Who is the real Miss Saigon? (photos)

Hannah Clement loves to sing.

And beginning Monday, February 4, her vocal prowess will be put to the test as she steps into the role of Kim in the White Pines OnStage production of Miss Saigon.

Although Clement is enjoying her involvement as the female lead in the modern adaptation of Puccini's Madame Butterfly, she finds the role extremely challenging.

"Finding the emotional hook to my character is very difficult," she said.

This is only her second theatre production.

Directed by Susan Barber, the tragic account of a doomed romance between an American G.I. and a Vietnamese bar girl will be staged at the Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre from February 4 through February 9.

Curtain time is 7 p.m. for all performances.

Tickets may be purchased at the Station Mall Box Office or by calling (705) 945-7299.

To have a peek at this colourful production, please see the photo gallery below.

About Miss Saigon

Set in 1975 during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon, Miss Saigon is an epic love story about the relationship between an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman.

Kim is working in a sleazy Saigon night club owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as 'The Engineer'.

John, an American GI, buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night.

That night will change their lives forever.

Three years later, the US Army has fled Saigon.

Chris has returned to America and is now married to Ellen, an American women.

He believes that Kim is dead.

However Kim has left Saigon and is living in poverty with her three year old son, Tam in Bangkok.

Chris finds out that Kim is alive and has bore him a son and so returns to Asia in search of Kim and Tam.

When Kim learns that Chris is in Bangkok with his new wife all her hopes to be reunited with him disappear.

She is desperate for her son to have a future in America with his father and will make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.