Allegiance starring Lea Salonga announces Broadway closure

It has been announced that new Broadway musical Allegiance starring Lea Salonga will close next month.

Allegiance will play its final performance at New York City's Longacre Theatre on 14th February 2016 after 37 previews and 113 regular performances, having opened in November 2015.

Producers have revealed that a U.S. and international productions are "in the works".

Directed by Stafford Arima, the cast also includes Wicked legend Katie Rose Clarke as well as George Takei, Telly Leung, Michael K. Lee, Christopheren Nomura and Greg Watanabe. 

Lea Salonga, Ramin Karimloo, Collabro + more set for Lytham Festival’s Last Night of the Proms

West End and Broadway stars are set to perform to crowds at Lytham Festival’s Last Night of the Proms next summer.

The week-long festival in August 2016 will see in excess of 70 thousand people visit the town on the North West’s Fylde Coast. 

West End Proms will be staged as the final act of the festival on Sunday 7th August. 

The stellar line-up of West End and Broadway talent includes: Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon/Allegiance), Ramin Karimloo (Les Miserables/Love Never Dies), Collabro (Britain's Got Talent) and Ruthie Henshall (Billy Elliot/Chicago). This will mark Salonga's only UK concert appearance in 2016.

Lea Salonga to star in first international production of Fun Home

It has been announced that Lea Salonga will star in the first international production of Broadway musical Fun Home.

Salonga, who is currently back on Broadway starring in Allegiance, will play Helen Bechdel in Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Tony Award winning musical when it opens in Manila in late 2016.

Discussing her experience watching the Broadway production, Salonga said: "Everyone in the theater was in tears at the curtain call (yours truly included). 

"I don’t recall a musical having that kind of effect. No big dance numbers, no large cast. Just a story about a family and its unique brand of dysfunction so specific, we all could find something to relate to."

Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil writing duet for Rachelle Ann Go & Lea Salonga?

According to CBN News, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon composers Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil could be writing a special duet for Rachelle Ann Go and Lea Salonga.

Ann Go recently starred as Gigi in the West End revival of Miss Saigon and is currently in rehearsals to play Fantine in the West End production of Les Mis.

Salonga starred as Kim in the original West End and Broadway productions of Miss Saigon and has played both Éponine and Fantine in Les Mis.