• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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 productions. She is known for her role as Kim/Gigi in Miss Saigon in West End in the 1990s. She is also a recording artist and talent handler...
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    diplomat Bernard Boursicot and the Beijing opera singer Shi Pei Pu. 1989: Miss Saigon, a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, is inspired...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    he has been involved in include Porgy and Bess, The Little Mermaid, Miss Saigon, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Lewis was born in...
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    Griddlebone and Grizabella. In 1988, at the age of 21, Henshall was cast in Miss Saigon as one of the bar girls, showing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She...
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    in 1989 after starring as Kim in the original West End production of Miss Saigon, a role she later reprised when the musical transferred to Broadway in...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • starring as Sherrie), American Psycho, Doctor Zhivago, the 2017 revival of Miss Saigon, and Moulin Rouge! Yang was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to a Canadian mother...
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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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    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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  • Chinese Miss Saigon, a 1989 musical Saigon cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi), also known as Vietnamese cinnamon All pages with titles containing Saigon This...
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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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