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Miss Saigon

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Dates: 
Thursday, 10th June 2010 - Saturday, 26th June 2010
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Miss Saigon
Windmill Theatre Company
Performances Dates
Friday 11th June 8.00pm  
Saturday 12th June 8.00pm  
Sunday 13th June 2.00pm (Matinee)  
Friday 18th June 8.00pm  
Saturday 19th June 8.00pm  
Sunday 20th June 2.00pm (Matinee)  
Friday 25th June 8.00pm  
Saturday 26th June 8.00pm  
Sunday 27th June 2.00pm (Matinee)
TICKET BOOKINGS CALL 9771 6666
Drum Theatre, Dandenong.
Cast
Chris  
John  
Thuy  
Ellen  
Engineer  
Kim  
Gigi  
Mimi  
Yvette  
Yvonne  
Tam  
Ensemble  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  		Liam Kilgour  
Peter Jenkins  
Stan Peters  
Rosa McCarty  
Matt Hillman  
Sharon Wills  
Emma O'Brien  
Jodie Scoullar  
Jenny Yu  
Natasha Harvey  
Jonathon Ho  
Tony Baisman  
Corin Breguet  
Scott Charlesworth  
Mandy Connell  
Michael Fertnig  
Emma Fisher  
Chloe Fowler  
Katherine Gloss  
Andrew Head  
Salina Henderson  
Ryan Jacobs  
Daniel Jow  
Michael Laity  
Andrew McCormick  
Deana Moore  
James Ness  
Jason Novotny  
Sarah Pursell  
Tamara Smith  
Hayley-Sue Doran
Production Team
Director - Sue Salvato  
Musical Director - Andrew Houston  
Choreographer - Karen Ingwersen  
Associate Musical Director - Amber Simm  
Production Manager - Mike Schimizzi  
Set Design - Alberto Salvato  
Lighting Design - Jason Bovaird  
Sound Design - Marcello Lo Ricco  
Costume Designer - Glenda Novotny  
Stage Manager - Michael Brasser  
Technical Director - Andrew Edge
A brief synopsis of Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is generally accepted to be the dramatic reworking of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil the team that wrote the mega-hit Les Misérables
It is set in late April 1975 in Saigon during the final days and the evacuation of the American forces and embassy personnel.
An intense love story describes the complex relationship, due to the cultural differences, between the Vietnamese and the Americans encompassing the last dramatic final airlift from the roof of the American Embassy.
The main character, a young girl named Kim, who had fled her village after the killing of her family, had no choice but to start work in a sleazy Saigon night club owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as ‘The Engineer’. John an American GI, buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night. That night will change their lives forever.
At a very young age Kim had been betrothed by her parents to her cousin Thuy.
During the final evacuation Kim and Chris are separated and Chris is flown out of Saigon leaving Kim behind.
Chris returns to America and eventually marries Ellen, an American woman. He believed that Kim had died during the fall of Saigon in the final stage of the Vietnam War.
Unbeknown to Chris, Kim bore Chris a son, Tam.
Some 3 years after the fall of Saigon, Thuy, who still believed that Kim should become his wife, hires the Engineer to find her. The Engineer finds and delivers Kim to Thuy.
Thuy is outraged in leaning about Tam and threatens to kill him. Kim kills Thuy to save her son and with the help of the Engineer they flee to Bangkok.
Kim firmly believes that one day she will be reunited with the love of her life Chris.
Through John, Chris discovers that Kim is alive and that Tam is his son. John and Chris go to Bangkok in search of Kim and Tam.
When Kim learns that Chris is in Bangkok with his wife all her hopes to be reunited with him disappear.
She is desperate for her son to have a future in America with his father – she makes the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.

 

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