MISS SAIGON

SCENIC BREAKDOWN

Used in the Northern State Production, Fall 2007

All Floor Plans are PDF files.

 

Act I

 

SAIGON  (Floor Plan)

            Opening ACT 1

                        Kim is discovered UC. Street vendors enter L and R. 

                        Engineer  meets her and takes her off stage.

                        The Dreamland backstage wagon is rolled to Center stage

BACKSTAGE AT DREAMLAND (Floor Plan)

            One of Us will be Miss Saigon

                        On “Voila! On stage all! Welcome to .... Dreamland” the backstage wagon flips around to become ...

DREAMLAND  (Floor Plan)

            The Heat Is On In Saigon

            The Movie In My Mind

            Bartering for Kim

            As Kim and Chris Dance to the saxophone, Lights fade to Blue, wagons roll off

KIM’S ROOM, SAIGON (Floor Plan)

            Why God Why?

            This Money's Yours

            Sun And Moon

            Unicorn

US EMBASSY (SR) and PHONE (SL) ( Floor Plan)

            The Telephone Sequence

BARE STAGE

            The Deal (Chris and the Engineer in follow spots)

KIM'S ROOM, SAIGON

            The Ceremony (Dju Vui Vai)

            Thuy's Intervention

            The Last Night Of The World

HO CHI MINH CITY. 1978  (Floor Plan)

            The Morning Of The Dragon

ELLEN'S ROOM (SR) and KIM'S ROOM, SAIGON (SL) (Floor Plan)

            I Still Believe

                        Ellen’s unit rolls off stage…

KIM'S ROOM, SAIGON

            Coo Coo Princess (Back in Town)

            Thuy's Death (You Will Not Touch Him)

                        Kim shoots Thuy, black out, Follow spots stay on Kim and Thuy

                        Kim's wagon rolls off stage

                        Chorus enters ("This is the hour, This is our land")

                        Kim grabs Tam and exits

                        Soldiers carry Thuy's body off stage

BACKSTAGE AT DREAMLAND

            If You Want To Die In Bed

BARE STAGE

            The Finale, Act I: (I'd Give My Life For You)

                        Kim, Tam and the Engineer exit UC.

 

Act II

 

ATLANTA HOTEL – September 1978  (Floor Plan)

            Bui-Doc

BANGKOK - October 1978  (Floor Plan)

.           What A Waste

INSIDE THE LE MOULIN ROUGE (Floor Plan)

KIM’S ROOM, BANGKOK (Floor Plan)

Please

            The Guilt Inside Your Mind (Kim’s Nightmare)       

Thuy’s Ghost appears UC

            Kim crosses DR (away from the room unit)

The scene is played in Limbo

Chris enters DL and takes Kim to the…

EMBASSY (SR)

            They go back to…

KIM’S ROOM, SAIGON (SL)

            Chris leaves his gun with Kim, telling her “I want you in that bed waiting when I get back” and

Returns to the …

EMBASSY YARD  (Chain link fence) (Floor Plan)

            Kim follows, but is on the wrong side of the chain link fence

            The helicopter lands and takes off

            The stage fades to Kim standing in a pool of light.

            She walks back to…

KIM’S BEDROOM, BANGKOK

Sun And Moon (Reprise)

BANGKOK  HOTEL (Floor Plan)

Ellen and Kim (Room 317)

            Now That I’ve Seen Her

            Ellen and Chris (The Confrontation)

                        Kim enters DR (beyond the Hotel unit) into a pool of light

BARE STAGE

            Paper Dragons (Kim and Engineer in follow spots)

            American Dream (UC black opens to reveal Miss Chinatown)

KIM’S BEDROOM, BANGKOK

            Little God of My Heart (Finale Act II)

 

This breakdown is adapted from Paul Blake (Producer), Fred Hanson (Director)  and Steve Gilliam’s (Scenic Designer) “Scenic Breakdown”  for the 2001 production of Miss Saigon at the St Louis MUNY.