Reacting to Lea Salonga Miss Saigon Audition

For the first time on our @vqsstudio Roma and Briana react to @MsLeaSalonga audition of Miss Saigon

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Featuring
Roma Scarano @romascarano
Briana Lyn @briana_lyn

Video edit and show producer: Philip Garcia
Camera: Sean Murphy

#leasalonga #misssaigon #pinoypower

[romilahernandez]

One in a lifetime we can have one like her 😊 Grateful and Thankful to God 🙏🙏🙏 she’s beyond and amazing, smart, intelligent, humble, talented wow 🤩 can’t tell all 😊😊😊 God Bless her and her family and all the people that is / was there for her and until now of course! We Filipinos are really so so proud of her ❤️❤️❤️ We LOVE ya Ms. Lea Salonga 🙏❤️❤️❤️

[lmconn]

They have searched all over the world for their “kim” which is innocent looking and pure and wth a voice of an angel and when they found her its perfect find

[labellavita]

Lea was 17 at that time :) That was a 3 day intensive audition process then was asked to go to London for the final Assessment. They started to look in the Uk, ended up empty handed, then search in The US, New York, L.A, Honolulu then they realised most of the girls who were really good either a Filipino or half Filipino so why not go to the Philippines instead so there they found Lea and 12 more Filipinos.

[ladyramen]

No one’s gonna talk about how you don’t need closed captioning when Lea Salonga is singing

[eilyn]

She was 17 when she first auditioned, 18 when they started rehearsing and 19 when the show started running. You have to understand that she was already a known child singer in the Philippines and was with Repertory Philippines. Her very first audition piece, she sang The Greatest Love Of All. And when asked to sing another song, she sang On My Own. This audition was probably the last one in London when they have to decide which of the two girls- Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson, both products of Repertory Philippines- would play the original KIm. Monique of course ended up as the understudy. There is a complete DVD of the making of the show.

[gorgasfck]

*They were looking for a girl with (1) enormous charm, and (2) lungs of steel; and they found it in Lea. **#Legend*

[PhilipGarciaReacts]

Wow! Graceful beginnings! We're time traveling back to 1989-90 with a young Lea Salonga! So natural! ♥️

[marisagarcia]

Leah was 17 yrs old when she auditioned. They allowed her because she was about to turn 18 in a few weeks. When she went to London then that was the time she turned 18. Talk about timing. 😀

[MrMatipid]

Lea Salonga is probably, one of the best singers from the Philippines and she received a Tony Award too.

[ManongChito]

This is not the actual audition but a call back. It's sort of a preparation for the final callback in London. Her audition songs are On My Own and Greatest Love of All. Trivia: She only prepared one song and that is On My Own and she was asked to sing another song.

[masterjoey]

I saw miss Saigon back in the early 90's in Broadway NYC when I was a kid. I teared up when she died at the end. She was phenomenal. It was like watching a live movie at front. I was blessed to see her playing as Kim not the other substitutes. One of the best Broadway show ever.

[EEVOL]

Her crisp pronunciation of each words, it's something that is so rare in many singers without it being so obvious and off.

[gracious_grace]

She was one of the few Filipino icon who make us all proud before Manny Pacquiao became famous in the world. Whenever I hear her sing Sun and moon, i feel emotional. Her voice is so soothing, so angelic.

[larrylegreso]

Asking Schonberg an autograph before even singing for Audition was a total badass..

[MystyReious]

The producers (miss saigon/lesmiserables) description while looking for the lead role "She has to look and sound innocent but with the lungs of steel bcos she'll be onstage most of the time"... And the songs in that show pretty much has high notes

[edm]

She was 17 during this audition. She got a callback. The three guys watching are the producer, lyricist and director.

[junelulei]

in spite of her talent & achievements, lea kept a low key & modest. we loved her when she play annie for the repertory philipines during her younger days. lea opened the door for asian actors. she did our country proud.

[chuckypullon]

Leah was 17yrs old when the auditions happened here in the Phils, she turned 18 before the production started in UK. I believe this video is the 2nd round of her audition because she mentioned in an interview before that in her initial audition she performed On my own drom Les mis.

[jnnmssyarts]

Lyrics sheet is no longer needed with the clarity of her voice! Just awesome

[ralphlayziemurillo]

Lea Salonga is renown across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon.the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards, in the field of musical theatre. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of “Disney Legend”