The Independent - London, September 24th, 1996
The ill-fated musical Martin Guerre is to close. But four days later it is to reopen with a radically altered first act.
Sir Cameron Mackintosh has taken the unusual step of relaunching a musical within months of its opening in an effort to boost box-office takings.
Martin Guerre Mark Two will kick off with a new opening number on 1 November. Despite six years of preparation and an expenditure of pounds 3.5m, Sir Cameron's latest musical has failed to elicit anything like the response of its world-famous predecessors, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, also written by the French duo, Alain Boub...
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