Full casting has been announced for the major UK and Ireland tour of Miss Saigon. Opening at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal, where it will play from 4-25 October 2025.
The production will star one-time X Factor favourite Seann Miley Moore, who will reprise their celebrated role as The Engineer following acclaimed performances across an international tour which visited Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Singapore. The Australian dates saw the Filipino-Australian actor take home the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Performance in a Musical at the inaugural Time Out Sydney Arts & Culture Awards.
With a soaring musical score featuring 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 Miss Saigon opened in London’s West End. It has since been performed in 33 countries, 378 cities in 15 different languages, winning 75 major awards including two Olivier Awards, three Tony Awards, and four Drama Desk Awards, and has been seen by more than 38 million people worldwide.
The story: 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.
Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical is being reborn in this new UK production of Miss Saigon which welcomes brilliant new talent and recent Brit School graduate, Julianne Pundan, making her professional debut as Kim alongside exciting actor and singer Jack Kane, who starred in Dragonheart Vengeance opposite Helena Bonham Carter and in BBC’s Years And Years, as Chris.
Of the new production, Cameron Mackintosh says, “Since we first announced this new production, I have been genuinely delighted at the enthusiasm of the public determined not to miss Saigon, with tickets flying out of the Box Office and several of the announced cities already nearly sold out. We have now completed our search for a really fantastic cast, full of exciting discoveries, that will bring Boublil and Schönberg’s extraordinary, powerful musical back to thrilling life. I can’t wait to see Miss Saigon reborn again.”
That cast will include Dom Hartley-Harris, recently seen in the West End as George Washington in Hamilton, as John, and Emily Langham as Ellen.
They will be joined by Mikko Juan as Thuy, and Ace, who reached the semi-finals of BBC 1’s The Voice in 2024 as Gigi. Completing the cast, Bea Ward is Alternate Kim, Aaron Teoh is Alternate for The Engineer, with the ensemble comprising Jamil Abbasi, Aaron Aisoni, Daniel J Brian, Ann-Marie Craine, Ben Fenwick, Aaron Gonzales, Owen Johnston, Evita Khrime, Caleb Lagayan, Rayhan Lee, James Mateo-Salt, Shania Montevalde, Ryan Ocampo, Julius Sahr, Tonny Shim, Anh Koha Trần, Yiling Yang, Aimee Yue and Carmen Zhu.
With music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr and Alain Boublil, adapted from the original French text by Alain Boublil, and additional lyrics by Michael Mahler and orchestrations by William David Brohn, additional tour dates have also been confirmed for the production following huge public demand. With several announced venues nearly sold out, return visits to several cities are also being scheduled.
The tour previously announced Scottish dates at the Edinburgh Playhouse, 28 October-1 November 2025) and His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, 3 March -7 March, 2026 and will now return to Scotland and the King’s Theatre, Glasgow for a further run from 9-20 June 2026.
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 of Miss Saigon opened on April 11, 1991, and played for nearly ten years with its 4,097 performances attended by more than 6.3 million people. Mackintosh’s latest London production of Miss Saigon 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, 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 new production of Miss Saigon is produced by Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh, directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy and choreographed by Chrissie Cartwright and Carrie-Anne Ingrouille. Set and costume design is by Andrew D Edwards, with lighting design by Bruno Po, sound design by Adam Fisher and video design by George Reeve.
Tickets and full tour dates here.
