Lea Salonga

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Lea Salonga, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Gerard Salonga and Daniel Edmonds discuss the process of working through a piece that isn’t going well, what drives them when starting a new project, and the most important things they look for in a performer of musical theatre. Lea Salonga has done everything from playing Kim in the original production of Miss Saigon, to playing Fantine and Éponine in Les Misérables. She has also released 12 of her own albums. Claude-Michel Schönberg is a French record producer, actor, singer and musical theatre composer with a prolific career in music. He is best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil and has scored some of the biggest works in musical theatre including Les Misérables, La Révolution Francaise and Miss Saigon. Gerard Salonga is a Filipino conductor, composer and arranger who is currently the resident conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur. He started playing piano at the age of five and sang duets with Lea, his sister, for her first album, Small Voice, before going on to study at Berklee College of Music. He's conducted orchestras across the Philippines and has worked with distinguished conductors and composers across the world. Musical director, composer and arranger Daniel Edmonds has written music for both screen and stage. He was the musical director of the musicals King Kong, Strictly Ballroom and Dream Lover, as week as the award-winning show Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. He’s also worked closely with Lea on various projects, such as writing the music for her 2020 single Dream Again, which was released to raise funds for Covid-19 charities.

This week, Dave Massey talks to Lea Salonga, world renowned singer and actress, about her experiences with music over the years and the last time she was in Birmingham. She is best known for her role as Miss Saigon, as well as being the singing voice of two Disney princesses Jasmine and Fa Mulan. She is coming to the Birmingham Symphony Hall on her UK tour Dream Again on the 23rd June 2022. You can buy tickets and find out more about Lea and her tour here: https://leasalonga.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, you can listen to Interval Theatre every Tuesday at 3pm or listen again whenever you want at www.brumradio.com/intervaltheatre. ★ Support this podcast ★

Tony and Olivier Award winner Lea Salonga speaks to Brittany Frederick of TVBrittanyF.com about her Dream Again 2022 tour ahead of its arrival in San Diego. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://tvbrittanyf.com/2022/03/11/lea-salonga-tour-interview/

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Misérables) headlines this Marshallese tale about how the first sailboat came to be. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here .

On this week’s episode, the Friends react to the Lincoln Project’s ad that compares the president to Evita. It’s called Covita. It’s pretty terrifying. Then they review two shows-turned-movies/TV. The first is Ryan Murphy’s film version of The Boys in the Band , the 1968 play by Mart Crowley, which chronicles the lives of gay men living in New York City pre-Stonewall. It’s on Netflix. Then they talk about The Goes Wrong Show , which is based on The Play That Goes Wrong by Mischief Theatre, which ran on Broadway 2017 to 2019. The show on Amazon Prime This week’s guests are Eva Noblezada ( Hadestown ) and Tony winner Lea Salonga ( Miss Saigon, Once on This Island ). Eva is starring in Yellow Rose , a new film about an undocumented teenager whose mother is taken away by ICE. Lea plays her aunt. The two actors talk about their love of video games, how they’re both actually a bit introverted, and how they’re making money during quarantine. Here are links to the things mentioned in this episode : The Lincoln Project's Covita ad ; it's terrifying. The Boys in the Band on Netflix The Goes Wrong Show on Amazon Prime Harriett D. Foy told us she's a fan of The Play That Goes Wrong , here's our interview with her . Fires in the Mirror , which Michael Benjamin Washington starred in; he's also in Boys in the Band and doesn't get nearly enough to do. Get our virtual movie tickets to Yellow Rose here . The original song Eva Noblezada sings in Yellow Rose . Eva's podcast: The Amarillo Project . Lea Salonga's PBS concert on Nov. 27. Patreon shoutout: Luisa Lyons, who is building a database of stage musicals that have been legally filmed and publicly shared, plus there's a podcast: www.filmedlivemusicals.com . Welcome fellow theater podcaster! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank DiLella's new season of Show & Tell kicks off with special guest Lea Salonga!