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Our Shows : Miss Saigon
The Civic
20 May 2011 - 11 June 2011
Visit www.misssaigon.co.nz for updates on the Auckland production. PERSONNEL Director - David Adkins
Musical Director - Kerry Priestley
Musical Director Orchestra - Adrian Hirst
Choregrapher - Rhonda Daverne
Production Manager - Bruce Abbott
Lighting Designer - Martin Searancke
Stage Manager - Scott Thomas
Production Photograpy - John Ferguson SAIGON TOUR Information on the New Zealand shows and information on the consortium can be found here. SYNOPSIS
A classic love story is brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In 'Miss Saigon', Alain Boublil and Claude-Michael Schönberg (the creators of 'Les Misérables'), along with Richard Maltby, Jr., bring Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war.
In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years ends in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had.
An international sensation, 'Miss Saigon' is an epic, daring pop opera that is universal in its emotional power even as it deals with controversial, contemporary issues. Its sung-through pop-inflected score gives a multi-ethnic cast of strong pop singers an opportunity to shine, in showstopping numbers like 'I Still Believe', 'Why God Why?' and 'The American Dream'. Meanwhile, its fluid cinematic structure gives directors and designers a field day.
Raw and uncompromising, 'Miss Saigon' is an intensely personal story of the losses we suffer and the sacrifices we make in a world gone mad. Set in 1975 during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon, Miss Saigon is an epic love story about the relationship between an American G.I. and a young Vietnamese woman.
Kim is working in a sleazy Saigon night club owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as 'The Engineer'. John, an American G.I., buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night. That night will change their lives forever.
Three years later, the US Army has fled Saigon. Chris has returned to America and, believing Kim is dead, marries an American women named Ellen.
However, unbeknown to Chris, Kim is alive, has left Saigon and is living in poverty with her three year old son, Tam in Bangkok. When John tells Chris that Kim is alive and has borne Chris a son, Chris and Ellen go to Asia.
When Kim learns that Chris is in Bangkok with his new wife, all her hopes to be reunited with him disappear. She is desperate for her son to have a future in America with his father and will make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.
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