Miss Saigon (Highlights from the Complete Recording)

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Catalogue No: CASTCD60

Featuring an international cast of artists, Miss Saigon is the international hit musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.

1. Overture/Backstage Dreamland
2. The Heat Is On In Saigon
3. The Movie In My Mind
4. Why God Why?
5. Sun And Moon
6. The Last Night Of The World
7. I Still Believe
8. Thuy's Death/You Will Not Touch Him
9. I'd Give My Life For You
10. Bui Doi
11. Kim's Nightmare
12. Now That I've Seen Her
13. The American Dream
14. Finale

Featuring an international cast of artists 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.

THE CAST (in order of appearance):

Saigon - April 1975

The Engineer KEVIN GRAY (Toronto/Los Angeles) Kim JOANNA AMPIL (London/Sydney) Gigi SONIA SWABY (London) Mimi ZOEI LAM Yvonne IMELDA DE LOS REYES Yvette MIRLA CRISTE Bar Girls EMY BAYSIC, SYLVIA DOHI, RONA FIGUEROA, LYDIA GASTON, MARGARET GATES, ZOEI LAM, CHRISTINE LANGNER, HEIDI MEYER, CHERI NAKAMURA, ELIZABETH PAW, CHLOE STEWART, JADE KAIWALANI STICE, ROXANNE TAGA Chris PETER COUSENS (Sydney) John HINTON BATTLE (New York) Marines DONNELL AARONE, ROBERT BARTLEY, ERIC BATES, C.C. BROWN, ALVIN CRAWFORD, JAY DOUGLAS, JIM HARRISON, LEONARD JOSEPH, NORMAN KAUAHI, HOWARD KAYE, FRANK J. MAIO, KEVIN NEIL McCREADY, HENRY MENENDEZ, CHARLES MUNN, MATTHEW PEDERSON, JEFF REID, ROBERT WEBERE, BRUCE WINANT Thuy CHARLES AZULAY (Toronto) Vietnamese, Inhabitants of Saigon TITO ABELEDA, ZAR ACAYAN, ALAN ARIANO, DARRELL AUTOR, ERIC CHAN, FRANCIS J. CRUZ, PAUL MATSUMOTO, MARC OKA, MING LEE, JUAN P. PINEDA,RAY SANTOS, WELLY YANG

Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) - April 1978

Ellen RUTHIE HENSHALL (London) Assistant Commissar YANCEY ARIAS Guards FRANCIS J. CRUZ, JUAN P. PINEDA Vietnamese Soldiers TITO ABELEDA, ALAN ARIANO, NORMAN KAUAHI, RAY SANTOS,FRANCIS J. CRUZ, JUAN P. PINEDA, ZAR ACAYAN Citizens of Ho Chi Minh City/Refugees THE COMPANY

Atlanta - September 1978

Conference Delegates/Conference Hall Staff THE COMPANY

Bangkok- October 1978

Owner of the Moulin Rouge JUNIX INOCIAN (London) Inhabitants of Bangkok, Bar Girls, Vendors, Tourists THE COMPANY

Saigon - April 1975

Marines : Shultz TOM O'LEARY Doc ERIC BATES Reeves ALVIN CRAWFORD Gibbons KEVIN NEIL McCREADY Troy LEONARD JOSEPH Nolen BRUCE WINANT Huston MATTHEW PEDERSON Frye JAY DOUGLAS Marines/Vietnamese Citizens THE COMPANY

Bangkok - October 1978

Inhabitants of Bangkok/Customers of the Moulin Rouge THE COMPANY

The Company and those cast members unspecified are members of the Broadway Theatre Cast, New York.

Produced for record by DAVID CADDICK
Executive producers ALAIN BOUBLIL and CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG
Orchestra conducted by DAVID CHARLES ABELL
Co-ordinated for First Night Records by JOHN CRAIG

Recorded at CTS Studios London, The Hit Factory New York, Whitfield St Studios London and Capitol Studios Los Angeles.

Recording Engineer: DAVID HUNT
Assistant Recording Engineers :
CTS Studios, London LORRAINE BULL
The Hit Factory New York CARL GRANVILLE
Capitol Studios Los Angeles PETER DOELL

Mixed at the Hit Factory New York and Capitol Studios Los Angeles.

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