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Yes, Lea Salonga will have her New York cabaret debut at the famous Cafe Carlyle in an exclusive three-week engagement for The Journey So Far, from March 9 to 27.

This was confirmed by Funfare’s Big Apple correspondent Edmund Silvestre who said that Cafe Carlyle is where some of the world’s top artists have been performing over the years.

“Having won the Tony Awards and all the top theater honors when she played Kim in the smash hit Miss Saigon,” reported Edmund, “Lea has earned the distinction of being a Broadway royalty.”

According to its website, Café Carlyle is known for headlining incredible talents, including Ute Lemper and Woody Allen who regularly appears to jam with the Eddy Davis New Orleans jazz band. For the past three decades, Café Carlyle has been synonymous with the legendary Bobby Short who thrilled sell-out crowds for 36 years. Café Carlyle, the New York City bastion of classic cabaret entertainment, continues to draw socialites, politicians and magnates into its distinguished and glamorous setting. It remains an exquisitely well-dressed place where guests experience and engage in the lost language of elegance and sophistication.

Erich Steinbock, Cafe Carlyle managing director, is pleased to welcome Lea.

Edmund included the following item on Lea, which came out with the announcement of her Cafe Carlyle stint:

From her beginnings in the recording industry, television and musical theater in her native Philippines, Lea Salonga was catapulted to international stardom with her Olivier and Tony Award-winning turn in Miss Saigon. From Saigon to Les Misérables to the voices of Disney’s Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and the title character in Mulan, for Lea, this is just The Journey So Far.

Her much anticipated debut at the Cafe Carlyle will feature songs that cross the genres of Filipino music, musical theater and the Great American Songbook, including Let’s Fall in Love, On My Own, A Whole New World and The Journey. Ms. Salonga will be supported by a quartet led by her musical director and pianist Larry Yurman. The evening will be directed by Daniel Kutner.

The Journey So Far will play Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:45 p.m. with an additional show at 10:45 p.m. on Saturdays. Dinner seatings at 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. There is a music charge of $75 (Tuesday-Friday), $85 (Saturday) and $45 at the bar.

The Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel at 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue, and is what Liz Smith calls the “favorite of all New York nightspots.”

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