Miss Saigon
Shows · Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
- Opened
- 1991
- Performances
- 4,092
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions6 on Broadway
| 1990 | Transfer Theatre unknown. · predates this show | |
| 1991 | Broadway Theatre Original. April 11, 1991 · Nicholas Hytner | 4,092 performances · 3 Tony wins |
| 1999 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 2016 | Transfer Theatre unknown. February 27, 2016 | |
| 2017 | Broadway Theatre Revival. March 23, 2017 · Laurence Connor | 547 performances |
| 2017 | Transfer Theatre unknown. November 19, 2015 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 18 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Miss Saigon matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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49 passages naming Miss Saigon, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Miss Saigon was the first musical production to charge $100 for the mezzanine seats. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p281
By 1991, Miss Saigon cost $10 million, and now in 1993 the standard top price for a musical on Broadway is $65.00. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p22
Cameron Mackintosh, one of the most successful of London’s producers, followed his production of Les Misérables with another smash hit, Miss Saigon (4/11/91). The show equaled its London success, eventually playing 4,092 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p108
Cats begat the Cameron Mackintosh empire of spectacular productions: Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Miss Saigon, and crash- chandeliers, huge barricades, and helicopters became the hallmarks of the Broadway musicals of 1980s and early ‘gos. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p65
In 1989, he produced his fourth smash hit, Miss Saigon, spanning the globe with the Vietnam-era “popera.” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p271
the team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables and Miss Saigon), book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p15
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