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Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:24pm

What roles do you think would suit Lea's return?

I can't beleive I am saying this but I think she could do to wonders to Wicked, and maybe give the character of Elphaba the sweetness needed to sympathise with her. And rather than belting the role, maybe someone could actually...I dunno...sing it.

What idea do you have for what roles would suit her return to Broadway.

Akiva

Updated On: 1/2/05 at 03:24 PM

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:26pm

Wow such a question. I'll have to think about it.

"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:27pm

ANYTHING!

Just please bring this woman back to Broadway.

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:28pm

She actually said in an interview that she would love to play that role.

I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:28pm

I can't really see her as Elphaba. It just doesn't seem to go. Maybe if they put Aladdin on Broadway she could be Jasmine.

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:29pm

I think she would be wonderful in anything she were to be in.

"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:34pm

I think she would make a wonderful Mulan if that ever comes to Broadway. Is it? There are so many disney movies being made into shows I lost track of which one.

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:46pm

TGIF

As of now there seems to be no ofiicial plans to put Mulan onstage, which is a shame, because it could be done pretty damn well onstage I think. And I agree that it would be the perfect vehicle for Lea.

Also, do you know where you came across this interview where she talked about Wicked?

Akiva

re: Lea Solanga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:48pm

http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/22/features/story11.html

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

#10

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:48pm

LLW, you misspelled her last name.

#11

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:51pm

Sorry...fixed.

And thanks for that link to the article.

Akiva

Updated On: 1/2/05 at 03:51 PM

#12

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:10pm

I think she would be great in a number of roles, but I just really want to see her on Broadway! Just bring her back! Elphaba would a great role... and I hope she comes back as an Original Broadway Cast star too.

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#13

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:29pm

They need to being Mulan to Broadway and she could star in that. She should take over Stephanie in Ave Q when she leaves!

#14

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:56pm

I love Lea too! What a great voice! Hmmm...Mulan on Broadway. I never considered that before, but it sounds like it could work brilliantly, even though I'm not really big on Disney musicals.

She's touring around the US doing concerts right now...am I right?

~Rosalynn

#15

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:22pm

anything...i'd kill to see her! she is AHHHH MAWZ ING

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

#16

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:33pm

Does anyone know her range? Can she pull of Elphaba's high notes? Because if she could, wow, what a performance that would be.

Akiva

#17

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:34pm

Out of the Disney shows I know Mulan would be the only one I would want them to bring to stage. It seems like it would convert very well.

Oh thanks for posting that link, I read that article but would have never been able to find it again.

#18

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:42pm

Hah...TGIF...I am listening to it now and I have some definite cool staging ideas...I actually hope Disney waits...oh lets say 10 years to bring this to stage. Reason: Hopefully then i will be a fairly established Set Designer and I can design the show. Hey...a guy can dream. My idea for the opening is cool though...a rice-paper-style curtain and as the Overture plays a projector projects black ink slowly forming the shape of the great wall, then the image disappears and the scrim fades to reveal that Great Wall set behind the curtian. Maybe it makes more sense in my head than I can describe. But it does look cool in my head, hah.

Akiva

#19

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:46pm

i may be wrong, but i think someone said Lea was offered the role of Belle in Beauty and the Beast and turned it down because she was asked to return to Miss Saigon... she chose Miss Saigon because she knew could still do the role at the time... and i think she's going to be doing Belle in the Philippines production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast later this year... but yeah... please get this woman back on Broadway!

#20

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:46pm

It sounds like you have wonderful ideas. If it isn't for this show there are always more!

#21

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 6:46pm

I personally think she'd be lovely as Belle, considering her amount of Disney experience. She'd sing the part wonderfully.

There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.

#22

re: Lea Salonga

Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:54pm

thinking of other repertoire she's sung, I think she has the range for it Wicked. I could see her being really good in the role. It would certainly be quite a different take on the role. I would be very interested to hear a softer side of the songs...

On a sidenote, who is playing Fiero now?

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