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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.
The American scholar Yutian Wong complained about the first chapter of The Story of Miss Saigon written by Behr who covered the Vietnam War for Newsweek, where Behr confessed to sleeping with hundreds of Vietnamese prostitutes during his time in Saigon, experiences that convinced him that Miss Saigon was a realistic and accurate picture of ...
Miss Vietnam 2012. Miss Vietnam is the biggest beauty pageant and the first nationwide beauty contest after the reunification of Vietnam.Before that, there was also a South Vietnamese Saigon-based beauty contest named Cuộc thi tìm kiếm người đẹp tại Sài Gòn (lit.
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.
Nguyễn Thiên Nga is the first contestant in the history of the competition to win two "Miss Vietnam" titles, the first in 1996 as the official contestant and the second title in 1999. In that year she was the special contestant for choosing a delegate representative for Vietnam in the "Miss Friendship of the World 1999" competition.
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.
The 1989 musical Miss Saigon is Broadway's thirteenth longest-running show. [181] [182] After making the 2017 documentary series The Vietnam War, directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick stated that "one of the revelations of the project was how much women were on the [North Vietnamese] front lines...
Miss Cosmo 2024 was the inaugural edition of the Miss Cosmo pageant, held in Saigon Riverside Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on 5 October 2024.. At the end of the event, Ketut Permata Juliastrid of Indonesia was crowned by the president of the Miss Cosmo Organization, Trần Việt Bảo Hoàng, as the inaugural titleholder.