(It is three years later. Saigon has been renamed Ho Chi Minh City. A street pageant is celebrating the glorious victory of North Vietnam and the Third Anniversary of Reunification.) FIRST GROUP On silent feet it came Breathing a sheet of flame, it came Closing in on its rightful prey Burning a hundred years away The morning…
CHRIS In a place that won’t let us feel In a life where nothing seems real I have found you I have found you KIM In a world that’s moving to fast In a world where nothing can last I will hold you I will hold you CHRIS Our lives will change when tomorrow comes…
(The door opens. A stranger enters.) THUY You’re here. It’s true It is as I was told This man, and you For how much were you sold? Our vows! Our name! You squander them on swine And worse! The shame! Before your family’s shrine CHRIS This girl is mine! THUY Yours? CHRIS Now THUY What!…
THUY you’re here, at last I’ve come to take you home all night, I ran I made it through the line Kim, tell your friends, it’s time to go away this life, it ends you’re safe with me CHRIS this girl is mine! THUY yours? CHRIS now THUY you? TOGETHER who are you? KIM stop!…
[GIRLS] One of us girls is moving on One girl will get out of saigon [GIGI] So now who’s really Miss Saigon [GIRLS] Tv and stereo she gets And Elvis Presley on cassettes [KIM and CHRIS enter] [GIRLS] Look how he bought her a new dress You did a job on him I guess [KIM]…
[At another location, CHRIS and the ENGINEER] [ENGINEER] My friend We had a deal for Kim, but that’s on ice I’m sorry, sergeant, but I’ve changed the price I need a visa from your embassy You get me that, you’ll get the girl for free [CHRIS] Cut the crap, this money’s all I got I…
[CHRIS] John, is that you, buddy? Listen to me Do I sound diff’rent? how else could I be? Last night I spent a whole lifetime in paradise. Hey, tell the CO I’m taking all of my leave We’re gonna play house, oh John, it’s like Christmas eve We have sworn we won’t see the sun…
[KIM] You are sunlight and I moon Joined by the gods of fortune Midnight and high noon Sharing the sky We have been blessed, you and I [CHRIS] You are here like a mystery I’m from a world that’s so different From all that you are How in the light of one night Did we…
[CHRIS] This money’s yours Please take it all Hey, you want more? [KIM] No, no, I don’t want anything [CHRIS] Hey, what’s wrong with you? [KIM] I’ve not done this before [CHRIS] That can’t be true! [KIM] Why would I lie? [CHRIS] All the girls lie! They just want to get out of here Maybe…
[KIM leads CHRIS out of the Club, and into a tiny cubicle,] [which has in it only a bed, a table, and a small window overlooking] [the moonlit city. Later in the night, CHRIS is dressed and] [standing at the window. KIM is asleep. Outside, Saigon still bustles.] [CHRIS] Why does Saigon never sleep at…