|
Client Quotes
|
Lea Salonga
Lea recently began her first major U.S. city concert tour with performances in San Francisco, Atlantic City, Honolulu, Maui, Chicago, Norfolk, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, grossing over one million dollars in ticket sales. On November 7 she sold out Carnegie Hall in an all new show directed by Richard Jay-Alexander (Bette Midler’s Kiss My Brass tour; Barbra Streisand Timeless Farewell tour). Salonga gained international stardom for her award winning lead role as Kim on Broadway in the 1991 production of Miss Saigon. She not only won a Tony Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Musical,” but also an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award and the Laurence Olivier Award. Her vast array of theater credits also include Les Miserables, the witch in Into The Woods, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, The Goodbye Girl, They’re Playing Our Song, Grease, The Fantastics, Paper Moon, The Bad Seed, The Sound of Music and Annie. In Fall 2002 Salonga made another splash on Broadway, starring in the hit revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammersteins’s Flower Drum Song with a re-imagined book by David Henry Hwang. Salonga can be heard on screen as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s blockbuster smash Aladdin. In a recent article in Southwest Magazine entitled the “50 Greatest Movie Soundtracks,” Aladdin was ranked #17 with specific note made of Miss Salonga’s version of “Whole New World.” She is also the singing voice of Mulan in Mulan and Mulan 2. She can be heard on the original cast recordings of Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song (Broadway Revival), The King and I (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 CD’s including “Lea Salonga,” “Lea…In Love,” “By Heart,” “Songs from the Screen,” “Songs From Home,” “Lea…Live!” and “Lea Salonga: The Broadway Concert.” Salonga has also made several notable appearances on such television shows as ER, As The World Turns, “Hey, Mr. Producer” and Russell Watson: The Voice for PBS and the PBS special Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Concert. Salonga is originally from the Philippines. She currently resides in both New York and Los Angeles.
Entertainment We Provide
|