While watching a revival production of Lionel Bart's 'Oliver' in London, LES MISERABLES Co-creator Alain Boublil saw the similarities between literature's favorite little street urchins Oliver Twist, from Charles Dicken's novel of the same name, and Gavroche, from Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES, which sparked the idea of co-writing the novel-to-stage adaptation of the latter with writing partner Claude-Michel Schonber…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19AM on April 9, 2016