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Carla Guevara-Laforteza (born December 26, 1975) is a Filipino musical theater actress of performances in both local and international productions. [1] She is known for her role as Kim/Gigi in Miss Saigon in West End in the 1990s. [2] She is also a recording artist [3] and talent handler. [4]
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.
In 1989, Salonga originated the leading role of Kim in the debut production of the musical Miss Saigon in London. [19] For her initial Manila audition in 1988, the then 17-year-old Salonga chose to sing Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's "On My Own" from Les Misérables. Salonga has sometimes credited the song as the starting point of ...
In 1992, Salonga finished her run in Miss Saigon to provide the singing voice for Princess Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin. [7] In the same year, she returned to the Philippines to star as Sandy in the romantic drama film Bakit Labis Kitang Mahal. In 1993, Salonga returned to the Broadway stage as Éponine in Les Misérables. [8]
Over the succeeding seasons, she performed roles in many other musicals. At the age of 14, she starred at the musical Evita. In 1988, at the age of 18, she auditioned for a role in Miss Saigon in the original West End production and was cast as the understudy of the title role, Kim. After a year, she replaced Lea Salonga in the role. [1]
Ernesto Cloma Briones Jr., [1] known as Jon Jon Briones (born August 7, 1965), [2] is a Filipino-American actor best known for his work in musical theatre.He played the Engineer in the original casts in the West End revival of Miss Saigon in 2014, for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and reprised the part on Broadway in 2017.
Champion, Best of Cebu Pop Music Festival (January 1993) Most Perfect Voice Music Mate Star (1989) Joan Richelle C. Almedilla (born September 19, 1973) is a film and theater actress, composer, and singer who has starred as Kim in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon .
In 1993, Naval became ill and returned to Canada for medical diagnosis. While there, he joined the musical production, Miss Saigon, performing the role of assistant commissar. He became increasingly ill but continued to perform musically, giving two concerts in April 1994, one in Toronto and the other in Los Angeles.