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明天我將起程前住越南胡志明市吃喝玩樂一番, 突然想起多年前看過的這套有關越戰的音樂劇.其實自己很怕看悲劇, 但因看了Les Miserable, 太喜歡Schonberg 的作品, 所以也看了這套劇. 其中故事大綱太像意大利歌劇"蝴蝶夫人"了, 令我感到少了一份新鮮感, 但戲味卻較蝴蝶夫人濃烈許多.
西貢小姐
西貢小姐是一部由克勞德-米歇爾·勛伯格(Claude-Michel Schonberg )與阿蘭·鮑伯利(Alain Boublil)共同創作的音樂劇。它講述的故事背景是20世紀70年代的西貢，一個越南女子與一位美國海軍的悲慘愛情故事。
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1980.
The Plot
The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, it tells a tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Vietnam woman abandoned by her American lover.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon)
In the muscial, there is a duet that I love very much - 'I Still Believe'. It shows both women (Kim - Vietnam wife and Ellen - American wife) are deeply in love with Chris. When they both sung the last words 'I'm yours for life, until we die...', I felt really heartbreaking when I first saw this musical. Let's enjoy it again in the video clip found in U-tube ...
I Still Believe
KIM: (The Vietnam wife Chris left behind during the war)
Last night I watched him sleeping, my body pressed to him.
And then he started speaking. The name I heard him speak was Kim...
Yes, I know that this was years ago, but when moonlight fills my room I know
you are here, still.
I still- I still believe you will return. I know you will.
My heart against all odds holds still.
Yes, still, I still believe.
I know as long as I can keep believing,
I'll live. I'll live, love cannot die.
You will return, you will return,
and I alone know why...
ELLEN: (The new American wife after Chris returned from the war)
Last night I watched you sleeping.
Once more the nightmare came.
I heard you cry out something,
a word that sounded like a name.
And it hurts me more than I can bear
knowing part of you I'll never share,
never know.
But still- I still believe the time will come
when nothing keeps us apart.
My heart forever more holds still.
It's all over I'm here, there is nothing to fear!
Chris, what's haunting you? Won't you let me inside
what you so want to hide. I need you too!
KIM: ELLEN:
For still- I will hold you all night
I will make it all right!
I still believe You are safe with me!
As long as I But I wish you would tell
what you don't want to tell, can keep believing
I'll live! what you hell must be
I'll live, You can sleep now.
you will return.(Kim)
You can cry now.(Ellen)
And I know why(Kim) I'm your wife now(Ellen)
I'm yours for life
BOTH:
Untill we die
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