I was like, ‘How are they doing this?’ … They were very skilled at it and I was like, ‘These kids are amazing.’ They were great actors, so I’m sure they could see things that I hadn’t yet learned at that point.” It was something that I was taken aback by. “I was around kids that were really good at turning on the water works on cue. “It was a kiddie movie if I were to translate it, it would translate as ‘Kids Troop,'” Salonga said. It wasn’t a moment of epiphany, but she enjoyed it enough to continue acting in local productions of “Annie,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “The Sound of Music,” “The Goodbye Girl” and “Paper Moon.” She also started acting in Filipino movies at age 10, becoming dubbed the “Shirley Temple of the Philippines.” “One of my cousins who was very active in musical theater told my mother to bring me to these auditions for ‘The King & I.’ … It wasn’t one of those life-changing events like, ‘Oh my God, this was it,’ it was like, OK, it was nice, it was fun, I didn’t feel afraid … I don’t recall it being a lightning and thunder event.” “When you’re a kid and you can sing, you’re gonna have a mom like mine, who will volunteer for you to sing at family parties,” Salonga said. is always a city that I enjoy visiting and I think this is going to be a really good time … whenever I do concerts, I try to make sure that there’s a nice mix of material that people are familiar with, but also material that people might not be familiar with … you’re just all going to have to wait and see what’s going to happen.”īorn in Manila in the Phillipines in 1971, Salonga began singing at family parties when her cousin urged her to audition for a production of “The King and I.” This started her illustrious stage career at the young age of 7. “When I was asked to come and be a part of it, it was like, ‘Wow, this is going to be a lot of fun,'” Salonga told WTOP. Lea Salonga, the singing voice of Jasmine in “Aladdin” and Mulan in “Mulan,” will join Tony nominee Megan Hilty of “Wicked” and “9 to 5: The Musical” and local actors from Signature Theatre, including Phillip Attmore, Austin Colby, Felicia Curry, Katie Mariko Murray, Kevin McAllister, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Nova Payton and Bobby Smith. Wolf Trap is hosting its third annual “Broadway in the Park” concert this Friday, June 16, at 8 p.m. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Lea Salonga at Wolf Trap's 'Broadway in the Park' (Part 1) Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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