HULL – Miss Saigon will arrive at Hull New Theatre in January 2026, bringing one of the most successful musicals of all time back to the city. The production, directed by Laurence Connor and produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Michael Harrison, is part of an extended UK and Ireland tour that has already seen huge demand in Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.
The show has a formidable history at the box office. When it opened on Broadway in 1991, it set a record with $24 million in advance ticket sales, paying back its investors in less than a year. A generation later, its 2014 West End revival broke the world record for first-day ticket sales, with takings of more than £4 million. The appetite for the show has never waned, and the addition of Hull to the 2026 schedule underlines the confidence of the producers in its drawing power.
First staged in 1989, Miss Saigon is a reimagining of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly set during the Vietnam War. Its story of a doomed romance between an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman remains as potent as ever, matched with Claude-Michel Schönberg’s sweeping score and unforgettable set pieces. Few musicals can rival its mix of spectacle and emotional punch.
Tickets for the Hull run, from 20 to 24 January, are already expected to move quickly. If the show’s past record is any guide, it could prove one of the most commercially successful weeks the city’s theatre has ever hosted.