The action moves to three years later and Ho Chi Minh has overrun Vietnam and Saigon, but the marine (a powerfully voiced Gregg Goodbrod) has gone back to America and married Ellen (Amanda Rose, another superb voice in a difficult role). At any rate, he is sufficiently smitten to agree to a Buddhist wedding although it's obvious he has no idea what he's doing. An aside here: any man who wears a 45 sidearm to bed has major self confidence problems. He spends the night with her and falls in love. But due to the talent and stagecraft of Aranas, he becomes a lovable louse who electrifies the stage every time he steps on it.Ī Marine Sergeant wins the raffle.
The Engineer, as played magnificently by Raul Aranas, is a self-admitted pimp, procurer, promoter, and pornographer. In our current production, the bar girl, with the help of a scheming schlemiel, gets as far as Bangkok where she faces the man she wed in a self-styled Buddhist ceremony.Ībout that schlemiel, no performer in recent memory of Playhouse productions has captured an audience in the palm of his hand and put it safely in the pocket of one of his gaudy jackets. In "Madame" the naval man does return but he brings his wife. In both cases the military man returns home ultimately to a wife while the lady waits, waits and waits for his return.
Only this time we have an American Marine and a Vietnam bar girl. "Miss Saigon" is a Vietnam era version of "Madame Butterfly," Puccini's century old opera of a love affair between a U.S.
Unlike the Boston Red Sox, the Ogunquit Playhouse closes its season in championship style.
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