Jose Llana and Conrad Ricamora will reprise their acclaimed Off Broadway performances on Broadway when the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love opens this summer, producers announced today.
In the immersive musical about former Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos, Llana (The King and I, The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee) will portray Ferdinand Marcos, 10th president of the Philippines and husband of Imelda.
Ricamora (How to Get Away with Murder, The King and I) will play Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, a Philippine senator, opposition leader and Marcoses’ primary critic whose assassination in 1983 ignited the People Power Revolution.
Both actors received Lucille Lortel Award nominations for their performances at the Public Theater’s Off Broadway production of Here Lies Love.
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