Based on Puccini's grand opera Madama Butterfly, this epic production centers around the tragic tale of a doomed romance between a Vietnamese woman abandoned by her American lover during the last days of the Vietnam War. Written by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr, the show was inspired by a photograph found by Schoenberg that showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at the departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, where the child would board a plane headed for the USA and her American ex-GI father, who would provide a better life. Called by Schoenberg "the ultimate sacrifice," this ideal is central to the plot of "Miss Saigon."
Based on Puccini's grand opera Madama Butterfly, this epic production centers around the tragic tale of a doomed romance between a Vietnamese woman abandoned by her American lover during the last days of the Vietnam War. Written by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr, the show was inspired by a photograph found by Schoenberg that showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at the departure gate at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, where the child would board a plane headed for the USA and her American ex-GI father, who would provide a better life. Called by Schoenberg "the ultimate sacrifice," this ideal is central to the plot of "Miss Saigon."
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