Claude-Michel Schonberg
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Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944 in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil.
La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen (2006), and Marguerite (2008).
Personal life
Schönberg was born in Vannes, France, to Hungarian Jewish parents. His father was an organ restorer and his mother was a piano tuner. He was once married to evening news anchor Béatrice Schönberg.
Career
Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. He composed the majority of the score for La Révolution Française, France's first rock opera, in 1973. In the show's production that year, he played King Louis XVI.
He wrote the music and lyrics of the song "Le Premier Pas," which became France's top-one hit in 2014 after selling over one million copies. Franck Pourcel was the creator of Le Premier Pas de France. He also wrote a French version of the ABBA's "Waterloo," which was also released by the group that year.
Schönberg later released an album in which he performed his own compositions. When he and Alain Boublil planned the idea for a stage musical interpretation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in 1978, he dedicated his attention to musicals. In 1980, the first production at the Palais de Sports in Paris was staged. The musical performed in 1985 and 1987 respectively, gaining acclaim in both London and Broadway. In 1987, the Broadway performance received twelve Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
Schönberg and Boublil produced the theatrical Miss Saigon, which starred Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce in 1989. The show broke advance-ticket sales in its transition to Broadway, grossing $24 million before its premiere on April 11, 1991. The show was nominated for ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
Martin Guerrel, the Prince Edward Theatre in London, premiered a new musical by Schönberg and Boublil in 1997. The musical received the Olivier Award in 1997 and went on to tour the United Kingdom and the United States.
Schönberg's first ballet score, Wuthering Heights, was released in 2001. In September 2002, the Northern Ballet Theatre Company of the United Kingdom presented this performance.
The Pirate Queen, a musical about the 16th-century Irish king, chieftain, and adventuress Grace O'Malley, was Schönberg's next project with Boublil. On November 26, 2006, the Pirate Queen completed its eight-week pre-Broadway runout at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, and underwent additional renovations in preparations for Broadway at the Hilton Theater in March 2007. The first date of the Broadway performance was on April 5, 2007. Richard Maltby Jr., a Miss Saigon co-lyricist, worked with Boublil on revisions to the book and lyrics, as well as Graciela Daniele who worked on the musical stage.
The Pirate Queen closed on June 17, 2007, after 85 performances and 32 previews, resulting in a loss of nearly $18 million, one of Broadway's biggest commercial flops in history.
On October 8, 2005, Les Misérables celebrated their twentieth anniversary in London. Following Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, the Broadway performance came to an end on May 18, 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical. Schönberg oversaw the production of Les Misérables, which resurfaced on Broadway for an intended six-month presence at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 9, 2006, although the production was later extended.
Theresa Schönberg's Marguerite contains music by Michel Legrand and Herbert Kretzmer's lyrics. Marguerite is about a mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a musician half her age, set during World War II in occupied Paris and inspired by Alexandre Dumas' romantic book La Dame aux Camélias.
Schönberg, a Leeds-based Berliner, wrote the musical score for the ballet Cleopatra. David Nixon, Ballet's artistic director, is responsible for the choreography. Throughout 2011, the exhibition toured the United Kingdom.
Schönberg was nominated for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards and in the same category at the 85th Academy Awards for the song "Suddenly" from Les Miserables' 2012 film version.
Awards
- 1987 Tony Award