'Here Lies Love' is watershed moment for Filipino representation on Broadway

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'Here Lies Love' is watershed moment for Filipino representation on Broadway
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'Here Lies Love,' which tells the story of the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, premieres at the Broadway Theater on July 20.

This story is published in partnership with SoJannelleTV, a magazine show about Filipinos in North AmericaThere have been many Filipino performers who have broken into the Broadway mainstream. What there hasn’t been any of is the telling of Filipino stories in American theater., which tells the story of the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, will go a long way toward changing that when it makes its Broadway premiere at the Broadway Theater on July 20.

“The show cannot come at a better time. It’s not just what’s happening in the Philippines, it’s what’s happening across the world with fascism.

“Everybody is invited. Just because white Americans are deeply unaccustomed or uncomfortable with being decentered in entertainment or any narrative doesn’t mean you’re not included. It just means you’re not in the middle. Come anyway, have some fun, learn something, sit on the side for a change, and watch people whose story this is,” said DiMenna.For Giselle Tongi, one of the show’s co-producers, the story is a particularly personal one for her.

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