** Claude-Michel Schonberg ( composer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ), Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg ( producers ), & the original Broadway cast for Les Misérables

Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.

Kretzmer won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren comedy hit “ Goodness Gracious Me ”, composed by David Lee.

Other award-winning Kretzmer lyrics include “ Yesterday When I Was Young ” and the chart-topping “ She ”, both written with and for the French singer Charles Aznavour ..

Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Anthony Newley ’ s cult musical film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, whose score included “ When You Gotta Go ”, often used as a closing song by singers including Barbra Streisand.

Kretzmer later wrote ( with composer Laurie Johnson ) the lyrics for a large-scale comedy spoof, The Four Musketeers, which ran for more than a year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Harry Secombe as the swordsman d ' Artagnan.

In 1985, Kretzmer ’ s songs for Aznavour came to the attention of producer Cameron Mackintosh, who invited him to write an English version of a French musical Les Misérables ( by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg ).

In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.

Note: The Grammy nominations are credited to the composers and producers and not the artists, the Grammy for Les Miserables was awarded to Claude-Michel Schönberg ( composer and producer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ) and Alain Boublil ( producer ).

# Les Misérables, 1980 Paris, 1985 London, 1987 Broadway, m Claude-Michel Schönberg, lb Alain Boublil ( English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer ) (> 10, 800 in London ( the longest-running musical in history ); 6, 680 on Broadway ) ( 1987 Tony Award winner ; nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight )

" The inspiration for both score and lyrics feels more like a retread of the worst excesses of Les Misérables ( a fact amplified here by sharing the English lyricist of that show, Herbert Kretzmer ) and Frank Wildhorn, with the occasional Lloyd Webber rock riff thrown in for good measure ", wrote The Stage, while The Times concluded that " the piece displayed moments of musical power.

For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.

* 1987: Les Misérables – Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The new musical Marguerite is by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Schönberg's next project with Boublil, Marguerite, includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Herbert Kretzmer OBE ( born 5 October 1925 ) is a South African-born English journalist and lyric writer.

After several years as a feature writer on the Daily Sketch, Kretzmer became a profile writer on the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express, interviewing John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Cary Grant and Duke Ellington.

Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical, Our Man Crichton, composed by David Lee and based on J M Barrie ’ s satirical play The Admirable Crichton.

Kretzmer ’ s lyrics extended the two-hour Paris original into a three-hour show.

For his work on the Les Misérables lyrics, Kretzmer received Tony and Grammy awards.

Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.

In 1988, Kretzmer was elected a Chevalier of L ’ Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.

Kretzmer was born in South Africa in 1925.

He is one of four brothers born to Lithuanian-born William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the racist pogroms of Czarist Russia to settle in small-town South Africa early in the 20th century.

Kretzmer married Elisabeth Margaret Wilson, and they had one son and one daughter.

On 8 April 2011, Kretzmer received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa.

She was also cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.

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