Imelda caught the motion and raised her eyebrows in question.
that Imelda and I-- our job is to show that the Marcoses succeeded in seducing the country,
called "Imelda ." And so in this documentary, Imelda is speaking about numerology and the different ways
Ariel plays Imelda Marcos, and has starred on Broadway as the Princess Jasmine in Disney's "Aladdin," the hit musical "Wicked," and played
I also think that Imelda and Ferdinand, really, they found each other because they were the same in a lot of ways.
I'm the Imelda Marcos of bags.
When I told him I was playing Imelda Marcos, I said, do you remember Imelda Marcos?
And one of the things Imelda said, in her latest documentary that was made about her, called "The Kingmaker," was perception is real.
So the first song that I sang was when Imelda 's very young.
What's so thrilling about it is that Imelda really loved to-- her world was discos.
Because a lot of the history that has come out about Imelda is misinformation.
"Here Lies Love" is from a documentary that Imelda said, actually, that "here lies love" are the words that she wants on her tombstone.
I bit the inside of my lip and stared past Imelda to the window.
It's from almost 20 years ago, called "Imelda ."
But if you really think about it, and you really think about Imelda and who she was, the disco just makes sense, right?
which is available out, like it was-- it was mostly focused on Imelda and Estrella, who was her maid and basically her mother figure.
I'm like, David Byrne of Talking Heads wrote a musical about Imelda Marcos?
So I can understand why people, when they find out that there's this Imelda Marcos musical happening, that they don't necessarily-- and they see these flashy posters.
Do you think that he ever thought that your opportunity would be to play Imelda Marcos--
The characters, like, Imelda 's real words, her speeches, her books, things that she said in documentaries, most of the lyrics, 90%, are actual, real words.
And when they're finally pushed out, and this is exactly after Imelda leaves the stage and she's helicoptered out, the way that the Marcoses were helicoptered out
"Here Lies Love" transforms the Broadway theater into Club Millennium, where the cast tells the story of the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos.
This musical is innovative, it's shocking, it's immersive, and it takes us on a 40-year journey of Imelda Marcos
So, "Here Lies Love" starts when Imelda is 16 years old.
And I caught wind of this workshop happening downtown that-- someone told me, like, they're doing this musical based on Imelda Marcos.