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News TX's Theatre Under the Stars Stages Miss Saigon March 20-April 1 There was one advantage to Miss Saigon closing on Broadway Jan. 28. Small theatre companies from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon can stage the hit musical drama.

There was one advantage to Miss Saigon closing on Broadway Jan. 28. Small theatre companies from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon can stage the hit musical drama.

Theatre Under the Stars of Houston, Texas, was the first U.S. company to secure the rights to stage Miss Saigon after its Broadway closing. This new production runs March 20-April 1 with a press opening March 22.

Miss Saigon, by Les Miserables' team Claude Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil and American lyricist and director Richard Maltby, Jr., resets the Madame Butterfly story to war torn Vietnam. During the final days of America's involvement in the country, Chris, a young GI, falls in love with Kim, a Vietnamese prostitute, but is forced to leave her behind when Saigon falls. Kim has his child, but years later, when he returns to Vietnam with his American wife, she is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice.

Tickets to Miss Saigon are $18-$57. To order, call (713) 558-TUTS. Theater Under the Stars is on the web at http://www.tuts.com.

* After Miss Saigon is done strutting her stuff across the Arena Stage, TUTS will debut the new Lee Pockriss-Hal Hackady musical, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, based on the 1962 Bette Davis Joan Crawford film.

Baby Jane comes second in the TUTS season, running from July 10 22 at the Wortham Center. In this twisted psychological profile of show business gone mad, former child vaudevillian Baby Jane Hudson becomes caretaker for her movie star sister Blanche when the latter has a mysterious crippling accident. Encased in hideous pancake make-up and in a precarious mental condition, Jane torments and tortures her sister, while Blanche tries desperately to escape.

Pockriss composed such hits as "Catch a Falling Star," "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and "Johnny Angel." Hackady provided lyrics for Little By Little, Goodtime Charley and Snoopy! all with composer Larry Grossman. Henry Farrell will write the book.

Also planned in the TUTS season will be the return of Gladys Knight to Smokey Joe's Cafe, playing Aug. 7-19 at the Wortham Center, Cirque du Soleil's Dralion with dates to be announced and a December, 2001 staging of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

Subscriptions ($304-$81) are available. To order, call (713) 558-TUTS. Theater Under the Stars is on the web at http://www.tuts.com.

 
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