THE AUTHORS
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Music and Book
Born in 1944 of Hungarian parents, Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career in France as a singer, writer and producer of pop songs. In collaboration with Alain Boublil he is the book co-writer and the composer of La Révolution Française, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen. In 2008 his new musical, Marguerite, in collaboration with Alain Boublil, Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Claude-Michel has supervised overseas productions and co-produced several international cast albums of his shows.
In 2001 he composed his first ballet score, Wuthering Heights, which was created by the Northern Ballet in 2002. His ballet, Cleopatra, which opened in 2011, was his second collaboration with David Nixon and his seventh complete score. In 2012 Claude-Michel co-wrote the screenplay and reconceived the music for the Les Misérables musical movie. Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and recent Grammy award winner for outstanding contribution to the creative community, Mr. Schönberg married the English ballerina, Charlotte Talbot, in 2003. He is the father of one son and two daughters.
Alain Boublil
Book
Alain Boublil is the author of the librettos and original lyrics for the musicals La Révolution Française, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and The Pirate Queen, all in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg, as well as Marguerite with Michel Legrand, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer. Boublil is the recipient of two Tony Awards, two Grammys, two Victoire de la Musique Awards and a Molière Award for Les Misérables. He received an Evening Standard Drama Award for Miss Saigon and a Laurence Olivier Award for Martin Guerre.
In 2014, he wrote a new play, Manhattan Parisienne, with songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand, Steve Allen, and more, which recently played in New York. He is the author/librettist ofAbbacadabra, of the stage adaptation of Demy/Legrand film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, author of the play The Diary of Adam and Eve (based upon short stories by Mark Twain), and the prize-winning French novel Les dessous de soi. He co-wrote the screenplay of the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Les Misérables. He has received a New York Chapter Honors Grammy award for his outstanding contribution to the creative community. Currently he is working on a revised version of Martin Guerre to open in the U.K. Boublil lives in New York with his wife, actress/singer Marie Zamora, and is the father of four sons.
Herbert Kretzmer
Lyrics
Herbert Kretzmer was born in South Africa, where he began a career in journalism writing the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel. He came to live in London in 1954, and has since pursued twin careers as newspaperman and songwriter. He was feature writer on The Daily Sketch and a profile writer on The Sunday Despatch. He joined The Daily Express in 1960 and later became its drama critic, a post he held for 18 years, covering about 3,000 first nights. From 1979 to 1987, he wrote television criticism for The Daily Mail, winning, in this capacity, two national press awards. As a lyric writer he wrote weekly songs for That Was The Week That Was and the later Ned Sherrin television shows. He won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers/Sophia Loren comedy song Goodness Gracious Me .
Other award-winning songs include two written with, and for, Charles Aznavour: Yesterday When I Was Young and the chart-topping She . Herbert Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics for the West End musical Our Man Crichton, which starred Kenneth More and Millicent Martin, and the lyrics for The Four Musketeers, which ran for over a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as D Artagnan. He also supplied the lyrics for the Anthony Newley musical film Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? He was the co-lyricist for Kristina which he wrote with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (ABBA), premiered at Carnegie Hall, New York, in September 2009. Herbert Kretzmer s latest work is Marguerite, written with Michel Legrand, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Robert Coates
DIRECTOR
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Justin Jacobs
Ned Wright-Smith
ASSOCIATE MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Jacqui Green
CHOREOGRAPHY
Emily Wilkinson
VOCAL COACH
Dann Barber
SET DESIGNER
Elysia Krstevski
PRODUCER
Jennifer McKenzie
COSTUME DESIGNER
Joshua Mulcahy
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Linda Hum
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Marcello Lo Ricco
SOUND DESIGNER
PRINCIPAL CAST
Jasmine Arthur
COSETTE
Ben Gonsalvez
MARIUS
Jordie Race-Coldrey
ENJOLRAS
Cameron Langeveld
GAVROCHE
Rhea Brendish
EPONINE
Madeleine Horsey
MADAME THENARDIER
Nicholas Sheppard
JAVERT
Edgar Stirling
GAVROCHE
Bryce Gibson
JEAN VALJEAN
Jackson Hurwood
THENARDIER
Emily Svarnias
FANTINE
Molly Brennan
YOUNG COSETTE
Alexandra Stone
YOUNG COSETTE
ENSEMBLE CAST
Afia Adjei, Declan Ahern, Elliot Aitken, Chanda Anderson Prior, Thomas Arcaro, Danielle Atherton, Callan Barclay, Charlotte Barker, India Bell, Gabi Bergman, Tim Bland, Luc Bogemann, Suzannah Bourke, Lachlan Bradshaw, Anneleisa Brimley, Ellie Buckley, Digby Bunnett, Edward Burgess, Matthew Casamento, Caitlin Cole, Sophie Coleshill, Rachel Crossan, Lucia D'Onofrio, Ruby Damiani, Harrison Dart, Caitlyn De Kuyper, Nicholas Dugdale, Sienna Embrey, Maria England, Scott England, Matilda Fisher, Oriel Forsyth, James Frampton, Imogen Galbraith, Louise Gaul, Christine Georgopoulos, Dean Gild, Noah Gill, Ryan Glasson, Charlotte Goode, Mira Hardidge, Garrett Harrington, Elissa Hearld, Chaliah Hilton-Cronin, Daniel Hooper, Grace Horsey, Adeline Hunter, Daniel Ireland, James Keam, Rohan Khanna, Nick Lawson, Breanon Lee, Phoebe Lock, Cara Lofts, Campbell Lowrey, Andrew McArthur, Ashley McGowan, Emily McKenna, Krystal Meyer, Greta Mikulcic, Liam Moroney, Jared Nottle, Jack O'Connor, Veronica Olesh, Tegan Parrish, Natasha Pearson, Zak Pietsch, Josh Pocock, Jessica Polhill, Anthony Pontonio, Bonnie Poynder, Sofie Rayner, Patrick Rogers, Chad Rosete, Benson Rowntree, John Sharp, Amber Shiels, Tristan Sicari, Hannah Simos-Garner, Corey Smark, Kirra Smark, Hayden Smith, Brayden Stokes, Trinna Talasaia, Richard Thomson, Travis Vieth, Ruby Weeks, Lara White, St John Woollacott, Jack Wyss, Amir Yacoub, James Ydreos.
CHILDRENS CAST
Casey de Kock - Young Eponine
Abbey Marks - Young Eponine
Archie Newbegin
Alessia Riepsamen
Joshua Simos-Garner
Bessie Blaze