Lea Salonga Registers in NYC for 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections

New York--Weeks before the deadline for Overseas Voting (OV) registration on 31 October, Philippine-born Broadway actress Lea Salonga filed yesterday her OV application at the Philippine Consulate General New York on Fifth Avenue. Salonga is in the city for the Broadway production of the new American musical ALLEGIANCE, where she plays a lead role.

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei ("Star Trek," "Heroes"), ALLEGIANCE follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story. A mysterious envelope leads Sam Kimura (Takei) back 60 years to a time when he (played as a young man by Telly Leung--"Godspell," "Glee") and his sister Kei (Tony winner Lea Salonga--"Miss Saigon," "Mulan") strives to save their family from the wrongful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Sam enlists in the army to prove the Kimura's loyalty, but Kei joins draft resisters fighting for the rights of their people. Their paths take them from the lush farmlands of California to the wastelands of Wyoming to the battlefields of Europe, and their divided loyalties threaten to tear them apart forever. But as long-lost memories are unlocked, Sam finds that it is never too late to forgive and to recognize the redemptive power of love.

ALLEGIANCE is currently on previews at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). It will officially open on November 8.

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