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In the same year, she also returned to the West End production of Miss Saigon as Kim to close the show as well as the Broadway production. In 2000, Salonga again reprised the same role in the original Manila production of Miss Saigon before returning once more to Broadway to close that production in 2001. [11] [12]
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 ...
Dulce auditioned for the role of Gigi in Miss Saigon when the producers first came to Manila. She was, however, unable to proceed with the audition due to acute pharyngitis . When the production team came back in 1990, she auditioned again and was instructed to fly to New York City .
Joanna, at seventeen years old, auditioned for an open call in Manila for the original production of Miss Saigon in front of director Sir Nicolas Hytner.Despite not having any experience in theatre or the performing arts, she landed the lead role of Kim and was flown to London to rehearse with the West End company at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. [2]
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.
In February 2017, Go moved to New York City for Miss Saigon ' s Broadway revival, and met American luxury fitness executive Martin Spies. [134] They became engaged in September, [135] and married the following year in a private ceremony at the Shangri-La resort in Boracay. [136] As of 2020, they resided in Greenwich, London. [137]
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]