Room 317 lea salonga biography
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Miss Saigon
1989 stage musical
Miss Saigon is a sung-throughstage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama 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 Madama 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.
The musical 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 with a record advance of over $39 million,[1] and was later staged in many other cities and embarked on tours. 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.[2][3]
The musical was Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1985. As of October 2024, Miss Saigon remains Broadw
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New York Theater
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KIM
Good evening, ma'am
KIM
317?
ELLEN
Don't turn the bed yet
ELLEN
Yes
KIM
I'm not the maid
ELLEN
What do you want then?
KIM
Christopher Scott's room
KIM
They must written the room number wrong
I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott
317...
Oh I'm sorry... unless
Well, you must be, of course your Jon's wife, are you not?
ELLEN
Oh, God, I see,
it had to happen
You must be Kim,
Chris went to find you
Please come inside
No one will hurt you
I'm Chris' wife
My name is Ellen
In a way, I'm glad I am meeting you first
Understand you were only a name 'til tonight
I don't know how I feel if our roles were reversed
Please, won't you sit down
ELLEN
Oh, God, I see
I know who you are
You must be Kim,
Chris went to find you
Please come inside
No one'll hurt you
I'm Chris' wife
My name is Ellen
In a way, I'm glad I'm meeting you first
Understand you were only a name till tonight
I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were revered
Please, sit down.
KIM
Tell me you are lying
KIM
Tell me you are lying
ELLEN
We've been married a year
I'm sorry it's true
ELLEN
We've been married a year
I'm sorry it's t