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Miss Saigon (Original London Cast)
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Boublil and Schönberg's triumphant follow-up to Les Misérables opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sept 20, 1989.





Disc 1:
1. Overture
2. The Heat Is On In Saigon
3. The Movie In My Mind
4. The Dance
5. Why God Why?
6. This Money's Yours
7. Sun And Moon
8. The Telephone Song
9. The Deal
10. The Ceremony
11. What's This I Find
12. The Last Night Of The World
13. The Morning Of The Dragon
14. I Still Believe
15. This Is The Hour

Disc 2:
1. If You Want To Die In Bed
2. Let Me See His Western Nose
3. I'd Give My Life For You
4. Bui-Doi
5. The Revelation
6. What A Waste
7. Please
8. The Fall Of Saigon
9. Room 317
10. Now That I've Seen Her
11. The Confrontation
12. The American Dream
13. The Sacred Bird
14. Finale

Starring Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce, Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's story of marriage between an American lieutenant and Japanese girl is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.
The musical premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on 20 September 1989, closing after over four thousand performances, on 30 October 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre in 1991 and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours.
The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. As of December 2012, Miss Saigon is still the eleventh longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.







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