Miss Saigon

About Miss Saigon

1991 Broadway

1992 Japan

1993 Toronto

1993 Japan

1994 Hungary

1994 Los Angeles

1995 Sydney

1995 Germany

1996 Netherlands

1997 Denmark

2000 Philippines

2000 Poland

2001 UK tour

2002 Tallinn

2002 Sweden

2004 UK tour

2005 US tour

2004 Japan

2006 South Korea

2007 Australia

2007 Bulgaria

2007 Czech Republic

2007 Canada

2007 Finland

2007 Brazil

2007 Switzerland

2008 Japan

2008 New Zealand

Miss Saigon is a West End musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20, 1989, closing after 4,264 performances on October 30, 1999. On April 11, 1991, it opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York, and closed on January 28, 2001 after 4,092 performances. The musical represented Schönberg and Boublil's second major success, following Les Misérables in 1980. As of August 2007, Miss Saigon is still the 10th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.

Miss Saigon is a modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly's American Lieutenant and Japanese geisha coupling is replaced by a romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl.