Video: Stars Walk the Red Carpet on Opening Night of HERE LIES LOVE

Girl, I love a little opening night party, honey

And it's like immersive, so we must be dancing for 90 minutes. No intermission

Sign me up, honey. We outside. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Welcome to the disco. We're on the opening night red carpet for David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim's musical

Here Lies Love. No, I've a previous thing, American Utopia with David Burns

So me and David, we go way, way, way back. So I'm a big supporter

He's one of the great American artists. Multidimensional. That's my brother, David Byrne

And how important it is to the three of you to have a story like this told on Broadway

I think the more diverse we get, films, Broadway. We got to open stuff

We got to be open. Let's open it up. Let's let everybody have a chance to tell their story

You know, the other great thing is you're also entertained by this and you also have a history lesson

which I think is amazing what theater and creative people do. Well, if you had told somebody, I'm gonna make a musical about... Yeah

But then they... That's David. That's David. What about getting you on Broadway, sir

Gotta dance. Welcome to Broadway. How does it feel? This is a dream come true And I not even trying to like I don even know what I trying to say right now This is literally something I wrote down a long time ago that I wanted to be involved with some type of musical or something to do with Broadway

And this just fell on my lap beautifully. Like the timing was right, the universe was right, and the people were right

And this is a great time for this story to be told. Talk about what this show means to you personally and why you said, yes, I have to be a part of this

Well, one, I'm half Filipino. It's my mom's story. and I also lived in the Philippines during the Marcos regime

You know, I was there. I was there for five years from five to 11, so five to ten

But I was 11 when I moved back to the States. And yeah, so this is that story

You know, a lot of people don't know about this, you know. And what a wonderful way for us to tell our story through music and dance

You know what I mean? That's something that's beautiful about Filipinos. We love to entertain

And this is a great way to tell, you know, a very horrific story

in a beautiful way. Tell me why you wanted to produce Hearly's Love

Because Hearly's Love is a completely revolutionary musical, that type of musical that's coming to Broadway

And I believe that this is the future of audiences, particularly post-COVID

People want to get involved. They want to experience something. And what a better way to see a Broadway musical

and to also have an opportunity to participate in it? So that's why

It's very exciting. You know, it's an all-Filippino cast, and all Philippine, you know, producing team, it's really worthwhile

It's a testament to how far our community has come with the allyship of everyone in the Broadway community

The importance of having this story told on Broadway what it means to you It a sign of how far we come and how inclusive Broadway continues to become

And I'm really happy that above all, it's an amazing story. It's a really entertaining play

So I'm looking forward to all of it. What about getting you back here on Broadway again

You've been here before. You've worked in the theater. Would you like to come home again to Broadway? I would love to. And in fact, with any luck I'll be here soon

The importance of having this on Broadway telling the story now, telling this story now means what to you

Oh my gosh. As a Filipino American, it means everything to have this amazing all-Philippino cast

telling a really important story that's incredibly relevant to what's happening in politics

in the Philippines right now and really speaks to representation on Broadway. I am so excited. When this was at the public, I was dying to see it, and I never got around to it

And now I get to see it, I'm going to be, and you know I'm a huge Alex Timbers fan

Love me some Alex Timbers, so I'm really, really excited to see it. Now, were you sitting or standing tonight

I am standing. So when I did my European tour, my pickup line was

I want to shake my dance and legs. And so I am like not wearing my flats

I am ready to dance. We saw this at the public. And when I renegotiated my contract in Milan Rouge

I said, I need this one night off. Because I know that it's going to be the night of the year here on Broadway

So we're delighted. We're so excited for us. I mean, that's really, for Alex and the entire company and Leah

it's fantastic, we can't wait. So we first fell in love with this is the public theater

Did you at the same time? Yeah, exactly. I was trying to remember what theater was in Was it the Lewester Yeah it was amazing back then with the amazing Ruthian Miles and now we here with a whole new cast I can wait How excited to you too I thrilled

To be, yeah, to be able to support Conrad, who's a dear friend

just amazing, and I think just to have a show that's cast entirely by Filipino

Filipino performers is just like way overdue. I am so excited. Theater is still here

We are still good and it's strong, and I'm happy to be supporting a new company and a new show

company and a new show. Now, you didn't see this at the public because you're probably working, right

I actually did see it in the public, so I'm so excited to see the changes

I cannot wait. I had so much fun at the public, and I know my mind is about to be blown

I'm really thrilled and excited to see Broadway shows that are sort of breaking the idea of how we do things

Absolutely. And how we do things in these houses and what these houses can be shaped like. I think it's tremendous

And invitation to the audience. You know, inviting the audience in a totally new way

I'm so, so excited to be here for the opening of Here Lies Love. of Julia Buevas in the cast

and I'm so excited to see her. Clint Ramos is one of the producers, Leia Salonga, the legend, the icon

so I'm super excited to be here today. Oh my God, I am ecstatic

You know, this is the first time that I see, like, my other side on stage, which is so important

representation is so important. So to be here is such an honor. Is it your first time seeing it

No, I've seen it. I saw it at the public, we saw a rehearsal

we saw a preview. I'm not even counting the public, five times. Five times if you get it

I saw it twice at the public, So it's six times. So you can start the fan club

Seriously, the here lies up. You have to name it. Yes, absolutely. And if you can't get tickets, I would say you just call us up

but we can do the whole show for you. Literally no problem. We're ready. We're ready. We do it worse, but we do it