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* ThrowItIn: The actor playing the Engineer (the comic relief) is free to improvise at certain points of the show, particularly during "What a Waste" and "The American Dream".
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* StuntCasting[=/=]BookEnds: The show began and ended its original Broadway run with Creator/LeaSalonga in the title role.

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* StuntCasting[=/=]BookEnds: StuntCasting: The show began and ended its original Broadway run with Creator/LeaSalonga in the title role.
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** The Filipina Creator/LeaSalonga played the Vietnamese Kim. On both Broadway and the West End, revivals cast then-newcomers Rachelle Ann Go and Eva Noblezada, both of whom are also Filipina (Filipina-American, in Noblezada's case).

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** The Filipina Creator/LeaSalonga played the Vietnamese Kim. On both Broadway and the West End, revivals cast then-newcomers Rachelle Ann Go and Eva Noblezada, both of whom are also Filipina (Filipina-American, (Filipina and Mexican, in Noblezada's case).
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* CreatorBacklash: Lianah Sta. Ana, who portrayed Kim alongside Eva Noblezada in the revival, expressed her displeasure with the show years later, believing that it fed into the stereotyping and fetishization of Asian women in media.

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