performs on Broadway in Here Lies Love

Here Lies Love marks the first time an all-Filipino cast has performed on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre, located at 1681 Broadway in New York.

Plus, the Broadway show, which started on June 17, stands as an interactive, groundbreaking experience that includes audience participation for anyone who wants to dance with disco flair. The performance will end January 7, 2024.

Here Lies Love, the immersive musical based on the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution of the Philippines, with music by Grammy®, Oscar®, and Tony Award® winner and founding member of Talking Heads David Byrne and Grammy Award® winner Fatboy Slim, British musician and DJ.

The Broadway title comes from Imelda’s hope of having it as her gravestone epitaph. At 94, she is currently the mother of the current Philippines president Bongbong Marcos.

Story Line | The Broadway play is not meant to glamorize the lives of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos but gives a peek of history at the end of the Marcos dictatorship. There is no mention of Imelda’s infamous shoe collection, either. The 90-minute play doesn’t offer an intermission, but the fast pace of the show will make it feel like a quick minute. Developed and directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers, Timbers and Olivier Award nominee Annie-B Parson (choreography) reunite with Byrne (concept, music, and lyrics) and Fatboy Slim (music) to bring Here Lies Love to Broadway, continuing a ten-plus year collaboration on the project. options will be available throughout the theater’s reconstructed space. Audience members with seats won’t be excused from dancing as there will be moments to encourage high-energy participation.

History | From its world premiere at The Public Theater in 2013, Here Lies Love has enjoyed popular and critical acclaim. The show returned to The Public in 20142015, debuted at London’s Royal National Theatre in 2014, and most recently opened at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2017.

Set | In an interview with MSNBC, Byrne, playwright and music composer, revealed that he heard Imelda loved disco, even owning a disco ball in her former New York apartment. Based on that rumor, Byrne took that concept and created it into the Broadway play. Here Lies Love’s staging at the Broadway Theatre transforms the venue’s traditional proscenium floor space into a dance club environment, where audiences will stand and move with the actors.

A wide variety of standing and seating

Performers | The play has received enormous publicity when Tony Award® winner and international celebrity, Leah Salonga announced that she would perform the role of Aurora Aquino, mother of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, whose assassination sparked the People Power Revolution and ousted the dictator from 20year reign of the Philippines. She will end her five-week run on August 13.

Other actors include: Arielle Jacobs as Imelda; Jose Llana as Marcos; Conrad Ricamora, who plays Ninoy Aquino.

Tickets are selling between $69 to $229. Visit herelieslovebroadway.com for more information.