LOS ANGELES, USA – A show starring Lea Salonga and Michael Ball that premiered in Shanghai more than a decade ago continues its international journey, landing at Los Angeles’ famed Hollywood Bowl with a new cast, including Patrick Wilson, Skylar Astin, Jon Jon Briones, and Emily Bautista. Do You Hear the People Sing? is the brainchild of Dublin-born Enda Markey, himself an artist who performed in Ireland, London, and Australia, until he decided to become a producer. Amid his eponymously titled production company’s successful shows, from Side By Side By Sondheim to Defying Gravity: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz (with Sutton Foster and Joanna Ampil), Enda launched Do You Hear the People Sing? at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in 2013.
The show is a celebration not only of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s most famous musicals, Les Misérables and Miss Saigon , but also of their other collaborations, Martin Guerre , The Pirate Queen, and La Revolution Francaise (their first work). It’s the only concert of their work that the two musical theater legends, who have been working together for more than half a century, sanctioned. Enda followed the Shanghai premiere with other iterations of the show, named after the rousing march in Les Miz , Manila, Taipei, Melbourne, and at the Sydney Opera House, no less.
The cast at curtain call in the 2014 Taipei staging of ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ Contributed photo Now, Do You Hear the People Sing? is poised to hit t.