Miss Saigon will be the largest touring production in the UK...
Cameron Mackintosh
MISS SAIGON will be the largest touring production in the UK, with a company of over 50 actors and musicians.
MISS SAIGON will be the largest touring production in the UK, with a company of over 50 actors and musicians.
Direct from the current smash hit U.S tour, Jon Jon Briones and Jennifer Hubilla have joined Steven Houghton and Miriam Valmores Marasigan in the cast of Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary MISS SAIGON.
Jon-Jon Briones has received rave reviews for his performance as ‘The Engineer’ in MISS SAIGON all over the world. He has played the role in Germany, Manila, Philippines and Asian Tour productions. He joined this production directly from the US National Tour.
“The sly, sharp Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer earns the fanfare. With a surfeit of stage savvy swagger packed into a wiry, elastic frame, Briones recalls Sammy Davis Jr” L.A. Times June 2004.
“Jon Jon Briones is a genius in the part… he can rival any other Engineer in terms of voice quality and comic timing” Plymouth Independent, 25 July, 2004
“Jon Jon Briones is superb as the Engineer… captivating the audience with every move” Bradford Telegraph and Argus, 1 September, 2004
Miriam Valmores-Marasigan and Jennifer Hubilla share the role of ‘Kim’.
Miriam has performed this role as part of the cast of MISS SAIGON in Sydney as well as the London, Manila and Asian Tour productions where she understudied the same role. A year later, she reprised the role in the second year of the production’s National Tour.
“Miriam Valmores-Marasigan has a wonderful voice… full of emotional texture and colour” Exeter Express and Echo, Friday 23 July, 2004
“Miriam Valmores-Marasigan is fantastic as the heart rendering Kim” BBC Online, 1 September, 2004
Jennifer received glowing reviews for her performance of ‘Kim’ on the current U.S tour. Her other credits include The Fantasticks, Children of Eden, and Into the Woods.
“Jennifer Hubilla is lovely and believable” Times-Herald Record, Montreal, 20 September, 2003
“The petite , pretty, sweet-voiced Jennifer Hubilla” Chicago Sun-Times, 14 June, 2003
Steven Houghton plays ‘Chris’. Steven is well know from his roles in television including London’s Burning, Bugs, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Holby City, Doctors and Bernard’s Watch. Steven’s major theatre credits include an Olivier nomination for the role of Keith Nicholson in Spend Spend Spend and also Martin Guerre, Friends Like Us, Cats, The Hot Mikado and Grease.
“Steven Houghton’s strong voice is perfectly suited for the role of Chris” – BBC, 24 July, 2004
Cameron Mackintosh said “I am so thrilled with this cast, who have received fantastic reviews in both of our first tour venues. They are so talented and passionate in their story telling of this show”.
Hugh Maynard has returned to the role of ‘John’, which he played on the last tour of MISS SAIGON. Hugh’s other theatre credits include Follies and Notre Dame de Paris. Kerry Ellis plays ‘Ellen’. Kerry is credited with creating the role of ‘Meat’ in We Will Rock You. Sebastian Tan performs the role of ‘Thuy’. He has had principal musical roles in Honk! and Forbidden City with the Singapore Repertory Theatre and has starred in various television programmes.
Many UK cities have long wanted to stage MISS SAIGON, but for this to happen a completely new design had to be created, as the original production could not fit on their stages. Cameron Mackintosh has already developed a hugely acclaimed new production of the show in America which is able to play varying sized auditoriums in a tour which has been so successful that it is now booking into its fourth year.
Using cutting edge visual techniques, this production of MISS SAIGON vividly recreates the streets of Vietnam and Bangkok, including of course the memorable final helicopter flight from the roof of the American Embassy.
MISS SAIGON’s music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jnr and Alain Boublil, adapted from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil.
This exciting new production has been co-directed by Mitchell Lemsky and Laurence Conner. Bob Avian’s original brilliant choreography has been restaged by Maggie Goodwin with additional new choreography by Geoffrey Garratt. Musical Supervision by Daniel Bowling and Musical Direction by James Dodgson. Designer Adrian Vaux has created a new vibrant set which brilliantly unites with Andreane Neofitou’s original Costumes. New lighting by Jenny Kagan and Sound by Nick Lidster with William David Brohn’s award winning Orchestrations.
The internationally famous illustrator Gerald Scarfe has joined the design team to create his own inimitable take on the famous show stopping production number, ’The American Dream.
Set in 1975 during the final days leading up to the American evacuation of Saigon, “MISS SAIGON” is an epic love story about the relationship between an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman.
Fourteen years ago Cameron Mackintosh premiered Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s epic musical “MISS SAIGON” at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane and overnight it became a legend, running in London and on Broadway for over 10 years and in major capital cities around the world, becoming one of the most successful musicals in modern history.
Since its London premiere in 1989, “MISS SAIGON” has become the third most successful musical in the history of British theatre and the longest running show ever to play Drury Lane. It has been performed in 18 countries, in nine different languages, has won 29 awards and been seen by over 31 million people worldwide. To date it has grossed over £950 million at the box office around the world.
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