Miss Saigon

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Ensi-ilta 26.2.2004
2 h 35 min
Stalls 48 euros

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Music CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG
Lyrics RICHARD MALTBY JR. and ALAIN BOUBLIL
Original French lyrics ALAIN BOUBLIL
Translation KRISTIINA DREWS and JUKKA VIRTANEN
Orchestral arrangement WILLIAM DAVIS BROHN

Control GEORG MALVIUS (Sweden)
Conductor NICK DAVIES (UK) and JOHANNA ALMARK
Choreography JÜRI NAEL (Estonia)
Set design ELLEN CAIRNS (United Kingdom)
Costumes SARI SALMELA
Lighting design JUHA WESTMAN
Sound Design ERADJ NAZIMOV and JYRKI SANDELL

Cast:
Sanna Majuri / Jennie Storbacka, Mika Turunen / Koit Toome / Ville Salonen, Sami Hintsanen / Lauri Liiv, Sören Lillkung / Puntti Valtonen / Sami Hokkanen, Maria Ylipää / Nina Tapio, Sami Uotila / Gary Revel jr, Raili Ruutu / Laura Taimisto / Tiina Peltonen, Sami Hokkanen, Riku Pelo, Ville Pusa, Mikko Vihma, Eeva Vilkkumaa, Pauliina Kiuru

More than 40 performers and
18-piece orchestra

Original London Production by CAMERON MACKINTOSH

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Boublil-Schoenberg: Miss Saigon. Helsinki City Theatre, large stage. Directed by Georg Malvius, Nina Tapio in the role of Ellen.

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Love in the shadow of the red flagIt’s been such a long time since the Vietnam War that for younger viewers, the background of the events of the musical Miss Saigon seems to be obscure. But for those who remember the bombing waves in North Vietnam in the late 1960s, the war propaganda of the time, and the anti-war demonstrations, the memories are awakened. At its best, the United States had half a million men in Vietnam. The situation was clear: evil was in the north, good in the south. This is also the case with Miss Saigon. The musical first takes place in 1975. It is time for the last days of the war, as the Communist forces are gaining control of more and more areas of South Vietnam and are approaching Saigon.The fighting has brought crowds of refugees to the city, whose unrealistic hope is to get to safety in America. Bread is obtained where it is possible: by entertaining the soldiers of a foreign power. This is how Kim, a Vietnamese country girl, and Chris, an American soldier, meet each other.Miss Saigon is handsome to look at: a misty river with its boats, the horrors of bombings, lush dances, waving red flags and, above all, a gigantic Buddha’s head buried in the ground, smiling as it watches the events. A helicopter will also be seen on stage. In real life, on April 29, 70 helicopters transported 1,000 Americans and 6,000 Vietnamese out of Saigon. Thousands remained, including Kim in the musical.In these circumstances, love is as hopeless as it must have been between Finnish women and German soldiers in the country. In Miss Saigon, the new power is angular marches, stern expressions and a handsome fire of ideology. In memory of the American, Kim has a little three-year-old son.In the second act of the musical, the American conscience awakens to take care of the children left behind by the soldiers. You can guess that these so-called. The role of the Bui-Doi children has been easy in a country governed by the new power. However, Kim’s little one is doing well, as Chris has come to Bangkok with his American wife and finds his escaped lover with his children. One of the most hurtful scenes in the musical is the child’s separation from his mother. Chris and Kim’s love story is at an impossible dead end, and Kim draws her own conclusions.Miss Saigon moves emotions in many ways, especially when the volume of the song calms down a bit and the lyrics are easier to understand. The plot of the musical is already old, as the story of Madame Butterfly appeared as early as 1897. It was based on the popular novel Madame Chrysanthème, which tells the story of a French naval officer and a Japanese geisha.Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schoenberg, the creators of Miss Saigon the musical, were inspired to create their own version when they saw a photograph of a Vietnamese woman handing over her children to the Americans at the airport just a few weeks before Saigon surrendered.It is worth watching and reviewing the history of Vietnam at the same time. Marja KuparinenMiss Saigon. Directed by Georg Malvius. Helsinki City Theatre.

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The musical style was also mastered by the Saigon At the premiere Things were also in place for Miss Saigon premiere. It was there that the Helsinki City Theatre’s mega-investment was showcased alternative staffing. There is a difference, but not necessarily one of the in favor of which one. Those differences come from the personalities, the performers, while the performance itself The course is strictly according to plan in all in the occupancy options. And the songs, they’re top notch trimmed and skilled, including strong choir parts. Dances flooded energy. Jennie Storbacka, aka The duets of Kim Kakkonen and Mika Turunen are stunning. Turunen is mainly Chris a sympathetic neighbor boy and a relationship fool, Storbacka Kimina more a sweet child than a person growing up to be a woman and a mother, different in that way than Sanna Majuri at Wednesday’s press premiere. Sami Uotila The bad guy also has gentleness, even love. Disease Wingren’s Ellen cleverly hides pain and disappointment. Soren Lillkung’s pimp has a strong command of his complex figure, and so does Sami Hintsanen John’s. Miss Saigon performance The most harrowing moment can be found at the very end. A little boy walks a small carrying his suitcase through the endless stage, he glances once more but continues towards his father, towards America. Robin Haapavaara is an edible touching and moving at the age of three.

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The magnificent Saigon If the premiere of Miss Saigon was not in Finland the highest quality musical performance in the history of theatre, it can’t go very far from the top of the list. Director Georg Malvius and conductor Performers led by Nick Davies attacked the Vietnam War as a single front than Sandels’ regiment at Koljonvirta. There are two occupations in the work, but at least the group in the review performance performed in fiery ecstasy and yet with international expertise. The most wonderful thing of the evening was the whole production, but of course there is also Sven Dufva in the story – self-sacrificing a giant that alone rushes in front of the crowd. This time the giant was Sanna Majuri, who interpreted the role of Kimi with a heroic way. Admittedly, however, the comparison lame. The bullet hits the brave chest in the case of the Major, but the head is other than boring. Seemingly he tears his soul and voice to shreds stage, but under the surface there is a carefully considered control. Behind the Major came A plumb line. Puntti Valtonen opened the tragic view of the fate of a pimp when he tells his childhood memories of his own mother’s fornication. Koit Toome , who sang the male lead, offered from falling in love to guilt. The role of comrade in war John Lauri Liiv was not left behind in his interpretation American conflicts between fighting war and helping. Maria Ylipää, Gary Revel Jr. and Laura Taimisto were basically in supporting roles, but everyone’s song numbers were as if independent works of art. And let’s not forget the child actor Robin Haapavaara, which made the audience shudder without opening it his mouth. Miss Saigon is a fine work and the The Sandels ensemble of the City Theatre does it justice. In the case of is no longer entertainment, but great drama. Audience success is already guaranteed, as Almost 90 per cent of the seats for the 54 performances in the spring have already been sold.

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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.

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Sanna Majuri a huge breakthrough at the Helsinki City Theatre’s Miss Saigon musical.Photo: Tapio Vanhatalo Miss Saigon moves 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’sBreakthrough 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 PUUKKOMiss 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.

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Vietnam my beloved Miss Saigon musical appeals to the crying with a story Helsinki City Theatre Miss Saigon The latest of the major international success musicals, Miss Saigon, composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, arrived in Finland at the age of fifteen with a delay of one year. Since its London premiere in 1989, it has been made into a 80 different productions around the world; In the Nordic countries, Copenhagen was the first to arrive, where it was first seen in 1996, and in Stockholm for a couple of years later. Helsinki City Theatre’s Miss Saigon has been created with the same recipe than the production at the Tallinn Castle Hall a year and a half ago. In addition to Swedish director Georg Malvius, British set designer Ellen Cairns and Estonian choreographer Jüri Nael have been involved in both performances. A few actors and choir members have also been snatched from the neighbourhood. In the male lead, Chris alternates with the somewhat unknown Mika Turunen Estonia’s former Eurovision representative Koit Toome, who was seen on stage during the musical’s premiered on Wednesday. The City Theatre has had its best to offer: costume designer Sari Salmela and lighting designer Juha Westman can do well in any international comparison. Salmela’s construction site has been enormous, as The musical, which is quite intimate in terms of story, has spectacular crowd scenes, one of which has about half a hundred performers on stage – and everyone has a different accessories! The musical has a message Miss Saigon represents the kind of musical that has a message. At the heart of the story is a young Vietnamese girl named Kim who falls in love American soldier Chris. Or falling in love and falling in love; The man is on the other hand, a saving angel out of the abyss of war and to keep him alive alternative, prostitution. It is the end of the Vietnam War, and in the spring of 1975, the Americans Leaving Saigon so suddenly that the couple, who had just spent their wedding night, left the roads resign. In accordance with the plot adapted from the opera Madame Butterfly, a girl gives birth to a child that the man who has returned to his home country knows nothing about. Its time after longing for his beloved and healing his war depression, he marries another with a woman. The story has jumped forward three years. Chris’s veteran friend John leads a charity that tracks down and helps illegitimate children brought to Vietnam by soldiers, who were sent to Vietnam in a “liberated” In Vietnam, they are treated like the enemy’s bastards. Kimin has been shown with his son as a boat refugee to Bangkok, where Chris and his wife are now direction to settle accounts with their past and to be able to continue from a clean slate. Ellen’s wife agrees that they would give Kim child support, and Tam-son, but refuses to adopt her husband’s illegitimate child. Kimin the view is that the best life for a child is in the United States with his father and is ready to die by one’s own hand for that goal. Death frees Chris stalemate, but enough pent-up feelings to say goodbye to Kim’s body includes that the future of marriage does not bode well either. But it’s not anymore This musical’s job is to tell. The Buddha’s palm is not afraid of a bird On Wednesday, the role of Kim was played by the Master of Arts in Theatre and Drama Sanna Majuri, who has solid music studies before the Theatre Academy & Jazz Conservatory. The combination of education is exactly what a Finn musical theatre misses. Although his professional experience is still quite limited, Majuri carries the demanding while retaining its sensitivity, and the delicately girlish appearance is also suitable ethnorole. The actress is strongly present in Kim’s emotions and interpretation also conveys the fact that not all human behaviour is motivated by the According to the thinking: A bird is not afraid in the palm of a Buddha’s hand. Koit Toome primarily interprets the role of Chris in vocals. His His acting expression is quite clumsy. Just as stiff in that area is Johnia Lauri Liiv, who also helped Estonia and came into the picture from the music side. Also in these roles, the Finns alternate, Mika Turunen as Chris and Sami Hintsanen as John, have earned their merits from singing. Although everyone – Toome the most – has musical experience, the whole central male choir Strictly speaking, it represents the amateur theatre department. Singer or actor, that’s the dilemma The women are the strength of the performance: Maria Ylipää, who plays the role of Ellen Like Sanna Majuri, she is studying at the Theatre Academy. She has studied music and dance since childhood, singing for about five years; there he is absolutely Great, such effortlessness and ease of sound delivery is rarely heard. 22-year-old Ylipää is still a tough girl as a musical actress – if you want to work in the field enough. It’s time for Finnish musical theatre with its production-specific engagements narrow ground, and there is not really a profession specializing in the sport to be born. It also seems that institutional theatres are also trying out new faces rather than using professional actors with singing skills, which you would think can be found among freelancers. For a role like Puntti Valtonen’s pimp, who is responsible for lightening the drama, it is the singing actor who is at his best. No Valtonen is not a Pavarotti, but a washable professional musical theatre maker. Valtonen will also be surrounded by the spectacular characters of the musical Miss Saigon. mass scenes, of which the presentation of the American dream is absolutely incredible An investment with all its characters: from dancing hot dogs to Coke bottles, From Uncle Samuli to glittery Elvis, country folklore and the funnel head of The Wizard of Oz sheet metal. There are places in Miss Saigon’s course where the viewer might fall a little from the cart. It is a so-called. all the text is performed singing. Something Words are bound to be missed. Instead, a successful structural trick is to skip over situation that led to Kim and Chris’s breakup and return to it as a flashback: Vietnam’s The tension between the lovers is only released in the final scenes. And the “real” landing a helicopter on the scene to pick up Americans from the embassy is An impressive sight in itself, let alone because of the content of the scene. Miss Saigon is a melodrama that makes you cry. Vietnam, my beloved…

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