Miss Saigon
Author(s):
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, adapted from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil, additional lyrics by Michael Mahler
Company:
Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh
In the last days of the Vietnam War, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar run by a notorious character known as The Engineer. There she meets and falls in love with an American GI named Chris, but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.
For 3 years, Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea he's fathered a son.