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Book by: Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Lyrics by: Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by: Wendy Sielaff
Costume Design: Kevin Leistner
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre
June 2011

Miss Saigon updates the plot of Madame Butterfly to take place in the latter part and in the aftermath of America's involvement in Vietnam. Kim is a Vietnamese woman who falls in love with a U.S. soldier, Chris. However, her family had promised her to Thuy as an arranged marriage. Kim and Chris produce a child, Tam, who Chris goes back to Vietnam to get.