Wednesday, March 16, 2011

I know. It's another Filipino blogger, writing about how cool Lea Salonga is.

But, come on. She's pretty cool. As someone who has patiently explained to the ignorant that Lea was "The Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier Award Winner for Best Actress for Miss Saigon, Eponine in the 10th Anniversary of Les Miserables" (sigh)...the singing voice of Jasmine in Aladdin and Mulan in Mulan," I'm surprised that I haven't written more about her and how she was the reason I realized (after listening a few hundred times to my cassette tapes of Miss Saigon, illegally recorded from my cousin's copy) that I might be able to be an actor. Onstage. And not just playing a maid. But maybe a Vietnamese prostitute!

I won't bore you too much with more of this, but I will encourage you to watching the following.

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