Miss Saigon Broadway Musical Original. Miss Saigon. Broadway Musical Original. They are separated when the country falls, until she returns to his life years later, in this musical inspired by the opera Madame Butterfly.

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It is 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 s 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 opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 11, , and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours. As of July , Miss Saigon remains Broadway's thirteenth longest-running show. 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. 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.