Miss Saigon: the 25th Anniversary Performance will be broadcast to cinemas throughout the UK for one night only on 16 October.
The performance last year of the new staging of Boublil and Schönberg's second West End hit, based on Puccini's Madame Butterfly, was filmed in front of a live audience at the Prince Edward Theatre in London. More than 20,000 people tried to book tickets for the event during the first five minutes of their release.
Producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh said, "the results were so astonishingly cinematic that it was decided that in order to create a unique cinematic / theatrical experience we would film some additional covering shots filmed in January 2016.
"As this was a filmed live performance, the orchestra and vocals were taken directly from the show’s sound system—one take and no overdubs! It was decided not to digitally remove the stage microphones to remind viewers this was a stage event rather than a film.
"Remarkably, the emotional performances of this wonderful cast in close-up seems entirely natural as if they were being shot for the cinema rather than being performed in a 1,700-seat theatre. The clarity of the sound and the sweeping music makes this passionate story even more intensely thrilling and moving on the screen."
The cast features Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer, Eva Noblezada as Kim, Alistair Brammer as Chris, Hugh Maynard as John, Tamsin Carroll as Ellen and Rachelle Ann Go as Gigi.
The film also shows the finale in which the new cast is joined by original cast members Jonathan Pryce (The Engineer), Lea Salonga (Kim) and Simon Bowman (Chris).