As a Broadway revival of Les Misérables enjoys its three Tony nominations and the West End prepares for a 25th anniversary production of Miss Saigon, Alain Boublil, the lyricist for those mega-successful musicals, isn't resting on his statuettes. According to a casting call posted yesterday, a new musical play by Boublil called Manhattan Parisienne will open in December at the Off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters.
Manhattan Parisienne is described as "a musical play about the random meeting of a man and a woman from completely different worlds. During an afternoon together through music and their French / American connection they discover that they are very much the same person, battling similar fears, hopes and dreams."
Before Sunrise with music? The notice goes on: "Mr. Boublil is using some of his favorite songs from American and French songbooks to carry or be part of the action of the play as they reflect the different worlds where the two characters come from and later are immersed in." Does that mean he's writing a script with no original songs and thus no new lyrics? Will this be a kind of jukebox musical? Ask again later, as the Magic Eight Ball would say.
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