Room 317 (Live From The Prince Edward Theatre, London / 2014)-Original Cast: Miss Saigon / London / 2014/Tamsin Carroll/Eva Noblezada

Miss Saigon Soundtrack Miscellaneous Room 317 (A hotel room) 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 please won't you sit down KIM tell me you are lying ELLEN we've been married a year, I am 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 I had a dream for my son to belong and not live his life in the streets like a rat ELLEN we aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load Chris and I are totally 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 BOTH 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) ELLEN I don't want this I didn't come here to meet a girl who loves my husband I came here to help, but what do I do? now, after this, what do I . . .