An editor-in-chief (Editorial Head) is a publication's primary head, having final responsibility for the all operations and policies.^[1][2] He or she heads all the departments of the organization. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task. The term is generally applied to newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and television news programs. The term is also applied to academic journals, where the editor-in-chief ultimately decides whether a submitted manuscript will be published in the journal. This decision is made by the editor-in-chief after seeking input from reviewers selected on a basis of relevant expertise.

Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include:^[3]

• Cross-checking facts, spelling, grammar, writing style, design pages and photos;
• Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghost-written by another sub-editor, or previously published elsewhere;
• Editing any content in question;
• Contributing editorial pieces;
• Motivating and developing editorial staff;
• Ensuring final draft is complete and no area is left empty;
• Handling reader complaints and taking responsibility for resulting issues; and
• For books or journals, cross-checking citations and examining references.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• John La Porte Given (1907). "The Editor-In-Chief". Making a Newspaper. New York: H. Holt and company. pp. 30–35. 
• Nathaniel Clark Fowler (1913). "The Editor-In-Chief". The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work. — Facts and Information. New York: Sully and Kleinteich. 

External links[link]

Look up editor in chief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• "editor in chief" (merriam-webster.com)

Jill Abramson
Born	Jill Ellen Abramson (1954-03-19) March 19, 1954 (age 58) New York City, United States
Occupation	journalist, editor, author
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times (1997–present) The Wall Street Journal (1988–1997) The American Lawyer (1977–1986) Time (1973–1976)
Title	Executive Editor
Spouse	Henry Little Griggs III (1981–present)

Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954)^[1] is the executive editor of The New York Times. Assuming the position in September 2011, she became the first woman in this role in the paper's 160-year history.^[2]

Early life and education[link]

A native of New York City, Abramson received her high school diploma from Ethical Culture Fieldston School and a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1976.^[3]

Career[link]

While an undergraduate, she was the Arts Editor of The Harvard Independent, and worked at Time magazine from 1973 to 1976. Subsequently, she spent nearly a decade as a senior staff reporter for The American Lawyer.^[4] In 1986, she was appointed as editor in chief of Legal Times in Washington, D.C., serving for two years. From 1988 to 1997, she was a senior reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, eventually rising to deputy bureau chief. She became the chief of The New York Times Washington bureau upon her move to the newspaper in 1997.^[4]

Abramson was the Times' Washington Bureau chief during the turbulent period of Spring 2003 during the run-up to the war in Iraq and the Jayson Blair scandal, which led to the resignation of Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd. Abramson was named to the news Managing Editor position (with co-Managing Editor John M.Geddes) by Raines' successor Bill Keller.^[5]

In 1995, Abramson and her The Wall Street Journal colleague (and fellow Fieldston alumna) Jane Mayer co-authored Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which detailed circumstances surrounding the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas. Maureen Dowd would later write of having bonded with Abramson during that time.^[6] From 2000–01, she was a professor at Princeton University.^[4] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.^[7]

In February 2007, Abramson testified in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, United States v. Libby. She was called as a defense witness to undercut the credibility of Judith Miller.^[3]

On June 2, 2011, it was announced that Abramson would become the executive editor of the Times in September 2011, replacing Bill Keller who would step down from the position to become a full time writer.^[8]

Abramson was scheduled to address the commencement exercises of Barnard College on May 14, 2012. Her speech was canceled after President Barack Obama requested to speak instead.^[9]

Personal life[link]

In 1981, she married Harvard classmate Henry Little Griggs III. Griggs was then president of Triad, a political public relations company. He is self-described as a “writer, editor and media-relations consultant specializing in nonprofit advocacy campaigns.” They have two children.^[3]

In May 2007, Abramson was seriously injured in a truck-pedestrian traffic accident near the New York Times's Times Square headquarters. She and her husband subsequently filed a lawsuit against the truck's driver, owner and operator.^[3]

Bibliography[link]

• With Jane Mayer. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. ISBN 978-0-395-63318-2
• Where They Are Now: The Story of the Women of Harvard Law 1974. New York: Doubleday, 1986. ISBN 978-0-385-19432-7, OCLC 12314642
• The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout. New York: Times Books, 2011. (Forthcoming in October 2011, published by Two Roads Books.)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Auletta, Ken (October 24, 2011). "Changing Times: Jill Abramson takes charge of the Gray Lady". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/24/111024fa_fact_auletta?currentPage=all. 
• Pilkington, Ed (June 7, 2011). "Jill Abramson: 'I'm a battle-scarred veteran'". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/07/jill-abramson-editor-new-york-times. 
• Sherman, Gabriel (October 4, 2010). "Times Two". New York. http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68500/. 

External links[link]

• Jill Abramson collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Abramson, October 30, 2011
• Jill Abramson on Charlie Rose
• Jill Abramson at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Jill Abramson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Danny Sullivan File:DannySullivan.jpg Sullivan at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2006. Born (1950-03-09) March 9, 1950 (age 62) Formula One World Championship career Nationality American Active years 1983 Teams Tyrrell Races 15 Career points 2 First race 1983 Brazilian Grand Prix Last race 1983 South African Grand Prix

Danny Sullivan PPG Indycar World Series Years active 1982-1993, 1995 Teams Forsythe Racing Shierson Racing Penske Racing Patrick Racing Galles Racing PacWest Racing Starts 170 Wins 17 Poles 19 Best finish 1st in 1988 Championship titles 1988 PPG Indycar World Series Awards 1985 Indianapolis 500 winner

Daniel John "Danny" Sullivan III (born March 9, 1950) is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500.

Before racing[link]

Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a building contractor father. He attended the Kentucky Military Institute and then the Jim Russell Racing School. He had several odd jobs before his racing career, including lumberjack, and most famously, New York City cab driver.^[1]

Formula One[link]

Sullivan was given a 21st birthday present of a course at the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School at the Snetterton circuit in England. He competed in Formula Ford and Formula Three before running out of money and returning to race in the United States. In 1982, he made his début in the PPG Indycar series, and was recruited by the Tyrrell Formula One team for the 1983 season at the request of primary sponsor Benetton, who wanted an American driver. Sullivan competed in the fifteen races of the 1983 season, scoring two points with a fifth place at the Monaco Grand Prix and finishing seventeenth in the World Drivers' Championship. He also performed strongly in the non-championship Race of Champions held at the Brands Hatch circuit in April, finishing second behind reigning champion Keke Rosberg. Nevertheless, he was somewhat overshadowed by his more experienced team-mate, Michele Alboreto, and was not retained at the end of the season.

Indy Car career[link]

Sullivan's Lola T800 at Laguna Seca in 1984.

For 1984, Sullivan returned to America, where he competed in the PPG Indycar series winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500. The "spin and win" footage of his red and white Miller American spinning through 360 degrees down the south short chute (between turns one and two) at Indy after passing Mario Andretti for the lead in the race's 120th lap has been played on countless motorsports programs. Recovering from the spin undamaged except for lightly flat-spotted tires, Sullivan went into the pits for new rubber, then returned to the track and passed Mario a second time twenty laps later to go on for the win. Danny would set the pace at Indy again in 1988, leading 91 of the first 101 laps, until a wing adjuster broke and his car drifted out and smacked the turn 1 wall. Nevertheless, he won the Michgan 500 later that summer, and went on to win the CART Indycar series title for Roger Penske that year.

In 1986, Sullivan was a guest star on the television show Miami Vice ("Florence Italy") playing a race car driver accused of murdering a prostitute. The episode featured some short outdoor scenes in the pit lanes of the Miami Grand Prix. Sullivan had limited dialogue in the episode; His longest piece of dialogue was in a police station interrogation scene.

In 1992, Rare released Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat for Nintendo Entertainment System.

After Indy[link]

In 1994, Sullivan took a sabbatical from Indycar racing, and joined ABC/ESPN as a color commentator. He also attempted to run selected events in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series that season. He, however, qualified for only one race (the 1994 Brickyard 400), and finished 33rd for a very underfunded team. In 1994, he had some guest starts for Alfa Romeo in the DTM and together with Thierry Boutsen and Hans-Joachim Stuck he was third overall with the Dauer 962 LM at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

He returned to Indycar racing for one final year in 1995. His season ended early after a serious crash at Michigan International Speedway. While recovering from a broken pelvis and other injuries, he announced his retirement from open-wheel competition. He returned to ABC-TV for 1996-1997.

Sullivan was a paid celebrity endorser for Danny Sullivan Lexus in Jacksonville, Florida. The Lexus Dealership was owned primarily by members of the Davis Family, who were the founders of Winn Dixie supermarkets.

Sullivan was also instrumental in the Red Bull Driver Search program to find an American driver to compete in Formula One. The program successfully promoted American Scott Speed from California, who drove for the Scuderia Toro Rosso team in 2006 and 2007.

He was the drivers' representative on the stewards' panel for the 2010 German Grand Prix and served in the same post for the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix.^{[2] [3]}

Sullivan and Michael Andretti were inducted into the Motorsports Walk of Fame on April 15, 2011, along the route of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which both men have won.^[4]

Sullivan serves as a Senior Advisor at Tempus Jets and its parent company, Orion Air Group, LLC. He also has various business relationships with Lexus, ABC/ESPN, CBS, Red Bull, Acura, and Toyota.^[5]

Indy 500 results[link]

Complete Formula One World Championship results[link]

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Indycar career results[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Danny Sullivan

• Grand Prix encyclopedia entry on Danny Sullivan
• Sullivan's 1985 win on Indy500.com
• The Greatest 33
• Danny Sullivan at the Internet Movie Database

Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga performing at Makati City
Background information
Birth name	Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga[1]
Also known as	Lea Salonga-Chien
Born	(1971-02-22) February 22, 1971 (age 41)
Origin	Angeles City, Philippines
Genres	Pop, OPM, R&B
Occupations	Singer, actress
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Atlantic, Arista , Capitol, EMI Philippines, Musiko, Sony Music Philippines, WEA, Walt Disney
Website	www.leasalonga.com

Lea Salonga-Chien^[1] (born February 22, 1971) is a mezzo-soprano singer, actress, and Disney Legend from the Philippines well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon,^[2] for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.^[2][3]

She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway.^[4] She also provided the singing voice of two official Disney Princesses: Jasmine in Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004).^[5] Salonga was named a Disney Legend in 2011 for her work with the company.^[6]

Career[link]

1978–1988[link]

Salonga made her professional debut in 1978 at the age of seven in the musical The King and I by Repertory Philippines.^[5] She became the lead star of Annie and joined other productions such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound of Music, The Goodbye Girl, Paper Moon and The Fantasticks.^[7]

She began her recording career at the age of ten with her first album, Small Voice, which received a gold certification.^[7][8] A song on the album, the duet "Happiness", marked her first recording collaboration with her younger brother Gerard Salonga, who would, years later, work with her as musical director or creative director in her concerts and recordings.^[9][10] Her second album, Lea, was released in 1988.^[11]

In addition to performing in musical theater and recordings, Salonga hosted her own musical television show, Love, Lea,^[7] and was a member of the cast of German Moreno's teen variety show That's Entertainment. She acted in films, which included the family-oriented Tropang Bulilit,^[12] Like Father, Like Son,^[13] Ninja Kids,^[14] Captain Barbell,^[15] and Pik Pak Boom.^[16] She also opened for international acts such as Menudo and Stevie Wonder in their concerts in Manila in 1985 and in 1988, respectively.^[8]

As a young performer, Lea Salonga received a Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) award nomination (the Philippine equivalent of an Oscar nomination) for Best Child Actress.^[17] and three wins from the Aliw (literally, "entertainment") Awards as Best Child Performer.^[7]

1989–1992[link]

Salonga was selected to play Kim in the musical Miss Saigon in 1989.^[2] Unable to find a strong enough East Asian actress/singer in the United Kingdom, the producers scoured many countries looking for the lead role of this major British production.^[18][19] For her audition, the 17-year-old Salonga chose to sing Boublil and Schönberg's "On My Own" from Les Misérables and was later asked to sing "Sun and Moon" to test the compatibility of her voice quality with the songs in the musical.^[20][21] The members of the panel were impressed with Salonga's rendition of the songs, noting that from Salonga's very first note, they already knew they had a potential Kim.^[20][21] Salonga competed with childhood friend and fellow Repertory Philippines performer Monique Wilson as they were tested with songs from the musical, which included "Too Much for One Heart", a number replaced by the duet "Please" just before the musical opened.^[20][21][22] Salonga was offered the lead role, with Wilson as her understudy (who was given the role of the bar girl named Mimi).^{[20][21][23][24]}

For her performance as Kim, Salonga won the Olivier for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for the 1989–1990 season.^[25] From its original London home, Miss Saigon moved to Broadway in April 1991.^[26] Salonga subsequently won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and the Theatre World Awards for the same role.^[2][25] Between 1993 and 1996, she was asked periodically to play Kim on Broadway to boost ticket sales.^[27] In 1999, she was invited back to London to close the musical, and in 2001, at the age of 29 and after doing the Manila run of the musical,^[28] Salonga returned to Broadway to close the Broadway production.^[29]

In 1990, Salonga performed in a homecoming concert in Manila entitled A Miss Called Lea.^[30] She also received a Presidential Award of Merit from Philippine president Corazon Aquino.^[3]

1993–1996[link]

In 1993, upon completion of her initial stint as Kim on Broadway, Salonga played the role of street waif Éponine in the Broadway production of Les Misérables,^[31][32] and later flew to Los Angeles to perform the song "A Whole New World" of Disney's Aladdin with Brad Kane at the 65th Annual Academy Awards,^[33] where the song won an Oscar.^[34] That same year, she released her self-titled international debut album with Atlantic Records, which had modest sales in the USA but went platinum in the Philippines and sold 3 million copies worldwide.^[35]

In 1994, Salonga played in various musical theater productions in the Philippines and Singapore.^[2][5] She starred as Sandy in Grease,^[36] as Sonia Walsk in They're Playing Our Song,^[37] and as The Witch in Into The Woods.^[38]

Back in the U.S. in 1995, Salonga played the role of Geri Riordan, an 18-year-old adopted Vietnamese American child in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Redwood Curtain, which starred John Lithgow and Jeff Daniels.^[39] She then flew back to the Philippines to star with Filipino matinée idol Aga Muhlach in the critically acclaimed film Sana Maulit Muli,^[40] which gave her a second Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) award nomination, this time for Best Actress.^[41] She accepted an invitation from Sir Cameron Mackintosh to play the role of Éponine in his 10th anniversary production called Les Miserables in Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Salonga performed along with Colm Wilkinson, Michael Ball, Judy Kuhn, and Philip Quast.^[42][43]

In 1996, Salonga was in Les Misérables once again. She played Éponine in the London production of the musical, then continued on to do the role in the musical's U.S. national tour in Hawaii.^[2]

1997–2003[link]

From 1997 to 2000, Salonga did recordings and concerts in the Philippines and another engagement in London, in addition to her periodic returns to Miss Saigon in London and on Broadway. In 1997, she released I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing (recordings from her childhood days) to gold sales in the Philippines.^[44] That recording was followed by Lea... In Love in 1998^[45] and By Heart in 2000, with both albums reaching multiple platinum status in the Philippines.^[8] In addition to the release of these albums, she participated in the tribute concert to Sir Cameron Mackintosh in London called "Hey Mr. Producer: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh", where she did numbers from several of his musicals.^[46][47][48] She also performed in four concerts: The Homecoming Concert, The Millennium Concert, The Best of Manila and Songs from the Screen – the last two being benefit shows.^[30] Salonga returned to Manila in Miss Saigon, staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines at the end of 2000.^[49]

After Miss Saigon's closing on Broadway in 2001, Salonga recreated the role of Lien Hughes originally played by Ming-Na Wen in the soap opera As the World Turns. After completing her contract that year, she was asked to return to the role in 2003.^[50][51] She guested on Russell Watson's The Voice concert, narrated for the television special My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States, and appeared on the Christmas episode of the TV medical drama ER, playing the role of a patient with lymphoma.^[30][52]

In 2002, Salonga returned to Broadway to play the role of a Chinese immigrant in a reinterpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song opposite Jose Llana.^[32] This was after the reinvented musical had a run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2001 with Salonga playing the lead role^[53][54][55] and with the show garnering multiple wins and nominations, including Lead Actress in a Musical for Salonga, from the Theatre Los Angeles Ovation Awards.^[56][57] The show, given a brand new libretto and considered one of the 10 best plays on Broadway in 2002 by Time magazine,^[58] garnered Tony Award nominations for Best Book, Best Costume Designer, and Best Choreographer,^[59] and earned nominations from the Outer Critics Circle,^[60] the Drama League,^[61] the Astaire Awards,^[62] and Broadway.com's Audience Awards and Broadwayworld.com's Fans' Choice Awards as well.^[63] The Salonga-led Broadway revival cast album was also a top contender at the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Musical Show Album.^[64] While Salonga's performance was received positively by theater critics such as Matthew Murray, Heather Cross, Patrick Purdon, and John Simon, among others, she was not nominated at the Tony Awards for her brief stint on Broadway that season, although she did get nominations for Distinguished Performance from the Drama League, for Favorite Lead Actress in a Broadway Musical from Broadway.com's Audience Awards, and for Best Lead Actress in a Musical from Broadwayworld.com's Fans' Choice Awards.^[63] Between the 2001 Los Angeles and 2002 Broadway productions of Flower Drum Song, she performed in a non-musical theatrical production for the first time, playing the role of Catherine in the stage play Proof in Manila.^[2] This was followed by a major concert, The Broadway Concert,^[65] at the Philippine International Convention Center. She also sang with Harry Connick, Peter Gallagher, and Michelle Lee in a tribute number for Richard Rodgers at the 56th Tony Awards.^[66]

In 2003, Salonga did her first "all-Filipino" concert in Manila called Songs from Home, which later won a second Aliw Award as Entertainer of the Year; she also won the previous year.^[67][68] Upon her return to the U.S., she performed in several shows at the Mohegan Sun in Montville, Connecticut. This was followed by a Christmas concert in the Philippines called Home for Christmas at the end of the year, which was nominated for the 18th Aliw Awards,^[69] and performances at the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center in Marlton, New Jersey the following year, in 2004.^[70] Later that year, she played Lizzie in the Manila production of the musical Baby, which earned her another nomination from the Aliw Awards.^[69][71]

2004–2007[link]

In 2005, Salonga played her first US concert tour in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlantic City, and Chicago.^[72][73][74] Concert dates in Washington, D.C. and Norfolk, Virginia followed.^[75] Later that year, Salonga performed with a 26-piece ensemble to a sold-out crowd at the Isaac Stern Hall in Carnegie Hall for the benefit of Diverse City Theater Company.^{[76][77][78][79][80]} Between her concerts, the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) bestowed her with the Golden Artist Award at the 53rd FAMAS Awards in honor of her international achievements.^[81][82] She performed during the grand opening of Hong Kong's Disneyland^[83] and recorded two songs on tenor Daniel Rodriguez's In the Presence CD.^[84] That same year, Salonga did voice work for Disney's English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro as Mrs. Kusakabe. Salonga's other Disney film credits include the singing voice of Princess Jasmine for Aladdin in 1992 and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II in 1998 and in 2004, respectively.^[5]

In 2006, at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, Salonga concluded the closing ceremony with the song "Triumph of The One" before an audience of 50,000 people at the Khalifa Stadium.^[85][86][87]

In 2007, Salonga released her first studio album in seven years called Inspired, which has been certified platinum,^[88] and finished another stint in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway, this time as Fantine.^[89][90] She was scheduled to appear in a number of musical events scheduled in different countries until 2008.^{[91][92][93][94]}

Salonga received the Order of Lakandula Award from Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in recognition of her excellence in her craft and for using her talents to benefit Philippine society.^[95] It was also announced that she would return to Broadway in the musical Les Misérables, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega as Fantine on March 6.^[89][96] Her tenure started, however, on March 2, four days earlier than planned.^[97][98] Her casting on the show has been credited with boosting the musical's ticket sales on Broadway.^[99][100] On September 27, 2007, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was in New York, watched Salonga in her new role in the musical, whose cast that night included Filipino Americans Adam Jacobs as Marius and Ali Ewoldt as Cosette.^[101][102] Her contract with the musical ended on October 21, 2007 and she was succeeded by Broadway's original Cosette Judy Kuhn.^[103][104] For her performances in this revival, Salonga received rave reviews and made it again to the short list of Broadway.com's Audience Award favorites—this time for Best Replacement for her new role as Fantine.^{[100][105][106]} During her stint on Broadway this season, she appeared on Broadway on Broadway 2007^[107] and Stars in the Alley 2007,^[108] spoke at the Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Intensives,^[109] guested on the Broadway musical 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,^[110] and participated in Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS' 12th Annual Nothing Like A Dame event to benefit the women's health initiative of The Actors Fund.^[106][111] Right after doing Les Misérables, she performed in two events: at the US Military Academy Band's concert in West Point where she sang four songs and an encore^[112] and in her own concert at the Tarrytown Music Hall in New York.^[113]

As of November 2007,^{[dated info]} a number of performances were scheduled for the rest of the year and for 2008, including a Christmas presentation in Manila,^[91][114] concerts in other parts of the Philippines and in California, Hawaii, Hong Kong, and Guam^{[92][93][115][116][117][118][119][120]} and Broadway Asia Entertainment's international tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, where she plays the lead.^[94][121]

2008–present[link]

On 3 July 2008, Salonga became a columnist in the Philippine Daily Inquirer with her column "Backstory" (Entertainment section), "Introducing: Lea Salonga, writer".^[122] She performed in "Global Pop" at the Music Center on July 11, 2008. It was presented by The Blue Ribbon a group founded by Dorothy Chandler in 1968.^[123] Backed by an orchestra of 19 musicians, Salonga received a standing ovation for her solo concert on July 11 at Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall. Salonga also performed part of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "There's Music in You", as preview of her coming show Cinderella at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on July 29.^{[124][125][126]} That same year she received a special citation from Awit Awards, the Philippines' version of Grammys.

From late July 2008 to mid-2009, Salonga played the title role in the 30-week Asian tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, opening in Manila and continuing to China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. According to Billboard.com, Salonga was scheduled to perform in Nevada, Washington, California, Indiana, New York, Hawaii and more in 2009 and was also asked to dance the Filipino novelty dances "Ocho-ocho" and "Spaghetti".^[127]

In July 2009, Salonga agreed to advertise the Avon Products line of anti-aging skin care products Anew Rejuvenate in the Philippines.^[128]

Also in the same month, Salonga was invited to sing at the 95th Anniversary Special of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC). She was given a standing ovation after her first song, which was an original composition by the Church arranged by Ryan Cayabyab.^[129]

At the Requiem Mass for former President Corazon Aquino on 5 August 2009, Salonga sang the patriotic Bayan Ko as the recessional before Aquino's casket was brought out of Manila Cathedral.^[130]

Salonga celebrated 20 years of Miss Saigon by performing in a concert called "Lea Salonga...Your Songs", at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Plenary Hall on December 11 and 12, 2009. She conducted an online poll via www.LEAyoursongs.com where fans could request songs they wanted to hear. The concert had crooner Richard Poon, the award-winning dance group Philippine All Stars and Concert Comedy Queen Ai-Ai de las Alas as special guests. "Lea Salonga...Your Songs" was under the musical direction of her brother, Gerard Salonga along with the FILharmoniKA.

From 23 July to 22 August 2010, Salonga played the role of Grizabella in the Manila run of the Asia-Pacific tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She returned to Les Misérables on October 3 in the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables as Fantine, fifteen years after appearing in the 10th Anniversary as Eponine.^[131][132]

In 2010, Salonga joined forces with Avon as a celebrity judge for Avon Voices,^[133] Avon's first ever global, online singing talent search for women and songwriting competition for men and women. Instantly, she become part of Miss Universe history because of her winning final question which won by Miss Angola Leila Lopes.