American Dream! Alistair Brammer Will Play Chris in Miss Saigon on Broadway

The heat is on for Alistair Brammer, who will reprise his West End performance as the young American GI Chris in the Miss Saigon revival. Directed by Laurence Connor, Boublil and Schönberg’s musical is set to begin performances on March 1, 2017 at the Broadway Theatre and officially open on 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.

Brammer also starred in the West End as Marius in Les Misérables, and in the film version of the musical as Jean Prouvaire. Other theater credits include War Horse, Follies, Taboo, Hair and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. On screen he's been seen in Vicious, Casualty and Episodes.

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.

Brammer will join his previously announced two West End co-stars, Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer and Eva Noblezada as Kim, on Broadway. The cast also includes Katie Rosie Clarke as Ellen, Nicholas Christopher as John, Devin Ilaw as Thuy and Rachelle Ann Go (also from the London production) as Gigi.  

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.