'We're Going to Beat This Thing': Lea Salonga On Broadway's Lasting Resilience, From the AIDS Crisis to Now by Michael Appler

To Lea Salonga, the COVID-19 pandemic feels familiar. By the time Salonga made her Broadway debut in Miss Saigon (1991), earning a Tony Award, the AIDS crisis had already taken root on Broadway, ravaging a community of young gay men with a deadly virus that, for some time, went without immediate address by government. "I remember being in the Broadway company of Miss Saigon, and the AIDS crisis was kind of in i…

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