Perfectly shot adaptation of the stage show with a great cast. My only complaint is the unnecessary lyric changes and the songs that were omitted.
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jboothmillard19 April 2021I had always heard the title of this popular musical stage show, based on the 1904 opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. I had no idea what the story was about and whether or not I knew any of the songs from the show, but I was really up for giving it a go. Basically, the story starts in 1975, at "Dreamland," a Saigon bar and brothel, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War. Seventeen-year-old peasant girl Kim (Eva Noblezada) is a new bargirl with no experience. The U. S. Marines, aware that they will soon be leaving Vietnam, party with the Vietnamese sex workers. Chris Scott (Alistair Brammer), a sergeant, has no interest in getting with a girl, despite encouragement from his friend John Thomas (Hugh Maynard). The girls compete for the title of "Miss Saigon", with Gigi Van Tranh (Rachelle Ann Go) winning the crown. But many of the showgirls dream of a better life. Scott is transfixed by Kim, who is reluctant and shy. John buys a room for Chris and her from the Engineer (Jon Jon Briones), a French-Vietnamese hustler and the owner of the club. Chris tries to pay her to leave the nightclub. The Engineer interferes, thinking he is not interested in Kim, so Chris allows himself to be led to her room. Chris, watching Kim sleep, asks God why he met her just as he was about to leave Vietnam. When Kim wakes up, Chris is sympathetic towards Kim, who tells him she is an orphan and that she was a virgin before sleeping with him. Chris offers to take her to America with him and the two of them fall in love. Chris tells John that he is taking leave to be with Kim. John warns him that the Viet Cong will soon take Saigon, but he reluctantly agrees to cover for Chris. Chris meets with the Engineer to trade for Kim, eventually resorting to threatening him at gunpoint to get his way. The bargirls hold a "wedding ceremony" for Chris and Kim, with Gigi toasting Kim as the "real" Miss Saigon. Thuy (Kwang-Ho Hong), Kim's cousin, whom she was betrothed to marry, is an officer in the North Vietnamese Army. He arrives and is disgusted she is with a white man. The two men confront each other, drawing their guns. Kim tells Thuy that their arranged marriage is now nullified because her parents are dead, and she no longer has feelings for him. Thuy curses them all and storms out. Chris promises to take Kim with him when he leaves Vietnam. Three years later, in 1978, a parade is taking place celebrating the reunification of Vietnam and the defeat of the Americans. Thuy, now a commissar in the new Communist government, orders his soldiers to search for the Engineer, in order to find and bring back Kim. Kim and Chris have become separated in the three years. Kim has been hiding in an impoverished area, still in love with Chris, believing he will return to Vietnam and rescue her. Meanwhile, Chris is married to an American wife, Ellen (Tamsin Carroll). Ellen and Kim both swear their devotion to Chris from opposite ends of the world. A week later, Thuy's soldiers find the Engineer, who has been working in the rice fields as part of a re-education program. The Engineer takes Thuy to where Kim has been hiding. Kim refuses Thuy's renewed offer of marriage. Furious, Thuy calls his soldiers in and they begin tying up Kim and the Engineer, threatening to put them into a re-education camp. Kim introduces him to Tam (William Dao), her three-year-old son from Chris. Thuy calls Kim a traitor and Tam an enemy, and tries to kill Tam with a knife, but Kim shoots Thuy dead. She flees with Tam and tells the Engineer what she has done. But he refuses to help her until he learns that Tam's father is American; he sees the boy as his chance to emigrate to the United States. The three set out on a ship with other refugees to Bangkok. In Atlanta, Georgia, John now works for an aid organisation. John tells Chris that Kim is still alive, which Chris is relieved to hear after all this time. He also tells Chris about Tam and urges Chris to go to Bangkok with Ellen, who he finally tells about Kim and his son. Chris, Ellen, and John arrive in search of Kim at a sleazy club, where the Engineer is also around. John finds Kim dancing at the club and tells her that Chris is also in Bangkok. He then tries to tell her that Chris is remarried, but Kim interrupts. Kim tells Tam about his father, as she believes he is to go to American with him. Seeing Kim happy, John cannot bring himself to break the news to her but promises to bring Chris to her. The Engineer tells Kim to find Chris herself, because he doubts that Chris will come. Kim is haunted by the ghost of Thuy, who taunts Kim. She has a flashback to 1975, when the Viet Cong were approaching Saigon, and the city is thrown into increasing chaos. Orders are received from Washington for an immediate evacuation of the remaining Americans. Chris calls to Kim and is about to go into the crowd to look for her. John was forced to punch Chris in the face to stop him from leaving. Chris is put into the last helicopter leaving Saigon. Back in 1978 Bangkok, Kim joyfully dresses in her wedding clothes and leaves the Engineer to watch Tam while she is gone. She goes to Chris's hotel room, where she finds Ellen, who reveals he is Chris's wife. Kim is heartbroken and refuses to believe her. Ellen asks Kim if Chris is the father of Tam, and Kim confirms that he is. Kim does not want her son to continue leaving on the streets and pleads for Ellen and Chris to take her son to live with them in America. But Ellen refuses, saying that Tam needs his real mother, and that she wants her own children with Chris. Kim angrily demands that Chris tell her these things in person and leaves. Ellen feels bad for Kim but is determined to keep Chris. Chris and John return, and Ellen tells them both that Kim arrived and that she had to tell Kim everything. Chris and John blame themselves, and Ellen also tells them that Kim tried to give away her son to them. Ellen issues an ultimatum to Chris: Kim or her. Chris reassures Ellen, and they pledge their love for each other. Chris and Ellen agree to leave Tam and Kim in Bangkok but offer them support payments from America. Back at the club, Kim lies to the Engineer that they are still going to America. The Engineer imagines the extravagant new life that he will lead in America. Chris, John, and Ellen find the Engineer and he takes them to see Kim and Tam. In her room, Kim tells Tam that he should be happy because he now has a father. She tells him that she cannot go with him but will be watching over him. Chris, Ellen, John, and the Engineer arrive. The Engineer comes in to take Tam outside to introduce Tam to his father. While this is happening, Kim is behind a curtain and shoots herself. As she falls to the floor, Chris rushes into the room at the sound of the gunshot and finds Kim mortally wounded. He picks up Kim and asks what she has done. She asks him to hold her once more and dies in his arms as he cries her name. Following the end of the show, the cast of the original 1989 production come onstage: Jonathan Pryce, Lea Salonga, Simon Bowman, and Mariano Venida, and there are speeches from the original producers and creators of the show. Most of the songs are belters, especially "The Heat Is on in Saigon", "Sun and Moon", "Why God Why", " I Still Believe", "Now That I've Seen Her", "What a Waste" and "The American Dream", and the performances and singing voices of Noblezada, Brammer, Maynard and Briones are terrific. It is an emotional story, the colour and costume design are marvellous, you almost forget the length of the show, and the finale featuring performances from the original stars, especially Pryce, is a highlight. This is a wonderful celebration of a splendid stage show and made me consider seeing it live in a theatre, a marvellous musical drama show. Very good!
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AngelofMusic199827 January 2020Miss Saigon is not among my favorite musicals.It is inspired by opera Madama Butterfly,so those familliar with it know what is coming at the end .Sets and costumes look nice.Cast does a decent job.Good production and the final scene is very tragic.7/10
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Miss Saigon. I've seen it in the theater numerous times, in Dutch, German and English. I knew cast members who could sneak me in and seat me next to the engineers. I even auditioned for it. I know this show front stage and backstage. You might say, I'm a fan.
Talks about a movie being made made from it made me excited and worried at the same time (see what they did to Les Mis, the show is good, but the movie sucked in so many ways). Probably their decision (for now) to do the theater registration as a movie was really smart. This way you could not lose the pace of the story, the whole drama is already finished and the only thing you need to do is put a camera on it.
Sometimes I'd forget that they were on stage, you would hear the audience react sometimes and even than it was not completely clear if it was inside the cinema or inside the movie (I was seated last row). It could easily have been inside the cinema, the rest of the people clearly enjoyed it as much as I did, also for them it was a great night.
The acting was great, the singing was great and of course the story, based on the Opera Madame Butterfly, is a solid drama. It was filmed pretty up close, there were not so many wide shots, which made you get deeply involved in the drama even more than in the theater. At several moments, because of the music, the story, the acting, I just burst out in tears. Oh how I love me some musical drama.
And when the story was over, the show went on and featured a grand finale with (some of) the original cast members returning to the parts that made them famous or won them Tony's. And they were funny, really funny.
So this movie or registration or whatever you like to call it, did for me what so many movies can't seem to be able to do these days: move me. The logo for theater that has been used many times is the laughing mask and the crying mask and this night, in the cinema, this all came together perfectly. It may as well be the best musical theater on film I have ever seen. Very well done. -
david_kravitz16 November 2016To quote the critic of the Daily Mail, "The best live film of a stage show that I've seen". And I fully agree with him. I am an avid fan of musicals with a DVD collection over 700+.
Having had to wait 25 years since my late wife and I saw it at Drury Lane, London, I have had to be content with the CD.
This production and the DVD are worth more than 10. If you buy only one DVD of a musical, stage or screen, it has to be this one. From the two showstoppers at the beginning and end, The heat is on in Saigon and American Dream, to the beautiful duet, The last night of the World, the score and the performances are fantastic.
After Les Miserables, still the best musical ever, Boubil and Schonberg came up with another smash, this time based on Madame Butterfly. And thanks to Cameron Mackintosh for his foresight in producing both shows.
Bringing this show to a smaller stage than Drury Lane created several problems the least of which was the helicopter and the number involving the statue of Ho Chi Min was more cramped.
There are two extras with the DVD, one giving a history of the musical and the other, the after show performances from the original cast which reduced me to tears of joy. Each member of both casts and the production team deserve a huge amount of applause, which they duly got.
The close up singing shots strongly suggest there were so many cameras, that many were on stage and thus part of the performances were filmed not on the night. If you love musicals, this one totally without fault with a dream cast and incredible production values. Enjoy. -
gws-222 February 2017I came to Miss Saigon with little or no knowledge of what it was about or even who wrote it. The only reason I got the unexpected privilege of seeing this great film of a great musical was the recommendation of a friend, a fellow musical theatre buff, who recommended it to me. The Blu-ray disk apparently isn't available in the United States, so I bought it from Amazon.uk. I'm glad I did.
The show is deeply emotional and often very sad. I wasn't prepared for that so by the end of the night I had been worn out but worn out in a good way.
The show's four principal characters, The Engineer, Kim, Chris, and John were all played by talented actors who could both sing and act. I was particularly impressed by the then 18 year old Eva Noblezada, who played Kim. The show will be moving to Broadway in March with many of the actors who are in this filmed version.
In an early scene, Gigi (played by the wonderful Rachelle Ann Go), Kim, and the rest of the girls with whom they work, sing the haunting, "The Movie in my Mind." The 17 year old Kim, who is new sings,
"I will not cry, I will not think/ I'll do my dance, I'll make them drink/ When I make love, it won't be me/ And if they hurt me, I'll just close my eyes"
But the girls all hope to be rescued by an American GI from their desperate and dangerous lives. The song ends with Kim singing her own dream, of
"A world that's far away/ Where life is not unkind/ The movie in my mind"
There is a lot that is funny in the show too, primarily delivered by the cynical but wily Engineer. Alas, though, this is a show about loss, which I guess should be clear, as it is based on Puccini's tragic, "Madam Butterfly."
I cannot recommend the "Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary" too highly. The film tells its dark and tragic story with beauty and elegance. Not to be missed! -
ChristianLeFeuvre3 August 2017In 1985 Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil brought us the outstanding musical 'Les Misérables', and only 4 years later they stunned theatre goers again with another spectacular musical, 'Miss Saigon'. Once notice got out that a new revival of the show was to return to the West End in 2014 for a limited run, the anticipation and excitement was enormous. Miss Saigon is set during the Vietnam war and tells of American G.I. Chris and Vietnamese bar girl Kim as they fall in love, and when the Americans finally pull out of Saigon, their lives are torn apart and the aftermath takes a heart-breaking turn as 3 years later, we learn, Kim has had Chris's child, Tam, and Chris has taken an American wife. Well, the show is currently on a tour of the UK and in my opinion, must be seen. It is incredible. There are some fantastic numbers, including the powerful Act 2 opening number 'Bui Doi' and the over-the-top showstopper 'American Dream'. Also, be prepared for the emotional ending which will have you reaching for the tissues. Although those, like me, who saw the original will notice some changes in this revival (and not for the better either, but you know me and change, I never like it). From lyric changes which spoilt the flow of the songs and the replacement of 'Now That I've Seen Her', a fantastic number for the character Ellen, in favour of a ridiculous number called 'Maybe', to the disappointing change made to the stand-out scene of the helicopter descending onto the stage, this is now nowhere near as impressive as it was and is now partly done with a projection. Having said all that, Miss Saigon is still easily one of the best musicals to hit the West End, and the special 25th Anniversary performance was just perfection (and was filmed for a one-off screening in cinemas, and can be bought on DVD to enjoy repeatedly). Jon Jon Briones is sensational as The Engineer, he is conniving, seedy, funny, ruthless and sleazy. Eva Noblezada is sweet and assured as Kim, and Alistair Brammer, too, is excellent as Chris, with a strong stage presence and another wonderful voice. Watch out too for the final 35 minutes of the DVD as a special encore brings together the original cast with the 25th anniversary cast to sing a few numbers and pay tribute. It is spine-tingling stuff. Original cast members Lea Salonga, Simon Bowman and Jonathan Pryce perform alongside their contemporaries. This was a well-meaning touch, but did the anniversary cast no favours. Even 25 years later, Salonga and Pryce were spectacular, helping explain why that first production was such a success (despite some daft controversies at the time). When Miss Saigon opened on Broadway in 1991, there were protests that the cast had too few Asian Americans; others complained about the then-outrageous top ticket price of $100. All that died down long before the original production finished its run a decade later, and it is now the 13th longest running show in Broadway history. There is also talk of a movie adaptation being produced (however I am seriously hoping it isn't an atrocity like the movie of Les Mis). If you love musicals then make sure you get the 25th Anniversary DVD, and get to see the show while it tours the UK. You will not be disappointed.
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valleymatt26 December 2020No spoilers here, no long reviews, just put simply, if you haven't seen it, go watch it now. You can thank me later.
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adambenjamingibbons7 February 2022The fact that the CGI bundle of cheese The Dark Knight is rated above this is unfathomable.
Some pretentious 5+6/10 reviews on here. It's just 100% brilliance. The nit picking is pathetic.
Amazing product of amazing human skill. -
Prismark1031 January 2019A reworking of Madam Butterfly. Miss Saigon is ultimately a tragedy.
Chris, an American GI just before the US withdrawal from Vietnam meets Kim in a Saigon bar. She is a young innocent girl who has lost her family. Now she is fresh meat in her first night as a bar girl. The joint is run by the manager called the Engineer.
All the women in the bar are scantily clad prostitutes, hoping that a GI will marry them and take them to America where they promise to be good wives. Even the Engineer wants the American dream.
Chris falls in love with Kim but he has to abandon her when the US troops withdraw. Some years later he discovers that Kim had his child.
Eva Noblezada and other female cast members reach some high notes. However I did not think that the songs were that great or the story so enthralling.
The original musical was well known for its staging of a helicopter scene. It does not shy away from its rude subject matter. A sex bar where women are exploited, all they want to do is escape.
The 25th anniversary show has a segment where the original stars appear. Jonathan Pryce jokes that he has been let out from the museum. Lea Salonga is still beautiful as ever and still has a great voice.
Maybe this is a musical that is better to watch on the stage. It loses its immediacy on the screen however wonderfully it has been filmed. -
peterandval201127 December 2020Just fabulous stay till the end
Up there with Les miserable -
Simple put, I like the theme and the music, fantastic choreograph, scene setup. But the story will be boring as hell with out the character "engineer" a Pimp. the main characters are boring and way too easy to forget. you can watch haft way of the show and realize you can't remember their name.
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apisano-1331929 September 2018The production value of this version is impressive, and the performances are mostly good... but the changes they've made are inexplicable. I understand the necessity of rewriting lyrics when needed, but to change them to nonsensical drivel is unforgivable. For instance, they absolutely destroyed the song "Please" by altering the lyrics and making them totally lame and completely devoid of passion and feeling. The song is supposed to end on the word "please" for a reason...
As for casting, I'm pleased with everyone except Ellen. Her performance was just awful. Add that to the mortal sin of deleting one of the best Broadway songs of all time ("Now That I've Seen Her"), and I just have to shake my damn head. I don't know why they got rid of this beautiful gem of a song and replaced it with an empty, boring piece of garbage that made no sense.
For all of that, I gave to give this a mediocre review. Miss Saigon has always been one of my favorite musicals... but I simple can't include this production. I have season tickets to our local broadway theatre and will be seeing Miss Saigon this season. I only hope it has improved or at least been restored to its former glory. -
Miss Saigon was one of those Broadway Shows that everyone knows but knows nothing about. People just know its based in the war and theres a helicopter, but it is so much more than that. The story is so deep and while not too many people experience what Kim and Chris experience throughout the show, everyone can find themselves in the characters that surround this plot. Everyone's voice is amazing, the score is beautiful, the set is amazing and the only downside of the show is I am so bummed I did not get to see it when it was in New York or London. Miss Saigon is a beautiful show that everyone should see.
The show opens to Kim (Eva Noblezada), standing alone in a marketplace in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam war. A man named The Engineer (Jon Jon Briones) finds Kim and takes her backstage to his strip club ("Overture/Backstage Dreamland"). Kim reveals herself as a teenage virgin and is fearful, as the other girls torment her. Meanwhile, The Engineer opens up the club to G.I's, taking the night off from war ("The Heat Is On"). Every night The Engineer holds a contest for a man to take the winning lady as Miss Saigon, and Gigi (Rachel Ann Go) is chosen to go with a man named John. The two argue and The Engineer slaps Gigi across the face. Gigi and Kim both reminice about their dream situations, to be taken to america, safely ("The Movie In My Mind"). Johns friend, Chris (Alistair Brammer) comes to the club but aims not to sleep with anyone. After seeing John so happy, Chris chooses to spend the night with Kim as he takes her virginity.
Chris wakes up and prays to G-D to set Kim free from this life ("Why God Why"). Kim wakes up and Chris gives Kim back the money, stating that he couldnt pay for someone as wonderful as she. Kim instantly has feelings for Chris and Kim asks if he could marry him, to which he accepts ("Sun and Moon"). Chris goes to the Engineer to ask for his permission, and he initially declines, but after Chris threatens his life, he accepts. The girls prepare an intimate wedding for Kim and Chris and the two are wed ("The Wedding Ceremony"). A man named Thuy walks in after the wedding and states that he is to be married to Kim and has been trying to find her for years. Kim tells him to move along, showing him how happy she is with Kim. After Thuy leaves, Chris promises Kim that he will take her back to the U.S immediately ("Last Night Of The World").
3 Years Pass and the war has ended, leaving many homeless. Thuy is promoted to head of the Vietnam army as they prepare for more battles ("The Morning Of The Dragon"). In an alleyway, we find Kim, hopeless and homeless. She longs for Chris, but what she doesnt know is Chris has returned to the states and married a woman named Ellen (Tasmin Carroll) ("I Still Believe"). The Engineer finds Kim, but he is followed by Thuy. Thuy interrogates Kim, stating that now Chris is back home that Thuy will marry Kim. Kim tells Thuy she cannot marry him, as she has had a child that is indeed Chris' named Tam. Thuy threatens to kill Tam, but in a rage of anger, Kim murders Thuy and runs off with Tam in fear ("You Will Not Touch Him/This Is The Hour"). The Engineer is finding ways to get a visa to america, and he finds Kim and says there is a boat to Bangkok which would work to both of their advantages. Before going on the boat, Kim tells Tam that he can be whatever he wants and that she would do anything to see him happy ("I'd Give My Life For You").
Since the war has ended, John has devoted his life to building a camp for orphaned vietnamese children ("Bui-Doi"). His work brings him to bangkok, where he finds out that Kim has survived the war and is living in another strip club with the engineer. He phones Chris and urges him to come to Bangkok, for he knows that Kim has a child with her. Chris tells Ellen about Kim and the two travel to Bangkok. One night after a show, John meets Kim in her dressing room. He tells her that Chris is in Bangkok but he has a wife. The Engineer comes in and states that she must hustle for him to get a visa. Alone, Kim has a nightmare, reliving what happened the night Chris left. On that night, Chris gave Kim his gun for protection and drove to the embassy. The two try effortlessly to get Kim on the helicopter, but it fails, leaving Kim in Vietnam ("Kim's Nightmare").
After her nightmare, Kim swears that Chris is her one and only true love (Sun And Moon (Reprise)"). Kim arrives at Chris' hotel, and finds Ellen. Chris and John are looking for Kim at the club at the same time. Kim finds out Chris married even though him and Kim are already married. Realizing she has no future, Kim torments Ellen by stating that she must take Tam back to America so that he can grow up to be whatever he wants, but Ellen declines and Kim leaves furious ("Maybe"). As Chris comes back to the hotel, him and Ellen state that they will live in Bangkok so that Tam could live with them and Kim at the same time. When Kim returns to the club, she tells the engineer that they are moving to america and he is elated ("The American Dream"). As they arrive at the hotel, Kim tells Tam once again that he must grow to his full potential and do whatever he wants. Once Tam is in Chris' clutches, Kim hides behind a curtain and shoots herself. She dies in Chris' arms as she announces her love for him one last time ("Little God Of My Heart").
One thing any level headed person must know before watching Miss Saigon as that the tears never stop. While there are flashy numbers like "The American Dream" and "The Heat Is On", the show at its core is very deep and dark and really makes you feel empathy. While I do agree that the deleting of Ellen's "Now That I've Seen Her" makes her character not pleasurable, this show is near perfection. I would love commemorate Eva Noblezada's performance. She did that role from 2014-2019 without hesitation. Kim is one of the most complex I have ever seen and she just mutilates into a beautiful version of Kim, calm and sophisticated, but torn and haunted on the inside.
Overall, Miss Saigon gets a 10. -
pawebster23 December 2021This is terrific - you get a good filmed version of the whole show (in its revised - but certainly not improved - form of 2014) and also a moving reunion of the original 1989 cast. Lea Salonga and Simon Bowman, the first Kim and Chris, sing The Last Night of the World, showing up the inferiority of the performance earlier in the evening. Alistair Brammer in particular cannot compare with Simon Bowman. Brammer's voice has a kind of whiny drone in it. Probably no one has ever surpassed Bowman on tenderness in the love duets of the show (see the videos on Youtube of him and Lea performing them when the show was new). He seems actually to have improved his voice since then, losing the (IMO) excessive vibrato. The new Kim is good, but Lea Salonga is impossible to beat. Her excellent voice has become richer and more mature over the years, less suitable for the role of teenage Kim, but that's not a criticism.
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placespls21 February 2023This show is magnificent, so powerful. I was there opening night of the original production and I loved some of the changes they made. I cried at least 3 times (and I am very familiar with the show). I am so glad that these actors were filmed and we now have this amazing production we can now see over and over again. It is perfectly cast, the intensity of the show is overwhelming (in a good way) these actors give you no choice but to go on this journey with them, they pull you in from the beginning. I especially loved the new opening with Kim and the Engineer. The strength of these talents on the stage is a gift we are given while we watch this journey. The Engineer was amazing, to be able to despise his cruelty but yet like and feel for him is an amazing actor embodying the best of his gifts. I am not sure of the words for the actress playing Kim, the minute you see her you want to protect her but we watch her strength emerge, stunning performance. Everyone in this company gives it their all every minute, every second and never lets us done. The act 2 opening is powerful, beautiful solo done with such emotion and conviction, Bravo! Highly recommended!
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jrsassolol25 March 2023This is so good the singing and acting are amazing. I'm so impressed with the whole cast the story and music are phenomenal. The story is so emotional and touching that I cried watching it. I wish I could see this in person and can't wait to see these actors in other productions.
Overall, this show gets a 1000000/10 and I highly suggest watching it if you have the time your whole perspective will change for the better. And you will start to truly appreciate the arts and theatre much more after watching this. Hope they get a revival of this show and bring it on a national tour or back to broadway one day. -
AscendeSuperius22 May 2022Wow. Words cannot even begin to describe the emotions that this musical brought me through. The hope and undying love in Kim's eyes. Her infinite love for her child. The pain in her eyes as she finds out that all her dreams of reuniting with her lover was all one sided. It was a tragedy of the most ultimate sense. This is all credited to the magnificent acting of Eva most of all, and coupled with a gut wrenching score, really encompasses the essence of the musical.
However, it was way too rushed. And secondly, ultimately this is a story of love and loss, the musical numbers for the Engineer just seemed extra. If not for these 2 points, this film would have been absolutely perfect. -
nhoelbl1119 April 2020I have seen this production performed live and loved it. My heart broke and ached for Kim and her plight, not so much in this version. She comes off as opportunistic and entitled, and she is very hard to sympathize with. It's impossible to feel any good will toward such a brat. On the bright side, The engineer is fantastic.
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krikkedominick1328 September 2020I dont know, but I dont connect to this story as I do to les miserables (wich is by the same creators) despite that, I really fell in love (again) with the best parts, this Kim though she seems to been descended down from heaven or something so beautifull she'd sang, Eva Noblezada is her name I believe. She is also featured on the Grey-brown-ish broadway recording of Hadestown (wich is way intenser, btw)