Originally written in English, this article was first published in The Asian Reporter, June 21-27, 1995.
London, in 1991. It was a mildly sunny summer noon. Hundreds of people were waiting in a long line in front of The Theatre Royal to buy their tickets. I stopped by, and out of curiosity raised my eyes toward the billboard on which was portrayed an apparently sorrowful Vietnamese young woman who, with a small baby in her arms, haggardly gazed at a helicopter disappearing in the dark horizon. A line of words stood out in bright red lights: Miss Saigon, a musical play by Cameron Mackintosh. Mackintosh is also the producer of the famous Oliver -a pride of British performing arts.
