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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.
[5] [6] The Miss Saigon casting controversy was the source of much public interest in 1990 as the Miss Saigon debate made it to the front pages of The New York Times 8 times in August 1990. [5] Editorials in the Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , and The Wall Street Journal published over the course of one week in August 1990 ...
[51] In June, he appeared at the New Haven International Arts Festival in the musical Stuck Elevator, with music by Byron Au Yong and a libretto by Aaron Jafferis, directed by Chay Yew about a delivery man trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours. [52] In November, Jue returned to North Shore and to the role of the Engineer in Miss Saigon.
She is known for her role as Kim/Gigi in Miss Saigon in West End in the 1990s. [2] She is also a recording artist [3] and talent handler. [4] Laforteza recently commemorated her 24-year journey with the television series Star Magic, receiving a Loyalty Award during the Star Magical Christmas celebration on November 19, 2023. [5]
Rachelle Ann Villalobos Go was born on August 31, 1986, in Pasig, Metro Manila. [1] [2] She is the eldest of four children of Oscar Go and Russell Villalobos.[3] [2] Her mother was a member of an all-girl group that performed as a touring band in Japan.
Salonga returned to Manila in Miss Saigon, staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines at the end of 2000. [55] In November 2001, while performing in the Los Angeles production of Flower Drum Song at the Mark Taper Forum, Salonga met Robert "Rob" Charles Chien, an American entrepreneur of Chinese and Japanese heritage. [56]
Dulce auditioned for the role of Gigi in Miss Saigon when the producers first came to Manila. She was, however, unable to proceed with the audition due to acute pharyngitis . When the production team came back in 1990, she auditioned again and was instructed to fly to New York City .
Almedilla moved to the United States in 1993 to pursue a college education and studied voice. Her first role was Kim in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon (1995–1997). [2] She then moved on to portray the role of Fantine on the Third National Tour of Les Misérables (1999–2000 and 2005–2006). [3]