It's not just what audiences see on stage that's different it's the actual stage itself. "It means the world." Lea Salonga as Aurora Aquino, mother of Benigno Aquino Jr., an opposition leader in exile from the Philippines, who was assassinated upon his return. "What does that mean to you?" Quijano asked. "I could not, in 1991, would not have predicted that," she said. In fact, it's the first all-Filipino company on Broadway. This is the first time Salonga has played a Filipina on stage. I can go to New York now, too!' It's like, 'Lea's breakin' down that door for all of us.'" Llana said, "When you won that Tony, I went straight to my parents and said, 'Look, Lea did it. Salonga won a Tony Award 32 years ago for her performance in "Miss Saigon," in this same theater. Salonga draws on her own memories as a teenager in the Philippines, the day the People Power revolution ignited: "I was having a birthday party, and we were getting the phone calls from the parents of some of the kids that were at the party: 'You have to go home, it's time for you to go home, because tanks are rolling up.'" Lea Salonga plays the grieving mother of assassinated opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino. And they wanted to make sure it was going to be telling the truth about what happened, and why we left." "But you know, to tell the whole story, someone has to play him. "It was not a comfortable conversation, to say the least!" Llana laughed. Quijano asked, "What did they say when you told them that you were going to be playing Ferdinand Marcos?"
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