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Before all the recognition and accolades, Lea Salonga was a 17-year-old dreamer who hesitantly took her chances by showing up at the audition of the highly anticipated London musical Miss Saigon. Lea impressed the strict, meticulous Miss Saigon production team and bagged the coveted role of Kim.
Salonga began her career as a child in Philippine musical theatre productions and rose to international recognition in 1989 for playing the lead role of Kim in the original West End and Broadway productions of Miss Saigon.
Dec 12, 2015 · The Tony winner and legendary Lea Salonga performing "I'd Give My Life for You" in the Manila production of Miss Saigon in 2000. *Removal notice from copyrig...
Feb 26, 2024 · An excited “yes!” was heard from Lea Salonga when she learned that Boublil & Schönberg’s classic musical “Miss Saigon” coming back to the Philippines was opened up, where she said its ...
Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini 's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
Feb 8, 2024 · On the impact of playing Kim in ‘Miss Saigon’ on her life and career, Lea Salonga says, ‘The visibility the show afforded me is something I can’t ever downplay, and introduced me to a...
Multiple award-winning actress and singer Lea Salonga is renown across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch. She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. Additional performances include Les Misérables, Aladdin, Mulan, Flower Drum Song, Cinderella, Allegiance, and
Mar 30, 2024 · But more than that, Miss Saigon, as far as many Filipinos know, will forever be linked to Lea Salonga, whose riveting performance of Kim in the musical's debut run in 1989 won her the Laurence Olivier Award and Tony Award.
Miss Saigon misses nothing, Salonga insists. In fact, she views her “plight” from the opposite perspective: her glass is half full, and it has even been known to overflow on occasions.
Apr 11, 2021 · Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon Joan Marcus Following its London debut, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Alain Boubil's Miss Saigon opened at the Broadway Theatre April 11, 1991.
