Dates announced for Miss Saigon’s return
Following this summer’s announcement that Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s legendary musical Miss Saigon would return to the West End in its 25th anniversary year, dates have been announced for the eagerly awaited production.
Miss Saigon, which made its world premiere in London in 1989 winning two Olivier Awards before enjoying an impressive 10 year run, will play at the Prince Edward theatre from 3 May. Booking will go on sale on 9 September with tickets available for performances until 25 October.
Based on Giacomo Puccini's famous opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon transports the classic love story to the final days of the American occupation of Saigon in 1975. There American GI John buys the services of 17-year-old Kim, an orphan who has been forced to work as a bar girl in a sleazy nightclub owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as The Engineer. As the pair falls in love, but find themselves tragically separated when the war ends, their night together unexpectedly leads to life-changing consequences.
Speaking about the much-anticipated return of the show to the West End, the show’s producer Cameron Mackintosh said: “10 years ago I decided to reconceive the show in a completely re-imagined physical production that could play a far greater number of theatres than the original, but still retains Bob Avian’s legendary musical staging and the same scale of cast. As well as touring the UK with enormous success the new production directed by Laurence Connor has been seen in numerous countries around the world where it has been embraced by audiences and critics alike with as much enthusiasm as the original