And that sister is played by the luminous Lea Salonga, a Tony Award winner for her starring role in "Miss Saigon ," and the voice of Jasmine in "Alladin," and also the voice of Mulan in the Disney animated film.And she is spectacular.
- Dreamland. - The epic love story of our time is sweeping audiences off their feet. "Miss Saigon " soars to the rafters. It's sensational in every way.
Then we would have to send the unprocessed together with my script from wherever we were out in the field back to Saigon . In Saigon , they would put it on a plane to Tokyo. Tokyo, it would be trans-shipped to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to New York.
done with improv yeah we're going to screen a couple uh episodes and also our sister show is going to screen a couple called Saigon suicide side Squad and there was only about 50 of us and they had to fill a whole theater so you know
Well, my parents were refugees, like we talked about. In 1975 they left Saigon , now Ho Chi Minh City. They left a couple of days before the fall of Saigon -- the end of April in 1975.
Brilliantly cast. A dynamite Broadway revival. The new "Miss Saigon " on Broadway. Hello. Morning.
Clearly, the show is fiction, but it's set very distinctly in a specific time period-- basically, the end of the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon . I can pretty safely say most of us here probably were not born at this time and did not have a chance to experience this firsthand.
but to kind of figure out the character. Outside of "Miss Saigon ," have you found that there have been more opportunities in the past?
but to kind of figure out the character. You can visit the "Saigon " show online at SaigonBroadway.com You can follow them on Twitter and Instagram @MissSaigonUS.
They ordered 1,000 AR-15s. They sent them to Saigon . They gave them to the soldiers.
That's quite interesting there. Having been born in Saigon , Vietnam, as you know, it's a war-torn country. It's better, but it's still a communist country.
And I wonder, have you thought of this as a kind of narrative itself, Vietnamese cuisine? So there's a Little Saigon in Chicago, right? I don't know what you call it, but there's a neighborhood-- Yeah, yeah.
On behalf of the Talks at Google team, I would like to welcome you all to see today's Talks at Google with the cast of the Broadway revival of "Miss Saigon ." For those of you unfamiliar with "Miss Saigon ," this comes from the creators of "Les Miserables." The musical "Miss Saigon " is the epic story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim.
And-- Obviously, yes. If you can't tell all ready. or-- I did John in "Miss Saigon "-- or any other role is first and foremost is staying up on your craft.
That's not your strength. I actually-- I was born in Saigon , like what I said, and I came here when I was seven years old to Seattle, Washington.
the same book first book being a traditional recipe book where we collected recipes of what we were doing at the time at laguna de Saigon book was very different was a I believe a beautiful coffee table book it was an experimentation in between a painter a
In 1975 they left Saigon , now Ho Chi Minh City. They left a couple of days before the fall of Saigon -- the end of April in 1975. They actually escaped on a US Naval ship and were kind of floating at sea for a while because the engines had broken down on the ship,
Yes. Which you won the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. And in addition to that your credits include "Shuffle Along," "Miss Saigon ," "Five Guys Named Moe," "Grease," and the list goes on and on. So would love to hear a little bit about your experience just being on stage and performing for folks live.
Argyle, Argyle, yeah. Yeah. So for those of you who have not been to Little Saigon in Orange County, that's that neighborhood, 100 times larger. Yeah. And so yeah, basically, one of the ways that you become American in this country is that you own real estate.
But I did sun path to know exactly where the sun was going to be and I'd hung some silks up on the windows so if it came out I would be able When you've had really good pho in Hanoi or Saigon , it really kind of ruins it for you here.
like, bawling. And I'm like, I didn't know how to feel about it. And now we're performing in the same theater where she performed "Miss Saigon " and won her Tony Award, so that's crazy.
He's here to discuss his memoir, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In." So in 1975, during the fall of Saigon , Phuc Tran emigrated to America, along with his family after a four month harrowing journey that ended up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Tran family struggled to assimilate into their new life.
So for those that have not read your book, can you just give us the sort of Reader's Digest about your story? Sure. So my family fled Saigon , Vietnam in 1975 when the war ended.
And now we've gone from that to pho. And it comes out of the success of a place like Little Saigon .
And-- --and actually, a lot of us former "Saigon " actors, we call the show the show that keeps on giving because, not to be--
but to kind of figure out the character. I want to say a major thank you to the cast of "Miss Saigon ." Thank you guys so much for being here.
Shameless plug. Insert here. And I was invited to be part of the concert to perform selections from "Miss Saigon ," as well as selections from "Les Mis," and to be part of this big Sondheim section.
But I will say, I was lucky, in "Saigon ," not to have a cookie cutter thing waiting for me in the rehearsal room.
But again, just with a smaller population, there's just more pressure on us. I was also thinking of something you said in "Nothing Ever Dies." You refer to Little Saigon in Orange County as the greatest work of collective memory these defeated people-- Vietnamese people-- have created, in the sense that this recreation of home in Southern California in America has allowed us, particularly southern Vietnamese,
but to kind of figure out the character. Get drunk. Yeah? "Miss Saigon " is a great first show to see.
but to kind of figure out the character. Just so everybody knows, the final performance of "Miss Saigon " will be on January 14, 2018.
Which meant that when we shot a story in the field, I would write the script for the piece out in the field. Then we would have to send the unprocessed together with my script from wherever we were out in the field back to Saigon . In Saigon , they would put it on a plane to Tokyo.
And I think Bombay has-- which I still persist in calling Bombay in the way that people in Saigon don't call it Ho Chi Minh City-- it has changed.
In President Diem there in the front, we had a person who was very interested in technology, and Johnson was sent by Kennedy to make a deal with Diem that we would create some weapons facilities in Saigon and begin manufacturing the most state of the art weaponry to give them to the Vietnamese soldiers.
But he just stood there and just sang. My question is, I saw on YouTube when you were auditioning for "Miss Saigon ."
But he just stood there and just sang. And the biggest news at the time was that you got the lead role in "Miss Saigon .
But I did sun path to know exactly where the sun was going to be and I'd hung some silks up on the windows so if it came out I would be able I think a few years ago you once said your perfect meal was going to be a bowl of pho in Saigon .
like, bawling. And I'm like, I didn't know how to feel about it. Because, when I was little, I grew up listening to that "Miss Saigon " album over, and over, and over again.
That's an absolutely phenomenal story. Definitely seems like resilience is a part of your DNA, the type of journey your parents had to take with the fall of Saigon . And I also want to talk about another part that has been a huge example of your resilience.
We like them big, like, because Southern Vietnamese people-- we're talking about Saigon versus Hanoi-- like to live large.
in other times, fleeing Vietnam, the last helicopter out of Saigon -- I mean, all of those things-- or the last boat
So for anyone who doesn't know Eva Noblezada, she was chosen to play Kim in both the West End and the Broadway run of "Miss Saigon "
And when I struck for the polio and also, I mean, during the Vietnam, the Saigon fall in 1975.
So, it's the hope that I will be got treatment and can be walk normal again, have been turned upside down when the fall of Saigon
So when during that time my dad has been based further from the house, because we lived in city, Saigon city.
And I guess it's economic success as a mode of cultural capital. And it made me think that, at the center of this is Vietnamese cuisine, and all those Vietnamese restaurants that have come out of-- that started in Little Saigon , and have spread out all across the country.
But while I was doing my two or three other careers, alumni from The New York program launched in China-- Hong Kong and Shanghai, then in Saigon , Ho Chi Minh,
On behalf of the Talks at Google team, I would like to welcome you all to see today's Talks at Google with the cast of the Broadway revival of "Miss Saigon ." For those of you unfamiliar with "Miss Saigon ," this comes from the creators of "Les Miserables." The musical "Miss Saigon " is the epic story
So a long story short, I was plucked from a musical theater competition here in New York, at the Minskoff, called the Jimmy Awards, the National High School Musical Theatre Awards. And from Tara Rubin, who's a casting director here, knew that "Saigon " was casting. I had no idea.
And-- Obviously, yes. If you can't tell all ready. And then after that, this story-- this play being based on a true story, as was "Saigon ," for some reason for me when