The Freed Center for the Performing Arts and the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts present Miss Saigon in a concert presentation directed by Kirsten Osbun Manley.

Along with the ONU Symphony Orchestra and Musical Director Lloyd Butler, the cast will perform this widely-know, Tony award-winning musical with limited staging, props, and costuming.

The dates of the performance are Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased online at www.freedcenter.com or at the Freed Center Box Office at 419-772-1900. Tickets are: Adults $15; Seniors $12; Non-ONU Students $12. Not recommended for children.

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Sch"onberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.

It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.

The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.