- Lea Salonga guest stars on the Season 1 finale of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
- She played the role of Aunt Myrna
- She sang “One Indescribable Instant” during the wedding reception
Broadway icon Lea Salonga appeared in the finale of the American romantic musical comedy-drama television series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”
The show tells the story of Rebecca Bunch, played by Rachel Bloom, a successful Manhattan-based lawyer who left everything in order to follow her high school ex-boyfriend Josh Chan, played by Filipino-American actor Vincent Rodriguez III.
Josh dumped Rebecca after their summer fling during summer camp in 2005.
Salonga played the role of Josh’s aunt, Myrna, who came to attend the wedding of Josh’s sister.
As a wedding gift, she rendered a song to the newlyweds.
Co-creator and finale director Aline Brosh McKenna disclosed to USA Today that Salonga sang the romantic ballad “One Indescribable Instant”, and it’s from Slumbered, which happens to be Rebecca’s favorite. Slumbered is an animated movie from the ’80s that she watches over and over again.
She added that they all wanted to have Salonga as a guest, revealing ‘there were actual tears shed in the writers’ room” when the Tony Award-winner signed on to guest and Rodriguez, who is a huge fan of Salonga since she voiced Princess Jasmine in “Alladin”, kind of fell over and fainted when he found out.
As for Salonga, she shared a photo with Rodriguez on her Instagram before, with the caption: “This is probably the most spoiler-free photo taken during my three days working on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Everyone I worked with was super nice. They’ve got a great family over there. Thank you so much for having me! I had such a wonderful time!!! #CrazyExGF PS – Thanks to @vrodrigueziii for this pic! I used the Valencia filter.”
She also took over Entertainment Weekly‘s Instagram account to share several of her photos during the filming of the season finale of the show.
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