Productions6 on Broadway
| 1990 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 1991 | Broadway Theatre Original. April 11, 1991 · Nicholas Hytner | 4,092 performances · 3 Tony wins |
| 1999 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. | |
| 2016 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. February 27, 2016 | |
| 2017 | Broadway Theatre Revival. March 23, 2017 · Laurence Connor | 547 performances |
| 2017 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. 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.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Miss Saigon matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature49 passages
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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