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1. Cats (musical):
Cats (stylized as CATS) is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Cats also introduced the song standard "Memory ".
Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, Cats first opened in the West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. The London production ran for twenty-one years and the Broadway production ran for eighteen years, both setting long-run records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle, performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until 2000).
Cats is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, and the fourth longest-running West End musical. It has been performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1998, Cats was turned into a made-for-television film.
1, Cats:
is A musical written by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber based on T. S. Eliot's collection of poems "Old Possum's Book of Cats" and other poems. Although it has never been loved by critics, it is one of the most successful musicals in history, and since its premiere in London in 1981, it has been translated into more than 20 languages ????and performed in every corner of the world.
2. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fant?me de l'Opéra):
The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Initially, the story sold very poorly upon publication in book form and was even out of print several times during the twentieth century;[1] it is overshadowed by the success of its various film and stage adaptations. The most notable of these were the1925 film depiction, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
2. "The Phantom of the Opera":
is A love thriller novel written by the French writer Gaston Leroux. The original French version was published in 1910 and was first translated into English in 1911. The story takes the Opera Garnier (l'Opéra Garnier) in Paris, France in the 19th century as the stage, describing the love between a young female opera singer, a young aristocrat and a weirdo (Phantom) hiding under the opera house. story.
3. Les Misérables (musical):
Les Misérables, colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /le m?z/, is asung-through musical based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a burly French peasant of abnormal strength and potentially violent nature, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving sister's child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly bishop inspires him to, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
The musical was originally conceived and produced in France, before its English-language adaptation, which opened at the Barbican Center in London, England, on 8 October 1985, where the production overcame bad reviews through word of mouth, launching what has turned out to be a global phenomenon.
3. "Les Misérables":
It is a French musical A musical co-written by composers Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil***, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. The story is set against the backdrop of the Paris uprising of 1832 and tells the story of the protagonist, Jean Valjean, who was sentenced to a severe sentence many years ago for stealing bread because his family had no food. After parole, he planned to start a new life and change society, but he encountered The arduous journey through various difficulties. The play was first performed at the Palais des Sports in Paris, France in 1980. It was originally scheduled to run for eight weeks, but was extended for an additional 16 weeks. It had to be canceled because the subsequent venue schedule was booked.
4. Miss Saigon:
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's story of marriage between an American lieutenant and Japanese girl is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.
The musical premiered at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, in London on 20 September 1989, closing after over four thousand performances , on 30 October 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theater in 1991 and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours.
The musical represented Sch?nberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. As of January 2013, Miss Saigon is still the eleventh longest-running Broadway musical in musical theater history.
4. "Miss Saigon":
It is directed by Claude- A musical created by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil***. The play premiered on September 20, 1989 at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, and ran for 4,264 performances before ending on October 30, 1999. "Miss Saigon" premiered at the Broadway Opera House in New York City on April 11, 1991, and ended on January 28, 2001, with 4,092 performances.
"Miss Saigon" is a modern adaptation of Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly". It also tells the tragic story of an Asian woman who was abandoned by her white lover. The background of the story was moved to Saigon in the 1970s, and the American officers and Japanese geishas in "Madame Butterfly" were changed into American soldiers and Vietnamese bar girls.
The musical was inspired by a photo in a magazine. The composer Schoenberg saw this photo of a Vietnamese mother dropping off her child at the departure gate of Ho Chi Minh International Airport to the United States, where the child's father, a former American soldier, was able to provide This child has a better living environment. Schoenberg considered the mother's act for her child "the ultimate sacrifice," which became a central theme in Miss Saigon.