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Salonga celebrated 20 years of Miss Saigon by performing in concerts called Lea Salonga... Your Songs at the Philippine International Convention Center Plenary Hall on December 11 and 12, 2009. In the same venue, Salonga received the Gusi Peace Prize in November 2009. [114]
Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by ... After a full performance of the current show, Lea Salonga, Simon Bowman, Jonathan Pryce and many of the original ...
Salonga rose to international recognition in 1989 after starring as Kim in the original West End production of Miss Saigon, [5] a role she later reprised when the musical transferred to Broadway in 1991. [6] A documentary entitled The Heat Is On, which details the creation and casting process of the original production, was filmed and released ...
(CNN) — The first time I saw the Filipino actor and singer Lea Salonga on stage was in 1999, when she reprised her role as Kim, the Vietnamese lead character in “Miss Saigon,” at New York ...
In July 2023, Salonga returned to Broadway, and specifically to the same theatre where Miss Saigon ran, to produce and appear in Here Lies Love, a musical from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.
Even when she was the lead at the same theater in “Miss Saigon” in 1991 and acted her way to a Tony Award, Salonga never imagined a Filipino-dominated production would become reality.
Miss Saigon: Won [24] MTV Asia Awards: 2002 Favorite Artist Philippines: Herself Nominated [21] Outer Critics Circle Awards: 1991 Outstanding Actress in a Musical Miss Saigon: Won [25] Ovation Awards: 2002 Leading Actress in a Musical Flower Drum Song: Nominated [26] PMPC Star Awards for Music: 2012 Natatanging Alagad ng Musika Special Award ...
On stage, Salonga has played a varied roster of characters throughout her career, including in productions of Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Cats, and Here Lies Love.She also provided the singing ...