In every The Good Life: Editors’ Picks column, we round up our editors’ favorites—restaurants, cocktails, experiences, exhibits, and everything in between. Here is our latest list. Les Misérables at The Theater at Solaire First watched Lea Salonga as Eponine on Broadway back in 1993. Visited her in London to watch her recreate the role on the West End, singing “On My Own” as she pined away for her clueless Marius. Later, she again broke the hearts of New York audiences as the hapless Fantine, a mother willing to go to all lengths and sink to all depths, to keep her child alive. And now Lea’s back home for the Manila leg of the Les Miserables World Tour Spectacular, going full circle as she plays Eponine’s mother, Madame Thénardier, the uncouth innkeeper’s wife. And she does it robustly, raunchily, with coarse aplomb and unbridled glee. Paired with Red Concepcion as the..
