Open Thread w flute music

man Im tired, long busy day with lots of running around. A top priority included getting Lord Lib’s piccolo back from the shop.  Tomorrow is first day of rehearsals…. he played the show once before, a few years ago, and they’ve hired him again for another go. He’ll be performing all the flute parts.

Miss Saigon TUTS link. I thought I’d go toobing to remember some of the music. It’s a good show, if you ever have the chance to see it.

He {Director Bruce Lumpkin} says some people consider it an anti-war show, but it is that and more. “It’s anti-war but it’s also a very tragic love story. The two main characters almost make it out; they almost make it work.”

Lumpkin was doing Grand Hotel on Broadway when he first saw Miss Saigon after it had opened on Broadway. “It moved me to tears. It is a beautiful story.” When it closed on Broadway he says he was approached and asked if he thought it could work in the round and he said yes.

“The music is just beautiful. It’s a modern-day rock opera, one of the best.”

He says most people don’t realize that the fall of Saigon happened so quickly, that people had only 17 hours to get out before the Viet Cong came marching down the streets of Saigon.

When he was doing a D.C. production of the play, which is based on Madame Butterfly, the cast had a chance to meet the entire crew of the last helicopter out of Vietnam.

Let’s see what else I can find for ya.

Here’s another vid with a little of the flutes in it, I cant remember which one he plays here. I should know but Im fatigued. This isnt him of course.