“Miss Saigon” opened Tuesday night at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts while hundreds gathered across the street to protest. The Broadway musical tells the story of an American G.I. and a young Vietnamese girl who fall in love at the end of the Vietnam War. Some call the musical a romance in the Read more →
More than 200 protesters took over Rice Park Tuesday night to demonstrate against the opening of the musical “Miss Saigon” at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Read more →
By Adam Chau I’m a Vietnamese-American, adopted out of South Vietnam in 1973. I have called the Twin Cities my home for the last 20 years. I am part of a community of color being told, in effect, that it shouldn’t be offended by the production of “Miss Saigon” headed for the Ordway Center this Read more →
As the return of the musical “Miss Saigon” to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts approaches, activists protesting the show are using a tool they didn’t have access to the last time around: social media. Members of the Don’t Buy Miss Saigon Coalition are using Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, as well as various websites Read more →
The upcoming production of “Miss Saigon” at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts has been surrounded by controversy in recent weeks. But some ticketholders to the show say they’re not sure what the uproar is all about. To learn more, about 50 ticketholders and concerned citizens attended an event last night hosted by the Read more →
Angered that the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is bringing the musical “Miss Saigon” to the stage, dozens have demanded that the theater promise not to again book the show. At a conversation attended by 75 people last night in Minnesota Public Radio’s UBS Forum, Asian Americans and others offended by the musical’s portrayal Read more →
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 of an “exotic” Asian woman who is beautiful, submissive, and conveniently self-sacrificing is a repeated Read more →
For people like Juliana Hu Pegues, a post doctorate fellow at Macalester College, the return of Miss Saigon to the Ordway this fall is both frustrating and exhausting. Read more →
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