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Miss Saigon
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Transcript
Original Cast
- Kim- Lea Salonga
- Chris- Simon Bowman
- The Engineer- Jonathan Pryce
- John- Peter Polycarpou
- Ellen- Claire Moore
- Thuy- Keith Burns
- Gigi- Isay Alvarez
- Tam- Allen Evangelista, Wasseem Hamdan, and David Platt
- Alternate Kim- Monique Wilson
- Kim- 17 year old orphaned girl forced to work at Dreamland
- Chris Scott- American G.I. about to leave for America
- The Engineer (Tran Van Dinh)- Sleazy but likeable owner of Dreamland
- Ellen- Chris' American wife
- John Thomas- Chris' friend
- Thuy – Kim's cousin and betrothed, to whom Kim’s parents promised her when the two were thirteen. Has since become an officer in the Communist Vietnamese government.
- Gigi Van Tranh – A hardened Saigon stripper; initially voted as "Miss Saigon".
- Tam – Kim and Chris's three-year old son.
Characters
- Act I
- "The Heat is On in Saigon" – Soldiers, Bar Girls, The Engineer, Kim, John, Chris and Gigi
- "Sun and Moon" – Kim and Chris
- "The Wedding Ceremony" – Gigi, Kim, Bar Girls and Chris
- "I Still Believe" – Kim and Ellen
- "Thuy's Death" / "You Will Not Touch Him" – Thuy and Kim
- Act II
- "Bui Doi" – John and Chorus
- "Chris is Here" – The Engineer, Kim, Club Owner and John
- "Kim's Nightmare" – Thuy
- "Paper Dragons" – The Engineer and Kim
- "Finale" – Chris and Kim
- Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944)
- Alain Boublil (born 1941)
- Both well known for their works Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), and The Pirate Queen (2006).
- Richard Eldridge Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937)
- He along with Boubil wrote the lyrics to Miss Saigon and Pirate Queen.
About the Composers
Musical Numbers
General Information
Adaptations
Due to the amount of adult language in the Broadway, the writers edited the script to a more appropriate language for school and also edited the score to accommodate for the student's range as it isn't well developed as an adult's.
There are only high school adaptations because it isn't appropriate for Broadway Jr.
- Based off Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly".
- Musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil.
- Lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.
- First performance on April 11, 1991
- Last on January 28, 2001
- Performed 4,092 times
Synopsis
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon#Synopsis
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon
- http://mtiblog.mtishows.com/the-heat-is-on-in-saigon-miss-saigon-school-edition-now-available-for-licensing/