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Ruthie's back with the Miss Saigon team
Louise Jury, Evening Standard30 Jan 2008
Ruthie Henshall has been reunited with the team that made her a star for the world premiere of a new musical.
Nearly 20 years after being plucked from the chorus to take a leading role in Miss Saigon, she will play Marguerite in a show of the same name. It has been written by Miss Saigon collaborators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg with the help of director Jonathan Kent.
The score is by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer who first worked with Boublil and Schönberg on Les Misérables.
Henshall, 40, is thrilled to be starring in the world premiere. "It's why I got into the business - I wanted to create roles," she said.
"When you take over a role it's never the same because somebody has put their mark on it. I was in the Miss Saigon world premiere so this is the second time I've been involved with Alain and Claude."
Marguerite is a love story set in Paris during the Second World War taken from the novel La Dame Aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas.
• Marguerite is at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 7 May to 1 November.
