Review: Miss Saigon
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Great emotions
Helsinki
The City Theatre’s musical Miss Saigon charms and moves emotions on many levels.
Les Misérablesin Authors
the story follows the familiar Madame Butterfly fate, but to place the events in Vietnam
to the last days of the war and the love story that ignites during them
twists and turns.
On the stage, there is
international elite group to both sing and act. Large
The massive scenes of the troops move handsomely on a stage dominated by
A huge Buddha who has fallen to the ground and partially sunk and whose face acts as a different
terrains throughout the play. The grapples sticking out of the soil sometimes look like
threatening, but protective when it turns the other way around.
The troops
On the other hand, there are sensitizing snapshots of lovers, but also
Slow paces depicting the Vietnamese countryside and the mentality of the people on the Misty River
sailing. The stiff reed stalks are overtaken by the mighty roar of helicopters, they
disappear into the night fog to be hiding places for those fleeing and shelters
lovers’ tender moments.
Swedish director Georg Malvius conjures up
a touching performance on stage, after which the corridors are diligently wiped
corners of the eyes. Kim and Chris’s doomed love story follows a path that
Stopping places are fear, guilt and sacrifice.
The musical is
A thoroughly composed work, none of the songs of which rises above the other. Kristiina
The Finnish texts by Drews and Jukka Virtanen fit the tunes nicely,
although in some places the moonlight and dreams take you to the world of schlager music.
Nick Daviesin
The orchestra led by the orchestra played wonderfully. Juha Westman’s lighting lives with the scenes
and engage in dialogue with the text. Yuri Nael’s choreography creates life naturally
and moves the masses to the rhythm of the breath of the work. The choir sings touchingly.
What more could you ask for?
Sanna
Major’s
Breakthrough
Press screening is an absolute must-have
star is Sanna Majuri’s Kim. Small and delicate, with oriental restraint
With his gestures, he adorns the cruelty of the stage in the white of innocence
as a flower.
The Major appeared
as a singer in the early 1990s, and I remember her from the Autumn Tune competition
as a participant. Then the face and voice disappeared. Now about the theatre school
As a graduating actor, he returns to the stage with an absolutely sensitive instinct
as an expressor and, above all, as an unfailingly virtuoso singer.
Puntti
Valtonen’s Inssi is very similar to the role of a man in the musical Miserables.
as a tavern keeper and the gestures are also much the same. Slippery businessman tries
benefit from every opportunity. Valtonen knows how to build a comic character.
In fast-paced songs, the text tends to get lost, but otherwise the vocal side
is handled without any problems.
Chris from Estonian Koit Toome is stocky and serious
soldier. As an honorable man, he would like to take his loved ones to America. Ports
However, they close between cultures and a huge helocopter lands
on stage, swallowing the American soldiers towards their homeland. Toome sings
and the duets with Major Kim sounded clear. Delicate Kim
The large Chris has an endearing combination in his arms.
Designed for Kim
The groom’s cousin Thuy persecutes the lovers and demands his own. Gary Revel Screams
hates and works on her role spectacularly. I’m sorry that the Finnish language feels like
snorting in the mouth of an American-born performer and the words don’t want to
Obviously.
Politically
incorrect,
Amazing as a performance
After the war, power changes and
Rows of red flags marched. Inssi returns from the work camp and immediately starts planning
new patterns dreaming of America’s tasty burgers and easy life. Kim
has had Chris’s child and is still living expecting his beloved. On the other hand, Chris
has adapted to a new life after his longings and nightmares and gone
get married.
The final act takes place
Chris, his wife Ellen, Kim and the child’s relationships and fate are affected. Mary
In general, Ellen plays the role of the wife with an upright handsomeness and sings wonderfully.
The last moments of the tragedy squeeze the viewer’s heart.
The proposal has been
There is no point in looking for a politically correct message, but if someone claims that
musicals are just fishing for spectators, so go see Miss
Saigon.
PIRJO PUUKKO
Miss Saigon. Music: Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Scönberg.
Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jnr and Alain Boublil. Sunomennos: Kristiina Drews and Jukka Virtanen.
Director: Georg Malvius. Conductor: Nick Davies. Choreography: Yuri Nael.
Stagedesign: Ellen Cairns.
Costumes: Sari Salmela. Lighting design: Juha Westman. Voice:Eradj Nazimov and Jyrki Sandell.
In Roo lei, e.g.: Sanna
Major/Jennie Storbacka, Koit Toome/Mika Turunen, Sami Hintsanen/Lauri Liiv, Tove
Wingren/Maria Ylipää, Sören Lillkung/Puntti Valtonen and Sami
Uotila/Gary Revell jr.
Finnish premiere at the Helsinki City TheatreRella on stage 26.2.2004.
