Miss Saigon Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and "Madame Butterfly"'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Duke of York's Theatre was a success at the theatre in 1894. In 1900, Jerome K. Jerome's "Miss Hobbs" was staged as well as David Belasco's "Madame Butterfly", which was seen by Puccini, who later turned it into the famous opera. This was also the theatre where J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" debuted on 27 December 1904. Many famous British actors have appeared here, including Basil Rathbone, who played Alfred de Musset in "Madame Sand" in June 1920, returning in November 1932 as the Unknown Gentleman in "Tonight or Never". The theatre was Grade II listed by