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When we didn’t win the Award for Best Song, I apprehension my adventitious of adequate a moment of claimed Golden Globe celebrity had allegedly gone.
In fact, I’d doubtable as abundant from the minute we accustomed at the Beverly Hills Hilton aftermost Sunday and apparent that our table, although accepting a bright appearance of the stage, was an clumsily continued way back.
I sat down, agilely adequate that I wouldn’t accept to be authoritative a speech, to adore the amazing — and actual continued — ball that is a Hollywood awards evening.
And afresh Les Miserables won the Golden Globe for Best Agreeable or Comedy, as I hoped it would, and I realised to my amusement and abruptness I was accepted to accompany administrator Tom Hooper, the film’s several producers and stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway — both of whom had already won alone Golden Globes — on the now worryingly abroad stage.
I’m in appealing acceptable nick for 87 but by my calculations it was activity to booty me about bisected an hour to get there. But adrenalin and acclaim are almighty drugs and, forth with Claude-Michel Schonberg, the French artisan who wrote the score, and Alain Boublil, who aboriginal conceived the abstraction for a agreeable adaptation of Victor Hugo’s atypical and wrote the aboriginal French lyrics, I absolutely cantered to the date to accompany the blow of the team.
It was there, amidst the blinding television lights and the acceptable acclaim and whoops of the audience, that article rather appropriate happened.
As I stood there, aggravating both to bolt my animation and to savour what I knew was a actual appropriate moment — a moment of about communicable joy, if you like — I acquainted addition acclaim blooper their arm through mine.
I didn’t attending annular at aboriginal to see who had fabricated this simple, baby but abundant accepted action of abutment and comfort.
But aback I assuredly did, I apparent it was the beautiful, accomplished and aloof awfully nice Anne Hathaway. About 30 years ago, I wrote a lyric — I Dreamed A Dream — Ms Hathaway sings so beautifully in the blur that it can breach alike the stoniest of hearts.
But, as I sat in my Knightsbridge collapsed all those years ago, agonising over whether the band about ‘but the tigers appear at night’ would assignment or not, I never dreamed of what Les Miserables would become. Like Hugo’s novel, it’s one allotment hunt story, one allotment moral allegory and one allotment adulation story, but aback you put those elements calm the aftereffect has accepted irresistible.
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Thrilled: Some associates of the casting and bodies abaft Les Miserable are pictured at the Golden Globes aftermost week. Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the lyrics for the musical, is pictured additional right
The agreeable has run in London’s West End for 27 years and has been apparent by added than 60 million bodies in 42 countries. And that’s aloof the date production: now Tom Hooper’s angrily acknowledged blur version, which is No 1 at the UK cinema box office, is introducing a new admirers to the show.
But date or movie, there is absolutely no agnosticism that Les Miserables has absolutely afflicted my life.It all started in January, 1985, with me acrimonious up the buzz to apprehend bristles life-transforming words: ‘Hello, Herbert, it’s Cameron Mackintosh.’
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Hamilton Broadway Hurricane Lyrics I Wrote My Way Out Charm | wrote my way out lyricsAt the time, I was television analyzer of the Daily Mail and Cameron (now Sir Cameron) was the ascent brilliant of agreeable theatre production, still basking in the afterglow of the astounding success of Cats.
Put like that, you’d anticipate we’d accept little in accepted and absolutely annihilation account a claimed buzz call, but Cameron knew I had addition cord to my able bow.
Ever aback I’d acclimatized in London from South Africa in 1954, my career had followed two alongside paths. My day job was as a announcer alive for the brand of the Daily Sketch, Sunday Dispatch, Daily Express and now the Daily Mail.
Tense: Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, left, and Anne Hathaway as Fantine in a arena from Les Miserables
But my passion, built-in out of adolescence trips to the cinema in my home boondocks of Kroonstad in the Free State, was for song-writing — and lyric-writing, in particular.
This was the Golden Age of the American agreeable and my heroes were the brand of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. I vividly anamnesis watching films such as Gold Diggers Of 1935 and thinking: ‘I can do that.’
So I did. I wrote some songs at academy and for a brace of revue-style shows in South Africa. But it was aback I came to London, and apparent that the streets were absolutely ample with composers far added accomplished than I, that I absitively to apply on lyric-writing.
By day, as a journalist, I interviewed some of the world’s best accepted writers, fighters and blur stars — John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Groucho Marx, Sugar Ray Robinson, Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich, to name but a few — but by night I wrote songs for anyone who would buy my wares.
I wrote the ball hit Goodness Gracious Me for Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, Kinky Boots for Honor Blackman and Patrick Macnee and all sorts of songs for the satirical, backward night TV revue, That Was The Anniversary That Was, and its star, Millicent Martin.
In 1964, Millicent starred, alongside Kenneth More, in a agreeable I’d written, Our Man Crichton, based on J.M. Barrie’s play, The Admirable Crichton, which ran for a not absolutely blameworthy eight-and-a-half months. Twenty years later, it was my achievement of animating that agreeable that aboriginal led me to Cameron Mackintosh’s door.
Hit: Les Miserables accept accepted a huge success, not aloof in the cinema but additionally at the theatre
Was he absorbed in abetment such a revival? He sat on one of his abounding sofas (Cameron abundantly didn’t accept in desks, aback then), gave it some apprehension and appropriately pronounced: ‘No.’
So I was surprised, six months later, to acquisition him on the end of the buzz and allegedly agog to accommodated up. He had aback remembered that I had additionally accounting some songs for the abundant French singer, Charles Aznavour.
I’d accounting the lyrics of Yesterday, Aback I Was Young for him and, in 1974, at the bidding of London Weekend Television, which was attractive for a affair tune for a ball alternation alleged Seven Faces of Women, I wrote She, a song which went on to become a Top Ten hit and around alien Aznavour to the English speaking world.
This was what ability be termed my French connection.
When Cameron rang me, he had a problem. Committed to staging an English accent adaptation of what had so far been a abundantly acknowledged French agreeable alleged Les Miserables, he already had a theatre, the Barbican, two Royal Shakespeare Company admiral (Trevor Nunn and John Caird) and Boublil and Schonberg’s aesthetic score.
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Wrote My Way Out - YouTube | wrote my way out lyricsBut with aperture night about seven months abroad he had no English libretto.
The acclaimed artist James Fenton had been alive on it for a year-and-a-half but afterwards assuming any assurance of absolutely commutual a accessible script. The buzz alarm to me was Cameron acute the agitation button. Allegedly he’d woken up that morning, sat bolt cocked in bed and instantly apprehension of me.
Another affair at his desk-free appointment was apace followed by cafeteria at the fashionable Ivy restaurant and, in due course, by me walking into my editor’s appointment at the Mail to ask for bristles months off.
‘Why?’ barked my old and abundant lamented friend, David English. ‘To address a musical.’
He looked unhappy. ‘I can’t lose my television analyzer for bristles months.’
Fortunately, he relented and when, some years later, our paths beyond in New York, I asked him why he had caved in.
‘I could see in your eyes you were activity to do it whatever I said.’ And he was right.
So on March 1, 1985, the best amazing aeon of my activity began. My collapsed (once endemic by John Cleese) became the abode area I worked, slept occasionally and lived in the acreage of my imagination.
We all knew our English adaptation of Les Miserables would be one third best than the French aboriginal — British audiences weren’t accustomed abundant with Hugo’s adventure for the concise two-hour Paris adaptation to accomplish faculty — which meant my autograph a new prologue, bisected a dozen new songs and ‘reconstructing’ those that survived from the original.
I don’t accept a song can be translated: it is what is and agency what it agency in the accent it was accounting in. But you can reconstruct it for a new ability and that’s what I did with Les Miserables.
I about allege French so had been provided with a accurate adaptation of the French songs, but far added important to me was Hugo’s aboriginal atypical and alert to Claude-Michel Schonberg’s score.
Frontrunner: For her amazing role as Fantine in Tom Hooper's agreeable drama, Anne additionally won the Golden Globe Award and the SAG Award for best acknowledging actress
What did the adventure charge to say at that accurate point? How was the music agreeable me to say it? Sometimes I retained a chat or two of the original. A insubordinate anthem, for instance, alleged At The Will Of The Bodies appropriately became Do You Apprehend The Bodies Sing? I am a lyricist, not a translator.
With rehearsals cartoon nearer, I was alive at an batty pitch, generally through the night. Accompany Him Home, which had accustomed me added agitation than any added song, assuredly came to me in a three-hour artistic access that began at two o’clock in the morning.
Trevor Nunn and John Caird had been annular to my collapsed to altercate the problems I’d been accepting with this one accurate song, whose august melody seemed absolutely at allowance with the agitated affections that the song was aggravating to convey. As John Caird left, able-bodied afterwards midnight, he angry to me and said, about as an aside: ‘Sounds to me like a prayer.’
I realised he was right. As a adoration aback aggregate fell into place. ‘God . . . on . . . high, hear . . . my . . . prayer, . . . in . . . my . . . need, you accept consistently been there’
I took Accompany Him Home into rehearsals the abutting morning and audition Colm Wilkinson, our aboriginal Jean Valjean, sing it for the actual aboriginal time, I knew we had apparent article appropriate and thrilling.It’s a accepted allegory that all the critics panned Les Miserables, but that’s not altogether true.
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Hamilton Broadway Hurricane Lyrics I Wrote My Way Out Keychain ... | wrote my way out lyricsThere were bad reviews certainly, including, sadly, one from my acquaintance and colleague, Jack Tinker, with whom I’d aggregate a backup of desks at the Mail. Our accord did survive — eventually — but alone just.
He referred to the appearance as The Glums, allegedly blind that our casting had already bestowed the aforementioned nick-name on the show.
I took abundance from alive that Hugo’s atypical was analogously ill-treated by critics aback it was appear in 1862. But for every bad apprehension we received, there was a acceptable one.
So while Michael Radcliffe in the Observer channelled his adenoids as if he’d aloof smelled a rotten fish, John Peter in the Sunday Times declared our appearance as ‘blazingly theatrical’.
American affidavit drowned us in acclaim and eight Tony awards. Time Magazine and Newsweek raved. So did the all-important New York Times.
In the 19 years that the appearance ran at the Palace Theatre afore appointment bottomward the alley to its accepted home, The Queen’s, I went to see it alone two or three times.
But I did fly to aboriginal nights in abroad places — Tokyo, Cape Town, Budapest . . . Seeing Tom Hooper’s blur adaptation a ages ago, brought all the action hasty back. I admired his adventurous addition of accepting the actors sing alive in every take.
Hugh Jackman afterwards told me it was like actuality ‘set free’ to acquisition a ‘heightened reality’.
And, best gratifyingly of all, at atomic from a lyricist’s point of view, you can apprehend and accept every word, including those to Suddenly, the one new song we wrote for the blur and which now has an Oscar choice to go with the one for a Golden Globe.
And yes, that does beggarly that in about a month’s time we will be branch aback to Los Angeles for the Oscar ceremony, a apprehension that, in my accepted jet-lagged state, fills me with according measures of apprehension and dread.
But whatever the outcome, I’m adequate to apprentice that bodies all over the apple are advancing out of cinemas, dehydration their tears and singing our songs.
The blur has been out alone a anniversary in this country and already I’ve met addition who’s apparent it six times. Mind you, they’ll accept to go some to exhausted the apple-cheeked Canadian clergyman I met in New York who’d apparent the Broadway date appearance 87 times.
Les Miserables afflicted a lot of things for me, although I did acknowledgment to my job at the Mail for a year afore I realised the appearance was acutely set to run and run, and that I absolutely could, at the age of 61, assuredly accede giving up the day job.
As a man who’d accustomed in this country with alone £150 in his abridged (which, by the way, I anon lent to addition and never saw again) I curiosity at the transformation in my fortunes.
But I didn’t stop autograph songs. Aback Les Miserables, I’ve formed with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, of Abba fame, on a agreeable alleged Kristina and teamed up afresh with Boublil and Schonberg to actualize a appearance called Marguerite, this time with the music accounting by Michel Legrand.
And abutting year, I’m hoping, finally, to animate the agreeable that aboriginal put me in blow with Sir Cameron Mackintosh. Yes, 50 years afterwards its aboriginal run, I’m acquisitive we can accompany Our Man Crichton aback to the London stage, this time with a harder abusive edge.
‘Do you apprehend the bodies sing?’ asks the choir of Les Miserables. As continued as the acknowledgment is ‘yes’, I’ll accumulate autograph the songs.
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