Miss Saigon Revival

When are we gonna have a Miss Saigon Revival in Broadway? I totally missed it when it showed in Broadway...I was too young, poor and clueless then :P

On a kinda related note:

Who are your favorite Characters of Miss Saigon?
What is your favorite part of the musical?
Who are your favorite Kims?

As for me....obviously....the original and the one and only Lea Salonga :)
Video of Lea Salonga

Joanna Ampil and Lea Salonga are my favorite Kims.

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I wouldn't mind an Anniversary tour of the original production, like they did with EVITA in '99 and '04, but there is no way it should come back to Broadway so soon. It just closed 6 years ago, and people probably still remember it.

I think Miss Saigon on screen would be amazing. Get the right director and i dont think you could go wrong

I saw the show when it opened at Drury Lane in London and i saw it again in the same venue about 4 years later, and it still hadnt lost any of its charm.

In regards to a revival i think its far too soon.

Yes i know Les Mis is back on Broadway, but did it really need to come back so soon.

I'd love to see this, but not for like 20 years. I'd sooner like to see a revival of The Light in the Piazza or more importantly Pippin! They could redo it possibly in the style of Chicago if neccessary, they just need to bring it back!

My favorite characters are Kim and Gigi.

My favorite part of Miss Saigon is in the one scene where the soldiers go into Kim's house to confront her right before This Is the Hour. I was recently in a production of Miss Saigon and played one of those soldiers. For those unfamiliar with this part, there are six lines split among six soldiers and the lines were sung/semi-shouted such phrases as "re-education will cure the disease!" and we weren't very active when singing these lines because we were portraying soldiers. Well, this one soldier, on opening night, sang his line "she must be shown what we do to a leach" and waved his arms dramatically for effect, milking it for all it was worth because he hadn't been paying attention to the fact that we were to remain standing still/soldier-like, and sang it with so much expression that we all thought he must have been thinking he was in some other chipper show. Needless to say, we all still make fun of him for it whenever we see him around.

My favorite Kim is Lea Salonga without a doubt!

Yeah, and I cared about Lennon...

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I love the character of Ellen (ok, i'd love to play her)... i don't want to se a revival too soon though...

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Lizzie....did you see the Miss Saigon in San Mateo last year? Are you gonna go to see the one in Fremont?

this is one of my all time favorites pieces of theatre. I loved the original production as well as the first regional production that TUTS did in the round.

I hope that when a revival does happen, it's a new production.

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I wonder that every day! I miss this show so much!

My favorite character is Ellen (partly because I'd like to play her, but her charcter is so deep.)
My favorite scenes are the flashback and I still believe, and of course the finale.
My favorite Kim is Lea Salonga, based only on voice, since I never saw her live. Out of the two I did see, my favorite is DeeDee Lyn Magno.

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"I'd love to see this, but not for like 20 years. I'd sooner like to see a revival of The Light in the Piazza or more importantly Pippin! They could redo it possibly in the style of Chicago if neccessary, they just need to bring it back!
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I love Pippin but I think if it was stripped further it wouldn't hold up--it doesn't have a strong enough central conceit, theme or plot like Chciago does with its "murder is art" thing.

Stephen should re-consider it, now. Or Julie Taymor, or Rob Marshall. Other than those people, stay away from it.