Michael Harrison in affiliation with Cameron Mackintosh will current a brand new touring manufacturing of the worldwide stage sensation, MISS SAIGON, as Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical is reborn. This epic manufacturing will play the Edinburgh Playhouse from Tuesday 28 October to Saturday 1st November 2025. This 12 months marks 35 years since MISS SAIGON made its West End premiere.
Of the brand new revival, Cameron Mackintosh feedback:
“35 years after Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical MISS SAIGON first opened to worldwide success, I’m delighted that this highly effective heart-wrenching love story has remained timeless all over the world. The story of two younger folks – an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman – who fall in love as their lives are torn aside by struggle, in the end inflicting a mom to sacrifice her life for her baby has grow to be a worldwide hit, in addition to one of the crucial well-liked musicals ever in Asian nations, with separate corporations repeatedly enjoying in Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore.
The current massively profitable Sheffield Crucible manufacturing took a recent have a look at this nice musical and that impressed producer Michael Harrison and I to additionally take a recent have a look at MISS SAIGON and create a contemporary model that may play many theatres that the unique was unable to do.
Directing this thrilling new manufacturing is Jean-Pierre van der Spuy, who not too long ago directed the acclaimed Australian Opera manufacturing of MISS SAIGON and with Matthew Bourne is co-directing my massively profitable new manufacturing of Oliver! within the West End. Like the phoenix that’s so central to the present’s story MISS SAIGON will rise once more subsequent 12 months – a legend reborn”
Michael Harrison continues “It is thrilling to be collaborating with Cameron on a brand-new production of Miss Saigon. Millions of people around the world have been moved by its riveting story, messages of family and enduring love, and by Boublil and Schönberg’s majestic score. I am delighted that we can now bring this story to audiences throughout the country in a brilliant and modern production.”
Since its London premiere in 1989, Cameron Mackintosh’s unique manufacturing of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s epic musical MISS SAIGON grew to become one of the crucial profitable musicals in historical past. The unique Broadway manufacturing of MISS SAIGON opened on April 11, 1991, and performed for practically ten years with its 4,097 performances attended by greater than 6.3 million folks. Cameron’s newest London manufacturing of MISS SAIGON opened in London in May 2014 to record-breaking advance gross sales and demanding acclaim, adopted by a UK tour in 2017. During this run, in 2016, the spectacular twenty fifth Anniversary Gala Performance of this timeless musical, that includes appearances by the unique solid, together with Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, happened and was filmed for tv and cinema and continues to be proven all over the world.
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