Claude-Michel Schönberg
French record producer and actorWikipedia
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Oct 12, 2026
Gibson DelGiudiceGUEST
And so they tried to find another writer.
Gibson DelGiudiceGUEST
And at one point it was pitched to the Les Mis team, Boublier and Schoenberg.
Gibson DelGiudiceGUEST
And they seriously considered it for a bit.
Gibson DelGiudiceGUEST
But they came out of it being like, OK, we love the movie, but we don't see how this sings.
Matt GiulianoHOST
I've never seen that show, but looking through some of the synopses, it looks like Chris, the Pinkerton equivalent, is much less of a jerk than Pinkerton, as he is involuntarily separated from Kim, the Cho Choson analog, during the chaotic American embassy evacuation of Vietnam in 1975.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Miss Saigon's music was written by Claude Michel Schoenberg, who also wrote Les Mis, so it's probably not a coincidence that a melody from Madame Butterfly's humming chorus shows up in Les Mis' Bring Him Home.
Matt GiulianoHOST
There was a French opera based on Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthem that predates Puccini's Madame Butterfly, premiering in 1894.
Matt GiulianoHOST
It has a very light online footprint, so it's hard to say how popular it was at the time, but it seems like Puccini's opera pretty much wiped it out of historical consciousness.