The Making Of Miss Saigon..... (Highly Recommended By Our Producer)

CUSTOMER REVIEW

Miss Saigon premiered at London's historic Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989! Winning awards for its run in the UK, Tony awards for Broadway and many world theatre awards this video gives us the insight into how the musical began!
The documentary starts with Cameron Macintosh meeting with Boubil and Schonberg (famed for their work on Les Mis) translating the origional french script into English. We hear the actual story, some of the shows songs and talks about the difficulty in finding a leading lady capable of such a task?
The video then takes us to many different countries searching for the perfect person to play Kim... they found her! We see the great Lea Salonga before she was famous and hear her singing the lyrics that would catapult her into history!
From this we are shown the building of sets, the designing of posters and merchandise, script changes, dress rehearsels, and directors strops!!
The only flaw in this video is we dont get to see much of the other leads other than Lea Salonga and her understudy Monique Wilson!
It is well worth the money, its both entertaining and informative! A must have for anyone wanting to persue a career in performing arts (it shows a lot about, getting parts, auditions etc.!) or anyone who e loves Miss Saigon!