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Lea Salonga, Fil-Am actors nominated for 2025 Drama League Awards

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<p>Filipino stage actors Lea Salonga, Tatianna Cordoba, Darren Criss, and Nicole Scherzinger were among the nominees for this year&#x27;s Drama League Awards.</p><p><a href="https://dramaleague.org/2025-awards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nominees</a> for the 91st Drama League Awards were revealed on April 22.</p><p>Córdoba (&quot;Real Women Have Curves&quot;), Criss (&quot;Maybe Happy Ending&quot;), Salonga (&quot;Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends&quot;), and Scherzinger (&quot;Sunset Boulevard&quot;) were among the contenders vying for the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award.</p><p>The musical &quot;Oh, Mary!&quot; with Filipino actor Corad Ricamora was also nominated for Outstanding Production of a Play, while &quot;Sunset Boulevard&quot; with Scherzinger was nominated for Outstanding Revival of a Musial.</p><p>The musicals &quot;Boob!&quot; with Angelica Hale, &quot;Maybe Happy Ending&quot; with Criss and  Christopher James Tamayo, &quot;Operation Mincemeat&quot; with Claire-Marie Halle, &quot;Real Women Have Curves&quot; with Córdoba and &quot;Stephen Sondheim&#x27;s Old Friends&quot; with Salonga are nominated for Outstanding Production of A Musical.</p><p>On social media, Salonga expressed happiness about the nominations.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-4" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwVq2npCy1/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A4%2C%22os%22%3A13587685.100000024%2C%22ls%22%3A4544235%2C%22le%22%3A4544299.100000024%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="890" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-4" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>Early this year, Drama League Awards named Salonga as one of the luminaries to receive the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater Award, a recognition which highlights her contributions to musical theater.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/1/23/lea-salonga-to-be-honored-at-91st-drama-league-awards-1143" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lea Salonga to be honored at 91st Drama League awards</a></div><p>The 91st  Drama League Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, May 16, 2025. It will be hosted by Frank DiLella.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EfwvsMgmHz8?autoplay=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Filipino stage actors Lea Salonga, Tatianna Cordoba, Darren Criss, and Nicole Scherzinger were among the nominees for this year's Drama League Awards.</p>

Filipino stage actors Lea Salonga, Tatianna Cordoba, Darren Criss, and Nicole Scherzinger were among the nominees for this year's Drama League Awards.