Miss Saigon returns to the West End for the first time in over a decade, in a brand new production from Cameron Mackintosh that plays a strictly limited eight-month season at the Prince Edward Theatre - the very theatre where the show last thrilled London audiences - from 13 May 2027. Written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, the team behind Les Miserables, it is one of the most epic and emotional musicals ever staged.
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. Over three years, Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea that he has fathered a son.
Why it’s worth the watch
Miss Saigon has moved audiences around the world for more than three decades, and this brand new staging brings it roaring back to life. Here is why it still lands:
- The score. ‘The Heat Is On in Saigon’, ‘The Movie in My Mind’, ‘Sun and Moon’, ‘The Last Night of the World’ and the searing ‘The American Dream’ make up one of musical theatre’s most sweeping and passionate scores.
- The creators. It comes from Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, with producer Cameron Mackintosh - the same partnership behind Les Miserables.
- The production. This is an all new staging directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy, with design by Andrew D Edwards, that has been hailed on tour as ‘a superb new Saigon for our times’ by the Daily Telegraph.
- The story. A doomed love story set against the fall of a city, it is a night of grand romance, heartbreak and spectacle on an epic scale.
