Yes. Claude Michel Schonberg is teaching Lea the song and she is singing it for the first time in front of the writers, the director and producer.

Lea started in musical theater at a very young age (7). She was Philippines' "Annie" at 9. She is a product of Repertory Philippines, a world class Filipino theater company that stages English plays and musicals for the Filipino audience. They are very meticulous in training their talents on the English language and all its nuances (grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, accents, etc) that their actors can easily switch accents in a heartbeat! That's why many of their talents are able to penetrate Broadway and West End!

@johnnymier896 Lea has always had a pretty good ear for accents and sometimes her accent will adjust to the person she is speaking with. (Reminder: this is not Lea's first audition. The first audition was not filmed. This is Lea's callback, so she already met everyone previously.) You can find Lea speaking with slightly different accents in different interviews over the years. When she speaks to American reporters, you don't hear a Filipino accent at all. When Lea is interviewed by Filipinos, she will usually speak English with a Filipino accent. And I think it is sometimes more or less pronounced depending on the person Lea is speaking with. I was watching a video from a few years back when Lea brought someone on stage to sing "A Whole New World" with her and she would slip in and out of a New Zealand accent to match the guy!

It's a song from the musical MISS SAIGON called "Sun and Moon." This was the next show written by the creators of LES MISERABLES.

I love that Lea's accent changes when she speaks with different people. :)

"Sun and Moon"

The vid was posted 17 years ago, but this audition happened in 1988 when Lea was 17!