Miss Saigon – Hull New Theatre
The musical, Miss Saigon, has been watched by over 33 million worldwide.
You can add probably a few more thousand on to that figure, if Wednesday night's attendance of the show at Hull's New Theatre is anything to go by. The place was packed.
Miss Saigon is in the city as part of a major UK and Ireland tour and relates to events during the last days of the Vietnam War, in 1975, exactly 50 years ago.
As soon as the opening stage screen, depicting a huge sacred bird, rose, it was non-stop drama all the way.
Many theatre productions now have glorious video backdrops which, brilliantly, showcase much of the story that there would be no time to explain in words.
And this production was no different with opening images of bombing, fighter aircraft et al showing us the horrors of w...
