Miss Saigon celebrates its 25th anniversary with limited cinema run

Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance is coming to cinemas around the world, including Australia this October.

The acclaimed new staging of Boubil and Schönberg’s Miss Saigon was one of the most highly anticipated musical events the West End had seen in recent years. It broke box office records and won numerous awards.

Shot in front of a live audience at London’s Prince Edward Theatre, Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance gives cinema-goers around the world the chance to enjoy the spectacular, sell-out event which saw more than 20,000 people attempt to book seats within the first five minutes of release.

With music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil (‘Les Misérables’) and lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr,Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon is loosely inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.  Set in 1975 in Saigon, at the tail end of the Vietnam War it tells the dramatic tale of Kim a young bar girl orphaned by war who falls in love with an American GI only for their love and lives to be torn apart by the fall of Saigon.

The talented cast of Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance includes Jon Jon Briones, Eva Noblezada, Alistair Brammer, Hugh Maynard, Tamsin Carroll and Rachelle Ann Go.

Cinemagoers will also witness a special finale that sees the 25th anniversary performance cast joined on stage by original cast members Jonathan Pryce, Lea Salonga and Simon Bowman.

Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance will be in Austrlian cinemas for a strictly limited time from October 15.

Premiere Screenings will be held on October 8 and 9 at The State Theatre Sydney and Rivoli Cinemas Melbourne.

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