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MISS SAIGON - presented by AaaahZ Youth Theatre

AaaahZ Youth Theatre proudly presents Miss Saigon. 

AaaahZ Youth Theatre is in its third year of providing quality theatre experiences for teens and youth (5-21) in the Bay Area. This summer AaaahZ is in production of Miss Saigon with a talented cast of young actors from the tri city area. Performances will be at the San Leandro Performing Arts Center at 2250 Bancroft Avenue at 8pm on August 8, 9 and 2pm on August 9 and 10. Tickets are $10 for students, children and senior citizens; and $15 for general admission. Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling (510) 358-1249. Tickets can also be purchased on Brown Paper Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information about AaaahZ Youth Theatre please go to www.aaaahzyouththeatre.com
 MISS SAIGON - AN EPIC LOVE STORYMiss Saigon is a love story about the relationship between an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman. It is set in 1975 during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon in the final stages of the Vietnam War…Kim is working in a sleazy Saigon nightclub owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as ‘The Engineer’.John, an American GI, buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night. That night will change their lives forever.Three years later, the US Army has fled Saigon. Chris has returned to America and is now married to Ellen, an American woman. He believes that Kim is dead.However, Kim has left Saigon and is living in poverty with Tam, her three-year-old son, in Bangkok. Chris discovers that Kim is alive and that Tam is his son. He returns to Asia in search of Kim and Tam.When Kim learns that Chris is in Bangkok with his new wife all her hopes to be reunited with him disappear.She is desperate for her son to have a future in America with his father – and she will make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.

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