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Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini 's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly , and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
May 21, 2024 · Since the latest Broadway revival (2017), the musical Miss Saigon began its world tour, which includes multiple countries in Southeast Asia. Even though Miss Saigon was performed in Thailand back in 2012, the country became one of the first places where the show began even pre-pandemic. Local media paid special attention to the story told in ...
Miss Saigon is the twelfth longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history, running for 4,092 performances. The musical has been translated into twelve different languages, including German, Japanese and Estonian. The Broadway production broke several Broadway records almost immediately, including a record advance-ticket sales of ...
Sep 16, 2017 · Sat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00. In the centre of Ho Chi Minh City you can still see the flat roof where the last American helicopters lifted off, evacuating American personnel after the fall of Saigon ...
- Gemma Tipton
Nov 11, 2018 · Miss Saigon begins just before the fall of Saigon, in April of 1975, and deals with the aftermath of the war. Seventeen-year-old Kim arrives in Saigon after fleeing her bombed-out village. She is lost and alone, which, makes her the perfect prey for a pimp called the Engineer, who offers her immediate work as a prostitute.
Synopsis. Miss Saigon is an epic, stunning adaptation of Puccini’s opera, Madame Butterfly, by the writers behind Les Miserables. Reframing Puccini’s story by setting it during the Vietnam War, Miss Saigon is a powerful and poignant tale of love in a war-torn country. In the dangerous days before Saigon’s fall in 1975, Chris (an American ...
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Miss Saigon as the nation's "musical event of the decade" ("Pride" par.l). In 2000, the musical generated phenomenal ticket sales and renewed what journalists termed "Saigon Mania" from the early 1990s in Manila (Tolentino), where local critics declared it worth watching "even if you have to pay a leg and an arm" ("Miss Saigon Is Home" par. 33).
