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 Camélias
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.
Marguerite is the World Premiere of a collaboration between Alain
Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and Martin
Guerre), the triple Oscar winning musical legend Michel Legrand (Windmills Of
Your Mind, Yentl, Summer of ’42) and lyricist Herbert Kretzmer (Les
Misérables).
Ruthie Henshall, the award-winning West End and Broadway actress, returns to
the London stage to play the title role, with Julian Ovenden as Armand and
Alexander Hanson as the German officer Otto.
Marguerite is the final production in Jonathan Kent’s acclaimed launch season for the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company.
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