Musical Theatre Goddess LEA SALONGA is Still Freaking Awesome - Rendition of Aladdin's A Whole New World with Il Divo went Viral

The YouTube video went viral after several websites featured the video from a performance of the operatic group Il Divo in their "A Musical Affair" world tour with the legendary Lea Salonga.  All of the articles from these websites were amazingly surprised to hear Princess Jasmine singing live on stage the iconic theme of the 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin, and sounded pretty much the same from more than two decades ago.  Lea Salonga's 2014 rendition is as perfect as her 1992's.  Everyone is stunned!  I wasn't!  You know why?  Because Lea Salonga is just PERFECT!

Lea Salonga, The "Rare Bird" Sings Scott Alan's "Look (A Rainbow)"

It's been two weeks since the first showing day of the movie Les Miserables here in the Philippines.  Like a true-blue fan of the Les Miserables musical, of course, I watched it.  I have been anticipating its run here from the time its promotional trailer was released on YouTube about more than 9 months ago.  Were my expectations met?  That would be a whole different post.  Watching the movie naturally wasn't enough.  I'd like to know what others especially netizens think of the movie as well.  While scouring YouTube for reactions to the Les Miserables movie, I came across Lea Salonga's "sold-out-open-to-the-public-dress-rehearsal" rendition of the beautiful Scott Alan original song, "Look (A Rainbow)".  Needless to say, I WAS MESMERIZED, and have totally forgotten about Les Miserables.  Well, who wouldn't?

Les Miserables 2012 Movie Trailer with Lea Salonga

No disrespect meant for Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway nor to the producers of the movie Les Miserables.  The movie that's going to be shown on Christmas Day has a trailer in YouTube.  It featured a snippet of Hathaway's performance of the iconic song I Dreamed a Dream (IDAD).  It's a powerful trailer but with Lea Salonga's live rendition of the song in the 25th Anniversary Concert dubbed over the trailer, it became an orgasmic auditory experience.  Simply put - beyond perfection.

Les Miserables (The Movie) Character Posters

58 days!  83,520 minutes of waiting until Christmas Day.  There's so much to look forward to on the holiday season, one of which is the showing of Les Miserables - the movie adaptation of one of the longest running musicals ever, and a certified worldwide theater phenomenon.  When the character posters for the movie came out, I just have to feature them in my blog.   (Did you sense that I was a Les Miserables fan?  I'm sure you did.)  I just cant wait!  83,519 minutes… 83,518… 83,517… 83,516… 83,515… oh, my!

Lea Salonga and her Continuing and Inspiring Journey

She's obviously beautiful that's why she was one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1991 alongside Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Whitney Houston, Richard Gere, Sophia Loren, Mariah Carey, Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, Giorgio Armani, Isabella Rossellini,  Jason Priestley, Patrick Swayze, Kevin Costner, and Michael Jordan.  Hah!  I bet you didn't know that.  She is no other than LEA SALONGA.