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* [[Star-Making Role]]: This is what catapulted a then 17-year-old Lea Salonga into Broadway stardom. She would return to the role off and on for more than fifteen years.
* [[Stunt Casting]]/[[Book Ends]]: The show began and ended its Broadway run with Lea Salonga in the title role.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: There was nearly no Broadway production because the Actor's Equity Association originally refused to let Jonathan Pryce reprise his role of the Engineer since he was a Caucasian playing an Asian role and they though that would offend the Asian-American community. However, it was counter-argued that the Engineer is Eurasian (half-Vietnamese and half-French), and that Pryce was being discriminated because he is Caucasian. Cameron Mackintosh threatened to cancel the Broadway production altogether and after getting support for Pryce, Equity relented and the production went on. (Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon#Controversy The Other Wiki.]) Now at days of course the role almost always go to someone of Asian descent.
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