Review: Miss Saigon

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Miss Saigon drills into the soul

Helsinki City Theatre’s grand musical Miss Saigon has just
ended, and many people are quietly wiping the corners of their eyes. In the story of Vietnamese
The war has thrown an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl
coincidentally together and separated them suddenly. Later, however, the roads
intersect, in the end in an extremely tragic way.

– This could be from our life, for example! How in another way
Everything could be if my father had been involved in life.

What can a woman born in the 1940s who sat in the audience have in common with the little one in the story?
Vietnamese-American boy? Surprisingly much: the war broke
both lives by breaking childhood and taking away the father and finally
even my mother.

In the auditorium, emotions rise to the surface – even those who have been
buried for years. The art experience has done its job.

Miss Saigon, directed by Georg Malvius from Sweden, is a wonderful experience. Too
Often after a musical night, you feel so light that you don’t have much left at home
exports. Miss Saigon is from another country. It gives you food for thought and makes you cry,
But it also entertains and at times makes you laugh properly.

No one is left cold when the “Engineer” pimp (Puntti Valtonen / Sören
Lillkung) dreams of America’s gold country to the beat of dancing hot dogs and vice Elvis. The contrast between Kimi (Sanna Sanna), who ended up as a barmaid,
The fate of Major /Jennie Storbacka) is all the more harrowing. When Chris
(Koit Toome / Mika Turunen) vents his despair at the tragic ending,
The woman sighs:

“This is almost too much, but a great performance. I want to see it again.