4 Reasons Why Miss Saigon Is The Must-See Musical Of The Summer — culturefly.co.uk

Find out why the West-End Revival at Prince Edward Theatre is this summer’s hottest ticket. 1. The Story Striking, heartbreaking, lyrically beautiful and melodically rich, Miss Saigon is regarded as one of the world’s best musicals. The idea for the show’s plot originated in 1985, whilst composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil were working on their other major success story, Les Misérables. Schönberg stumbled upon a striking photograph depicting the young daughter of an American GI and a Vietnamese woman leaving Saigon to begin a new life in the United States with her father. The child is crying. The emotional impact of the image was fused with an idea Schönberg and Boubil had been toying with for some time: an updated, musical version of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. The result was Miss Saigon.

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