Shows · Miss Saigon (2017 Revival)
Miss Saigon (2017 Revival)
Opened 2017
547 performances
Revival, Contemporary
During the fall of Saigon in 1975, an American GI named Chris falls in love with Kim, a young Vietnamese bar girl. Separated by the chaos of war, Kim bears Chris's son and spends years searching for him, only to discover he has married an American woman. Faced with an impossible choice, Kim makes the ultimate sacrifice to ensure her son's future in America.
- Music
- Claude-Michel Schonberg
- Lyrics
- Richard Maltby Jr., Alain Boublil
- Book
- Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Miss Saigon matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madama Butterfly's story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a seventeen-year-old South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 20 September 1989, closing after 4,092 performances…
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