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
Le ménage moderne de Madame Butterfly of rickshaws and a sailing ship on the Pacific Ocean. The costumes and sets are almost lavish. The film has a lengthy and complex plot, and includes intertitles. The film is based on the opera "Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini. Lt. Pinkerton is a strapping American sailor in Japan. He marries Madame Butterfly and ravishes her while Butterfly's maid, Soosooky (or Soussaki) watches and masturbates. Pinkerton leaves. A new character, Pink-hop "the coolie boy" (played by Natan), spies on Butterfly and Soosooky as they engage in lesbian sex. He masturbates while watching them. Pinkerton returns, and is angered by Pink-hop's