the 1990 music drama miss saigon was based on which opera
Miss Saigon


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 a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a seventeen-
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Musical theatre


The most important writers of mega-musicals include the French team of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, responsible for "Les Misérables", whose London production became the longest-running musical in West End and Broadway history. The team, in collaboration with Richard Maltby Jr., produced another hit with "Miss Saigon", which was inspired by the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly". The British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber saw similar success with "Evita", based on the life of Argentina's Eva Perón; "
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Margareta Hallin


Henrikson – she performed a medley of these in the Drottningholm Palace Church. She has several works by August Strindberg to music, beginning with a chamber opera based on "Fröken Julie" ("Miss Julie") in 1990. "Miss Julie" was staged at the Confidence Theatre in 1990, and restaged in 1994. Hallin has also composed music for Strindberg's works "Den Starkare" ("The Stronger One") which was performed in the Rotunda at the Royal Opera in Stockholm in 1991, and "Ett
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access to and representation on New York City's stages." This group works to address and discuss "Yellowface" controversies and occurrences. "Miss Saigon", a musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. and book by Boublil and Schönberg, is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly". Miss Saigon tells the story of a doomed romance involving a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier set in the time of the Vietnam War. When "Miss
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Cambridge Theatre


to the Forbidden Planet", which was based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, "Miss Saigon". The controversial show "Jerry Springer - The Opera" had a run from 14 October 2003 – 19 February 2005. This was followed by a month run of illusionist Derren Brown's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" tour, before the London première of Flying Music
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Musical theatre


, "Cabaret" and "Grease". The 1980s saw the influence of European "megamusicals", or "pop operas", on Broadway, in the West End and elsewhere. These typically featured a pop-influenced score, had large casts and sets and were identified by their notable effects – a falling chandelier (in "The Phantom of the Opera"), a helicopter landing on stage (in "Miss Saigon") – and big budgets. Many were based on novels or other works of literature.
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David Hersey


David Hersey (born November 30, 1939) is a lighting designer who has designed the lighting for over 250 plays, musicals, operas, and ballets. His work has been seen in most corners of the globe and his awards include the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for "Evita", "Cats", and "Les Misérables", the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for "Cats", "Miss Saigon", and "Equus", and the 1996 Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design.
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Carly Simon


, which was based on the song of the same name from her 1990 album "Have You Seen Me Lately". The same year, she performed a duet with Plácido Domingo on the song "The Last Night of the World" (from the "Miss Saigon" musical) on Domingo's album "The Broadway I Love". In 1992, Simon wrote the music for the Nora Ephron film "This Is My Life", which included the song "Love of My Life", a No. 16 Adult
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Cameron Mackintosh


Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the "New York Times". He is the producer of shows such as "Les Misérables", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Mary Poppins", "Oliver!", "Miss Saigon,"
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Bela Vista


important venue of musical presentations such as "Miss Saigon", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Phantom of the Opera". Towards the end of the twentieth century, parts of Bexiga became more decayed and dilapidated because its more affluent middle-class moved to newer areas in the suburbs. Although most of the clubs and bars moved from Bela Vista to Itaim Bibi and Vila Madalena in the late 1980s and mid 1990s, Bexiga still has a somewhat vibrant nightlife and is the home of many descendants of Italians
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Leontine Hass


, Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Cats, Sister Act, We Will Rock You, Footloose, Wicked, Ragtime, The Sound of Music, Ghost, Hairspray, Porgy and Bess, The Bodyguard, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jersey Boys, Barnam, Miss Saigon, Book of Mormon, Mamma Mia, In the Heights, Colour Purple, We Will Rock You, Spamalot, Chicago and Miss Saigon. She also coaches members of The Swingle Singers, Collabro, The Magnets, and classical singers with ENO, Welsh National Opera and
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Cecilia Hjortsberg


Cecilia Hjortsberg is a Swedish opera singer (soprano), born 1973. She has been employed at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen since 2005. Previous employment was at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre, where she has contributed in "Miss Saigon", "Otello", "Turandot", "La Bohème" and "Faust" and played Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni" by Skånska Operan, 2005. She attended the Royal College of Music of Stockholm, Chamber music program, and then the Opera Studio at the Gothenburg
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Kaisa Roose


Finland, Italy and Costa Rica. From 2000 through the following three seasons she was with Malmö Opera and Music Theatre in Sweden. During her first season there, she premiered the contemporary Swedish opera "Portrait", written by Catharina Backman and Maria Sundqvist and conducted the musicals "Kaspar Hauser" and "Miss Saigon". Interest to contemporary music has brought Kaisa Roose to close collaboration also with different new music ensembles as The Esbjerg Ensemble, The Figura and The Ensemble 2000. In January 2004 Ms.Roose conducted the world
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Miss Saigon


represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following "Les Misérables" in 1985. As of April 2017, "Miss Saigon" remains Broadway's thirteenth longest-running show. The musical was inspired by a photograph, which Schönberg found inadvertently in a magazine. It showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at a departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base to board an airplane headed for the United States where the child's father, an ex-GI, would be in a position to provide a much better life
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Soap opera


musical based on the show, all of which toured the UK, among many other spin-offs. In the late 1990s, Channel 5 repeated "Prisoner" in the UK. Between 1998 and 2005, Channel 5 ran late-night repeats of "Sons and Daughters". During the 1980s, the Australian attempts to emulate big-budget U.S. soap operas such as "Dallas" and "Dynasty" had resulted in the debuts of "Taurus Rising" and "Return to Eden", two slick soap opera dramas
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University High School (Orlando, Florida)


"Evita", "Aida", "Miss" "Saigon", "The" "Wiz", "Beauty" "and" "the" "Beast", "Shrek", "Guys and Dolls" and . University has presented "Lend Me A Tenor" the fall of 2010, and was one of the first high schools in the world to put on the production of "Phantom of the Opera" in the spring of 2011. The Drama Department also boasts a Thespian Troupe. Every winter
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Scott Lawton (conductor)


year of graduate studies at the Louisiana State University, he assisted opera singer Martina Arroyo as she began her teaching career. Prior to working with the Filmorchester in the late '90s he was staff conductor at the opera houses in Saarbrücken, Bielefeld and Trier. He also led major musical productions of "The Phantom of the Opera", "Les Misérables" and "42nd Street" in Vienna, "Miss Saigon" in Stuttgart, "" in Amsterdam and "Chicago" in Berlin, Munich, Basel and Düsseldorf.
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Liz Callaway


. This recording is considered the definitive recording of the Sondheim/James Goldman/Harold Prince collaboration. Additional stage credits include Lizzie in "Baby" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), "The Three Musketeers", "The Spitfire Grill" (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), "Sunday in the Park with George", "Evita", "Cats", and "Miss Saigon". Liz also performed in "The Look of Love", a 2003 musical revue
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Peter Cousens


. Though an actor, Cousens is also known for his work in musical theatre. Major roles include the Phantom in London's West End production of "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986); he also portrayed Marius in "Les Misérables", Alex in "Aspects of Love", Tony in "West Side Story", Bobby in "Company" Nanki Poo in "The Mikado", and Chris in "Miss Saigon" in the Australian productions. Cousens appeared in the 2015 television opera "The Divorce
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Rachelle Ann Go


The Little Mermaid", for which she won a Best Actress award from Broadway World Philippine Awards. In 2012, produced a solo concert "RAG Rise Against Gravity" with special guests Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, Sarah Geronimo and Christian Bautista. It was held at the Music Museum. She also began auditioning for a role in the then-upcoming London West End revival of "Miss Saigon". She took the role Lara in the musical drama series Biritera of GMA 7. In 2013, Go played Jane Porter in the
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Cats (musical)


"Cats" was the "first true megamusical", pioneering a genre of musical theatre that is produced on a grand and global scale. It paved the way for later megamusicals — including "Les Misérables" (1985), "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986) and "Miss Saigon" (1989) — that have dominated the industry since. Siropoulos explained: The musical's fantasy setting and disregard for verisimilitude allowed for groundbreaking experimentations in lighting and audio technology. The original London and Broadway productions featured David
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Miss Saigon


including a record advance-ticket sales at $24 million, highest priced ticket at $100, and repaying investors in fewer than 39 weeks. "Miss Saigon" and "The Will Rogers Follies" led the 1991 Tony Award nominations with eleven nominations. According to "The New York Times", ""Will Rogers" and "Miss Saigon" had both earned 11 nominations and were considered the front-runners for the Tony as best musical. But many theatre people predicted that "Miss Saigon", an import
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Rent (film)


Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème". The film, which features six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles, depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS. It takes place in the East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990. The film
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John Barrowman


musicals both in the West End and on Broadway, including "Miss Saigon", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Sunset Boulevard", and "Matador". After appearing in Sam Mendes' production of "The Fix", he was nominated for the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and, in the early 2000s, returned to the role of Billy Crocker in the revival of "Anything Goes". His most recent West End credit was in the 2009 production of "La Cage
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Cameron Mackintosh


-running Broadway musical of all time. He produced Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's next musical "Miss Saigon", which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End in September 1989, and was similarly successful, and the 1991 Broadway production achieved what was then the largest advance ticket sales in theatre history. Mackintosh has produced several other successful musicals, including "Five Guys Named Moe" (both in London in 1990 and on Broadway) and a revised London production of Stephen Sondheim's "
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David Henry Hwang


early 1990s. He wrote it in response to a controversy about the casting of Jonathan Pryce in a Eurasian role in "Miss Saigon". "Face Value", which included music and lyrics for a musical-within-a-play by Hwang, lost millions of dollars. It was a stumbling block in the careers of Hwang and producer Stuart Ostrow. In "Yellow Face", Hwang wrote a semi-autobiographical play, featuring him as the main character in a media farce about mistaken racial identity. This had
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Tina Cross


sang the vocals on the original theme song for the television soap opera "Shortland Street", composed by Graham Bollard. She has starred in the New Zealand stage performances of "The Rocky Horror Show", "Chicago", "Miss Saigon", the "Once Were Warriors" musical as Beth Heke and as twice as Grizabella in "Cats". In 2007, Cross was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONMZ) for services to the music industry. She was a contestant in the
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Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater


Eurasian character being played by a White actor. Despite these protests, Pryce performed the Engineer to great acclaim and "Miss Saigon" became one of Broadway's longest-running hits. "The Mikado" is a comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, premiered in 1885 in London and still performed frequently in the English-speaking world and beyond. In setting the opera in a fictionalized 19th century Japan, Gilbert used the veneer of Far Eastern exoticism to soften the impact of his pointed
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Siobhan Dillon


at the Piccadilly Theatre, Ellen in "Miss Saigon", and Betty Schaefer in "Sunset Boulevard" with the English National Opera. Siobhan reprised this role at the Palace Theatre in New York City. Dillon's mother owned her own business in advertising after being a drama teacher. Her father is Irish from Dún Laoghaire. For her ninth birthday Dillon asked her parents for singing lessons, and had vocal training with singing teacher Richard Paul up to the age of 16. Siobhan attended The Friary School in Lichfield where she performed
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Richard Maltby Jr.


(1986) starring Bernadette Peters. He was co-lyricist for "Miss Saigon" (Evening Standard Award 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991). He also conceived and directed "Ring of Fire", a musical about Johnny Cash, which ran on Broadway in 2006. He is co-bookwriter/lyricist for "The Pirate Queen" (2007). He was most recently represented on Broadway as the director of the new, original musical "The Story of My Life" by composer/lyricist
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Miss Saigon


21 October 2009, a film version of the musical was reported to be in "early stages of development". Producer Paula Wagner was reported to be teaming with the original musical producer Cameron Mackintosh to create a film version of the musical. Filming locations are said to be Cambodia and quite possibly Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon). Cameron Mackintosh reported that the film version of "Miss Saigon" depended on whether the "Les Misérables" film was a success. In August 2013, director Lee Daniels announced hopes
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Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States


Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient" published in 2005. A contemporary example would be "Miss Saigon", a 1989 musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly". This musical has been criticized for what some have perceived as racist or sexist overtones. Criticism has led to protests against the musical's portrayal of Asian men, Asian women, and women in general. It banked a record $25
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The Consolations of Scholarship


The Consolations of Scholarship is an opera by Judith Weir with a libretto by the composer. "The Consolations of Scholarship" is based closely on the Yuan dramas "The Orphan of Chao" (by Chi Chun-hsiang) and the anonymous "A Stratagem of Interlocking Rings". Described as a 'music drama' for soprano and nine instruments, "a Yuan dynasty tale unfolds (this piece is the embryo for "A Night at the Chinese Opera" with which it shares both narrative and musical material) through plain
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Bradford Alhambra


complement spectacular West End musicals such as "Grease", "Miss Saigon", "Whistle Down the Wind" and "The Phantom of the Opera". Wicked(Musical) started its world tour at the Alhambra Theatre in 2016 The complex also houses a smaller studio theatre, with seating for 200, or standing room for 300. This is mainly used for new comedy, including tours by Alun Cochrane, Tom Stade & Patrick Monahan. In 2012 a brand new restaurant, called ""Restaurant 1914"" was opened at
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Asian-American theatre


employment and to participate in activism. The company's proximity to Hollywood attracted many ambitious and talented Asian-American actors to Los Angeles. By the mid-1990s, over 75% of all Asian-American actors had acted on the stage of EWP. In the early 1990s, the controversy over the musical "Miss Saigon" surfaced when Asian-American actors protested the casting of the British actor Jonathan Pryce for the role of the half-Vietnamese Engineer in the Broadway production of the musical. The protest was led by many prominent
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Fred Boot


Fred Boot (Groningen, 1965) is a Dutch theatre producer. Boot started working for Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties in 1991 and was responsible for the publicity and marketing of over twenty musical productions, such as The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Cyrano - The Musical, West Side Story, fifteen stage play’s (amongst others Duet, The Sunshine Boys, Torch Song Trilogy) and several revues, cabaret shows and foreign productions. He was also responsible for the corporate communication for Stage Entertainment and the publicity of
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Claire Moore (singer)


role to play Ellen in the London production of "Miss Saigon". From 2000 to 2001, Moore played Mrs Anna (as alternate for Elaine Paige) in the London Palladium production of "The King and I." She has also played Fantine and Madame Thenardier in "Les Misérables"; and also appeared in the musicals of Bernard J. Taylor. Apart from musicals, her work also includes opera, and acting roles with the McKellen/Petherbridge Company's Royal National Theatre productions of "The Duchess of Malfi", "
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Hong Kwang-ho


award at the Korea Musical Awards. Afterwards he took part in the Musical "Hamlet: Alive" as Hamlet. 2002 "The Last Empress" - ensemble 2006 "Miss Saigon" - ensemble, 1st cover of Chris&Thuy 2007 "First Love" - Haesoo 2007 "" - Tobias 2008 "See what I wanna see" - robber, newsman 2009 "Jekyll & Hyde" - Jekyll, HydeI 2009 "The wash" - Solongo 2009 "The Phantom of the Opera" - Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny 2010 "The
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Des Coleman


before deciding to pursue a career in performing. He attended the Guildford School of Acting in Surrey, and after graduating in 1993 he worked as a singer in Germany for six months in the stage musical "Chicago". He then landed a starring role in the musical "Miss Saigon". In 1996, he was cast as wideboy Lenny Wallace in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". His first television job, Coleman remained with the soap until 1999. His television work post "EastEnders" has included: "Is
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Lea Salonga


Homecoming Concert", "The Millennium Concert", "The Best of Manila" and "Songs from the Screen" – the last two being benefit shows. Salonga returned to Manila in "Miss Saigon", staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines at the end of 2000. After a last stint in "Miss Saigon" for its closing on Broadway in 2001, Salonga recreated the role of Lien Hughes originally played by Ming-Na Wen in the soap opera "As the World Turns". After completing her
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Linda Wagenmakers


Linda Wagenmakers (born 30 November 1975, Arnhem) is a Dutch singer and voice actress. She started her career at 21 playing Kim in the Dutch version of the musical "Miss Saigon". She played in the RTL 4 drama series "Westenwind", for which she also recorded the song "Laat me vrij om te gaan". Wagenmakers voiced the Dutch version of Mulan in the Disney animation movie. And was part of many television shows and events. She was part of the original cast of "Rocky over
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Li Martins


was released as a single that year, marking the new phase of her career. In 2008 she returned to her first stage name, Lissah Martins, in honor of her maternal grandfather Takuichi Kashiwaba, and made her musical debut as "Miss Saigon" in a production by Cameron Mackintosh of Boublil & Schönberg, which was staged for the first time in London and two years later debuted on Broadway. The musical went to 25 countries, translated into 12 different languages and watched by more than 30 million viewers. Miss Saigon won
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Welly Yang


international relations from Columbia University. In 1993, while a senior at Columbia, Yang was picked to star in the original Broadway production of "Miss Saigon," where he went on to play the lead role of Thuy. He left the Miss Saigon company in 1995 to tour Asia in the title role of Aladdin in"Cole Porter's Aladdin". That same year, Yang was cast by the American opera director Peter Sellars' to play one of the leading roles in John Adams (composer) world premiere of "I Was
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William David Brohn


William David "Bill" Brohn (March 30, 1933 – May 11, 2017) was an American arranger and orchestrator, best known for his scores of musicals such as "Miss Saigon", "Ragtime" and "Wicked". He won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for "Ragtime" and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations three times. His work was eclectic, orchestrating many different styles of music. His modern scores are known for their keyboard writing for the orchestra pit, and their balance between
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Ashley Park (actress)


” She graduated from Pioneer High School in 2009 and then attended the University of Michigan, earning a BFA in musical theatre in 2013. During her undergraduate years, she co-founded the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop (MPOW). In the summer of 2009, Park was cast as Yvonne and an ensemble member in the Music Theatre Wichita production of "Miss Saigon" in Wichita, Kansas. Park spent the next two summer seasons performing in various productions at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
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British Theatre Playhouse


took place at the Gardens Ballroom of the Gardens Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. In Stars of the West End, four leading stars of some of the most successful musicals in the history of London’s West End, such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "Les Misérables", "Cats", "Chicago", "Evita", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Mamma Mia!", "Miss Saigon", "West Side Story" and "Wicked!", presented songs from the aforementioned
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Sue Johnston


Susan Johnston, OBE (née Wright) is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera "Brookside" (1982–1990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy "The Royle Family" (1998–2012), Grace Foley in the BBC drama "Waking the Dead" (2000–2011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" (2012–2014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama "Downton Abbey" (2014–2015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy
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Jon Jon Briones


auditions in the Philippines for "Miss Saigon". In addition to helping with the organization of the auditions, Briones himself auditioned for and then became a member of the ensemble. He has been involved with various touring productions of "Miss Saigon", as a swing and covering other roles, finally playing the Engineer. In 2014 he joined the original cast of the "Miss Saigon" West End revival, playing the engineer. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing this role
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Chaim Topol


production. As he was by then the approximate age of the character, he commented, "I didn't have to spend the energy playing the age". In 1990–1991, he again starred as Tevye in a Broadway revival of "Fiddler" at the Gershwin Theatre. In 1991, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, losing to Jonathan Pryce in "Miss Saigon". Topol again played Tevye in a 1994 London revival, which became a touring production. In
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Claire Moore (singer)


The Critic", "The Real Inspector Hound" and "The Cherry Orchard". She is featured on albums including the original cast recordings of "Miss Saigon", "The Phantom of the Opera – Highlights", "Cabaret", "Oliver!" and "Les Misérables", as well as "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber", "Leading Ladies" and two solo albums of songs by Bernard J. Taylor. Living and working in London, she returns regularly to perform at her home town at
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A Little Night Music


1999, the Los Angeles Opera in 2004, and Hartford Opera Theater in 2014. New York City Opera's production in August 1990 and July 1991 (a total of 18 performances) won the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival and was telecast on the PBS show "Live at Lincoln Center" on November 7, 1990. The cast included both stage performers: Sally Ann Howes and George Lee Andrews as Desiree and Frederick and opera regular Regina Resnik as Madame Armfeldt (in 1991). The 2003 production featured a young
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Anton Bruckner


major (1836–1837), classified WAB 127 and WAB 128, as well as a few other WAB-unclassified works, which have been found in Bruckner's "Präludienbuch", are probably not by Bruckner. Bruckner never wrote an opera, and as much as he was a fan of Wagner's music dramas, he was uninterested in drama. In 1893 he thought about writing an opera called "Astra" based on a novel by Gertrud Bollé-Hellmund. Although he attended performances of Wagner's operas, he was much
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Richard Wagner


's dramatic role in the later operas includes the use of leitmotifs, musical phrases that can be interpreted as announcing specific characters, locales, and plot elements; their complex interweaving and evolution illuminates the progression of the drama. These operas are still, despite Wagner's reservations, referred to by many writers as "music dramas". Wagner's earliest attempts at opera were often uncompleted. Abandoned works include a pastoral opera based on Goethe's "Die Laune des Verliebten" ("The Infatuated Lover's Caprice"), written
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Teresa Carpio


her career into acting with appearances in a number of films, and auditioned for the lead role in Miss Saigon, though this eventually went to Lea Salonga. She was no stranger to live musical theatre, having taken the lead role in the 1979 San Jose, California production of the stage musical "City of Broken Promises", based on the book by Austin Coates, a story set in Macau which won Best Original Musical. Following her second marriage, Carpio moved to Canada and focused her attention on bringing up her family
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Estonian National Opera


Estonian National Opera ("Rahvusooper Estonia") is the national opera company of Estonia. The company is based at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn. The theatre has had several names throughout its existence. The latest one being "The Estonian National Opera", which was adopted in 1998. The company produces a lively and varied season which includes operas, ballets and operettas/musicals with over 500 people currently working at the Estonian National Opera. The song and drama society "Estonia" was founded in 1870. This was the
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Martin Yates


with them as guest conductor for two seasons, where he conducted "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly", "La bohème" and "La traviata". He came to UK notice making his Edinburgh Festival debut in 1988 with Leonard Bernstein's "On The Town", and thereafter conducted several major London musicals, including "The Phantom of the Opera" (Her Majesty's Theatre), "Miss Saigon" (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), "Carousel "(Shaftesbury Theatre) and "Sunset Boulevard"
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Die Hamletmaschine (opera)


Die Hamletmaschine is an opera composed by Wolfgang Rihm to a German-language libretto based on Heiner Müller's 1977 play of the same name. The libretto, subtitled "Musiktheater in 5 Teilen" (Music Drama in 5 parts), was written by the composer. The opera was composed between 1983 and 1986 and premiered on 30 March 1987 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Müller's play, on which the opera is based, paraphrases Shakespeare's "Hamlet". In the play's first staged production, directed by Robert Wilson
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Lee Mead


ship singer on the Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry and then in a summer season at Bridlington Spa Theatre. He moved into musical theatre in 2004, playing both Levi and the Pharaoh in the UK touring production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". Following Joseph, Mead performed in the UK tours of "Tommy" (ensemble and first cover Tommy) and "Miss Saigon" (ensemble and first cover Chris) before joining the West End production of "Phantom of the Opera" as an ensemble player and understudy for
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Franc D'Ambrosio


"Speak Softly, Love" ("Brucia la terra") on the film's soundtrack. Immediately following "The Godfather Part III", D'Ambrosio was cast in the title role of "The Phantom of the Opera". He had actually been auditioning for "Miss Saigon", but the producers were so impressed with his performance that they immediately offered him the role in "Phantom". During his time in San Francisco, Franc and various cast members recorded an album of Christmas music. Franc's performance of "
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Mayflower Theatre


theatre closed, again, for refurbishment. The main aspect, being the change of stage from a raked stage to a flat stage. Improvement for disabled access were also made, including the construction of a new lift. The theatre reopened, with the large scale production of "Miss Saigon", which would not have previously been possible. The run of major musicals has continued with a five-week run of "Starlight Express", in 2005 and shows, such as "Saturday Night Fever", "Miss Saigon
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Norman Del Mar


of Music and Drama where he conducted the school's orchestra and taught conducting until 1960. In 1972 he began to teach conducting at the Royal College of Music, serving until 1990. He also conducted the Royal Academy of Music's orchestra from 1974-1977. In 1976 he conducted the world premiere of Thomas Wilson's Opera The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, based on the novel by James Hogg. A cast led by Philip Langridge, Thomas Hemsley and John Shirley-Quirk speaks for itself. To keep a new work
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Miss Saigon


If you are a white woman, you should be outraged because this play pits white woman against Asian women. You should be outraged that it does that because we ought to be working together.” Though the show has received awards and acclaim, it lost the Best Musical Award at the 1989/1990 Laurence Olivier Awards to "Return to the Forbidden Planet" in London. Upon its Broadway opening in 1991 the musical was massively hyped as the best musical of the year, both critically and commercially. It broke several Broadway records,
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Alain Boublil


Sephardic Jewish family. Boublil's first musical, "La Révolution Française", was the first-ever staged French rock opera. It was conceived by Boublil in 1973 after he watched the premiere of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in New York. The composer was Claude-Michel Schönberg, with whom Boublil has since collaborated on a number of successful projects, including "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon". "Les Misérables" first opened in Paris in 1980. On 8 October 1985, an English-language production
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Nicholas Hytner


by Peter Barnes, an adaptation of "Tom Jones" and a musical version of "Alice in Wonderland". In 1985 he became an Associate Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, a position he retained until 1989. Hytner was hired by producer Cameron Mackintosh to direct "Miss Saigon", the next work from "Les Misérables" creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. "I had seen several of Nick's opera productions – Handel's 'Xerxes' and Mozart's 'Magic Flute' – as
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Brett Sullivan


, Plan B. Other commercial and branding work includes Deezer, Vodafone, Pepsi, Reebok, Orange, Adidas, Ikea, Coca-Cola. He has directed and produced filmed theatrical productions in the West End, Broadway, Canada, Germany and Australia for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Newsies, The Lion King, Billy Elliot, Hamilton, Frozen The Musical, The Rockettes, Singin in the Rain, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wicked, Aladdin, Pippin,
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Joseph Kerman


to 1963. In 1971, he was appointed Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University, a post he held until 1974, when he returned to Berkeley and again became chairman of the music department from 1991 until his retirement in 1994. He based his first book, "Opera as Drama" (1956), on a series of essays written for "The Hudson Review" beginning in 1948. Published in several languages and multiple editions, "Opera as Drama" expresses Kerman's view that an opera's story is key
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Lisa Tyrrell


Lisa Jane Tyrrell (born 7 June 1967 in Salford) is an English operatic soprano. She studied at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and made her operatic debut in 1990 singing Pamina in "The Magic Flute" for English Touring Opera. She subsequently debuted at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in "Death in Venice" and the Royal Opera, London in "The Marriage of Figaro". Her debut at the Welsh National Opera came in June 1996 when she created the role
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Esbjerg Performing Arts Centre


. For theatrical performances with a lowered ceiling, it seats 850. The size of the stage—up to —and the positioning of the orchestra pit can also be adjusted. The smaller hall which is suitable for chamber music or children's theatre has seating for 233. The building also contains a lecture theatre and meeting rooms. The Esbjerg Ensemble performs chamber music concerts while opera is produced by Den Nye Opera, which is based in Esbjerg. The annual programme also includes musicals, family shows, revues, lectures and drama
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Svätopluk (opera)


Svätopluk is a Slovak opera by Eugen Suchoň with the subtitle "Musical drama in three acts". The libretto is by Eugen Suchoň, Ivan Stodola and Jela Krčméry-Vrteľová and is loosely based on Stodola's play Kráľ Svätopluk, which was in turn based on events in the life of King Svatopluk I. Suchoň composed "Svätopluk" between 1952 and 1959. It was premiered on 10 March 1960 in the Slovak National Theatre, directed by Miloš Wasserbauer and conducted by Tibor Frešo. The story of this opera takes place around year
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Lea Salonga


Olivier Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical. When "Miss Saigon" opened on Broadway in 1991, she again played the role of Kim, winning the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards and becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win a Tony Award. In 1993 and 1996, she returned to play Kim on Broadway. In 1999, she was invited back to London to close the West End production, and in 2001, at the age of 29 and after finishing the Manila
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)


The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British–American musical drama film based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux. Produced and co-written by Lloyd Webber and directed by Joel Schumacher, it stars Gerard Butler in the title role, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, and Jennifer Ellison. The film was announced in 1989 but production did not start until 2002 due to
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Miss Saigon


the Broadway Theatre on 11 April 1991 and closed on 28 January 2001 after 4,092 performances. Directed again by Nicholas Hytner with musical staging by Bob Avian, scenic design was by John Napier, costume design was by Andreane Neofitou and Suzy Benzinger and lighting design was by David Hersey. As of September 2017, "Miss Saigon" is still the 13th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history. Preview performances for the anticipated West End revival in the show's 25th year began in early May 2014 at the Prince Edward Theatre
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Claire Moore (singer)


Claire Moore (2 January 1960 in Over Hulton, Bolton) is an English soprano singer and actress, best known for her leading role as Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" and as Ellen in "Miss Saigon." The daughter of Peggy and Geoff Moore, the latter a jazz musician, she was educated at Hesketh Fletcher School, Atherton, and Leigh Sixth Form College, before operatic training at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her early work includes appearing alongside Richard Harris in the
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Prostitution in Vietnam


of the 1989 musical "Miss Saigon" is a Vietnamese prostitute named Kim. Echoing the plot of Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly", Kim falls in love with and is left pregnant by a client who is a white American soldier with a wife at home. After he has abandoned her for his American wife, Kim realizes her child's father will never return and shoots herself. The show drew criticism for promoting the stereotype of a dominant/submissive relationship between a Western man and an Asian prostitute. The 2017 book
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Miss Saigon


internment camps. Esther was about my size – which is small – but she was fearless. Esther protested Miss Saigon because, she better than anyone, understood Dr. King's "No one is free until we all are free." I stood with Esther, protesting Miss Saigon, and drew strength from her. We protested Miss Saigon because it was racist, sexist, and offensive to us as Asian Americans. Nineteen years later, this hasn't changed." Vietnamese American activist Denise Huynh recounts her experience attending the production
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Kathleen de Leon Jones


discovered by one of the directors for the Cameron Macintosh company. She appeared in two musicals in Australia mounted by the Macintosh company, "Miss Saigon" and "Rent". She stayed with the cast of Miss Saigon (where she was an understudy for the role of Mimi) and was dance captain for the musical, until being cast in "Hi-5" in 1999. She features with a puppet named "Jup-Jup", voiced originally by co-cast member Tim Harding. In July 2007, it was
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Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts


including the establishing of the Opera School and Opera-Choir School (1954 and 1958), the Drama School (1960) and the Dance School (1961). In the 1960s the Studio for New Music and the Studio for Early Music were initiated. Later, departments of jazz and popular music were opened and in 1982 the Department of Musicology was established. From 1989 the Hochschule was given the right to offer graduate studies in the teaching of music and musicology. In 1990-93 the Hochschule's new main building and
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Stagedoor Manor


Starting Now". Maltby and Shire conducted a special workshop with the cast during the rehearsal period and also attended the opening night performance. This revue was performed again in 2013 along with two other Maltby musicals, "" and "Miss Saigon" under Maltby's supervision. The production of Miss Saigon was covered by Broadway.com. In 2006, Stagedoor produced the world-premiere of Disney's "High School Musical". In 2007, Stagedoor produced special workshop productions of "Avenue Q" and "RENT" in partnership with
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Miss Saigon


year-old South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 20 September 1989, closing after 4,092 performances on 30 October 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 11, 1991, and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours. Prior to the opening of the 2014 London revival, it was claimed that Miss Saigon had set a world record for opening day ticket sales, with sales in excess of £4m reported. The musical
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Charlotte Salomon (opera)


Theater?'" combined with an attraction to real-life drama inspired him to compose an opera based on Charlotte Salomon. Since Salomon was aiming for a form of communication that combined various arts, Dalbalvie felt that her story needed music. He was quoted as saying "She recreated her life through a work of art." Just as Dalbavie's opera "Gesualdo" (based on the life of Carlo Gesualdo) incorporates portions of his subject's compositions, so too does Dalbavie incorporate existing music into his opera, such
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Jonathan Lee (musician)


an original Chinese musical — in both Mandarin and English, based on music written by Lee. Adapted from the novel by Li Xiuwen, the original musical will feature music by Lee with English lyrics by Tony Award winner Richard Maltby Jr. (Ain't Misbehavin', Miss Saigon, Fosse) and a book by John Dempsey (The Pirate Queen, The Witches of Eastwick). The musical will then be translated back into Chinese for a world premiere in Shanghai in 2018. English-language productions are also planned for New York
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The Tempest (opera)


a new production of "The Tempest" in the autumn of 2012 featuring Simon Keenlyside. Looking for ideas for a new subject, Adès saw Jonathan Kent's staging of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2000. For a new libretto, Adès turned to the experienced dramatist Meredith Oakes, whose work had included a short opera libretto for "Miss Treat" (2002); since the early 1990s, several original plays, translations and adaptations of classics and modern dramas; and, for television
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Jarrod Emick


Jarrod Emick (born July 2, 1969) is an American actor who primarily acts in musicals. He received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award for his performance in the 1994 revival of "Damn Yankees". Emick grew up in Oral, South Dakota, attended Hot Springs High School in nearby Hot Springs, South Dakota, and later attended South Dakota State University. Emick's Broadway debut was in "Miss Saigon" as a replacement for Chris. However, it was his next
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St Patrick's College, Strathfield


softball, golf, athletics and tennis in the Independent Sporting Association competition and against CAS and GPS member schools. The junior school also competes in an AFL tournament in a local comp that plays on Friday nights. The college performs an annual musical and drama production featuring its students and others from Santa Sabina College. Recent productions include "Peter Pan" (2018), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (2017), "Oliver!" (2015, "Miss Saigon" (2013), "Little Shop
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Jon Robyns


Arts in London. During his final year Robyns played Sweeney Todd in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece musical. Other roles at Drama School include Teddy in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Banquo in "Macbeth" and Jesus in "Godspell". Graduating in 2004 Robyns joined the UK touring company of "Miss Saigon" understudying the role Chris and playing the part on many occasions. After this he played the role of Mark Cohen in "Rent" with the English Theatre Frankfurt, Germany. In June 2006 Robyns played the roles of
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David Harris (Australian actor)


David Harris (born 1975) is an Australian actor and singer, currently based in New York City. He is best known for his Australian performances as Chris in "Miss Saigon", Fiyero in "Wicked" and Emmett in "Legally Blonde" having received Helpmann Award nominations for all three leading roles. Harris also starred as the Baker in Victorian Opera's production of "Into the Woods" and, in America, as Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" opposite Terrence Mann in 2015. He has released two solo
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Opera in Canada


operas. New operas are often funded by the Canada Council and are less elaborate than grand opera. However, opera continues to be popular among composers and audience alike. Between 1980 and 2001 as many as 57 operas were composed by Canadians. Contemporary opera often incorporates different musical traditions and styles as well as multimedia. Productions often focus more on the drama and theatricality and use methods that can also be found in film and performance art. In the 1990s smaller opera companies such as the Queen of Puddings and Autumn Leaf Productions in
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Rutland Boughton


His oeuvre includes three symphonies, several concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera (which he called "music drama" after Wagner). His best known work was the opera "The Immortal Hour". His "Bethlehem" (1915), based on the Coventry Nativity Play and notable for its choral arrangements of traditional Christmas carols, also became very popular with choral societies worldwide. Among his many works, the prolific Boughton composed a complete series of five operas of Arthurian mythos, written over a
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Joanna Ampil


Joanna Ampil (born June 1, 1975), is an awarded musical theatre and film actress from the Philippines. Ampil has performed in several West End musicals, including "Miss Saigon", "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Avenue Q", and she played the role of Fantine in "Les Misérables" in London until 21 June 2008. She was also invited by Sir Cameron Mackintosh to perform the role of Kim in the Australian premiere in Sydney of Miss Saigon, and in 2011 she performed the main role as
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Operation Frequent Wind


It has often been misidentified as the US Embassy. Hubert van Es' photo is frequently used in political cartoons commenting on US foreign policy. The Second Act of the stage musical, "Miss Saigon", depicts events leading up to, and during Operation Frequent Wind, with the main protagonists (Chris and Kim) becoming separated as a result of the evacuation. Writer Claude-Michel Schönberg has acknowledged that the musical was inspired by pictures of the evacuation. Hugh van Es believed that Miss Saigon misappropriated his photo and considered
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Miss Saigon


March 23. The final performance was on January 14, 2018. Since its opening in London "Miss Saigon" was produced in many cities around the world including Stuttgart, Scheveningen, and Toronto, where new theatres were designed specifically to house the show. In the small island community of Bømlo, Norway with only around eleven thousand inhabitants, the show was set up in the outdoor amphitheatre by the local musical fellowship and ran from 5 August to 16 August 2009. The local musical fellowship brought in a Bell Helicopter for the
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Le petit Faust


Le petit Faust is an opéra bouffe in four acts which burlesques the drama "Faust" by Goethe and the opera of the same name by Gounod. The music of the piece is by Hervé, with a text by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Adolphe Jaime. The work had its premiere in Paris at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques on 23 April 1869. Gounod's opera "Faust", loosely based on episodes from Goethe's drama, had first appeared in Paris in 1859 and had achieved great popularity. Hervé had
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CPDRC Dancing Inmates


Candido and writer Carmen De Jesus, who met while performing in the musical Miss Saigon. In 2012, Filipino Canadian singer-actor Mikey Bustos starred in a 12-episode interactive web series titled "Prison Dancer: The Interactive Web Musical" inspired mainly by the CPDRC dancers. The series also featured 12 original songs with music and lyrics by Romeo Candido and script by Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus, a creative team who met while performing in Miss Saigon. The series recounts the story of six Filipino prisoners whose lives are forever changed
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Martin Guerre (musical)


Martin Guerre is a two-act musical with a book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, lyrics by Alain Boublil, Edward Hardy and Stephen Clark, and music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Written in the operatic style similar to the creative team's previous efforts, "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon", the bulk of the show is sung-through, with little spoken dialogue between the musical numbers. It failed to match the box office success of its two predecessors. Loosely based on the real
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Thespis (opera)


version of the libretto that attempts to correct the many errors noted in the surviving libretto. Rees also prepared a performance version, based on the libretto, which included a few interpolated lyrics from Gilbert's non-Sullivan operas in an attempt to replace the missing songs. A score was supplied by Garth Morton, based on music from lesser-known Sullivan operas, and this version has been recorded. A version with an original score by Bruce Montgomery (other than the two Sullivan numbers) has been performed several times, including
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Andy Alviz


unity among the people of his province. Outside of his own music, he has done the choreography for regional productions of several musicals, including Miss Saigon . What he accomplished in the last 10 years alone is more than what many other artists in the performing arts can accomplish in one or even two lifetimes: as resident choreographer for the Miss Saigon productions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Manila; as stage director-choreographer for Binibining Pilipinas (from 2004 to 2010); as composer and producer of more than a
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Saint Joseph Regional High School


2006, SJR presented the world high school premiere of "Miss Saigon". It was nominated for multiple awards in the 10th Annual Drama Festival at Fairleigh Dickinson University, as well as the Helen Hayes Theater Awards, and the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards. Awards won at FDU include: Helen Hayes awards include: As of October 15, 2006, SJR presented "Urinetown: The Musical". Helen Hayes Theater Awards: Paper Mill Rising Star Awards: In 2008, SJR presented "West Side Story". It
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The Lighthouse (opera)


superbly realized musically and thrilling as theater." Another Boston company, Boston Lyric Opera gave two performances in February 2012. The Chicago Opera Theater presented a production in 1990. The Dallas Opera gave three performances of the work as part of its "Chamber Opera Series" in March 2012. English Touring Opera, which is based in London, presented two performances there in October 2012 along with five others in different English locations in October and November. The opera opens with a prologue in which three officers (tenor, baritone and
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Days and Nights with Christ


Days and Nights with Christ is the first of five full-scale operas by the Constantine Koukias a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. This was the first opera / music theatre production by IHOS Experimental Theatre Troupe (now IHOS Music Theatre and Opera). It premiered at Hobart's Salamanca Arts Festival in 1990 and two years later was a highlight of the Festival of Sydney. The work, which explores images associated with schizophrenia, was
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Miss Saigon


show. According to the "Miss Saigon" Official Site, "Miss Saigon" has been performed by twenty-seven companies in twenty-five countries and 246 cities, and it has been translated into twelve different languages. Arlington Virginia's Signature Theatre 2013's production was the US debut with the inclusion of the new song 'Maybe' (which replaced the prior song 'Now That I've Seen Her') which would be integrated into the West End's 2014 revival. After the London production closed in 1999 and
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