'The storytelling through song commands your attention'

MISS SAIGON AT HULL NEW THEATRE - REVIEW

- By DEBORAH HALL

(John) and company

THE West End came to Hull on Thursday night and wowed. As the curtain was raised on the legendary Miss Saigon, you could feel the ripples of excitement through the packed house.

From that first scene of a 1975 Saigon bar, and the opening bars from the orchestra, everyone was transfixed.

Me and my partner were total newcomers to Miss Saigon, although we had heard good things about it; for others around us, it was a repeat visit to an obviously much-loved show that, in all, has been running for over 35 years to great acclaim.

Being newbies, we were not going to able to compare this “reborn” touring version of the production to anything that has gone before. But knowing the names Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, creators of the musical colossus Les Miserables, are attached to it, we knew we had to be in for a treat.