Cinema broadcast of Miss Saigon 25th anniversary performance is confirmed

It has been confirmed that the 25th anniversary performance of Miss Saigon will be broadcast in cinemas across the UK on 16 October.

A new trailer for the event has been released ahead of the screenings.

Recorded infront of a live audience, the performance at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End took place in September 2014. Jonathan Pryce, Lea Salonga and Simon Bowman were some of the past Miss Saigon alumni who featured in the performance. The cast of the show in London included Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer, Eva Noblezada as Kim and Alistair Brammar as Chris.

The anniversary staging saw 20,000 people try to book tickets within the first five minutes of tickets being released.

Mackintosh said: "The results were so astonishingly cinematic that it was decided that in order to create a unique cinematic/theatrical experience we would film some additional covering shots filmed in January 2016.

"It was decided not to digitally remove the stage microphones to remind viewers this was a stage event rather than a film. Remarkably, the emotional performances of this wonderful cast in close-up seems entirely natural as if they were being shot for the cinema rather than being performed in a 1,700-seat theatre."

Miss Saigon is Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby's musical loosely inspired by Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. The show is set in 1975 in Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.

Watch the trailer for the screening here