Press Contact: Megan Stone
14 February 2025
Michael Harrison, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, is delighted to announce new dates for a major UK tour of Miss Saigon, following huge public demand as Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical is reborn. Opening at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal in October 2025, the exciting new production today confirms the addition of eight new venues on its UK 2025/26 tour, including a run at Theatre Royal Plymouth from Tuesday 17 – Saturday 28 February 2026.
The newly added dates ensure audiences across the UK have the chance to experience the new production of this legendary musical, and includes runs at Venue Cymru, Llandudno; Hull New Theatre; Mayflower Theatre, Southampton; Theatre Royal Plymouth; His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen; Grand Opera House, Belfast and Nottingham, Theatre Royal. Irish dates to be announced.
The tour previously announced its 2025 dates and Christmas season which are already breaking box-office records and include: Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh; Palace Theatre, Manchester; The Alexandra, Birmingham; Grand Theatre, Leeds and New Theatre, Oxford.
Of the new production, Cameron Mackintosh comments: “Over 35 years after Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical Miss Saigon first opened to international success, I am delighted that this powerful heart-wrenching love story has remained timeless around the world. The story of two young people – an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl – who fall in love as their lives are torn apart by war, ultimately causing a mother to sacrifice her life for her child, has become a worldwide hit, as well as one of the most popular musicals ever in Asian countries, with separate companies regularly playing in Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore.
The recent hugely successful Sheffield Crucible production took a contemporary look at this great musical and that inspired producer Michael Harrison and I to also take a fresh look at Miss Saigon and create a modern version that can play many theatres that the original was unable to do.
Directing this exciting new production is Jean-Pierre van der Spuy, who recently directed the acclaimed Australian Opera production of Miss Saigon and with Matthew Bourne is co-directing my hugely successful new production of Oliver! in the West End. Like the phoenix that is so central to the show’s story Miss Saigon will rise again this year – 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 UK and Ireland in a brilliant and modern production.”
Miss Saigon has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, adapted from original French text by Alain Boublil, with additional lyrics by Michael Mahler and Orchestrations by William David Brohn.
Jean-Pierre van der Spuy whose recent credits include co-direction of Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre and Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular, is the production’s Director. Chrissie Cartwright (Associate Director and Choreographer for CATS Worldwide and choreographic recreation of Phantom of the Opera, West End and North American tour), and Carrie-Anne Ingrouille (SIX The Musical) are Co-Choreographers. Andrew Edwards is Set and Costume Designer (Tartuffe, Theatre Royal Haymarket and numerous productions at The Globe); Olivier Award-winner Bruno Poet is the production’s Lighting Designer (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Frankenstein at the National Theatre); Sound Design is by Olivier Award winner Adam Fisher (Oliver! Gielgud & Chichester Festival Theatre; Sunset Boulevard Savoy & Broadway); and Video Design is by George Reeve (Disney’s Hercules, Oliver! Chichester Festival Theatre and West End and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, Gielgud); Graham Hurman is the Musical Supervisor and Sarah Leung CDG, Casting Director. This new production of Miss Saigon is overseen by Cameron Mackintosh.
In the last days of the Vietnam War, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar run by a notorious character known as The Engineer. There she meets and falls in love with an American GI named Chris, but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. For three years Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea he’s fathered a son.
Since its London premiere in 1989, Cameron Mackintosh’s original production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s epic musical Miss Saigon became one of the most successful musicals in history. The original Broadway production Miss Saigon opened on April 11, 1991, and played for nearly ten years with its 4,097 performances attended by more than 6.3 million people. Cameron’s latest London production of Miss Saigon opened in London in May 2014 to record-breaking advance sales and critical acclaim, followed by a UK tour in 2017. During this run, in 2016, the spectacular 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of this timeless musical, featuring appearances by the original cast, including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, took place and was filmed for television and cinema and continues to be shown around the world.
The soaring musical score features the hits songs; The Heat is On in Saigon, The Movie in My Mind, Last Night of the World and The American Dream. September 2024 marked 35 years since the show’s opening in the West End.
Miss Saigon has been performed in 33 countries, 378 cities in 15 different languages, has won 75 major awards including 2 Olivier Awards, 3 Tony Awards, and 4 Drama Desk Awards and has been seen by over 38 million people worldwide.
Full casting is to be announced, and tickets will be on sale soon. For access to priority booking, take a look at TRP’s membership options: https://theatreroyal.com/join/memberships/