Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

Nobody doubted that Lea Salonga could sing. She had won a Tony Award at the age of 20 for her breakout role as the besotted Vietnamese teen Kim in “Miss Saigon,” and sung her heart out as Éponine, and later Fantine, in Broadway productions of “Les Misérables.” She provided the crystalline vocals of not one but two Disney princesses: the warrior heroine of 1998’s “Mulan” and the magic carpet-riding Princess Jasmine in 1992’s “Aladdin.” But could …

The sound of Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim, a celebration “Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’” at the Ahmanson Theatre by Bondo Wyszpolski Musical theater aficionados may never let us forget the contributions of the late Stephen Sondheim, especially as “Old Friends” is the third major revue devoted to his legacy, following “Putting it Together” and “Side by Side.” This particular revue was in the works at the time of the… Source