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Marguerite (musical)
Marguerite
is a
musical
with a book by
Alain Boublil
,
Claude-Michel Schönberg
and
Jonathan Kent
, lyrics by
Alain Boublil
and
Herbert Kretzmer
, and music by
Michel Legrand
, with original French lyrics by Boublil. Based on the romantic novel
La Dame aux Camélias
by
Alexandre Dumas, fils
, the musical updates the story to 1940s German-occupied
Paris
. It tells the tale of a 40-year-old ex-singer and her affair with a young musician who is mixed up with the
French Resistance
, whilst she is the mistress of a
Nazi
officer.
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