The iconic musical Miss Saigon is set to return to Manchester as it comes to the Palace Theatre next autumn. The production promises to be ‘reborn’ as a new touring production, and will visit cities around the UK with hit songs including The Heat is On in Saigon, The Movie in My Mind, Last Night of the World and The American Dream.
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.
Of the new revival, legendary theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh said: “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 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 next year – a legend reborn.”
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