{"id":26799,"date":"2019-11-22T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=26799"},"modified":"2019-11-22T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:04:58","slug":"witness-lea-salonga-in-the-gift-a-christmas-special-this-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2019\/11\/22\/witness-lea-salonga-in-the-gift-a-christmas-special-this-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness Lea Salonga in The Gift, A Christmas Special This December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Celebrate the Christmas season with world-class entertainment as\u00a0<strong>Lea Salonga, <\/strong>one of the country&#8217;s premier theater actresses, performs in <strong>The Gift, A Christmas Special<\/strong> on <strong>December 21 and 22, 2019\u00a0<\/strong>at the<strong> Newport Performing Arts Theater, Pasay City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Special guests Esang De Torres, Gaea Salipot, Alexa Salcedo and other finalists from The Voice Kids,\u00a0a hit TV singing competition where Salonga is a judge, will be joining her onstage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Additionally, the\u00a0ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Maestro Gerard Salonga will be the musical accompaniment for the evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26805\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/TheGift_Featured.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/TheGift_Featured.jpg 534w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/TheGift_Featured-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lea Salonga began her career in 1980 in Annie where she played the titular lead character. She would later originate the role of Kim in Miss Saigon in the West End and Broadway productions of the musical with critically-acclaimed performances.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tony and Olivier winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jeKoCeDIt84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Throughout the years, Salonga played memorable roles in other well-loved productions such as Les Miserables, CATS, Allegiance, and most recently,\u00a0Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apart from her ventures in the theater scene, she also engaged in film and television. She was the voice behind Disney Princess characters Jasmine and Mulan in their animated movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Further, her singing prowess and knowledge in the industry have led her to be chosen as a judge for various TV singing competitions such as\u00a0The Voice Philippines, The Voice Teens and The Voice Kids where she also mentored aspiring singers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lea Salonga (voice of Mulan) performs &quot;Reflection&quot; at the 2011 D23 Expo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fREsDSnT_2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a performance that you wouldn\u2019t want to miss! Tickets are now available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketworld.com.ph\/Online\/default.asp?SessionSecurity::referrer=THEGIFTfromHIGHLIGHTS&amp;doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=146F733F-A020-4102-A97E-4C23E76DC523\" target=\"_blank\">TicketWorld\u00a0<\/a>and TicketWorld outlets nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>For more information, you may visit Resorts World Manila&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwmanila.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rwmanila\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. For ticketing concerns, you may call Ticketworld at\u00a002-8891-9999.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Wha<\/strong><strong>t:\u00a0<\/strong>Lea Salonga: The Gift, A Christmas Special<br \/>\n<strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Newport Performing Arts Theater, <span class=\"w8qArf\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LrzXr\">L2 Newport Mall, Newport Blvd., Pasay City<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>December 21 &#8211; 22, 2019, 8 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Ticket Information:\u00a0<\/strong>Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketworld.com.ph\/Online\/default.asp?SessionSecurity::referrer=THEGIFTfromHIGHLIGHTS&amp;doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=146F733F-A020-4102-A97E-4C23E76DC523\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketworld online<\/a> and Ticketworld outlets nationwide<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>SSVIP<\/strong> &#8211; Php 17, 258<\/li>\n<li><strong>SVIP<\/strong> &#8211; Php 15,101<\/li>\n<li><strong>VIP<\/strong> &#8211; Php 12,944<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gold<\/strong> &#8211; Php 10, 786<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silver<\/strong> &#8211; Php 8,090<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bronze<\/strong> &#8211; Php 4,315<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwmanila.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">rwmanila.com<\/a><strong><br \/>\nFacebook: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rwmanila\/\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/rwmanila<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwmanila.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">rwmanila.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch Ms. Lea Salonga in The Gift, A Christmas Special this December at the Newport Performing Arts Theater! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,23],"tags":[967,842,9899,9900,1026],"class_list":["post-26799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance","category-resorts-world-manila","tag-christmas-concert","tag-lea-salonga","tag-lea-salonga-christmas-special","tag-lea-salonga-the-gift","tag-resorts-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26819,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions\/26819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}