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Herbert Kretzmer

HERBERT KRETZMER

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Julia Wyatt

Lyricist for the smash hit musical LES MISERABLES which has won approximately 50 major theatre awards. Other works include OUR MAN CRICHTON, MARGUERITE and KRISTINA, which was performed at two sell out concerts at New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2009.

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below is a list of Herbert Kretzmer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Four Musketeers, The         Kristina         Les Miserables         Marguerite         Our Man Crichton

Four Musketeers, The

Four Musketeers, The
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Music by Laurie Johnson; lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer; book by Michael Pertwee. Based on the novel "the Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London    24811

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Original cast recording: Philips (SaL 3655) 1967

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Kristina

Synopsis:
the piece is based on the novel quartet of Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg and follows the story of deeply devout and fearful Kristina, her dutiful and hardworking husband Karl Oskar and their children who, together with some of the villagers, leave the mid nineteenth century poverty stricken Swedish countryside for America. It's an episodic tracing of the family's privation on the farm, the wretched three month journey by boat to America and the struggles of making a new life against the odds. their adversities are made all the greater by the arrival of many children until finally Kristina's ill-health reaches the point that, after eight pregnancies, another one would prove life-threatening.
- Sandra Giorgetti, British theatre Guide

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Music by Benny Andersson And Lyrics by Bjorn Ulvaeus (aBBa's songwriting partners). Translated by Herbert Kretzmer

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Les Miserables

Synopsis:
musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, about a man who is jailed for stealing some bread. He breaks parole, becomes rich and prosperous and spends the remainder of his live doing good works for the less fortunate and trying to avoid capture by a zealous policeman.
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music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg; book And lyrics by Alain Boublil; English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer

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Marguerite

Synopsis:
a love story set in Paris during the Second World War, Marguerite draws inspiration from one of the greatest of romantic novels, La Dame aux Camolias by alexandre Dumas. Marguerite is the beautiful and notorious mistress of a high ranking German officer. armand is a young musician half her age who falls obsessively in love with her. their dangerous love story is played out against the background of Occupied Paris.

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music by Alan Legrand; lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer; book by Alain Boublil And Claude-Michel Schonberg

1st Produced:
Haymarket, London    2007

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Our Man Crichton

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