Miss Saigon

A detailed Summary of Miss Saigon

In a crowded airport, a mother is letting go of her daughter, both of them in tears. She is letting go because she knows that beyond the departure gates, lie hope and opportunity for her daughter, and nothing at all for herself. "This picture started everything for us..." said Shonberg of this one moment captured in time. It was the motivation for Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boubil to create this theatrical legend, that has continued to capture the hearts of Americans for more than ten years. Holding the record for advanced sales at $36 million, "Miss Saigon" has undoubtedly proved itself a raving success.

The show first opened in September 1989 in London, and sprung to the stages of Broadway in April of 1991, with a top ticket price of $100.

With an unparalleled creative team and a heart clinching story line, "Miss Saigon" is one of the hottest tickets, from Budapest to Tokyo.

The night that "Les Miserables" opened in London, Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg went to their producer, Cameron Mackintosh, with an idea. This idea was to update the classic story of Madam Butterfly. However, the inspiration behind this project was not a Victor Hugo novel, but this si

"Miss Saigon" is the story of a 17 year old girl named Kim, who is forced to work as a bar girl after seeing her family slaughtered. The play opens with Kim being introduced to the other girls by the Engineer who not only plays the role of the girls' pimp, but hopes one of these girls will be his passport to America. The Engineer runs the club, frequented by American GI's, where the girls dream of finding an American husband to rescue them from their lives.

Mackintosh, Boubil, and Schonberg's are theatrical legends who have enthralled the world with their works. But more than that, these three men offered awareness, compassion, and understanding through the story of "Miss Saigon". Many people would perhaps not understand the importance of the clash of culture, and the life of the "bui doi" the war had prompted. "Miss Saigon" is not only a gripping story of two victims of fate, but a detailed sketch of a most critical time in our history.

So often called "the" producer of the 1980's and 1990's, Mackintosh got his theatrical start at the age of fifteen, as a stagehand for the play "Oliver!", and first saw the stages of London when he was 20 with an adaptation of Little Women. Mackintosh continued to produce musicals for the next ten years, until his partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber was launched by the production of "Cats". "Cats" proved to be a phenomenal success for both Webber and Mackintosh. In 1986, they introduced the third big blockbuster by the creative duo, "Phantom Of The Opera", following the English adaptation of "Les Miserables" in 1985.

Chris and Kim spend the night together, where she tells him what had happened to her parents, and how before their deaths, she was promised to a man she does not love.

While Kim sleeps, Chris wanders through the streets of Saigon singing "Why, God, Why?", a song about love in the mist of

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