Sunday, 13 June 2010

Miss Saigon


Miss Saigon is a West End musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is loosely 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 the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.

It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20 1989, closing after 4,264 performances on October 30 1999. It opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York City in 1991. It subsequently opened in many other cities and embarked on tours.

The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1980. As of April 2009, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.

Let me know if you are interested in going to this as a group: Click on the picture to take you to the website with further details on pricing and times etc.





Song Selections

Set Me as a Seal



Matona Mia Cara



For the Longest Time (Full choir)



For the Longest Time (Men)



Pastime with Good Company Henry VIII



In Flanders Fields



Every Time I Feel the Spirit



Laudate Dominum





Going Again

After a slight technical glitch (forgetting the password...), we are ready to go again. The following are a selection of pieces I am keen to sing and would like your feedback on whether or not you would also like to sing these.