Miss Saigon regional production opens to stellar reviews at Paramount Theatre outside Chicago

[jon5202]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 11:51pm

A new regional production of Miss Saigon directed by Broadway veteran Jim Corti opened over the weekend at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora to stellar reviews from the Chicago critics. Having seen it myself over the weekend, I would agree that the Paramount Theatre has quickly become one of the best Chicago based regional theatres producing high quality Broadway worthy revival productions. Their Annie last season was far superior to the recent Broadway revival (and I saw both). Reviews below and a short video montage follows:

http://www.theatreinchicago.com/miss-saigon/reviews/6242/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0rzEU-tMc

Updated On: 11/5/13 at 11:51 PM

[jon5202]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 2:23pm

Production photos:

http://paramountaurora.com/2013/11/miss-saigon-photo-gallery/

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 6:08pm

Beautiful theater I had the pleasure of visiting many years ago. One of the more successful reuses of an old picture palace.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 6:16pm

Where's the cast list? Bad layout!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 6:17pm

It's great they have found a good use for that beautiful theater.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 6:24pm

It's nice to see a production that isn't simply replicating the Broadway staging. The costumes don't look quite right for the period though. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure the standard US army uniform in the early to mid 1970s was not camouflage.

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 9:28pm

Is Tam in the second grade?

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:10pm

There appear to be several uniforms in those photos, not all of them camouflage. Camouflage was in widespread use in World War II, and certainly in the Vietnam war. I can't say I like the costumes all that much, but I don't think it's unusual to have soldiers wearing camouflage at that time.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 11/11/13 at 6:57am

I think its unlikely that it'll be coming to Broadway because Cameron Mackintosh is already planning the first West End revival to open up in the spring, and if that's successful enough, it could lead to a Broadway transfer.

And for the record, I loved the current Broadway production of Annie!