiered in Paris in 1994 at Le Petit Montparnasse.
He has worked on the stage adaptation of Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, together with composer Michel Legrand, that opened at Le Palais des Congrès in 2003.
Boublil and Schönberg's
The musical
He was nominated for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards for the song "Suddenly" from the 2012 film version of Les Misérables.[7]
Family
Alain Boublil has two sons, born in 1969 and 1975, with his first wife Francoise Pourcel. He then had two more sons with his second wife Marie Zamora.
References
- ^ "Denver Post: Archive Results". Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-55970-156-3.
- ^ Whitney, Craig R. (September 23, 1989). "America's Vietnam Trauma Is the Stuff of British Musical". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^ "Rocky Horror Show".
- ^ "Rocky horror show - Performance - 1975".
- ^ "New Musical From 'Les Miz' Team". The New York Times. July 10, 2007.
- ^ "70th Golden Globe Awards Nominations". Deadline.com. 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
External links
- Alain Boublil at the Internet Broadway Database
- Alain Boublil at IMDb