since then she's won a tony and provided the singing voices for the princesses in disney's aladdin and mulan. celebrated international singer and actress lea salonga. i'm maria hinijosa. this is one on one. lea salonga, the star of miss saigon. >> hi. >> hinojosa: thank you for coming. >> sure, absolutely. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people know you as this amazing star. you had the lead role in miss saigon, playing kim in the original produion out of london, and then in new york. >> right. >> hinojosa: but probably people don't know that you... even before you got to miss saigon, you were a pretty big star in manila. you had... like, you had recorded records, you had been in the king and i, you had been... >> i'd done some film and some tv, and yeah. i grew up, i think, pretty much in the eyes of many filipinos. a lot of them have seem me from when i was really little doing, you know, musical theater, and then eventually doing tv and then doing film and doing records. back then we were doing records. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> yeah, and people pretty much saw me grow up... i grew up in the public e

. >> david wright, abc news, at the mulan panda research center. >> calls himself the world's cutestll hanging out. i think we're going to have a little time. let's get the monitor lizard out. >> let him go down your shirt. >> let him go down my shirt? >> he loves you. >> i know. >> come on, jack. >> hopefully, we'll be right back. >> whoa. oh. >> come on. hang in there. woo. >> chopsticks. >> chopsticks. ♪ in your eyes >> thanks for having me here. >> can you hold my hand? >> no. no. the moment has passed. >> i'm your biggest fan. but on the court, i'm going to take you down. are you ready? >> the penalty kick, what are they? >> score. >> and so close. >> let's go, robin. >> whoa. >> whoa. >> oh. >> oh, my goodness. >> yes. >> you have to crouch down. there you go. >> most importantly, how did our rear-ends look? >> fantastic. >> welcome to the team, rookie. and get in there. personally, i was looking for a sam champion. but josh looks more like a george stepping off of this. sam couldn't do it. robin couldn't do it. and george really wouldn't do it. >> that's why you're here. ♪ >>

. >> david wright, abc news, at the mulan panda research center. >> calls himself the world's cutestnging out. i think we're going to have a little time. let's get the monitor lizard out. >> let him go down your shirt. >> let him go down my shirt? >> he loves you. >> i know. >> come on, jack. >> hopefully, we'll be right back. >> whoa. oh. >> come on. hang in there. woo. >> chopsticks. >> chopsticks. ♪ in your eyes >> thanks for having me here. >> can you hold my hand? >> no. no. the moment has passed. >> i'm your biggest fan. but on the court, i'm going to take you down. are you ready? >> the penalty kick, what are they? >> score. >> and so close. >> let's go, robin. >> whoa. >> whoa. >> oh. >> oh, my goodness. >> yes. >> you have to crouch down. there you go. >> most importantly, how did our rear-ends look? >> fantastic. >> welcome to the team, rookie. and get in there. personally, i was looking for a sam champion. but josh looks more like a george stepping off of this. sam couldn't do it. robin couldn't do it. and george really wouldn't do it. >> that's why you're here. ♪ >> it's