Miss Saigon Returns to Toronto as Part of Dancap's Summer Broadway Series

It was just announced today that Miss Saigon will become the second show in Dancap's inaugural Summer Broadway Series line-up at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (joining South Pacific which was announced earlier this year). Miss Saigon will play a limited engagement in association with Pittsburgh CLO from July 9th to August 1st, 2010.

Both of Dancap's Summer Broadway Series shows are now set in the Pacific, but with very different themes. Miss Saigon is set in 1975 during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon, and is (at its core) an epic love story between an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl. Miss Saigon features hits such as "I Still Believe", "Why God Why?" and "The American Dream".

The musical was created by Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg and is their second biggest hit after Les Miserables. It is a modern interpretation of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The show had a very successful run on Broadway, and still holds its place as the 10th longest running show in Broadway history. The show has had 27 companies in 25 countries and 246 cities, and it has been translated into twelve different languages.

Miss Saigon has a very special history with Toronto, as The Princess of Wales theatre was built specifically to house the production (or more importantly, the helicopter that is seen in the production). It had an extremely successful run in Toronto with a cast that included Kevin Gray and Ma-Anne Dionisio. In fact, the Original Canadian Cast is in the process of mounting a reunion of all those involved in that production. The Toronto production launched in 1993, and Canada has not seen another production of Miss Saigon since that production closed.

Expect this to be a big one, Canadian audiences warmly embraced Miss Saigon the first time around, and it is very exciting to have the production finally returning to the stage in Toronto. At press time there was no world as to whether this would be a Canadian Cast.

Launched in 2007 by Aubrey Dan, Dancap Productions Inc., based in Toronto Canada (www.DancapTickets.com), is a commercial theatre company dedicated to producing and presenting the best of Broadway-style theatre created in collaboration with acclaimed artists and award-winning creative teams. Current and upcoming Broadway shows with producing and investment credits include: The Addams Family, Memphis, West Side Story, A Little Night Music and Come Fly Away. Past Broadway and international credits include: Wicked, Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, [Title of Show], Tony Award®-winner In The Heights and multi-award winning JERSEY BOYS, with productions on Broadway, First National Tour, Las Vegas, London's West End, Melbourne and the long-running Dora Award-winner in Toronto.

Since 1946, the Pittsburgh CLO has been the driving force behind live musical theatre in Pittsburgh and the entire Southwestern Pennsylvania region. Under the direction of Van Kaplan, since 1997, this not-for-profit arts organization appreciates the support of nearly 200,000 patrons each year and produces a subscription series, educational programs, national tours and develops and invests in new works, including 11 Broadway shows (12 Tony Awards®) and currently Come Fly Away and The Addams Family. Its dedication to the musical theatre art form extends to include such programs as the CLO Academy, the CLO Mini Stars, the Gene Kelly Awards, the Richard Rodgers Award, The National High School Musical Theater Awards, the Construction Center for the Arts and the CLO Cabaret. PittsburghCLO.org

When and Where?
Miss Saigon

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen St.

Performance Schedule

July 9 to August 1, 2010

Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm

Individual Tickets: $28.00-$175.00

For package and individual show ticket information, call 416.644.3665, or visit www.DancapTickets.com

For groups of 12 or more, call 416.644.3666

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