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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 Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
[5] [6] The Miss Saigon casting controversy was the source of much public interest in 1990 as the Miss Saigon debate made it to the front pages of The New York Times 8 times in August 1990. [5] Editorials in the Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , and The Wall Street Journal published over the course of one week in August 1990 ...
The film has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews. [4]Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "...feels very much like an American B-movie stab at turning Israeli anti-terrorist operations of 30 years ago into formulaic action fodder — without much action, even."
Miss Saigon: The Engineer: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Broadway Theatre, Broadway 1992: Nine: Guido Contini: Royal Festival Hall, London 1993: Cabaret: The Emcee: Studio cast recording 1994–95: Oliver! Fagin: The London Palladium, London 2001: My Fair Lady: Henry Higgins: Royal National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London 2004 ...
Ernesto Cloma Briones Jr., [1] known as Jon Jon Briones (born August 7, 1965), [2] is a Filipino-American actor best known for his work in musical theatre.He 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 Best Actor in a Musical, and reprised the part on Broadway in 2017.
Junix Inocian (born Rufino Duran Inocian, Jr.; March 17, 1951 – June 13, 2015) was a Filipino actor and comedian. He starred in various plays, such as Miss Saigon, Fiddler on the Roof, the film version of the Swedish crime novel Tatuerad Torso, [1] [2] and Sinbad.
Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon as The Engineer. Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers; Paul Hipp – Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly; Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye; Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon as Kim. June Angela – ShÅgun: The Musical as Lady Mariko; Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake
She was an environmental engineering major at UCLA. While still in college, she auditioned for the first national tour of Miss Saigon. She traded an ROTC scholarship for the role of "Gigi/Mimi" when she was picked by producer Cameron Mackintosh for the first national tour of Miss Saigon. While on the road, she continued taking academic classes ...