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Gateway brings 'Miss Saigon' to Patchogue
By STEVE PARKS
Published: July 15, 2009
"Miss Saigon" takes place during a specific war -- Vietnam, of course -- but its story of collateral damage is universal. Young soldiers, the young women with whom they seek respite, and the children who are left fatherless.
The Engineer, sympathetically reprehensible as played by Raul Aranas, a Broadway veteran of the role, supplies women to the GIs. That's how Chris (an earnest Scott Laska) met Kim (understudy Sacha Iskra delicately playing the role last Sunday night for Alex Lee Tano, a Kim on Broadway). Chris means to take her home with him, but in the frantic helicopter departure (blades whirring on Michael Anania's Orient-accented set), she's left behind. Returning four years later -- and married -- he finds that Kim has borne him a son.
While the first act drags at times, Act II builds inexorably as directed by Bob Durkin to the musical's operatic ending, richly amplified by the voices of Collin Lyle Howard and Allen Hong, accompanied by Andrew Graham's stirring orchestra.
WHAT "Miss Saigon" by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Richard Maltby Jr.
WHEN | WHERE Tuesdays-Sundays through July 25, a Gateway Playhouse production at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St.
INFO $50-$55(I need to double-check this), gateway playhouse.com, 631-286-1133
