[71], In 2005, Salonga gave her first U.S. concert tour. [83][9] Her rejoining the show boosted the musical's ticket sales. So when they asked her if she could travel on her own, Salonga refused. "Lea Salonga, at Home and Playing Her Own Song", Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, Les Misrables: The Dream Cast in Concert, Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Philippine International Convention Center, House of Representatives of the Philippines, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, violent attacks on Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, Les Misrables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary, Disney Princess: The Ultimate Song Collection, Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, List of awards and nominations received by Lea Salonga, Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical, Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area, Recipients of Presidential Medal of Merit in the Philippines, "Lea Salonga performs "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables", "So it seems someone in Wikipedialand is insisting. From 2015 to 2016, she returned to Broadway to portray Kei Kimura in Allegiance, and from 2017 to 2019, she appeared as Erzulie in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island. She took on the same role at the DBS Arts Centre in Singapore in November 2012. [25] In 2006, at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, Salonga concluded the closing ceremony with the song "Triumph of the One" before an audience of 50,000 people at Khalifa International Stadium. [28] That same year, she released her self-titled international debut album with Atlantic Records. Lea continues to be a beacon of light and source of pride for the Philippines," producer and costume designer Clint Ramos said in the report. She was eventually cast as Kim, the lead in the West End (and eventually the Broadway) staging of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alan Boublil's Miss Saigon in 1989. we are dragging ourselves down wake up people! She has also received the Congressional Medal of Achievement from the House of Representatives of the Philippines for showing "the extent and depth of the Filipino musical talent" and "opening the way for other Filipino artists to break into the finest theaters in the world.
