Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: Overture - The Orchestra
2. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Heat Is on in Saigon
3. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Movie in My Mind
4. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Dance - Chris, Kim
5. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: Why God Why? - Chris, Kim
6. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: This Money's Yours
7. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: Sun and Moon
8. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Telephone Song
9. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Deal
10. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Ceremony (Dju Vui Va - Chris, Kim
11. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: What's This I Find - Chris, Kim,
12. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Last Night of the Wo - Chris, Kim
13. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: The Morning of
14. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: I Still Believ - Ellen, Kim
15. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: This Is the Ho - Kim, People, ,

Disc 2:

1. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: If You Want to
2. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: Let Me See His
3. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Ho Chi Minh City - April 1978: I'd Give My Li - Kim,
4. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Atlanta - September 1978: Bui-Doi
5. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Atlanta - September 1978: The Revelation
6. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bankok - October 1978: What a Waste
7. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bankok - October 1978: Please
8. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Saigon - April 1975: The Fall of Saigon - Ellen, Kim
9. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: Room 317
10. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: Her or Me
11. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: The Confrontation - Kim
12. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: The American Dream - Chris, Kim
13. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: The Sacred Bird - Gigi Dover, Kim
14. Miss Saigon, Musical Play/Bangkok - October 1978: Finale - Chris, , Kim

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155370 in Music
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Running time: 107 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Miss Saigon rather surprisingly turns out to be a tour de force for its star, Jonathan Pryce. In the midst of Boubil and Schönberg's "girl-meets-boy-with confused-emotions-in-Vietnam" rewrite of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Pryce's Engineer's bright tenor provides a nasty yet humanely pragmatical focal point for more logically tuned minds. Daring to tackle the controversial theme of doomed lovers during the misguided American war efforts, Miss Saigon was a thematic and stylistic breakthrough of the 1980s, just like Jesus Christ Superstar had been in the previous decade. But the lyricist, Richard Maltby, previously a young man with alleged off-off-Broadway street cred, could only do so much with Boubil's French original platitudes--it is Schönberg's music paired with producer Cameron Macintosh's storyboard vision that secured the deserved success of Miss Saigon. On this complete recording, an orchestra on form shows off William D. Brohn's skilful orchestrations, and a fine ensemble supports Lea Salonga's tender yet determined Kim. And in the male camp, apart from the prancing Pryce, Peter Polycarpou (John) is crystal clear as the struggling American marine soldier, curbing all tendencies to over-emotionality. --Yngvil V.G.

From Amazon.com
It's probably best known for raising the stakes for 1980s blockbuster shows by landing a helicopter on stage, but Miss Saigon is also a good show with good music. As a follow-up to their international smash Les Misérables, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (with an assist from Richard Maltby Jr.) adapted the tale of Madame Butterfly to the Vietnam War, realized here by the original 1989 London cast. While it may seem overheated at times, the despair and passion fit the tragic story, and Schönberg's pop-flavored style receives its most appropriate setting. Leading the cast are Jonathan Pryce as the Engineer (a Eurasian character whose casting generated some controversy when the producers wanted to have Pryce, a Caucasian, reprise the role on Broadway), Lea Salonga (in her first major role) as the young Vietnamese bride, Simon Bowman as her beau, and Claire Moore as his American wife (and a young Ruthie Henshall as one of the sweaty bargirls). The songs include the bawdy opener "The Heat Is on in Saigon," "The Movie in My Mind," "Why God Why," the romantic duet "The Last Night of the World," the female duet "I Still Believe," the male chorus number "Bui-Doi," and the Engineer's mocking "The American Dream." The booklet includes photographs and full lyrics. It's also available in a 58-minute highlights version. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

A repeat of the original and the latest tour
Having seen the original show with Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, I also saw it a year later when the understudy was playing Kim and was not disappointed. All those years ago I brought my 5 year old up with the soundtrack and always promised her that if it came back to the stage I would take her. Now she is 15 and I was able to keep my promise at the Milton Keynes venue of the current tour and she was absolutely blown away. Jonathan Pryce was fab as the engineer in the original show, and I'm glad I saw him in that part, but the current cast, although doing a variation of the original is certainly not a disappointment. My daughter Hannah is desperate to see it again, with her friends, and the only down side is it is realistically not close enough to go again. If you are a musical lover and can't get to the show, sit down after dinner with a nice bottle of wine and with the synopsis let the soundtrack take over, not as good as being there but certainly a good substitute if you can't get to the show - But, if the show does another tour - DON'T miss it!

Bit Slushy
This was the first show I saw in London, and to my husbands shock I wasn't blown away. The special effects make this show(you hear the helicopter on the CD)but the lyrics are a bit sickly. It is a great musical if you are someone who likes a good cry but not if you like good music.
Certain songs are brilliant like "The heat is on in Saigon, Movie in my mind You will not touch him" and the Engineer is a fab character.
Anyway it is set in Saigon during the end of Vietnam and the soldiers are getting ready to leave but for Chris that is not going to be easy as he has fallen in love with Kim, a dancer in a club. Chris has no choice but to leave and thus leaving Kim behind.
Years later his friend John is struggling with the guilt of what happened in Vietnam and decides to try and help the children they orphaned and goes back to Vietnam with Chris and Chris' new wife!!!
As you can imagine everything blows up when they go back and the ending isn't the happiest ever. It is a good CD for music lovers who grew up with Miss Saigon or people new to musicals, but for me this is just OK,(and really slushy!).

Brilliant
You dont have to see this show to apreciate its music. Each song is as unique as the next with some heart renching ballads, to some immensley powerful numbers that will literally send chills down your spine. ok so its not the kind of show that will be to everyones taste as it is 'thru-sung' (no speaking), but those who are fans of the great genre of 'musical', this is a must for your collection. Its hard to imagine that the same people who wrote this stunning score were also behind the daddy of musicals; Les Miserables, (if you loved that, you'll love miss saigon).