Alain Boublil and
Claude-Michel Schönberg's follow-up soundtrack to Les Miserables is another sung-through operetta with a serious theme and a classic source. This time, they have placed
Madame Butterfly in the waning days of the Vietnam War. Jonathan Pryce stands out as a pimp named The Engineer in this highlights' collection off
Miss Saigon, taken from the London cast recording, and the score has the same rock feel as
Schönberg's Les Miserables music. ~ William Ruhlmann