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Miss Saigon

Shows · Miss Saigon

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.

Opened
1991
Performances
4,092
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Claude-Michel SchonbergLyrics: Richard Maltby Jr. & Alain BoublilBook: Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schonberg

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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