Amazing how she hits both the high and low registers with ease and perfection. In my dreams, I can sing like her. No one compares. I love Will Chase's voice and his work on Smash.
Just watching Simon Bowman/Lea Salonga's 'Sun and Moon' and this rendition of 'Sun and Moon' makes me awe at how a character, and even a relationship, can be interpreted. In Simon Bowman's version, I felt their relationship to be a true, deep and gentle love. This rendition however magically captures the excitement, innocence and wonder of young love. I love them both!
Reading your comment in 2022, but I just wanted to say how much I agree with you. I think this is why I'm partial to the Simon/Lea pairing. He was so protective of her, as if he was truly treasuring her.
Will Chase is my favorite Chris. 2nd is David Campbell... but my only Kim is Lea.. no one can replace her.. not even the Kim on the revival in west end.
This is the most passionate rendition of this song I have ever seen. These two have really great chemistry, and if you didn't know any better, you'd think they were actually madly and deeply in love with each other. I love Will Chase (I'm a major RENT-head) and Lea is just so cute!
@@georgebur 💯 percent. I wish they make this into a movie, like Les Miz. Unfortunately, Lea won’t be doing the movie. It’s going to be hard to find someone to top Lea’s performance as Kim.
The quality of lea's voice is incredible she combines her singing and acting on the stage very magnificently and I can tell you .. Shes not quacking like most of the other girls doing Kim.
I don't know if any revival can work after Lea in this role. Hard to tour and say "this will be the second best version of Miss Saigon". Don't get me wrong, I totally support local and touring theatre but I would always cringe if it is not Lea's voice in the lead. Great play, don't know how the next tour will overcome this.
That is so true. I just listened to a preview of the 2014 West End Cast recording and when I listened to Sun and Moon, the voice of the one casted as Kim just did not cut it for me. I still long for Lea's voice.
Saw MISS SAIGON's West End revival in late 2015 and saw the first preview at the Broadway Theatre on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Lea Salonga and Will Chase are still the Kim and Chris to beat. Makes me appreciate and so glad that these performances have been preserved online. Salonga and Chase are such a phenomenal onstage pairing.
After watching Will Chase in these performances, I have to say he's an excellent Chris. Very passionate in his role, depicting exactly how an American GI would behave. He even looks the part......His body build, hair etc. It was a fantastic pairing up of these two very strong characters with superb singing and acting abilities. Lea's age at that time 17yrs, but was very talented and still much a baby and in her innocent years which gave her the edge over all the actresses now vying for that same part of Kim. Lea, set the bar so high with her intepretation of Kim and her singing and acting ability. I do know the new Productions and casts will never be able to surpass the original castings and production. Lea played Kim for about 11 years both in London and New York and stepped down at 29 years of age. Won a Tony for her role as Kim in Miss Saigon.
Lea was 18 when she first played Kim in London. She did it for a year and 3 months. Lea was 20 when she started on Broadway and played Kim for about a year. She didn't go back to the Broadway show until 1999 - I believe for the first 5 months of the year (so she was 27 turning 28 during that time). Then she did a production in Manila at the end of 2000 and went back to Broadway for the closing in Jan 2001 - all age 29. (Lea's birthday is 2/22/71.) Will Chase played Chris during her 5-month return to Broadway in 1999 and the Manila production in 2000. And I'm pretty sure he also went into the final month on Broadway with Lea. Obviously they had very good chemistry. I believe Simon Bowman was Chris for Lea's entire run in London and Willy Falk was Chris when Miss Saigon opened on Broadway. I haven't seen much footage of Willy Falk, but Lea also had great chemistry with Simon Bowman.
For me and the world to know, LEA SALONGA is the legacy of Philippines NO ONE can be like her in singing in the Philippines. Only LEA can be to perfection with her voice and her talent in movies and theatre she is one of a kind
i agree. i think Simon Bowman, being the original Chris from WestEnd has interpreted the song as one true passionate love that is powerful yet tragic. Will Chase's version is like from Animated Disney musical. :)
Out of the different actor "Chris" pairings with Lea (who is hands down the best Kim), I have to say that Will Chase's voice sounds the best with Lea's. His exuberant acting in this clip is also commendable. I would really love to see this whole production with Lea and Will Chase. I also wish there were more Broadway shows released on DVD, after their current run of course.
You are sunlight and i moon Joined by the gods of fortune Midnight and high noon Sharing the sky We have been blessed, you and i You are here like a mystery I'm from a world that's so different From all that you are How in the light of one night Did we come so far? Outside day starts to dawn Your moon still floats on high The birds awake The stars shine too My hands still shake I reach for you And we meet in the sky! You are sunlight and i moon Joined here Bright'ning the sky With the flame Of love Made of Sunlight Moonlight Tomorrow will be the full moon I can bring friends to bless our room With paper unicorns and perfume If you want me to
Gorgeous. I love Lea Salonga's purity, she is so beautiful. Will Chase is also fab, I first came across him in 2009 when I was in a local production of RENT in which I played Angel- the Angel in the RENT 10 production was phenomenal but it was WIll Chase who stole it for me. His voice is amazing and hearing this shows just how versatile he is. A match made in MT heaven.
Beautiful..So moving and passionate. My daughters just got the part of Kim in her college show so I was looking up the show because i had never seen it. Wow it's amazing!!
Thank you for this video! How fun to watch these clips! I wore out the soundtrack years ago and always dreamed of seeing the play, especially with Lea! This is the next best thing :)
Where can I find the full show of Miss Saigon with Lea Salonga? Especially in this kind of quality! I was born to late and deprived from her performance. Please? anyone? HELP!!!
Oh, you are so right! Lea has set the eternal Kim standard (along w Eponine and Fantine in Les Mis). I just saw Lea at Pahchanga...magnificent! Surely one of a kind.
Haters are gonna hate but I adore these renditions. So much passion and energy. Lea and Will have amazing chemistry and I believe everything they're singing.
I was watching madame butterfly out of curiousity but I couldn't leave TH-cam and continue studying without watching miss Lea and now I'm stuck watching and listening to her .. HELP !!
If her partner here is not Simon Bowman, then she was not 18. She was 18 when Chris was originally played by Simon Bowman and this guy here was clearly not Simon Bowman.
lea salonga is the best singer in the philippines......even sarah g. rachelle ann go,and even regine velasques cant reach her....she is truly the greatest!!!!!!!!
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Lea is God's gift to musical theater. Her voice and stage presence is perfection.
Watch miss saigon (complete version here on yt)
Shes also an inspiration 😢 and a role model as well
Lea's breath management is incredible enabling her to sing those long lines in one breath.
Yes!
Amazing how she hits both the high and low registers with ease and perfection. In my dreams, I can sing like her. No one compares. I love Will Chase's voice and his work on Smash.
Lea is very convincing here and Miss Saigon is a love story so that's why.
+Fisshy Joyce did they have a love scene in this?
I was just curious, because how intense and sensual this scene was
Oh ok, I love her voice and soon as she began to sang I was like is that Princess Jasmine from Aladdin
yes, she is.. :) and she sang reflection from mulan too
AND A Whole New World from Aladdin :)
Just watching Simon Bowman/Lea Salonga's 'Sun and Moon' and this rendition of 'Sun and Moon' makes me awe at how a character, and even a relationship, can be interpreted. In Simon Bowman's version, I felt their relationship to be a true, deep and gentle love. This rendition however magically captures the excitement, innocence and wonder of young love. I love them both!
Reading your comment in 2022, but I just wanted to say how much I agree with you. I think this is why I'm partial to the Simon/Lea pairing. He was so protective of her, as if he was truly treasuring her.
Wow I can't even kiss like that after many years 😂 Great job, Lea!!
Will Chase is my favorite Chris. 2nd is David Campbell... but my only Kim is Lea.. no one can replace her.. not even the Kim on the revival in west end.
Omg me too my favorite Chris was Will Chase
how about the orig chris, simon?
Simon was fine as being in the original cast but I think Will Chase made a huge improvement in portraying Chris
Ann B. Eva is fantastic too
For me both Kims are great. both Lea and Eva are one of the people who bring pride to the Philippines and I salute them for that.
All the time I was like, dude, stop wearing shoes on the bed. Seriously, you're gonna be sleeping on that.
White people…
This is the most passionate rendition of this song I have ever seen. These two have really great chemistry, and if you didn't know any better, you'd think they were actually madly and deeply in love with each other. I love Will Chase (I'm a major RENT-head) and Lea is just so cute!
You are correct. That is what they are displaying. Their love for one another. It's in the eyes. Great acting, possibly.
As a Vietnam Vet, I am especially moved by this production.
I'm not...but still moved by it : )
Thank you so much for your service!
my respect to you
Thank you for your service
She sings like an angel.....
Will Chase is so incredible. Have listened to as many other Chris’s as I could find. Will Chase is by far the best. The chemistry is awesome. Sexy.
He is the best Chris!! Im in love with his voice. Together they’re magic !!
very romantic. the best miss saigon version ever..
excellent story .. saw the show last night, first time. actually a stronger show than Les Miserables. agreed?
George Burrell agreed!
Both are amazing!
@@georgebur 💯 percent. I wish they make this into a movie, like Les Miz. Unfortunately, Lea won’t be doing the movie. It’s going to be hard to find someone to top Lea’s performance as Kim.
Lea's performance in Ms. Saigon is artistically unmatched.
Sun and moon never fails to amaze me. Just so beautiful 😭
The quality of lea's voice is incredible she combines her singing and acting on the stage very magnificently and I can tell you .. Shes not quacking like most of the other girls doing Kim.
I don't know if any revival can work after Lea in this role. Hard to tour and say "this will be the second best version of Miss Saigon". Don't get me wrong, I totally support local and touring theatre but I would always cringe if it is not Lea's voice in the lead. Great play, don't know how the next tour will overcome this.
That is so true. I just listened to a preview of the 2014 West End Cast recording and when I listened to Sun and Moon, the voice of the one casted as Kim just did not cut it for me. I still long for Lea's voice.
Jaded Fornow Yeah Lea's voice is unique and amazing *.*
That said, Eva Noblezada pulls it off pretty well
Jaw line of Lea Salonga ♥
the best kim ever, no explanations.
It's 2012 and I am still admiring Lea Salonga's performance here. :)
anais enriquez 2020 here❤️😄
2021!
2022!
2023! (Lol)
2024!!
I've never even see this damn musical. I have no context for it whatsoever and yet Lea still brings me damn near to tears. God, I love that woman.
I have been watching this video everyday since I found it on YT last week. I just love it. They look like they're really in love.
Saw MISS SAIGON's West End revival in late 2015 and saw the first preview at the Broadway Theatre on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Lea Salonga and Will Chase are still the Kim and Chris to beat. Makes me appreciate and so glad that these performances have been preserved online. Salonga and Chase are such a phenomenal onstage pairing.
There s a spell in Leah's voice, I keep coming back to watch. Such beauriful and enchanting voice mixed with innocence.
Marvellous. Lea is perfection. he has a great voice too.
Lea's voice is so beautiful and pure! It's flawless!!!
Aw. Looks like you both are inlove with each other!
becos it is how it was supposed to be. see? you're convinced too :)
I am . Hahaha
ITS SOOO BEAUTIFUL.
Still watching this.
i am currently obsessing over lea salonga... gaahhhhhddddddd
Man I’ll never get bored of this😭
I can watch this a thousand times and never get bored. This is sooo heartfelt 😭👏
After watching Will Chase in these performances, I have to say he's an excellent Chris. Very passionate in his role, depicting exactly how an American GI would behave. He even looks the part......His body build, hair etc. It was a fantastic pairing up of these two very strong characters with superb singing and acting abilities. Lea's age at that time 17yrs, but was very talented and still much a baby and in her innocent years which gave her the edge over all the actresses now vying for that same part of Kim. Lea, set the bar so high with her intepretation of Kim and her singing and acting ability. I do know the new Productions and casts will never be able to surpass the original castings and production. Lea played Kim for about 11 years both in London and New York and stepped down at 29 years of age. Won a Tony for her role as Kim in Miss Saigon.
Lea was 18 when she first played Kim in London. She did it for a year and 3 months. Lea was 20 when she started on Broadway and played Kim for about a year. She didn't go back to the Broadway show until 1999 - I believe for the first 5 months of the year (so she was 27 turning 28 during that time). Then she did a production in Manila at the end of 2000 and went back to Broadway for the closing in Jan 2001 - all age 29. (Lea's birthday is 2/22/71.) Will Chase played Chris during her 5-month return to Broadway in 1999 and the Manila production in 2000. And I'm pretty sure he also went into the final month on Broadway with Lea. Obviously they had very good chemistry. I believe Simon Bowman was Chris for Lea's entire run in London and Willy Falk was Chris when Miss Saigon opened on Broadway. I haven't seen much footage of Willy Falk, but Lea also had great chemistry with Simon Bowman.
For me and the world to know, LEA SALONGA is the legacy of Philippines NO ONE can be like her in singing in the Philippines. Only LEA can be to perfection with her voice and her talent in movies and theatre she is one of a kind
Will Chase and Lea Salonga - the final Broadway Chris and Kim. Just amazing.
Lea is just incredible !!!
But I personally like the other version of Sun and moon :) From 1989 with Simon Bowman
i agree. i think Simon Bowman, being the original Chris from WestEnd has interpreted the song as one true passionate love that is powerful yet tragic. Will Chase's version is like from Animated Disney musical. :)
I agree, the voice of Simon Bowman and his acting is more profound with emotional depth and passion.
Lea's voice is so beautiful, so clear, so real.
I didnt like musicals until i heard her voice , and now i,m hooked .
phenomenal!Leah is perfection👍
Someone already uploaded a complete Miss Saigon where Lea played as kim. You should watch it before yt delete the video for copyrights
+Ann B. thank you.
+Chrisheena Heffernan have you seen it already? look for the one in manila.. there's two parts.
I tried to search for it. I thought I saw the old post. Can you please give me the link? Thank you so much
Ann B. I can't see the one that you're saying...is it still here somewhere? Can I have the link?
Out of the different actor "Chris" pairings with Lea (who is hands down the best Kim), I have to say that Will Chase's voice sounds the best with Lea's. His exuberant acting in this clip is also commendable.
I would really love to see this whole production with Lea and Will Chase. I also wish there were more Broadway shows released on DVD, after their current run of course.
she's angellic. i shed 1 tear
You are sunlight and i moon
Joined by the gods of fortune
Midnight and high noon
Sharing the sky
We have been blessed, you and i
You are here like a mystery
I'm from a world that's so different
From all that you are
How in the light of one night
Did we come so far?
Outside day starts to dawn
Your moon still floats on high
The birds awake
The stars shine too
My hands still shake
I reach for you
And we meet in the sky!
You are sunlight and i moon
Joined here
Bright'ning the sky
With the flame
Of love
Made of
Sunlight
Moonlight
Tomorrow will be the full moon
I can bring friends to bless our room
With paper unicorns and perfume
If you want me to
They're my favourite duo to be honest. In my eyes and ears, they will always be my perfect Kim and Chris.
Lea , your voice is a gift of god.
Man I wish I was Leah's son so she could sing me this every night before bed 💤💤
This has always been my favourite song probably ever since it was released back the 80's, I just LOVE it!!!
What a collection! It brings me back to that day when I watched Miss Saigon in Manila. Lea introduced me to broadway!
No one replaces Lea talagaaaa. super galing! 🥺 Quarantine day 7 and I'm here, i just wish I watch the whole miss Saigon in Broadway 🥺😍
Lea you're a legend!
Gorgeous. I love Lea Salonga's purity, she is so beautiful. Will Chase is also fab, I first came across him in 2009 when I was in a local production of RENT in which I played Angel- the Angel in the RENT 10 production was phenomenal but it was WIll Chase who stole it for me. His voice is amazing and hearing this shows just how versatile he is. A match made in MT heaven.
Lea is fabulous!
Wow ! I want to be in this musical someday
Beautiful..So moving and passionate. My daughters just got the part of Kim in her college show so I was looking up the show because i had never seen it. Wow it's amazing!!
Their Chemistry 😍
Lea send Will Chase have a real chemistry
1:56 i feel like if lea didn't have to sing the next part of the song they would just keep on making out. XD
hahahahaha :D
Xd hahaha
Lea is the ultimate Voice...
After watching the auditions and rehearsals OMG! I love it more!!! they work so hard!
Here in the 2020 pandemic and watching rerun snips of the shows that do tell the story. When you had an opportunity to have Watched this live ,epic!
Leah, YOU ROCK MY WORLD. THAT V O I C E !!
Lea has the sweetest voice!
i am very fortunate that in my lifetime i was able to watch this manila production back in year 2000. if only there is a time machine
i really love the way leah sings because she puts feelings in it
I love how he's like all "Hell yeah I get to sing with Lea Salonga! >:D" XD lol
Thank you for this video! How fun to watch these clips! I wore out the soundtrack years ago and always dreamed of seeing the play, especially with Lea! This is the next best thing :)
Where can I find the full show of Miss Saigon with Lea Salonga? Especially in this kind of quality! I was born to late and deprived from her performance. Please? anyone? HELP!!!
There are none of this kind of quality :)
I hate that I was born so late 😭
Someone posted it recently but yt deleted it but another person reuploaded it. Watch it till you can.
You're older than me. 😪
Have you watched it yet? It's now available on youtube.
I usually not in to theater performances until I saw this play :) I'm so hooked up to this 3
I personally love Will Chase's shouts here! I think it suggests the excited, naive young man that Chris is here. There's an innocence to it. >_
They deserved the instant hit!! I wish I was one of the cast
I am having goosebumps all over and crying while watching this.
Oh, you are so right! Lea has set the eternal Kim standard (along w Eponine and Fantine in Les Mis). I just saw Lea at Pahchanga...magnificent! Surely one of a kind.
wow Will Chase and Lea. they're so good together! i loved Will in RENT but this is really something else
Nice lea proud to be pinoy
How beutiful and romantic. I love this piece!!!
my best two favorite songs are sun and moon and last night of the world/you have a good set of pipes when you sing that jessica fahey
Haters are gonna hate but I adore these renditions. So much passion and energy. Lea and Will have amazing chemistry and I believe everything they're singing.
I was watching madame butterfly out of curiousity but I couldn't leave TH-cam and continue studying without watching miss Lea and now I'm stuck watching and listening to her .. HELP !!
Seeing this makes me remember what will happen in act 2 😢😢
Such a perfect voice!!! Geez lea 😍
She's so pretty, especially when she sings LNOTW, lea and Eva are just perfection!! All Kim's do an amazing job though💙
superb performance! and so romantic😍
Lea is incredible!
Ms Lea Salonga still the best
She was 18 that time,she deserved the best actress award.
and she won the best actress award.
If her partner here is not Simon Bowman, then she was not 18. She was 18 when Chris was originally played by Simon Bowman and this guy here was clearly not Simon Bowman.
She was almost 30 on this show
Beautiful Ms. Lea :)
i love this! perfetct...goosebumps..and so much in love
Im in love with this act!
I love the Manila staging of Miss Saigon...love the chemistry between Lea and Will.
Bravo lea
My favorite musical !
This productions looks so good! Wish I could have seen it.
Still proud being filipino!
Still proud on lea!
Still proud from everything she achieved!!!
-2019 here!!!! 😘
Their chemistry was so great. Wow, no one fell in love during all those times.
Such a beautiful voice
Lea is great...as always!!! Will Chase's voice is incredible...just beautiful...
ang galing nya guys nu
How did I even come across this? This is so sweet! Adorable!
she has such a perfect voice and singing ability
I AM SO PROUD!!! I love Lea Salonga. She is still the best among the rest! :)
LMAO if you listen closely after the kiss the guy is breathing so hard like he can't believe he just kissed LEA SALONGA
what a gifted voice i really love watching thanks youtube at least those who missed the show like me can watch it.
i love this chris. he was so handsome
lea salonga is the best singer in the philippines......even sarah g. rachelle ann go,and even regine velasques cant reach her....she is truly the greatest!!!!!!!!