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2019-06-25 05:48:00
Boublil & Schonberg’s Miss Saigon. June 22, 2019.
Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA. Mezzanine (Seat MEZZRC J-120, $75). Story. American soldier Chris visits a bar in Saigon and falls in love with the bargirl Kim. They get married in a Vietnamese ceremony. During the last days before the Fall of Saigon, Chris and Kim try without success to look for one another. Chris is forced to leave Saigon in a helicopter; Kim, after murdering a communist commissar who wanted to kill her young son, flees Saigon with the bar owner The Engineer to Bangkok. Chris is helped in his resettlement in the United States by Ellen, and marries her. Meanwhile, Chris’s fellow soldier John now works for an organization helping to locate children in Vietnam born of American fathers, and locates Kim and her son. Chris and Ellen go with John to Bangkok, their intention is to provide Kim with money so she can raise […]
2018-03-30 23:38:42
St Peter's School, Cambridge is getting ready to perform the school edition of the hit musical Miss Saigon in May. The production was written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil and based on the Giacomo Puccini opera Madame Butterfly . It is set in the final days of the Vietnam War and 17-year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar.
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Royal Opera House
2017-03-29 11:20:22
The Butterfly Effect: Why pop culture has embraced Puccini's Madama Butterfly
[…] according to the New York Times' opening night review . Movie poster for the 1915 film Madame Butterfly In the hundred years since, Puccini's opera which tells the story of a young Geisha's doomed marriage to US naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton has influenced dozens of works across the arts. Not a million miles from the opera world in the world of musical theatre, perhaps the best known of all adaptations of Madama Butterfly is Boublil and Schönberg's musical Miss Saigon , which swaps the original's setting of Nagasaki Bay for the dying days of the Vietnam War. The adaptation has its genesis when Schönberg came across a photograph in a magazine of a Vietnamese woman saying farewell to her child at Saigon airport, so that child could have a better life with her G.I. father in America. 'It sounded to us like the ultimate sacrifice and a wonderful subject […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-03-26 21:41:32
Top AJ Blog Posts For The Weekend Of 03.26.17
[…] in 1938, is celebrating his birthday. Let’s celebrate with him as he, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Billy Drummond play Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation.” Kuhn’s unaccompanied introduction explores a ... read more AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-03-24 They’re gonna need a bigger helicopter In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway revival of Miss Saigon . Here’s an excerpt. * * * “Miss Saigon,” in which Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the makers of “Les Misérables,” turned “Madame ... read more AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-03-24
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