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...lush pop opera was released, once again as a concert album. Nearly four hours long and containing a staggering 39 songs, the piece was staged in Stockholm in 1997 and ran for nearly four years. The three-disc CD topped the local charts but was never issued abroad. Herbert Kretzmer, who had anglicized the French musical Les Misérables, worked with Andersson and Ulvaeus on an English translation, yet despite the seismic success of Mamma Mia!, the new show never left Sweden...
...simply because it is one of the most entertaining pieces of theater to surface during the last decade. In 23,000 performances since Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company first produced it in London, thirty-six million people have enjoyed Claude-Michel Schonberg's memorable melodies and Herbert Kretzmer's powerful, alarmingly addictive lyrics...
English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer...
...themes and variations, yet it provides hummable pop tunes. Like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Les Miserables originated as a double-record album. That version, by French authors, was staged at the 4,500-seat Palais des Sports in Paris in 1980. For the R.S.C., Nunn, Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and other writers radically refashioned the text. The result is less French than English in tone and idiom, but that seems apt: Hugo's socialistic portraits of the downtrodden but unconquerable poor, and of the implacable forces of law that try to suppress them on behalf of men of property, could...
...weeks of a limited Siweek run. Most of the reviewers, moreover, were nonplused by a play that lacked the familiar shape and sound of a Williams drama. "Seldom, even in the half-light of the theater, have I seen an audience as patently perplexed as this one," wrote Herbert Kretzmer of the Daily Express. "It would need a psychoanalyst-and preferably Tennessee Williams' own-to offer a rational interpretation of the enigmas that litter the stage like pieces of an elaborate jigsaw...