Miss Saigon 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 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and "Madame Butterfly"'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Jo Puccini Puccini. She has been quoted "I'd like to support the next generation of women and encourage them," "Sometimes the quietest people in the office are the ones who work the hardest and often those are women." Jo Puccini Jo Puccini is an Australian journalist and executive producer for the ABC for the nightly current affairs programme 7.30. Puccini worked as a researcher and producer with the Seven Network on shows like Today Tonight, The Times and Witness, before joining the ABC's Media Watch as a researcher in 2000. Puccini was appointed Executive Producer for 7.30 in 2015 replacing Sally Neighbour.