‘Miss Saigon' to appear on movie screens before Broadway
NEW YORK — American audiences will get the rare chance to catch a sneak peek at the new “Miss Saigon” before it opens on Broadway next spring.
A filmed version of the musical’s live 25th anniversary celebration in London will make its world premiere in 175 movie theaters on Sept. 22, six months before the production with the same leading actors lands on Broadway.
The cast members — Jon Jon Briones as the Engineer, Eva Noblezada as Kim and Alistair Brammer as Chris — are expected to star when the show opens at the Broadway Theatre in March, but producer Cameron Mackintosh isn’t worried the broadcast will cannibalize fans.
Miss Saigon,” a tragic Vietnam War love story inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly,” has songs by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, who also wrote “Les Miserables.
Mackintosh said he didn’t initially plan for a broadcast version of “Miss Saigon,” but was persuaded to capture the 25th anniversary of its West End arrival with a dozen cameras.