The run closed January 28, 2001
- Opened
- April 11, 1991
- Closed
- January 28, 2001
- Performances
- 4,092
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 5th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Miss Saigon 5 more that season
| 1990 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1999 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2017 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Laurence Connor | 547 perf. |
| 2017 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it162 named
Zar Acayan
Tony C Avanti
Jane Bodle
Raquel C Brown
Annette Calud
Eric Chan
Marina Chapa
Mirla Criste
Imelda de Los Reyes
Paul Dobie
Michael Gruber
Sala Iwamatsu
Leonard Joseph
Darren Lee
Jason Ma
Paul Matsumoto
Sean Mcdermott
Thomas James O Leary
Gordon Owens
Christopher Pecaro
Matthew Pedersen
Kris Phillips
W Ellis Porter
Jade Kaiwalani Stice
Melanie Mariko Tojio
Alton F White
Nephi Jay Wimmer
Bruce Winant
Donnell Aarone
Tito Abeleda
Cristina Ablaza
Joan Almedilla
Susan Ancheta
Raul Aranas
Yancey Arias
Darrell Autor
Frank Baiocchi
Robert Bartley
Anastasia Barzee
Stephanie Bast
Ronald Cadet Bastine
Erik Bates
Emy Baysic
Randy Bettis
Sekiya Billman
Timothy Robert Blevins
Matt Bogart
David Boyd
C C Brown
Franne Calma
Paul Canaan
Tony Capone
Charlene Carabeo
Philipp Lee Carabuena
Buddy Casimano
Victoria Chin
Kristofer A Chow
Karl Christian
Melinda Chua
Curtiss I Cook
Misty Cotton
Alvin Crawford
Evan D Angeles
Christopher F Davis
Matthew Dickens
Jay Douglas
Stephanie Douglas
Andrew Driscoll
Ambrose Eng
Rona Figueroa
Michael Flanigan
Joseph Anthony Foronda
Lyd Lyd Gaston
Margaret Ann Gates
Steve Geary
Ai Goeku
Alisa Gyse
Cliffton Hall
Kurt Andrew Hansen
Moon Hi Hanson
Jim Harrison
Jim Berkley Harrison
Ruthie Henshall
Emily Hsu
Maryann Hu
Devanand N Janki
Norman Wendall Kauahi
Veronica Kelly
Jonathan Regner Kho
Kenny Kim
Vivian King
Thomas C Kouo
Eric Kunze
Jenna la Salla
Zoie Lam
Michael K Lee
Ming Lee
Peter Lockyer
Luzviminda Lor
Deedee Lynn Magno
Candese Marchese
J Elaine Marcos
Kevin Neil Mccready
Heidi Meyer
J T Moye
Alan Muraoka
Edmund Nalzaro
Michelle Nigalan
Jenni Padua
Raymond Patterson
Elizabeth Paw
Chris Pecaro
Christopher Peccaro
Juan P Pineda
Jacquelyn Piro
Gail A Quintos
Geena Quintos
Jeff Reid
Kristine Remigio
Rusty Reynolds
Blake Riley
Andrea Rivette
Tyley Ross
Glenn Sabalza
Herman Sebek
Roger Seyer
Brad Sharp
Thos Shipley
Christine Sison
Chloe Stewart
Natasha Tabandera
Johanna Tacadena
Roxanne Taga
Alex Lee Tano
Tami Tappan
Robert Tatad
Stephen Tewksbury
Thi Kim Thu Nguyen
Anne Torsiglieri
Lucy Vance
Luoyong Wang
Robert Weber
Frank Wright Ii
Albert G Yalun
Welly Yang
Lisa Yuen
16 of these 162 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 146 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Jennie Kwan Kim
Willy Falk Chris Scott
Raul Aranas The Engineer
Hinton Battle John Thomas
Liz Callaway Ellen
Barry Bernal Thuy
Marina Chapa Gigi Van Tranh
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Nicholas Hytner
- Choreographer
- Bob Avian
- Producer
- Cameron Mackintosh
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The casting of Jonathan Pryce, a white actor, as the Eurasian Engineer sparked a major controversy about yellowface that helped reshape Broadway casting conversations.
At the 1993 opening of Miss Saigon, during the show’s ballad “Why God Why,” he turned to his date and proclaimed, “You gotta be kidding me ... they stole that melody from ‘There’s a Small Hotel’!” Even at that late date, you couldn’t put one over on him. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 153
- Miss Saigon was the first musical production to charge $100 for the mezzanine seats. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 281
- By 1991, Miss Saigon cost $10 million, and now in 1993 the standard top price for a musical on Broadway is $65.00. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 22
- 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. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 108
- 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. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 65
- In 1989, he produced his fourth smash hit, Miss Saigon, spanning the globe with the Vietnam-era “popera.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 271
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Miss Saigon at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.