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Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
is a
musical
by
Claude-Michel Schönberg
and
Alain Boublil
, with lyrics by Boublil and
Richard Maltby, Jr.
It is based on
Giacomo Puccini
's opera
Madame Butterfly
, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s
Saigon
during the
Vietnam War
, and
Madame Butterfly'
s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and
geisha
is replaced by a romance between an
American
GI
and a
Vietnamese
bargirl
.
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