Miss Saigon
Synopsis
http://www.theatretrust.com/miss-saigon/the-story/synopsis
AN EPIC LOVE STORYMiss Saigon is a love story about the relationship between
an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman. It is set in 1975 during
the final days of the American occupation of Saigon in the final stages
of the Vietnam War…
Kim is working in a sleazy Saigon night club owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as ‘The Engineer’.
John, an American GI, 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 is now married to Ellen, an American woman. He believes
that Kim is dead.
However, Kim has left Saigon and is living in poverty with Tam, her
three year old son, in Bangkok. Chris discovers that Kim is alive and
that Tam is his son. He returns to Asia in search of Kim and Tam.
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 she will make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.
I saw this 17 years ago in Cincinnati and it still sticks with me. It is a very powerful musical. I particularly loved the scene above because it shows twp different points of view at the same time. And though it is on the same stage, you can see the two different settings. The scene along with the emotion told through song really hit me and I admit, I may have cried a little.
wow, as you said her emotion told throughout the song is vivid, very overpowering.. This piece is very compelling.
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ReplyDeleteI cannot wait to see one. This is a very powerful play. I think it is pretty cool that it is two different stages for the one story. At first I didn't think that boy was going to get up off that bed, it startled me!
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