Here Lies Love - Broadway Theatre

I hope so. It was fabulous. The music is outstanding, and the staging so fantastic.

Wonder if they will do it the same as at the NT with the standing audience. I loved this musical but watched from above.

Stupid question will this be new or a revival. Know it has not been on Broadway . But its been a while

As a white woman, I of course know that I cannot presume to know how Filipinos feel about this show and it's very interesting to hear your thoughts.

But as a white woman, with a keen interest in South East Asia, who's travelled frequently in the area, maybe you are interested in my thoughts: Before Here Lies Love, I knew very little about Imelda Marcos except that she was "the one with the thousands of shoes". So in order to prepare a little, I read a biography about her, which taught me SO MUCH about the Philippines in general and of course their political history. While I know not many will go to these lengths, I think it's good when a musical inspires people to get informed about something.

Secondly, as far the show itself: I loved it while not thinking of Imelda as a heroine. I think the politics came across very well and very shocking; I remember one scene where Imelda and her cronies were shown partying in front of backdrop projections of poor slums in the Philippines being ravaged by typhoons. I cannot remember now who played her husband, but I do remember that the actor was a ball of incredible charisma and that for the first time in my life I understood how people can support godawful politicans and dictators simply because of the charisma factor.

Thirdly: It makes me absolutely mad that there are so few good roles for South East Asian performers, they are either hookers or weak helpless victims or both as in Miss Saigon (which I hate with a passion). So while Imelda was (is, I know she's still alive) a prime bitch and awful person, I was pleased for the Filipino actresses who got to play such a bitchy, strong, fascinating, controversial figure who had her own rags to riches story instead of just playing the helpless meek victims of circumstance.

Well, these are of course only two my two cents, make of it what you will. I really wish I could squeeze it into my NY trip in June, but sadly I won't have the time.

Apologies, I was looking more at the Twitter discussions. It’s not going well on Filipino Twitter.

The BWW forum is more on debating on if the venue at Broadway Theater was a more appropriate venue to stage it, since it’s an immersive staging.

Next month would be the previews so it would be interesting if what kind of audiences will they be able to court.

Wasn't it canned in London? Doesn't make it right though.

I am just not sure why its on Broadway. Had a good run off broadway, went to England , and Australia. Done quite well. Does it really need to be on Broadway. Not every good show needs to be on Broadway

I wonder if a London return could be on the cards? Given they completely transformed the Broadway Theatre, I could see this at either the Dominion or Drury Lane.

The way it's been transformed means that the capacity of the Broadway Theatre has gone down from 1700 to 1099 seats. Drury Lane's flexibility means it could easily transform that space with a similar capacity. 

Not selling the best, they really shouldn't have come to Broadway. In their contract, they have to put every chair back in place and restore the auditorium back to it's original condition which I imagine is going to be quite expensive. Also hearing that Guys and Dolls is seemingly interested in that theatre so if they do come, they'll essentially have to regut and do the same thing as HLL...

Have a backup. The numbers for this show don’t make it very likely it’ll still be here at Christmas.