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Rehearsals for Broadway started Jan. 28, 12 days after the gulf fighting broke out. "We gave that a lot of thought," says co-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. "If it turns out the timing is not great, we're just going to take our lumps. We decided the only thing that could hurt us would be if we backed off from the show." All in all, they haven't. Miss Saigon is not a documentary, not journalism. But it remains stunningly relevant by the standards of Broadway, and triumphantly Broadway in meeting the standards of relevance.
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