On the surface, this cheery British story, concocted by two Americans, teaches a simple economic truth – if your customers don’t want what you’re making, stop making it and, instead, make a product they actually want.
Miss Saigon is an epic musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the same writers as Les Miserables. An adaptation of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, it similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American GI lover in the Vietnam War.