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...decision by Actors' Equity to forbid a white British star from portraying a Eurasian on Broadway may sink the musical Miss Saigon, but it revives old issues of fairness and competence. Daring casting has produced wildly mixed results...
THEATER: Will Broadway miss Saigon...
Washington's refusal to deal with Hanoi since 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the Saigon embassy, was designed to isolate the country when it was bent on expanding its sway over its Southeast Asian neighbors. But when Vietnam withdrew the bulk of its army of occupation from Cambodia last September, it removed the last major barrier to recognition. As Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, noted last week, "A month after Tiananmen Square, we talked to the leaders of China; we talked to Pinochet...
Typically, the show was short on political message, except for a five-second sermon about fishermen before "The Downeaster Alexa" and a peace sign after "Goodnight Saigon." But Joel bantered with the audience frequently, chatting about life as a rock'n'roll star. With the lucky fans in front, he pressed the flesh...
...Saigon we were supposed to do a show at the Brinks Hotel, and we were running late. When we got within five minutes of the hotel, there was some kind of commotion. They ((the Viet Cong)) had bombed it. Later a general sent me a communique found in a rubber plantation they had captured. It said, "The bombing of the Brinks Hotel missed the Bob Hope show by ten minutes due to a faulty timing device." Were we the target? Sure. My God, I have witnessed so much...