enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Miss Saigon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon

    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.

  3. Claude-Michel Schönberg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Michel_Schönberg

    Miss Saigon co-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. worked with Boublil on revisions to the book and lyrics, and Graciela Daniele worked on the musical staging. Following a critical savaging and poor ticket sales, The Pirate Queen closed on 17 June 2007 after 85 performances and 32 previews, resulting in a loss of almost $18 million, ranking it among ...

  4. Bụi đời - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bụi_đời

    The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, trẻ bụi đời to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" [1] [2] came to popularity in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian children left behind in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.

  5. Goodnight Saigon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Saigon

    "Goodnight Saigon" is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.

  6. Putting It Together, Again: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends ...

    www.aol.com/putting-together-again-stephen...

    And Lea’s exactly the same; since I first discovered her for ‘Miss Saigon’ all those years ago, back in the late ‘80s, she’s always been like that too.

  7. Alain Boublil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Boublil

    Alain Boublil (born 5 March 1941) is a French national musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End.

  8. Richard Maltby Jr. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maltby_Jr.

    Richard Eldridge Maltby Jr. [1] (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter.He conceived and directed the only two musical revues to win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards, also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards).

  9. Lea Salonga - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Salonga

    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 ]