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
Madame Giry Madame Giry Madame Giry is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1909 novel "The Phantom of the Opera". She is a fairly intermediate character in the novel, although her role is much increased in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. This article will deal with both versions separately. Madame Giry is also a character in the musical Love Never Dies, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Madame Giry is an aging woman who works as a concierge in the "rue de Provence", who looks after patrons of the Opera, principally those who sit in the boxes. One night, whilst