Walnut Street Theatre Extends Miss Saigon, Now Set To Close July 24

Audiences are raving about Walnut Street Theatre's season finale production, MISS SAIGON. With outstanding performances by Mel Sagrado Maghuyop (Engineer), Melinda Chua (Kim), Eric Kunze (Chris) and Kate Fahrner (Ellen), audiences are giving standing ovations at every performance. Do to popular demand, the Walnut Street Theatre has extended the production again! MISS SAIGON must close on July 24, 2011.

This all-new production of MISS SAIGON is a classic love story brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years end in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had.

Taking inspiration from the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, composers of Les Miserables, collaborated with Richard Maltby, Jr. to create MISS SAIGON. It premiered in 1989 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, where it ran for ten years. Its Broadway premiere happened at the Broadway Theatre in 1991, earning 11 Tony nominations including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.

WHERE: Walnut Street Theatre Mainstage, 9th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
WHEN: Extended now through July 24
For tickets and information, please call 215-574-3550 or visit the Walnut's website at: www.WalnutStreetTheatre.org. Tickets also available at Ticketmaster.