| re: misconceptions about Les Mis in 1980 |
| Posted by: dlh 03:33 pm EST 11/18/22 |
| In reply to: re: The unsung hero of Les Miz: Herbert Kretzmer - HadriansMall 04:59 pm EST 11/17/22 |
|
HadriansMall:
I am not an expert on the history of LES MISERABLES but wasn't the original French production just a slightly padded presentation of the concept album? Not really a show at all but more of a tableau? Actually adding a fleshed out plot most likely accounts for the bulk of the additional time.
I believe this is a commonly repeated misunderstanding. It's true the 1980 Paris production of Les Misérables has been described as a "series of tableau", but (caution: heresay) while tableaus akin to the barricade-spin in the Nunn-Caird production were a feature of that first staging, the structure and content of the show was very similar to the first English-language version in 1985. All the connective interstitial material was already there. The Trema "concept" recording predated and was not a very accurate document of the stage production.
Apropos of the topic, here's a video excerpt from the 1980 production, broadcast by Télévision Française 1 about a week before the show opened. I find this fascinating, language barrier notwithstanding.
Alain Boublil et Claude-Michel Schönberg à propos des "Misérables" de Robert Hossein |
|
reply
|
|
| Previous: |
re: The unsung hero of Les Miz: Herbert Kretzmer - HadriansMall 04:59 pm EST 11/17/22 |
| Next: |
re: misconceptions about Les Mis in 1980 - jo 08:24 pm EST 11/18/22 |
| Thread: |
|
