Claude-Michel Schonberg News

Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre has announced its 2007-2008 season

Miss Saigon and The Phantom of the Opera - both international hit musicals originally staged by Cameron Mackintosh - will receive resident productions in Australia next year

Despite an exceptional ensemble of actors putting their own spins on the original 1985 John Caird/Trevor Nunn direction, for now and seemingly forever, there will be no revolutionary new interpretations of the Les Miserables experience

Tony Award-winner Richard Maltby Jr. and multi-Tony Award-nominee Graciela Daniele have signed on to the creative team of the Broadway-bound musical The Pirate Queen

Tavern on the Green hosted the star-studded opening night party of Les Miserables, which opened on Thursday, November 9th at the Broadhurst Theatre on after beginning previews on Saturday, October 24th!

Les Miserables, in its highly anticipated Broadway return, opened on Thursday, November 9th at the Broadhurst Theatre on after beginning previews on Saturday, October 24th

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, began previews at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on October 3rd and opened on October 29th

Broadway by the Bay presents the Broadway blockbuster Miss Saigon, from September 22 through October 8 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

The Pirate Queen castcom will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre today, Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

The Pirate Queen castcom® will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

In a press conference that only public relations guru Margie Korshak could pull off, the principle cast and creative team of the sure-to-be hit The Pirate Queen moored into the Cadillac Palace Theatre to give a glimpse of the newest musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, creators of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon

A castcom for The Pirate Queen, the new musical by Boublil and Schonberg that opens on Broadway in the spring, will go live from Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th

Cast members and creative team of The Pirate Queen, which opens in Chicago in October prior to moving to Broadway in late winter, recently gathered for a press meet and greet, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, will drop anchor at the Hilton Theatre for preview performances beginning February 23rd, 2007 and an opening night on March 22nd

Stephanie J. Block cast in Chicago's pre-Broadway debut of 'The Pirate Queen.'

Les Miserables, billed as 'the world's most popular musical' might also be called one of 'the world's most persistent pieces of work.'

Frank Galati will helm The Pirate Queen, which will play Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre and then Broadway

No stranger to the New York stage, Tony-winner Lea Salonga will make her Carnegie Hall debut in a highly anticipated concert on November 7th. I spoke to the star to get the scoop on that 'bound to be memorable' night, 'Wicked', what else she's been up to...and lots more!

She's appeared on Broadway in Forum, Les Miserables, Good Vibrations and Little Shop of Horrors, starring alongside a wide range of performers from Colm Wilkinson, to Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg and Joey Fatone. In the Summer of 2005 though, Jessica-Snow Wilson is playing to smaller audiences, having just finished in the Fringe Festival, and next up - NERDS in NYMF.

Colm Wilkinson will reunite with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg when he returns to musical theatre to star in their new musical The Pirate Queen