Public booking opens Monday 9th Sept for the 2014 return of MISS SAIGON at Prince Edward Theatre
PUBLIC BOOKING OPENS
MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2013 AT 10.00AM
FOR CAMERON MACKINTOSH’S NEW PRODUCTION OF
BOUBLIL AND SCHÖNBERG’S LEGENDARY MUSICAL
Public booking for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production
of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical MISS SAIGON will open at 10.00am on Monday 9 September
2013.
MISS
SAIGON
will return to the West End on Saturday 3 May 2014 at the Prince Edward
Theatre, in the musical’s 25th Anniversary Year, booking for
performances through to Saturday 25th October 2014.
Tickets will be on sale from our ticket website at tickets.backstagepass.biz or the Box Office
website: www.miss-saigon.com and by telephone: 0844
482 5155
Cameron Mackintosh said “I find it hard to believe that it is already 25 years since I first
premiered Miss Saigon in London, where it became the greatest success ever in
the long history of the Drury Lane Theatre and went on to be a phenomenal
success around the world.
Ten 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.
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If
anything the tragic love story of Miss Saigon has become even more relevant
today. In the last 25 years our
country has become involved in similar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the way
we weren’t in Vietnam and the American Dream has been buffeted by the reality
of recent history. The new
production has taken a more gritty and realistic approach to the design than
the operatic original but still delivers the power and epic sweep of Boublil
and Schönberg’s great score.
Of all my
shows Miss Saigon is probably the one I have the most requests to bring
back. For some years I have been
waiting for the perfect theatre to house the new production. These requests are not only from a
public who remembers seeing it originally but from a generation of new audiences
who were too young (or not even born!) to get to see it. Now that the very successful Jersey
Boys has decided to move to a more intimate theatre I now have the perfect
theatre – The Prince Edward.”
Set in 1975
during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon, Miss Saigon is an
epic love story about the relationship between an American GI and a young
Vietnamese woman.
Orphaned by
war, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work as a bar girl in a sleazy Saigon night
club owned by a notorious wheeler-dealer known as 'The Engineer'. John, an
American GI, buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night. That
night will change their lives forever.
Since its London premiere in 1989, Cameron
Mackintosh’s production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s epic
musical MISS SAIGON has become one of
the most successful musicals in history and the greatest success ever to play
the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. As well as record breaking London and Broadway
runs, MISS SAIGON has been performed
in 28 countries, over 300 cities in 15 different languages, has won over 40 awards
including 2 Olivier Awards, 3 Tony Awards, and 4 Drama Desk Awards and been
seen by over 35 million people worldwide.
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil recently
wrote a powerful new song called ‘Maybe’ for the role of Ellen to sing in the
second act which has been included in the recent Dutch and Japanese productions
and will make its UK premiere in London.
MISS
SAIGON
has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jnr and
Alain Boublil, adapted from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil. This new
production will be directed by Laurence Connor with Musical Staging by Bob Avian and additional Choreography
by Geoffrey Garratt, Production Design by Totie Driver and Matt Kinley from an original concept by Adrian Vaux, Costume Design by Andreane Neofitou, Orchestrations by William David
Brohn,
Lighting Design by Bruno Poet and Sound Design by Mick Potter.
Tickets for MISS SAIGON are priced £27.50 - £67.50
Box Office 0844 482 5155
Performances: Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm
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