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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.
In 1991, she became the first Asian actress to win a Tony Award for her performance as Kim in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, following her win at the 1990 Laurence Olivier Awards for the same role.
In the same month, Salonga began performing her third U.K. concert tour, Stage, Screen & Everything In Between, which included a concert at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where the original production of Miss Saigon premiered. [177]
Salonga rose to international recognition in 1989 after starring as Kim in the original West End production of Miss Saigon, [5] a role she later reprised when the musical transferred to Broadway in 1991. [6] A documentary entitled The Heat Is On, which details the creation and casting process of the original production, was filmed and released ...
The Broadway production was nominated for twelve Tony Awards in 1987 and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. In 1989, Schönberg and Boublil produced the London showing of the musical Miss Saigon, which starred Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce.
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.
In 1988, at the age of 18, she auditioned for a role in Miss Saigon in the original West End production and was cast as the understudy of the title role, Kim. After a year, she replaced Lea Salonga in the role. [1]
The Miss Saigon controversy refers to the numerous controversies that surrounded the 1989 coming-of-age stage musical Miss Saigon that arose during the show's 1990 transfer to Broadway, reaching its peak around August 1990. Afterwards, controversies surrounding the production continued throughout the early 1990s.