The Heat is on as Miss Saigon lands in Cardiff
Cameron Mackintosh
The largest musical to hit Cardiff this year, MISS SAIGON plays at the Wales Millenium Centre, but only until Saturday 9 July.
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 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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