Miss Saigon — Page 2

I love this show, too! Earlier this year, I saw a local amateur production that was pretty good. They even did the helicopter scene and everthing. (By the way, the show was picketed by many Asian-Americans who think the show is racist; in fact, they were staging their own version across town entitled MISSED SIGH GONE, or something like that.)

I have the Original London Recording (with Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce) and the Complete Symphonic Recording. My question: Why didn't they hire Lea and Pryce to recreate their roles for the Complete Recording? I rarely listen to that version because it's not as good. I have the same complaints with the Les Miserables Complete Symphonic Recording. The best cast, in my opinion, was the 1995 Les Miserables: In Concert, which featured Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Lea Salona, Judy Kuhn, Michael Ball, Ruthie Henshall, etc. They're called the "Dream Cast" so why did they not release a Complete Recording with these great singers?

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But I was not asking about a simple cast recording (i.e. highlights), but rather the Complete Recording.

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Or maybe they didn't think the Complete Symphonic would be the same thing as "Dream Cast"... After all, they did record the "Dream Cast" of Les Mis, but they still had the CSR of that show as well, which included only two lead actors of the "Dream Cast": Michael Ball and Philip Quast. Maybe if they had done some kind of "Dream Cast" thing of Miss Saigon they would have contacted Salonga and Pryce.