Lea Salonga, currently headlining Allegiance on Broadway, will lead the first international production of Fun Home in Manila in her native Philippines in late 2016. The Tony winner herself announced in the Philippine Daily Inquirer that she would play Helen Bechdel in Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Tony-winning tuner, the role originated by Judy Kuhn. "Everyone in the theater was in tears at the curtain cal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PM on November 18, 2015