NewsLea Salonga Will Star in Fun Home International PremiereThe Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home will receive its first international production in November 2016. Manila's Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group will stage the boundary-pushing musical that will star Tony winner Lea Salonga.
November 18, 2015
Salonga revealed the news herself in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Allegiance and Miss Saigon star will portray Helen Bechdel, the role created by Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn. It is also expected that the show's Tony-winning creators, lyricist and book writer Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori, will be traveling to Manila for the production.
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Salonga described her experience seeing the show on Broadway. "Everyone in the theater was in tears at the curtain call (yours truly included), and rewarded the cast with a standing ovation," she wrote. "I don't recall a musical having that kind of effect. No big dance numbers, no large cast. Just a story about a family and its unique brand of dysfunction so specific, we all could find something to relate to."
The award-winning Filipina actress is currently starring in the Broadway musical Allegiance.
Enjoy a look at Salonga's varied stage career so far:
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Celebrating Lea Salonga on the Stage
Celebrating Lea Salonga on the Stage
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Sean McDermott and Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon
Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon
Willy Falk and Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon
Lea Salonga and Brian R. Baldomero in Miss Saigon
Lea Salonga as Eponine on Broadway
Lea Salonga as Eponine in Les Miz
Lea Salonga in Flower Drum Song
Lea Salonga and José Llana in Flower Drum Song
Lea Salonga as Fantine in the first Broadway revival of Les Miserables
Lea Salonga as Fantine in the first Broadway revival of Les Miserables
Lea Salonga as Fantine in the first Broadway revival of Les Miserables
Lea Salonga as Fantine in the first Broadway revival of Les Miserables
Joan Marcus and Michael LePoer Trench
Lea Salonga in an Asian tour of Cinderella
Lea Salonga in an Asian tour of Cinderella
Peter Saide and Lea Salonga in an Asian tour of Cinderella
Lea Salonga and Peter Saide in an Asian tour of Cinderella
Art Acuna, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, Lea Salonga, and Adrian Pang in The God of Carnage in Manila
Art Acuna, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo and Lea Salonga in The God of Carnage in Manila
Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, Art Acuna and Lea Salonga in The God of Carnage in Manila
Lea Salonga
Michael K. Lee and Lea Salonga in Allegiance
Lea Salonga and Telly Leung in Allegiance
Lea Salonga, Telly Leung, George Takei and Paul Nakauchi in Allegiance
Telly Leung and Lea Salonga in Allegiance
Lea Salonga and George Takei in Allegiance
Lea Salonga in Allegiance
Matthew Murphy
Alex Newell, Lea Salonga, and Merle Dandridge
Joan Marcus
Lea Salonga
Joan Marcus
Alex Newell, Mia Williamson, Norm Lewis, and Lea Salonga
Fun Home won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Direction, Best Book and Best Score. It is based on the graphic memoir from author-illustrator Alison Bechdel. It continues its run at Broadway's Circle in the Square.
From the mainstage at Playbill's Pride Festival in Times Square to their own onstage parade, the Tony-winning musical's all-queer stage management team came out from behind-the-scenes.
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