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Miss Saigon Toronto at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

Toronto Event Date: Tue, July 20, 2010

07:30 PM

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downtown, queen west
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live performance, musical, live music
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theater, concert hall, event space
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musicals
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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
145 Queen St. West
Toronto, ON M5H 4G1

416-363-8231

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Miss Saigon Toronto

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



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