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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Review: Powerful 'Miss Saigon' offers moving story

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The good stories are the ones that endure long after the headlines fade.
It's now been 35 years since the last American helicopter winged its way skyward from the U.S. Embassy compound in Vietnam.
Yet Claude-Michel Schonberg, Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boulblil's musical "Miss Saigon" continues to stir emotions that are raw, painful and dramatic.
Set between 1975 and 1978 in the chaos and aftermath of the Vietnam War, "Miss Saigon" is a contemporary adaptation of Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly".

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