Miss Saigon returns to Glasgow in 2026

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Jun 19
4 min read

Updated: Jun 24

Legendary musical Miss Saigon returns to Scotland as part of a major new UK and Ireland tour. The producers have today announced full casting for the new production and have confirmed that the show will now also stop at Glasgow's King's Theatre in June 2026. Miss Saigon had previously been announced for Edinburgh Playhouse and His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen where it arrives October 2025 and March 2026 respectively.

Cast announced for 2025/26 UK Tour of Miss Saigon

The 2025/2026 tour of iconic musical Miss Saigon has revealed today that principal cast will star Seann Miley Moore as The Engineer, Julianne Pundan as Kim, Jack Kane as Chris, Dom Hartley-Harris as John and Emily Langham as Ellen.

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Michael Harrison, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, is delighted to announce the full casting for a major UK and Ireland tour of MISS SAIGON. Opening at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal where it plays from Saturday 4 – Saturday 25 October 2025, additional tour dates are also confirmed today following huge public demand for the thrilling new production. With several of the already announced venues nearly sold out, return visits to several cities are also being scheduled.

Miss Saigon will return to Glasgow's King's Theatre from Tuesday 9th to Saturday 20th June 2026

The production will star Seann Miley Moore (X Factor UK; Miss Saigon, International Tour; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Australian Tour) reprising 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.

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 has starred in Dragonheart Vengeance opposite Helena Bonham Carter, and Years And Years (BBC and HBO) with Rory Kinnear and Emma Thompson) as Chris.

Dom Hartley-Harris, recently seen in the West End as George Washington in Hamilton and on tour as Curtis Taylor Jr. in Dreamgirls, is John, Emily Langham (Singin’ in the Rain International Tour; Hello, Dolly! London Palladium; The Witches, National Theatre) is Ellen.

The cast is completed by Mikko Juan (Hulu /BBC iPlayer’s Better Things, Urinetown: The Musical) as Thuy and Ace who reached the semi-finals of BBC 1’s The Voice in 2024 as part of Sir Tom Jones’ team, as Gigi, Bea Ward as Alternate Kim, Aaron Teoh as Alternate for The Engineer, 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.

The Miss Saigon tour previously announced Scottish dates at the Edinburgh Playhouse (Tuesday 28 October - Saturday 1 November 2025) and His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen (Tuesday 3 March – Saturday 7 March, 2026).

Following incredible public demand, newly added dates now ensure audiences across Scotland have the chance to experience the new production of this legendary musical at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow (Tuesday 9 – Saturday 20 June 2026).

Of the new production, Cameron Mackintosh comments: “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.”

MISS SAIGON has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, adapted from the original French text by Alain Boublil, with additional lyrics by Michael Mahler and Orchestrations by William David Brohn.

What is Miss Saigon about?

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.

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.

Cameron’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 of this timeless musical, 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 soaring musical score features 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 the show’s opening in the West End.

MISS SAIGON has been performed in 33 countries, 378 cities in 15 different languages, has won 75 major awards including 2 Olivier Awards, 3 Tony Awards, and 4 Drama Desk Awards and has been seen by over 38 million people worldwide.

MISS SAIGON is produced by Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh.