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More ‘Saigon’ Casting Calls: Cameron Mackintosh and Actors’ Equity may be in for another go-round on the casting of “Miss Saigon.” Mackintosh, who pledged to try to find an Asian-American actress to play the title role created in London by Lea Salonga (a Filipina), told Equity on Tuesday that, after an extensive search, he had found no one with the proper prerequisites and requested permission to cast Salonga. Equity’s Dick Moore would say only that the request would go to Equity’s Alien Committee for a recommendation and then be put to a vote by the Equity Council. Equity and Mackintosh had clashed last summer over the casting of Jonathan Pryce, a Caucasian, in the Eurasian role of the engineer. Equity at first denied permission for Pryce to re-create the role on Broadway, then changed its mind after Mackintosh said he would not bring the show to New York.