Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on...
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The Miss Saigon controversy refers to the numerous controversies that surrounded the 1989 coming-of-age stage musical Miss Saigon that arose during the...
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Noblezada made her professional debut as Kim in the West End revival of Miss Saigon, a performance for which she earned a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress...
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lead role of Kim in the original West End and Broadway productions of Miss Saigon. For her performance, she gained five awards—the Laurence Olivier Award...
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played the Engineer in the original casts in the West End revival of Miss Saigon in 2014, for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for...
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2012 musical film Les Misérables. Brammer performed as 'Chris' in the Miss Saigon 25th anniversary performance. Originally from Exmouth, Devon, Brammer...
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theatre revenue: Up until 2013 – $2.6 billion 2014–2016 – $108,535,588 Miss Saigon revenue: Up until 2013 – $1.6 billion 2017–2018 – $36,259,976 Jersey...
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Court Theatre's Hamlet in 1980 and as The Engineer in the stage musical Miss Saigon in 1990. On the Broadway stage he earned Tony Awards—the first for Best...
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Prostitution in Vietnam (section Miss Saigon)
States, exploit children in Vietnam. The protagonist of the 1989 musical Miss Saigon is a Vietnamese prostitute named Kim. Echoing the plot of Puccini's opera...
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Alain Boublil (section Miss Saigon)
These include La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen (2006), and Marguerite...
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Bụi đời (section Miss Saigon and Amerasian orphans)
children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" came to popularity in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian...
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auditioned for an open call in Manila for the original production of Miss Saigon in front of director Sir Nicolas Hytner. Despite not having any experience...
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August 2016. When the Overture Center scheduled a touring production of Miss Saigon in April 2019, local scholars and members of the Asian American community...
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on the stage, and performed in London's West End productions of Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans...
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Noblezada. Calud was a member of the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon in 1991 where she was part of the Ensemble. She served as the understudy...
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he has been involved in include Porgy and Bess, The Little Mermaid, Miss Saigon, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and many others. Lewis...
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tour of Miss Saigon. He auditioned for the show on three occasions before he was cast. Lee went on to join the Broadway production of Miss Saigon (Thuy)...
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various stage productions across the West End and Broadway, including Miss Saigon (role of "Gigi"), Here Lies Love ("Imelda Marcos"), and Spider-Man: Turn...
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Alex Gaumond (section 2000–01 (Miss Saigon))
Gaumond made his professional debut that very same year in the ensemble of Miss Saigon in the Philippines. Gaumond also understudied the leading role of Chris...
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Mark Steyn (section The Story of Miss Saigon)
his first books, The Story of Miss Saigon (1991) co-written with Edward Behr, Steyn offered up his stance on the Miss Saigon controversy of 1990. Steyn accused...
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works include La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen (2006), and Marguerite...
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appearing in national tours and concert productions of musicals like Miss Saigon, Chess, The War of the Worlds, RENT, and Anything Goes. Ellis, who has...
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Griddlebone and Grizabella. In 1988, at the age of 21, Henshall was cast in Miss Saigon as one of the bargirls, showing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She...
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breakthrough playing a hardened bargirl in the 2014 West End revival of Miss Saigon. For the show, she received the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Featured...
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international breakthrough as Gigi Van Tranh in the West End revival of Miss Saigon in 2014, reprising the part on Broadway in 2017. She gained further recognition...
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producer of shows including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, and Hamilton. Mackintosh was knighted in 1996...
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Award nominations. He then played Chris in the 2nd National Tour of Miss Saigon. He first performed on Broadway in 1998 as the Squeegee Man and Mark/Roger...
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of Chris, opposite Lea Salonga's Kim, in the original production of Miss Saigon at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End. Prior to that, he was Marius...
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performances in the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet in 1980 and the musical Miss Saigon in 1990. For his work on Broadway he received two Tony Award nominations...
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presentation of the show was seen by someone in the Toronto casting department Miss Saigon who arranged for an audition for the role of Kim in the musical. She...
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