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Act One

It’s April 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam; near the end of the Vietnam War. Backstage at Dreamland, a Vietnamese bar, club, and sometime-whorehouse, the Engineer (who owns Dreamland), introduces the bar-girls to their newest cohort: 17-year-old Kim, an orphan who escaped her hometown after seeing her family massacred (“Opening Act I�). All the bar-girls are eager to impress the American GIs, who they hope will help them escape Vietnam. The Engineer, himself, is eager for a visa, hoping -- like the girls -- to flee Saigon before it inevitably falls to Viet Cong rebels. He sends the girls onstage to perform a false pageant, under the auspices of choosing the next “Miss Saigon.�

In the crowd are two American GIs, Chris and John. Despite Chris� reluctance to join in, John convinces him that a night on the town (and possibly with a girl) is just the ticket to help them forget the horrors of the war in which they are fighting (“The Heat Is on in Saigon�). The “Miss Saigon� contest