Michael Harrison, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, has announced new dates for a major UK tour of Miss Saigon…
Following public demand more dates have been today confirmed for Miss Saigon as Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical is reborn. Opening at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal where it plays from Saturday 4 – Saturday 25 October 2025, the exciting new production today confirms the addition of seven new venues on its UK 2025 /26 tour.
The newly added dates now ensure audiences across the UK have the chance to experience the new production of this legendary musical. In the last days of the Vietnam War, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar run by a notorious character known as The Engineer.
There she meets and falls in love with an American GI named Chris, but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. For 3 years Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea he’s fathered a son.
New dates include: Venue Cymru, Llandudno (Tuesday 6 January – Saturday 10 January, 2026); Hull New Theatre (Tuesday 20 January – Saturday 24 January, 2026); Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (Tuesday 27 January – Saturday 7 February, 2026); Theatre Royal, Plymouth (Tuesday 17 February – Saturday 28 February, 2026); His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen (Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 7 March, 2026); Grand Opera House, Belfast (Tuesday 10 March – Saturday 21 March, 2026); Nottingham, Theatre Royal (Tuesday 24 March – Saturday 4 April, 2026).
The 2025 / 26 tour will see the show visit Llandudno and Hull for the first time.
The tour previously announced its 2025 dates and Christmas season which are already breaking box-office records and include: Theatre Royal, Newcastle (Saturday 4 – Saturday 25 October 2025); Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh (Tuesday 28 October – Saturday 1 November 2025); Palace Theatre, Manchester (Tuesday 4 – Saturday 15 November 2025); The Alexandra, Birmingham (Tuesday 18 – Saturday 29 November 2025); Grand Theatre, Leeds (Tuesday 2 – Saturday 13 December 2025) and New Theatre, Oxford (Tuesday 16 December 2025 – Saturday 3 January 2026).
Miss Saigon has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, adapted from original French text by Alain Boublil, with additional lyrics by Michael Mahler and Orchestrations by William David Brohn.
Since its London premiere in 1989, Cameron Mackintosh’s original production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s epic musical Miss Saigon became one of the most successful musicals in history. The original Broadway production opened on April 11, 1991, and played for nearly ten years with its 4,097 performances attended by more than 6.3 million people.
Cameron’s latest London production opened in London in May 2014 to record-breaking advance sales and critical acclaim, followed by a UK tour in 2017. During this run, in 2016, the spectacular 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of this timeless musical, featuring appearances by the original cast, including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, took place and was filmed for television and cinema and continues to be shown around the world.
The soaring musical score features the hits songs; The Heat is On in Saigon, The Movie in My Mind, Last Night of the World and The American Dream. September 2024 marked 35 years since the show’s opening in the West End.
Full casting is to be announced. Sign-up for news and access to priority booking at miss-saigon.com.
