I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it’s not up to the actor, it’s up to the producer. It’s up to the powers that be. Lea Salonga Read Quote
I’m interested in just about anything that’s right for my voice, and that’s a good fit for my personality in the part as well. ‘Evita’ has always been a dream part for me, but it’s really, really high to sing. I’d love to do Elphaba – heck, I’d even do Glinda. For me, I’d do anything to get into ‘Wicked!’ Lea Salonga Read Quote
The nice thing about doing a pop opera – in the way that doing, say, ‘Miss Saigon’ or ‘Les Miz’ would be – is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of ‘Why is this person bursting out into song?’ because the whole thing is sung. Lea Salonga Read Quote
In the modern operas that ‘Miss Saigon’ and ‘Les Miz’ are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative. Lea Salonga Read Quote
Allegiance’ is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song. Lea Salonga Read Quote
All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. It’s all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing. Lea Salonga Read Quote
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella’ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’ Lea Salonga Read Quote
I was 17 when I auditioned for ‘Miss Saigon.’ I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into ‘Miss Saigon,’ that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting. Lea Salonga Read Quote
I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left. Lea Salonga Read Quote
I watch a lot of TV – ‘Perfect Strangers,’ ‘Family Matters,’ ‘Who’s the Boss?’ – then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed. Lea Salonga Read Quote