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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.
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]
1989: Miss Saigon, a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, is inspired by the opera, focusing on a doomed romance between an American Marine and a Vietnamese bargirl and transporting the action to the end and aftermath of the Vietnam War. [41]
In the 1991 book The Story of Miss Saigon by the Anglo-French journalist Edward Behr and the Canadian columnist Mark Steyn, the claim by Boublil and Schönberg as Frenchmen to have a special "insider's knowledge" of the Vietnamese is accepted as a fact, and Miss Saigon is portrayed as a historically accurate picture of the Vietnam war. [45]
The protagonist of the 1989 musical Miss Saigon is a Vietnamese prostitute named Kim. Echoing the plot of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, Kim falls in love with and is left pregnant by a client who is a white American soldier with a wife at home. After he has abandoned her for his American wife, Kim realizes her child's father will never ...
For her audition for Miss Saigon, the then 17-year-old Lea Salonga chose to sing the song and was later asked to sing "Sun and Moon" from Miss Saigon, impressing the audition panel. [3] Salonga has sometimes credited "On My Own" as the starting point of her international career. [4]
Simon Bowman (born 16 February 1961) is a British actor and singer, born in Cardiff and trained at Mountview Theatre School. He is best known for originating the role of Chris, opposite Lea Salonga's Kim, in the original production of Miss Saigon at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End.
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]