Miss Saigon is a West End musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is a modern adaptation of 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 Theater 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 Miserables in 1980. As of April 2009, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.

Last night was our first rehearsal for this magnificent show. i'm sure in the next 10 weeks i'll be blogging more and more about my insights and ideas of the show. mark your calendars for november 6, 2009--opening night at the soon-to-be rebuilt loveland stage company theater. it'll be worth the wait (in gold). www.lovelandstagecompany.org

Lord, even in the midst of this show of a secular love, let me do my best and do it for your glory.