In an interview on a show called New York Live, Lea Salonga talked about her experience working on the show, Here Lies Love, saying it brought back all the memories from her teenage days.

“I found myself during the rehearsal process, you know, having flashbacks or being thrown back into my childhood, early teenhood, and when the EDSA People Power Revolution happened. It started on my 15th birthday, I was having a party, and we got a phone call ‘The kids have to go home’ because the tanks are rolling out on the thoroughfare where everything happened,” she recalled.

The Tony Award-winning star, who debuted on Broadway at the Broadway Theater, shared her experience setting foot as a Broadway producer — in the same theater where Here Lies Love is being staged — for the first time.

“It’s incredible that I get to return to what was my very first Broadway home. And that’s exactly how it felt — it felt like a homecoming when I walked into the theater for the first time as a performer in a gazillion years. And then to walk in for the first time as a first-time Broadway producer, it’s crazy to be able to do this,” she said.

In the same interview, Lea opened up about her thoughts on the line between art and the artist after getting asked how she felt over her encounter with the fan who snuck into her dressing room to ask for a photo.

It can be recalled that the person called out Lea for supposedly being rude and likened him and his companion to cockroaches being stepped on by a human.

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Lea explained that like most people, she and her fellow artists need rest, too — highlighting that it happens as soon as actors make the curtain call.

“We’re human beings. First of all, we need to rest. We need to take time for ourselves. When we say goodbye, when we make a curtain call, we head back to the room, that’s it,” she remarked.

While some people think doing a show seems easy, Lea pointed out that there are a lot of things that go into it — sharing that it makes them feel exhausted after each show.

“It’s an exhausting thing to do a show. Even if I sing just one song, there’s a lot that goes into it. The preparation that goes into it is the same as when I’m preparing to sing for two and a half hours,” she said.

For Lea, what’s important is that what happened to her stirred a conversation among artists.

“So, I think it started a conversation that I think has enabled a lot of artists to say ‘I need to protect my own boundaries, too,’” she said.