Miss Saigon at The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby. It tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to the 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Miss Saigon premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20, 1989, closing after over four thousand performances, on October 30, 1999. It opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre in 1991 and subsequently played in many other cities and embarked on tours.