"Miss Saigon" is called the modern version of "Madame Butterfly", but Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil claim that they were not inspired by Puccini's opera, but by a photo that Claude-Michel Schönberg accidentally saw in a newspaper. It depicted a Vietnamese woman who, with a painful expression on her face, gives her daughter to a soldier leaving the military base near Saigon. In America, the child would have a better life than that given to the "bui doi", children of Vietnamese and Americans, persecuted in communist Vietnam. Thanks to this photo a poignant, one of the most beautiful musicals of all time was created. After over 8000 performances on Broadway, 
in May 2014, the new version was premiered in the West End and this particular version is going to be performed at the Musical Theatre in Łódź.