Filipino cast and crew make Broadway history with 'Here Lies Love' musical

[@meredithchandler73]

The creative team and producers aren't all-Filipino, but there are a number of Filipinos involved. As a Filipino American, I am incredibly proud of this show!

[@lesliesapiandante8462]

MORE POWER TO THIS FILIPINO BROADWAY SHOW!

[@sophiajames55]

Loved it! Saw it two weeks ago in NYC.

[@ThatsAmore123]

This musical gets a lot of flak because it is about Imelda Marcos and from the promotional videos as well as the overall structure of the show, it looks like she is being glorified and the whole regime being sanitized. However as a Filipino who had seen this show and seen it with family who were personally affected by the Marcos regime, it is a villain origin story of how one normal woman gets corrupted by wealth and power who uses it irresponsibly and pull wool over the eyes of the people to the pain and suffering the Marcos regime has inflicted onto the people of the Philippines. I wished people focus on the fact that there is Filipino representation on Broadway rather than the politics.

[@SDoesNotKnow]

You're totally on the money here. Like, I understand why people may mistake the show as glamorizing or promoting the Marcos' from the trailer and other promotional materials, but I also think they are sort of missing the point because so much of the material is showing their excess wealth, them looking fashionable, people protesting, and the Marcos dancing and singing in a club setting as opposed to ruling. Even Imelda's real life quote about her being all about love is meant to be scoffed at. All of the aboe aren't positive things to be pushed to the forefront as the images of leaders of a country, especially one where so much of the people have very little and are given little value. Also, I love how part of the effect of the musical is that we're encouraged to dance and sing to the main characters performing but we're essentially cheering for the Marcos' campaign and rise to power, only to confront the facts of their harm throughout the show, making for a very unnerving experience. That is the power of immersive theatre.

[@allansoria3478]

Your absolutely spot on in saying , it's not about the politics storyline but more to show Filipino representation and natural talent in musical theater. The historical awareness is just a bonus.

[@thecardsaysmoops3]

Accurate. Imelda isn't the hero here at all. What an amazing show, and what a great cast of Filipino actors.

[@Iuventius]

Gonna see it in 2 days, can't wait!!!

[@labellavita12]

Something new on broadway. The immersive experience while learning a history.

[@elijahnicklaus9058]

Only the stupid will believe that this is a “learning history”

[@lotcarlos9996]

Wow! Amazing set up. It’s like a concert rather than a Broadway. I would love to see this musical.

[@victoriadimaunahan3283]

I love the way its been staged. It makes it look like fun so that the marcoses cant complain unless they want to look like fools on the international stage

[@GeminiDragon-sz8qe]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@amsterdam]

Nice Broadway show

[@mhobylopez9647]

❤🎉❤🎉

[@celiahopper7125]

ONE OF THE PRODUCERS , LEA SALONGA IS PRO AQUINO %100. THEY TRIED TO DIGNIFY THE SHOW BUT TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE THE SHOW WAS OUTRAGEOUS. FILIPINOS KNOW BETTER.

[@ragtmt15]

If I have to stand during a Broadway show, they need to sell standing room ticket prices…

[@Hoooward]

Love that its an all-Filipino cast but why’s many of them pale-skinned?

[@kittysysagal1209]

I can't stand anything related to Imelda Marcos so I am not watching this play.

[@Lolarose-t9w]

This is a Filipino musical that should not be suppported by the loyalist because it is an anti Marcos show.

[@AntonioPastor-o5u]

T❤❤❤❤

[@nenitaschmidt7197]

Wow not even Frau Merkel has a broadway show.

[@joeson7700]

Hope it get Tony nominated show the story of an invincible DRAGON Lady of Asia

[@pauloszetarinielli69508]

Imelda? Hard pass.

[@DarwinCayetano]

Filipinos? Or Filipinos who chose to get a green card and live as American citizens? 🤭

[@connierogado5200]

Real talk: "a notorious wife of a dictator".

[@marilouspyrou9885]

Careful his not a dictator 😠😠😠

[@MelissaSamson8]

@@marilouspyrou9885obviously you are a FAKE NEWS believer 🥴

[@BarokTamad]

@@marilouspyrou9885typical Marcos Sr supporter

[@edgarnapiza4667]

Imelda Marcos was cleared of all charges in NY as early as 1990.😅

[@MelissaSamson8]

@@edgarnapiza4667 ???

[@peacebuildingnadhiroquendo4908]

yup another very ignorant journalist

[@mylesgarcia4625]

A review of this "trashy" musical: We'll see what the pros think of the enormous (some might say "bloated" given the previously admirable David Korins' unwieldly set which makes one of Broadway's largest theatres feel more cramped than it is!) revival of David Byrne & Fatboy Slim's HERE LIES LOVE, the Imelda Marcos disco musical, at the Broadway Theatre tonight, but while waiting for their word - or if the Opening is big enough news to merit TV coverage - a few observations based on my viewing the final preview last night and the available recordings of the show. Based on the VERY few Playbills left on the floor - regardless of ovations, if an audience LIKES a show they TAKE their programs - mine may be a minority opinion, but the controversy (which I suspect the producers love as a ticket selling device) as to whether the show glorifies Marcos (it does*) or not is basically irrelevant if the show is a turkey (IMHO it is a 50lb. gobbler). Lea Salonga, one of the producers, trick cast in a tiny part, is saying in interviews that "this is the story of how a people took their country back," but that is nowhere that I could see on stage...and whatever IS on stage, Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' son is now back as the President of the Phillipines(!), rendering Lea's point at least open to some skepticism. *note on that "glorification of Imelda": in one of the most egregious examples the show pretends that her (and her husband's) freeing Aquino after 7 years imprisonment was out of the goodness of her heart so he "would be safer" in the U.S. - ignoring that it actually was to get life saving bypass surgery there! The sung-through 90+ minute intermission-free show (feeling twice that long) is patterned after, nearly plagiarized from the structure of EVITA, telling in skeletal form and blandly forgettable music the bare events of the rise and fall of Marcos, husband and wife, with no point of view - at least until the last quarter hour when we forget them entirely and focus on the people they betrayed or, according to the characters in the show, who betrayed them (Imelda's anthem isn't "Don't Cry For Me, My Manila" but "Why Don't You Love Me?" - the Opening Night Playbill gives no song list). It might as well have been a musical biography of our own disgraced former President from his point of view if he had actually had Mike Pence or Joe Biden killed! Perhaps John, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany or Barron should attend and see it as a hopeful sign they too may one day be President! The music may be bland (the title song at the top of the show and one or two others are at least melodic and the single memorable, well staged number, "Gate 37," also has good lyrics) but it sure is mostly loud. The show starts with a "D.J." shouting an amplified demand at the audience to "make some noise," dialogue repeated through the evening along with the demand that "we get up and dance" with the cast to the limited choreography either they are capable of or choreographer Annie B Parson was capable of giving them (the second time, a fair number of us declined). The show makes a great deal of it being an all Philippine cast and I hope it doesn't backfire on them, tarring the cast with the inadequacy of their choreographer (whose main previous credit was relatively superior work on Byrne's previous "marching-band-halftime-show" revue, AMERICAN UTOPIA).

[@TheLawlessRogue]

Are you okay, LMFAO

[@mylesgarcia4625]

@@TheLawlessRogue Yes, I am. But you must be NUTS to believe that hokum. ROTFLMAO

[@wikoli-kuloloniele-kapalam2779]

Omogosh another typical difficult-Pinoy NEVER SATISFIED; RELENTLESS CRITIC!! Are you that Tita/Tito that starts drama and criticize everyone in family parties 😂

[@mylesgarcia4625]

@@wikoli-kuloloniele-kapalam2779 My standards are EXTREMELY high. I don't know if you even qualify? Do you?? LOL!!

[@MelissaSamson8]

Blah blah blah 🥴