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1 Cyrano de Bergerac (Lewis) peut-être considéré comme un Flop musical

2 Cyrano de Bergerac (Lewis) est une adaption à la scène d'une oeuvre littéraire: "Cyrano de Bergerac" d'Edmond Rostand.

Based on Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play of the same name, it focuses on a love triangle involving the large-nosed poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, his beautiful cousin Roxana, and his classically handsome but inarticulate friend Christian de Neuvillette who, unaware of Cyrano's unrequited passion for Roxana, imposes upon him to provide the romantic words he can use to woo her successfully in mid-17th century Paris.

In the early 1960s, David Merrick had announced plans to produce a musical entitled Cyrano with a score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, but nothing came of the project. Burgess had translated the Rostand play for the Guthrie in Minneapolis, and director Michael Langham suggested he adapt it for a musical version. Burgess joined forces with film composer Lewis, replacing dialogue in his play with musical numbers, and the completed work was staged at the Guthrie, again with Langham at the helm.

Following a tryout in Boston's Colonial Theatre and five previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened on May 13, 1973 at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 49 performances. The cast included Christopher Plummer as Cyrano, Leigh Beery as Roxana, and Mark Lamos as Christian, with Tovah Feldshuh making her Broadway debut in two small supporting roles.

Plummer won the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, and Beery was Tony-nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Act I
Cyrano's Nose
La France, La France
Tell Her
From Now Till Forever
Bergerac
Pocapdedious
No, Thank You
From Now Till Forever (Reprise)

Act II
Roxana
It's She and It's Me
You Have Made Me Love
Thither, Thother, Thide
Pocapdedious (Reprise)
Paris Cuisine
Love Is Not Love
Autumn Carol
I Never Loved You

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