Miss Saigon lyric changes — Page 2

oh yeah... did you guys also know there was a soliloquy taken out fo the musical entirly for broadway?? it was in the show for a couple of years... i think... and then they got rid of it completely... it was right after Kim kills Thuy... during THIS IS THE HOUR, the company is actually erecting the statue up of Ho Chih Minh and then when the song is over, Kim sings her soliloquy... the lyrics go someting like this:

He is dead, he is dead
I have killed with these hands I have killed
Oh why, am I cold for this must be a judgment fulfilled
And why don't I cry
He's a man that I knew as a child
What horrors brought us here from the hills of our birth
You, Tam, my parents, all erased from the earth
Oh Chris today my fate as your wife has been sealed with your gun
Now wherever you are I will bring you your son
For still, I still believe by all the gods you wait for me my heart against all odds hold still
Come Tam, do not cry, we must start on our journey today
Where he is we will go and his light will be showing the way
The Engineer, he will know any price I am willing to pay

Then she runs off with Tam and IF YOU WANT TO DIE IN BED begins

The song was removed because it slowed down the show considerably... and it did... if you were ever to listen to it... the song is somewhat of a rececitive.... you can slightly here some of the tune of the song in the OLC recording when KIM interrupts the Engineer during IYWTDIB sequence when she comes in and sings (rather than just semi-sings it now when she enters)... "Engineer, Thuy is dead...." and during the nightmare sequence when she goes "Oh chris, I still believe..."

Fascinating, eatlasagna. I never knew that and I thought I knew the show really well!

Thanks, eatlasagna...good thing they took that out.
There was one blocking I'm glad they changed. When Thuy was led to Kim's shanty, the soldiers literally destroyed the entire house on stage, no wood stud was left standing. This made the scene quite weird as you can imagine the next scene being played "in open air" on the street of Vietnam.

But there is one very touching song that I wish they kept. It is called "Too Much For One Heart" in which the intro melody is similar to "The Sacred Bird" and the rest is the same melody as "Please." It was sung by Kim to Tam after she found out that Chris was in Bangkok. It was taken out because of the same reason. The play was just too long. "Please" replaced that song.
You can see Monique Wilson and Lea Salonga sing this song in the "The Making" video. Lucky for the fans, Lea released the complete song commercially in her "The Broadway Concert" cd.

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