“Miss Saigon” hovers over the stage at Emmaus High School in the school edition produced and directed by Jill Kuebler.

The musical, by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, tells a tragic tale of love and abandonment during the close of the Vietnam War. The plot is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera, “Madame Butterfly.”

Show times are 7 p.m. March 15, 16, 17; 2, 7 p.m. March 18 and 2 p.m. March 19, auditorium, Emmaus High School, 500 Macungie Avenue, Emmaus.

Assisting Kuebler are music director and choreography coordinator Rita Cortez, choreographer Luke Csordas, technical director Dave Dougherty, backstage director Donna Brown, costume designer and coordinator Lori Ross and set designers Joel Gaugler, Scott Walbert and Jeff Shreck.

“Miss Saigon” premiered in London in 1989 and débuted on Broadway in 1991, receiving 11 Tony Award nominations, winning three. There was a London revival in 2014 and an announced return to Broadway in 2017.

Musical numbers include “The Heat is On in Saigon,” “Sun and Moon,” “Last Night of the World“ and “The American Dream.”

Tickets: eastpennsd.org/ehs; 610-965-1650