ACT 1:

ENGINEER ENGINEER
OVERTURE/BACKSTAGE AT Allez! Allez! Allez! No, wait it's my new princess
DREAMLAND Why does it take all day?
Get your asses on stage... I'm GIRLS
GIRLS raising cash tonight What?!
One of us will be Miss Saigon Princess?
GIRLS Are you fucking kidding me?
ENGINEER Tonight I must be Miss Saigon
I spread the word - it's Miss ENGINEER
Saigon ENGINEER A virgin will give them a treat
Each night these little buns of
GIGI theirs are worth less and less GIRLS
Who’s left in town? Who hasn't I need a visa fast and I’m not Angry! (Talking to each other)
gone? looking back
Son of a bitch, they're here! ENGINEER
ENGINEER I can still be engineer Shut Up!
Shut up! And get your hot pants Monsieur Joey, please, come Lower your eyelids and play
on inside sweet
It’s like the old days, my little
FIFI gamines GIRLS
Each day more GI's disappear Angry! (Talking to each other)
GIRLS
GIGI Oh sure! ENGINEER
Will we survive when no-one’s Men pay the moon to get fresh
here? ENGINEER meat
Just look who’s in there? A
FIFI gang of marines! GIGI
Oh Shit! Ok! Ok! Fresh is only fresh once
GIRLS
ENGINEER They’re here? ENGINEER
You girls must trust the Allez! Allez! Allez!
Engineer ENGINEER Line up and do your song!
We'll pick 'em clean that's what Don’t make the show too long
ENGINEER tonight all is about Voila'! On stage all!
I have a little surprise for you. Welcome to Dreamland!!!
Come here. Hey! GIRLS
I found this new girl, from the Bullshit!
country untouched THE HEAT IS ON IN SAIGON
Get her ready! ENGINEER
One of these boys might be AMERICANS
GIGI your ticket out The heat is on in Saigon
I’d give that virgin act a rest Get out of that dress! The girls are ready to screw
One of these slits here will be
ALL GIRLS GIRLS Miss Saigon
You are my first American Wow?!
And since we're stuck here in
hell, what's a soldier to do
The stink is making me choke
Turns out this war is a joke
Turns out the joke is on you
ENGINEER
Ah, Monsieur Chris! Monsieur
John!
You've come to win Miss
Saigon
JOHN
I gotta get my friend laid as a
last souvenir
CHRIS
I love you, pal, but your bullshit
I've had up to here
ENGINEER, CHRIS AND
JOHN
The heat is on in Saigon
JOHN
But 'til they tell us we're gone
I'm gonna buy you a girl
CHRIS
You can buy me a beer
ENGINEER
It's showtime! (spoken) From
Hai Phong to the Mekong
Delta, may I present the most
beautiful girls in Saigon, Mimi...
MIMI
See my bikini, it's just the right
size
ENGINEER
Yvette!
YVETTE
Don't you enjoy how it rides up The meat is cheap in Saigon
my thighs? I used to love getting stoned,
waking up with some whore
ENGINEER I don't know why I went dead,
Dominique! it's not fun anymore
DOMINIQUE KIM
Look from behind, it'll knock out I'm seventeen, and I'm new
your eyes here today
The village I come from seems
ENGINEER so far away
Yvonne! All of these girls know much
more what to say
YVONNE But I know
I'll show you: my special trophy I'm so much more than you see
of war A million dreams are in me
ENGINEER CHRIS
Fifi! Good Jesus, John, who is she?
FIFI AMERICANS (AND CROWD)
For a Marine, I'll show more The Cong is tight'ning the
noose
AMERICANS Is it a week or a day or an hour
You won't get up off the floor that we got?
The heat is on in Saigon Tonight could be our last shot
Don't tell me I'm reassigned, all got to put it to use
that chickenshit sucks I got a fever babe and you're
Tonight I'm out of my mind, not gonna catch it
to mention ten bucks I got an itch and baby you're
gonna scratch it
GIGI ALL MEN
If I'm your pin-up, I'll melt all Mimi, Gigi, Yvette or Yvonne
your brass Gonna buy me a beer, here's to
Stuck on your ball, with a pin in you Miss Saigon
my ass
If you get me, you will travel
first class
I'll show you, we will make ENGINEER
magic, cheri Yvonne, Yvette, Fifi, Mimi, Kim,
Gigi!
ENGINEER
You buy more tickets from me ENGINEER
The winner gets her for free Attention, s'il vous plait!
CHRIS By popular demand
Miss Gigi Van Tranh
Is elected Miss Saigon!
AMERICANS
The heat is on in Saigon
How we get used to the smell
So let's get wasted, get high
and get laid
A good-bye party in hell
ENGINEER
And now who wins my little
pussycat?
Number 66!
JHON
Who takes care of you baby?
GIGI
You do, but will you take me to
America?
JHON
Come on. Not right now. Damn!
GIGI
Hey! I’ll make a good wife
Crazy man! THE DANCE
ENGINEER KIM
Come on, drink some more. Monsieur Chris
Play with your girls
ENGINEER
THE MOVIE IN MY MIND Don’t worry, she’s clean.
I washed her myself
KIM
I will not cry, I will not think KIM
I'll do my dance, I'll make them My name is Kim
drink I like you Chris
When I make love, it won't be
me CHRIS
And if they hurt me, I'll just Don’t talk like that
close my eyes
KIM
KIM & (GIRLS) What did I say?
And see (they are not nice,
they're mostly noise) CHRIS
The movie in my mind (they kill You shouldn’t be here
like men, they die like boys) Just take this
The dream that fills my head And get the hell out of here
(they give their cash, they keep
their hearts) ENGINEER
A man who will not kill (but Hey! What's going on?
every night again it starts) You don't like her?

JHON KIM CHRIS

I said no! Who'll fight for me instead Oh, yes I do
He'll keep the fear at bay
GIGI So no one comes at night KIM
You prick! To blow the dream away I like him too
Dream
ENGINEER The dream I have to find ENGINEER
Let me take care of this The movie in my mind Take her away, come on, man

GIGI ALL GIRLS KIM

This is bullshit! And in a strong GI's embrace Take me away
Flee this life Don't say a word
ENGINEER Flee this place Just come with me
Don’t fuck with me
Hey! It’s ok.Gigi, she likes it KIM THIS MONEY IS YOURS
rough. Right? A world that's far away
Where life is not unkind CHRIS
JHON The movie in my mind This money's yours
Please take it all Well, I'll be at the club
Hey, you want more? Selling "beaucoup amour" CHRIS
Your moon still floats on high
KIM CHRIS
No, no, I don't want anything No, you won't KIM
How would you like... The birds awake
CHRIS
Hey, what's wrong with you? KIM CHRIS
How would I like...? The stars shine true
KIM
I've not done this before CHRIS KIM
How would you like My hands still shake
CHRIS Living with me?
That can't be true! It feels good like this CHRIS
So that's how we should be I reach for you
KIM So would you like?
Why would I lie? BOTH
KIM And we meet in the sky!
CHRIS Yes, I would like!
All the girls lie!
They just want to get out of CHRIS KIM
here Okay, it's set You are sunlight and I moon
Maybe you're not like that No more to say Joined here
But I don't know who you are Screw the Engineer Bright'ning the sky
You're the one good thing With the flame
KIM That I've found out here Of love
Do you want one more tale of a
Vietnam girl? SUN AND MOON BOTH
Want to know I was bound to a Made of
man I don't love? KIM Sunlight
Do you want to be told how my You are sunlight and I moon Moonlight
village was burned? Joined by the gods of fortune
Want to hear how my family Midnight and high noon KIM
was blasted away? Sharing the sky Tomorrow will be the full moon
How I ran from the rice field One and the same, you and I I can bring friends to bless our
and saw them in flames? room
How my parents were bodies CHRIS With paper dragons and
whose faces were gone? You are here like a mystery perfume
I have had my fill of pain I'm from a world that's so If you want me to
I will not look back again different
I would rather die From all that you are CHRIS
How in the light of one night Dragons? sure...
CHRIS Did we come so far?
Can I see you tonight? THE DEAL
KIM
KIM Outside day starts to dawn ENGINEER
My friend Look how he bought her a new It's what all the girls sing at
We had a deal for Kim, but dress weddings
that's on ice You did a job on him I guess
I'm sorry, sergeant, but I've GIRLS
changed the price KIM Dju vui vay
I need a visa from your He simply asked me
embassy I said, "yes" KIM
You get me that, you'll get the They didn't know what else to
girl for free GIRLS sing
Come on, let's bless the new
CHRIS princess GIRLS
Cut the crap, this money's all I Vao nyay ma
got GIRLS
I don't give visas out. Dju vui vay CHRIS
Is this a deal or not? Yu doi my It's the prettiest thing that I've
You tell me Dju vui vay ever heard
Vao nyay ma
ENGINEER GIGI
Okay, okay, the money...it will KIM To Miss Saigon!
do Will you give me life smile
Too bad, I had a Rolex watch today GUESTS
for you Look with favouring eyes on Miss Saigon!
I'll get my papers in another this man
way Show your daughter's heart THUY'S ARRIVAL/ THUY'S
I'll make a rich man of some your forgiveness INTERVENTION
attache And send to us
From your home above THUY
With little shits like him, you Your blessing on our love You're here, at last
take the bucks and run I've come to take you home
He gave me six weeks income, GIRLS, KIM (echoing) All night, I ran
I'll be gone in one Dju vui vay -- dju vui vay I made it through the line
THE WEEDING Yu doi my -- yu doi my Kim, tell your friends, it's time to
Dju vui vay -- dju vui vay go away
GIRLS Vao nyay moy This life, it ends
One of us girls is moving on You're safe with me
One girl will get out of saigon GIRLS
Dju vui vay CHRIS
GIGI This girl is mine!
So now who's really Miss CHRIS
Saigon It's pretty but what does it THUY
mean? Yours?
GIRLS
Tv and stereo she gets GIRLS CHRIS
And Elvis Presley on cassettes Yu doi may Now

GIRLS KIM THUY

You? Go on! And shoot!
I will not change my mind! Played on a solo saxophone
TOGETHER So stay with me and hold me
Who are you? THUY tight
You are still mine! And dance like its the last night
KIM of the world
Stop! KIM
Not anymore! THE MORNING OF THE
THUY DRAGON
Who is this man? this American
Pig? THUY THUY
Do none of you see what's You're mine until we die! Kim
ahead You will find her for me
Have you gone mad? THUY Crawl from under your shell
These are losers and whores Saigon is doomed and so is You know who her friends were
Who will soon all be gone or be your GI Go! See what they can tell
dead Sniff her out or ill swear
CHRIS You’ll look forward to hell
CHRIS Get the hell out!
Get out of here ENGINEER
THUY I never saw her again
KIM You broke your father's word I am a different man
You have no right to be here this is your curse! I’ve been enlightened since
I'm not a prize you can claim then
We were promised at thirteen CHRIS Yes.
The woman I am now is not the What a party that was! But men must help other men
same And, seeing it’s you
KIM I’ll work to the bone
THUY You're going to leave me now
Our parents bound us together, THUY
and that is our fate CHRIS I’ll give you 48 hours
You knew I'd come back to get Yes, I'm going to leave and If you don’t want to stay free,
you take you out with me Don’t come back here alone
Why didn't you wait?
LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD SOLDIERS
KIM On silent feet it came
My parents got themselves KIM Breathing a sheet of flame, it
killed in the week you changed Dreams were all I ever knew came
sides Closing in on its rightful prey
If there were promises all of CHRIS Burning a hundred years away
them died when they died Dreams, you wont need when
I'm through The morning of the dragon truth
THUY lit up the street
Kim, leave this man behind CHRIS and KIM The tiger we were stalking
Anywere we may be walked on paper feet
KIM I will sing with you, our song...
And in the clear white heat of After the fight in the still of the Look, Thuy, this is my son
dawn night He has kept me alive
Was gone I would picture my bride, bright Now you see why
as jade I must tell you "no"
BACK IN TOWN/ COO-COO You'll be my wife
PRINCESS We will build a new life THUY'S DEATH/ YOU WILL
And fulfill the vow our fathers NOT TOUCH HIM
ENGINEER made
Coo-coo princess, look who's THUY
here KIM No one must ever see
Your resurrected Engineer My father's vow can't honor This thing you're showing me
Don't ask me how I tracked you today That bastard fouls our name
down And I pray in my heart he'll
Who has the sharpest nose in forgive KIM
town? What you want now are some My baby's not to blame
I'm here to throw a rope before words I can't say For what I've done
you drown If I lied to you how can I live?
THUY
Hey, come in, monsieur THUY You must decide upon
commissar Don't say anymore! Which side you're really on
Not a word! You whored to make this kid
(THUY enters) You can change
You can learn KIM
THUY Look at me That isn't what I did
Three years I've been away Don't decide too soon Don't touch my son
I kept faith we would meet
THUY THUY
ENGINEER Come with me You must seem how it is when
See, I found her for you you're my wife
KIM Having that child of his brands
THUY No! us for life
You, out in the street There is a secret No alternative! This child
That you don't know cannot live!
(the ENGINEER and the others There is a force here
leave) I never show (THUY pulls a knife,
You say it's treason threatening the boy.)
THUY To keep my vow
I knew in time faith would season after season KIM
weave a design I survived somehow No!
Tying your life and mine into If you want the reason You will not touch him
one I will show you now Don't touch my boy
Each day I'd wait He's what I live for
Like a soldier must wait Tam! He's my only joy
Trusting victory to come with
the sun (TAM comes out from behind KIM THUY
the curtain and runs to KIM)
You will not touch him he is my In our brother's hand Just like that!
enemy And from a storm Tell me how, and while you're
It's he turns you from me at it, tell me why
Don't touch my boy erase him KIM
from your life No! KIM
Even your memory I hear the voice of my soldier
He's what I live for he's one SOLDIERS Telling me to bring... his son
drop in a flood Pierced with light
Left here to taint our blood Fierce and white ENGINEER
He's my only joy our marriage The lightning came You're telling me this half-breed
bond was sworn A bright'ning flame brat
Forget that he was born To end the night Is born the son of a marine?
Let me see his western nose
(KIM pulls out a gun) One man to heed us This bastard is... the most
Each girl, each boy beautiful sight I've ever seen!
KIM THUY One voice to lead us A passport in my hand
Of course you have a gun In a song of joy My new life can begin
Don't touch my little boy and Your brat's American
now you'll shoot your cousin' This is the hour So they must let us in!
And it's a U.S. gun This is the land In!
And do not test my will a gun The playground of mankind!
that lost the war LET ME SEE HIS WESTERN The movie in my mind!
You're the corrupted one NOSE/ KIM & ENGINEER
I'm warning you, for him I'll kill I'm your dear brother from now
go on and shoot! Don't wait ENGINEER on
To save your bastard son GET OUT! And all our family is gone
You must not hesitate Boy, kiss your brand-new uncle
KIM Tran
KIM Engineer! This kid is okay
The earth moves where I stand Thuy is dead! He is our entree to the U.S.A.
I feel the turning of a wheel He was going to kill my baby
I feel nothing in my hand and I shot I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU
Not even the feel of steel
You will not take my child... ENGINEER Sometimes I wake up, reaching
You did what? for him.
THUY Who is that? I feel his shadow brush my
You don't know how to kill You'll be followed! Get him out head,
of here! Good-bye! But there's just moonlight on
KIM my bed.
I have no other choice KIM Was he a ghost?
What I must do I will We must leave! Was he a lie,
Tam and I! That made my body laugh and
SOLDIERS We must set off for America cry?
This is the hour tonight Then by my side the proof I
This is our land ENGINEER see, his little one.
We found the power Oh right! Gods of the sun,
Bring him to me.
You will be who you want to be.
You
Can choose whatever heaven
grants.
As long as you can have your
chance,
I swear I'd give my life for you.
No one can stop what I must
do.
I swear I'd give my life for you
ACT 2:
THE REVELATION
CHRIS
You don't know, John, these
nightmares, the things that I've
seen
I have seen her face burned,
seen her shot with my gun
I have chased her through
streets and heard nothing but
screams
What's wrong? Come on. There
is still something more
JOHN
She has a child
You have a son
CHRIS
You won't believe me but I
dreamed this, John
It's in the nightmare when I see
Saigon
Jesus, John, I am married
Is this story for real?
SUN AND MOON
KIM
You are sunlight and I moon
Joined by the gods of fortune
Midnight and high noon
That's what we are
How in one night have we
come so far.
Outside day starts to dawn
One long night-time has gone,
I feel you near,
I cry no more,
I know you're here,
I reach your door
And our love is reborn!
Brightning the sky
With the flame of love
Made of
Sunlight
Moonlight.
ROOM 317
KIM
Good evening ma’am
ELLEN
Don't turn the bed yet
KIM
I'm not the maid
ELLEN
What do you want then?
KIM
They must written the room
number wrong
I am looking for someone
named Christopher Scott.
317. Oh I'm sorry...unless
well, you must be,of course
your Jon's wife, are you not?
ELLEN
Oh god I see,it had to happen.
You must be Kim, Chris went to
find you.
Please come inside, no one will
hurt you.
I'm Chris's wife...My name is
Ellen
KIM
Tell me you are lying
ELLEN
We've been married a year, I'm
sorry it's true.
KIM
He said he'd come to get me
ELLEN
He said he tried to reach you,
but what could he do?
KIM
Please tell my your not married,
You don't know you can't know
what I've done to be here.
ELLEN
You don't know how he needed
a new start.
KIM
I feel walls im my heart, closing
in, I can't breathe, I can't win.
ELLEN
As for the child you say it's
Chris's.
KIM
Oh yes madam my son is
Chris's.
I had a dream for my sont to
belong,
Not to all live his life in the He must come tonight to my KIM
srteet like a rat. place! how in one night have we
Tell me so to my face! come... so far?
ELLEN
We aren't rich, but we'll sholder THIS IS THE HOUR CHRIS
our load. (REPRISE) NO!!!!!! KIM
Chris and I are totally together
on that. KIM
Now, Tam, my big boy -------------------END----------------
KIM Our long wait has ended
Then you must take Tam with Smile, Tam, for you have a
you. father at last
Has come to take you home
ELLEN All I dreamed for you he'll do
Take a child from his mother, You're still mine but I can't go
impossibe Kim. along
Don't be sad though I'm far
KIM away I'll be watching you
You will take Tam with you, This is the hour I swore I'd see
then he'll get ehat I wanted for I alone can tell now what the
him. end will be
They think they decide your life
ELLEN No, it will be me
But Kim your child needs you
Chris is married to me we want Look at me one last time
kids of our own. Don't forget what you see
One more kiss
KIM And then say goodbye
Tam's chance lies with you
now, not with you now not with CHRIS
me. Kim! Kim!

ELLEN CHRIS
No! can't you see? It can't what have you done, Kim?
work,it can't be. Why?

KIM KIM
If you're saying that because the gods have guided you to
you made him change his your son
mind!
Chris must go away and leave CHRIS
me and his son behind! please don't die
If you're saying that, because
my husband has another wife! KIM
My child has no future,like the hold me one more time
dust of life!