“Miss Saigon” at 25

The Clyde Fitch Report: Twenty-five years after its British premiere, Miss Saigon has returned – to the Prince Edward Theatre in London — with its populist appeal, if not its theatrical voltage, still firmly intact. (Advance sales are reportedly around £10 million, the equivalent of roughly $17 million.) Despite its a nearly decade-long run in New York (not to mention its 10-year stay in the West End, where it opened in 1989), it’s worth remembering that the Broadway iteration of Miss Saigon almost didn’t happen.