24. Room 317 - Miss Saigon Original West End Cast

[@l0r3st0]

This was or is the reason why Lea won both Lawrence Olivier and Tony. This was very powerful delivery for an eighteen year old in the eighties.

[@theharpest13]

Poor Kim😢 she held on to hope all this time... Poor Chris he did need to restart. Poor Ellen😢

[@mayamagination]

It's all about perspective, man.

[@whutokay.6541]

The ending gave me goosebumps!! Very dramatic...love it

[@czarinagalang9375]

My heart ... oh... Kim ... Ellen... two great women!

[@gabriel6482137]

I love Ellen... She's so good and comprehensible. She could've been pretty mean to kim, but she didn't!

[@masterpc-9845x]

I listened to the musical when I was in high school, this and Sacred Bird are the most heartbreaking songs.

[@lemonbloodproductions9145]

I wish Chris had waited for kim. :( I always feel like Chris really loved kim more than ellen and from the mistake he never will be truly happy through married life with ellen.

[@Ducolle1]

absofuckinlutely

[@nonchalant5315]

that's what I thought too.. I wish he waited! But people grieve and move on in different ways. I guess, this was Chris' way of moving on

[@piamishelle]

Ya same I understand he felt he had to move on bc he didn’t know what happened but he really should’ve waited

[@Deveshh]

Waited for what? Didn´t he search for her for a long time, until he gave up?

[@delaneymasal5994]

Lemon Blood Productions he never loved her in any real way. She was a tool for him to get out of his post war depression. She was young and fresh and naive and he liked It at the time. He got over he in a year and moved on with his American life and never intended to come back for her.

[@piamishelle]

KIM good evening, maam ELLEN don't turn the bed yet KIM I'm not the maid ELLEN what do you want then? KIM they must have written the room number wrong I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott three-seventeen, oh I'm sorry... unless well, you must be, of course, you're John's wife, are you not? ELLEN oh God, I see it had to happen you must be Kim Chris went to find you please come inside no one will hurt you I'm Chris's wife my name is Ellen (KIM doesn't move) ELLEN in a way, I am glad I am meeting you first understand, you were only a name till tonight I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were reversed won't you please sit down KIM tell me you are lying ELLEN we've been married two years, I’m sorry, it's true KIM he said he'd come to get me ELLEN he says he tried to reach you, but what could he do? KIM please tell me you're not married you don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here ELLEN you don't know how he needed a new start KIM I feel walls in my heart closing in I can't breathe I can't win ELLEN as for the child you say it's Chris's KIM oh yes, Madame my son is Chris's ELLEN Of course we’ll help KIM Please keep your pity ELLEN It’s not a gift It is our duty KIM I had a dream for my son to belong and not live all his life in the streets like a rat ELLEN we aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load Chris and I stand completely together on that KIM then you must take Tam with you ELLEN take a child from his mother, impossible Kim KIM you will take Tam with you then he'll get what I wanted for him ELLEN but Kim, your child needs you Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own KIM Tam's chance lies with you now, not with me ELLEN no! can't you see it won't work it can't be KIM if you're saying that because you've made him change his mind Chris must go away and leave me and his son behind if you're saying that because my husband has another wife my child has no future, like the dust of life he must come tonight to my place tell me so to my face (KIM exits)

[@zieldq]

these songs were just so heartbreaking but beautiful.

[@daphnievo2669]

They modernized the song in 2018. Chris never really seemed like he loved her because he barely looked for a full year. He got married then when they encountered eachither again 3 years later, he lied to his wife that he never married Kim.

[@Diamondxjester]

Daphnie Vo I saw it recently, and it’s not really that he doesn’t love her, but that he had thought she had died. He became very depressed in the year after he tried to find her (remember that they closed the bars and re-educated a lot of folks- those who weren’t killed after Saigon fell) and he still deals with the guilt and PTSD from his time in Vietnam. Ellen was more of a bandaid for the situation, where she filled the gap he was feeling, and he even mentions he doesn’t want kim in America because he knows they still have that connection

[@EditorOfSL]

Well, it wasn’t really a marriage, I mean it was a ceremony thrown by her friends without anyone legally officiating.

[@dragonflarefrog1424]

@@EditorOfSL It’s not fair to just downplay what they considered legitimate in there state. Under the law of there society, that ceremony was valid. The girls were the officiators.

[@intjonmiller]

@@dragonflarefrog1424 She recognized it as a wedding. He did not. To her limited experience and world views anyone who saw what happened there would understand it was a wedding. This is typical of many naive perspectives (not realizing that outsiders won't recognize it). To her they were married. To him they were serious and would probably marry. And also there was this really lovely event with her friends from the pageant.

[@dragonflarefrog1424]

@@intjonmiller I mean marriages, like most contracts, can’t really be disregarded on the grounds of lack of understanding.

[@jorat2410]

Tell me you are lying! Such powerful music!

[@jj2517]

Chris was the bad person. He should have known he’s married and not to marry again. People should respect the vows of marriage. I am tired of women fighting but with the man hardly getting blamed.

[@phamapollo3175]

He thought Kim was dead and moved on only after 3 years of grievance, that's respectful enough. Also you missed the point - no one is to be blamed here. The trio are all war victims and get to deal with their own misery.

[@jylentertainment6876]

"Please come inside no one will hurt you" - it's a lie :(

[@christn6560]

please complete the whole upload... thanks

[@tsukareta_27]

HEARTBROKEN

[@piamishelle]

LEA HAS ME SHOOK

[@jamief110]

It took him 1 year to forget about his fiance who he thought was dead?

[@whenraindropsfall]

Chris never forgot Kim and he didn't think that she was dead. In fact, after he was separated from her, he didn't speak to anyone for a year. John explains this in the Room 317 song. For the next 2 years he'd call out Kim's name during his sleep. His wife heard that in the song 'I still believe'. 3 years after their separation, Chris asks John if Kim's still alive. He celebrates when he learns that Kim lives, explaining that he had been looking for her for all of those years. Chris was still attached to Kim all those years.

[@jylentertainment6876]

the last song is missing :(

[@sueannsy]

can you reupload the ones on this list that were taken down by youtube please? thanks

[@imclumsii3595]

Diese 9 Jahre die dieses Video auf KZbin verbracht hat, waren keine guten.

[@jonathanwatson1694]

This is Claire Moore and Lea Salonga?

[@모투르]

i understand Chris and his situation but his indecisive attitude makes Kim die he should help at least Kim and her son live in USA he is half American

[@sunko8894]

난 이노래가 이 뮤지컬의 중심이라고 생각해

[@suigeneris6781]

Who are the singers?

[@suigeneris6781]

+Amahl Eleazar Cerico Awesome, thank you :)

[@DMotivationals]

Lea Salonga... dont know the who played Ellen...

[@asdjhfkj]

Claire Moore plays Ellen