Rachelle Ann Go & Devin Ilaw to Helicopter Into Miss Saigon Revival on Broadway

The movie’s in their minds! Rachelle Ann Go and Devin Ilaw have joined the cast of the Miss Saigon revival as Gigi and Thuy, respectively. Boublil and Schönberg’s musical will begin performances on March 1, 2017 at the Broadway Theatre, headlined by the previously announced Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer and 20-year-old Eva Noblezada as Kim. Directed by Laurence Connor, opening night is scheduled for March 23; the limited engagement will run on the Main Stem through January 14, 2018 before launching a North American tour later in the year.

Go reprises her acclaimed West End performance as Gigi; she began her career by winning a nationally-televised singing competition at the age of 17 in her native Philippines. Additional theater credits include Ariel in The Little Mermaid (Manila), Jane Porter in Tarzan (Manila), and Fantine in Les Misérables (in the West End and Manila).

Ilaw most recently performed in the new Broadway production of Les Misèrables. Other theater credits include M. Butterfly, Wearing Black, The King & I, and Thuy in the 2010 Toronto production of Miss Saigon.  

Based on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and set in 1975 during the final days of the American occupation of Saigon, the Boublil and Schönberg musical follows the relationship between an American GI and a young Vietnamese woman. Orphaned by war, 17-year-old Kim is forced to work as a bar girl in a sleazy Saigon nightclub run by "The Engineer." John, an American GI, buys his friend Chris the services of Kim for the night, igniting a doomed trans-Pacific relationship.

The original production premiered in the West End in 1989; it transferred to the Broadway Theatre two years later and ran for nearly ten years in New York. The revival opened at the West End’s Prince Edward Theatre in May 2014 and closed in February.

The Broadway Theatre is currently the home of the revival of Fiddler on the Roof; the Bartlett Sher-helmed production will close on December 31.