Miss Saigon at the Music Circus The final offering in the Music Circus 2011 lineup is the international spectacular “Miss Saigon.” The stirring and visually stunning production is a solid reinterpretation of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly,” relocated to Vietnam on the eve of the fall of Saigon in April 1975. This is a modern retelling of unexpected love found in an unlikely way, of the tragic separation of lovers and the dreams that sustain them through adversity, and the uncontrollable twists of fate that bring them back together under even more tragic circumstances. Orphaned bar girl Kim (played by Ma-Anne Dionisio) meets American G.I. Chris (Eric Kunze) at the Saigon bar

  Used to be, when I thought of Vietnam, I would think first of the war, and my stepfather Pieter, who spent two tours of duty in the Vietnam War in the Marine Corps special forces.  Actually, Vietnam conjured up visions  of a parade of Vietnam vets who came through my house and my life while I was growing up in Menlo Park.               My father specialized in treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it seemed that in the 80's and 90's,  Vietnam vets had cornered that market.  We had a guest room out back where many a traumatized vet stayed while under my fathers tutelage. I had a lot of questionable male role models stay in "the study" for varying amounts of time, every one of who