INDIANAPOLIS — You may know the voice from the time you were belting out"A Whole New World" alongside one of her animated personas.
INDIANAPOLIS — You may know the voice from the time you were belting out"A Whole New World" alongside one of her animated personas. But Lea Salonga has been a fixture of the stage ever since she was the age of most of those youngsters who sing along with her in two of Disney's iconic films.
It's Salonga's fourth appearance with the ISO and first since 2013, but the Friday and Saturday shows at Hilbert Circle Theatre were supposed to happen long before now. "It was something that we had set in 2020 to do with the symphony, but postponement after postponement, and now here we are." Salonga was a pre-med student in the Philippines - her life as a child star of the stage in her home country possibly on hold. Then, as a 17-year-old, she got to audition for a new musical premiering at London's West End. "Miss Saigon" was not only a massive hit, Salonga became one of the youngest winners of Britain's Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
"The primary voice acting part was already completed when they made the 11th hour decision to create a song for this character," Salonga said, noting that her vocal timbre closely matched that of actor Linda Larkin, who voiced Jasmine's speaking parts. "I think it's just a matter of the directors if.. in their mind's eye this is the right person to sort of match what they already had, that person would get hired. I was the lucky duck that got hired.
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