Tony Award winning star of Miss Saigon Lea Salonga continues to fascinate audiences worldwide.
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Her new international comeback CD “The Journey So Far” is now available on iTunes and will be available in stores on August 9, 2011.
On November 7, 2005, she sold Carnegie Hall in a brand new show directed by Richard Jay-Alexander (Bette Midler’s Kiss My Brass tour; Barbra Streisand Timeless Farewell tour) and shortly before that she started her first major US city concert tour with performances in San Francisco, Atlantic City, Honolulu, Maui, Chicago, Norfolk, Washington, DC and Los Angeles with sales of over $ 1 million.
Salonga became internationally known for her award-winning lead role as Kim on Broadway in the 1991 production of Miss Saigon. She won not only a Tony Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical,” but also the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Laurence Olivier Award (in London, where Miss Saigon originated). Her numerous plays also include Les Miserables such as Eponine, The Witch in Into The Woods, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, The Goodbye Girl, You Play Our Song, Fett, The Fantasticks, Paper Moon, The Bad Seed, The Sound of Music and Annie.
In the fall of 2002, Salonga made another splash on Broadway when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammersteins’ Flower Drum Song were revived with a reinvented book by David Henry Hwang. She received another Tony nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical.
In March 2007 Lea returned to Broadway to appear as Fantine on the 2006 revival of Les Miserables. In July 08 she will go on a 39-week tour of Asia and the Philippines with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
Salonga is a real “Disney Princess” and can be heard on the screen as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s blockbuster smash Aladdin. In a recent article in Southwest Magazine titled “50 Greatest Movie Soundtracks,” Aladdin was ranked 17th, with a special mention of Miss Salonga’s version of “A Whole New World.” She is also the singing voice of Mulan in Mulan and Mulan 2.
She can be heard on the original recordings of Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song (Broadway Revival), The King and Me (with Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley), The Nutcracker, Hey, Mr. Producer! and the Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert. Lea has recorded over a dozen solo CDs, including Lea Salonga, Lea… In Love, By Heart, Songs from Screen, Songs From Home, Lea… Live !, Lea Salonga: The Broadway Concert and, most recently, Inspired.
Salonga has also made several notable appearances on television shows such as ER, As The World Turns, Hey, Mr. Producer, and Russell Watson: The Voice for PBS and the PBS Special 10th Anniversary Concert for Les Miserables.
Lea is originally from the Philippines and currently has residencies in New York, Los Angeles and Manila. Her proudest production so far is her daughter Nicole, born in May 06.
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