“Art is no stranger to controversy, but the stereotypes perpetuated by Miss Saigon do little to advance our understanding of the actual culture and experiences of the Asian Community. Miss Saigon is rash with racism and sexism, and performances of the show have a detrimental…
by AMINA HARPER via TC Daily Planet October 04, 2013 Photo by Aaron Fenster, courtesy Mu Performing Arts I don’t know a lot about theater. I worked for a small local theater company in 2010 and I volunteered backstage in my high school’s theater program…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chay Douangphouxay, Coalition Media Contact, chayd2007@gmail.com Margie Andreason, Coalition Media Contact, 213-375-5572 or dontbuymisssaigon@gmail.com Don’t Buy Miss Saigon: The Unity Event Saint Paul, Minn. – October 1, 2013 – On the Ordway’s opening night of Miss Saigon, community members have created…
The following is excerpted from Michael Feingold’s review of Miss Saigon, originally published in The Village Voice, April 1991: “Every civilization gets the theater it deserves, and we get Miss Saigon, which means we can now say definitively that our civilization is over. After this, I see…
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by TIFFANY VANG via TC Daily Planet September 24, 2013 On September 22, 2013, the Ordway Center hosted a Cultural Conversation about their up and coming musical Miss Saigon, which is about a young vietnamese prostitute falling love with an America G.I. during the Vietnam…
by MARIANNE COMBS via MPR September 9, 2013 When Mu Performing Arts convenes a discussion tonight about Ordway’s production of Miss Saigon, the focus will undoubtedly be on how Asian women continue to be portrayed in American and European musical theater as deferential objects of desire. That narrative…
by Sheila Regan via TC Daily Planet September 07, 2013 Photo courtesy Ordway Center for the Performing Arts My fellow arts writers, theater reviewers, and bloggers, I’m writing because I think we should all agree not to review Miss Saigon when it comes to the Ordway….
by MARIANNE COMBS via MPR September 6, 2013 For people like Juliana Hu Pegues, a postdoctoral fellow at Macalester College, the return of “Miss Saigon” to the Ordway this fall is both frustrating and exhausting. “Frankly, I’m outraged!” she says, sitting in her office in Macalester’s humanities building…
