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career of Lupone

In Patti LuPone
…performances as both Fantine in Les Misérables with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock won her the Laurence Olivier Award for best actress in a musical.
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contribution by Nunn

In Trevor Nunn
…until it was eclipsed by Les Misérables (1985), which was directed by Nunn and Caird. Along with Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot (Cats was based on the late poet’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats), Nunn shared credit for writing the musical’s hit song “Memory.” In addition to being commercially…
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Western theatre

In Western theatre: Broadway
…Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, whose Les Misérables (1980; first English-language production 1985) and Miss Saigon (1989) were also among the most successful stage spectacles of the 1980s.
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