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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
Christopher Scott (To play age 20-30, Pop Tenor - VOCAL RANGE A2 to B4) - A young, tormented American GI. He is in love with Kim, but after they are torn apart, finds solace in his new love for Ellen back in the US. After 3 years of trying to get past his Vietnam experience and his shattered love, the news of a son born of Kim shakes his world apart.
Kim (To play age 17-20, Mezzo-Soprano / Belter - VOCAL RANGE E3 to E5) - A 17-year-old Vietnamese girl from the country. She moves to Saigon and falls in love with Chris, an American marine. She is young and naïve, yet strong-willed. She would do anything for the good of her son, Tam.
The Engineer (To play age 25-50, High Baritone - VOCAL RANGE A2 to Aflat4) - The half-French, half-Vietnamese owner of the Dreamland club in Saigon. He is a greasy wheeler-dealer who puts self-preservation above absolutely all else.
John (To play age 20-30, Pop Tenor - VOCAL RANGE Gsharp2 to Bflat4) - Chris's close friend and a fellow American marine. In the Dreamland bar, he buys Kim for Chris "as a last souvenir." Three years later, John has become an activist supporting aid to the Bui-Doi (the Amerasian offspring of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War). In his work, he locates Chris' three-year-old son, Tam, living with Kim in Bangkok.
Thuy (To play age 17-25, Pop Tenor - VOCAL RANGE C3 to Bflat4) - Kim's cousin, to whom she has been promised since she was 13. He is a stalwart and determined Vietnamese military leader who will stop at nothing to get Kim back for himself.
Ellen (To play age 20-30, Mezzo-Soprano / Belter - VOCAL RANGE Fsharp3 to G5) - The sensible, stable American woman that Chris fell in love with and married 2 years after returning from Vietnam. The news that Kim is still alive and bore Chris' son threatens to change her life forever, but she is determined to do what is best for her husband, his son, and her marriage.
Gigi (To play age 17-25, Mezzo-Soprano / Belter - VOCAL RANGE Aflat3 to Eflat5) - A Vietnamese bar girl who wins the contest and the title of "Miss Saigon." While on the surface, she is a hardened stripper, her true dream is to be taken away by an American marine to start a new life in America.
Mimi, Yvette & Yvonne (To play age 17-25, Any vocal range) - Vietnamese strippers / bar girls at the Dreamland club.
Tam (To play age 3, Non-singing) - The 3-year-old Amerasian son of Chris and Kim. (Can be played by a girl).
A large singing and dancing ensemble will also play the following roles:
Assistant Commissar, Captain Schultz, Club Owner, Officer, Soldier 1, Soldier 2, Marine, Marine Captain, Marines, Bar Girls, Embassy Workers, Conference Delegates (Men), Soldiers, Vietnamese Men, Vietnamese Women, Hustlers, Vendors, Tourists.
VOCAL RANGE FOR ENSEMBLE MEN: A2 to D5
VOCAL RANGE FOR ENSEMBLE WOMEN: Aflat3 to C6
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