John buys a room for Chris and the virgin Kim ("The Transaction"). The showgirls reflect on their dreams of a better life ("Movie in My Mind"). Gigi Van Tranh wins the crown for the evening and begs the marine who won the raffle to take her back to America, annoying him. The girls compete for the title of "Miss Saigon," and the winner is raffled to a Marine. Chris Scott, a sergeant disenchanted by the club scene, is encouraged by his friend John Thomas to go with a girl. Marines, aware that they will soon be leaving Vietnam, party with the Vietnamese sex workers ("The Heat Is on in Saigon"). Backstage, the girls ready themselves for the night's show, jeering at Kim's inexperience ("Overture / Backstage Dreamland"). The seventeen-year-old peasant girl is hauled in by the Engineer, a French-Vietnamese hustler who owns the joint. In April 1975 at "Dreamland," a Saigon bar and brothel, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, it is Kim's first day as a bargirl. Tam: Kim and Chris's three-year-old son.Gigi Van Tranh: A hardened Saigon stripper initially voted as "Miss Saigon".He is a composite character, corresponding in part to both The Bonze and Prince Yamadori. Has since become an officer in the Communist Vietnamese government. Thuy: Kim's cousin and betrothed, to whom Kim's parents promised her when the two were thirteen.John Thomas: Chris's friend, also a G.I.Tran Van Dinh – The sleazy hustler and owner of "Dreamland." He is half-Vietnamese and half-French. sergeant about to leave Saigon to return to America. Christopher "Chris" Scott – An American G.I.Kim: A seventeen-year-old Vietnamese girl, recently orphaned and forced to work at "Dreamland." She corresponds to Butterfly in the original opera.Highlights of the show include the evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon from the Embassy roof by helicopter while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese people scream in despair, the victory parade of the new communist regime, and the frenzied night club scene at the time of defeat. Schönberg considered this mother's actions for her child to be "The Ultimate Sacrifice," an idea central to the plot of Miss Saigon. 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 for the child. The musical was inspired by a photograph, which Schönberg found inadvertently in a magazine. As of July 2019, Miss Saigon remains Broadway's thirteenth longest-running show. The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. Prior to the opening of the 2014 London revival, it was said that Miss Saigon had set a world record for opening day ticket sales, with sales in excess of £4m reported. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on Apwith a record advance of over $39 million, and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 20 September 1989, closing after 4,092 performances on 30 October 1999. 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-year-old South Vietnamese bargirl. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
Miss Saigon is a coming-of-age stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr.
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