Finale of US show 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' to feature Lea Salonga

After incorporating Filipino family traditions in its Thanksgiving episode last year, the American television series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is now set to feature Lea Salonga for its season finale. 

The the Tony Award-winning stage actress confirmed the news through social media on Monday.

I guess the news is out!!! I'll be appearing on the season finale of @CW_CrazyXGF! And singing, too! How fun is that?!

— Lea Salonga (@MsLeaSalonga) January 10, 2016

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the show's star Rachel Bloom spoke out about the importance of featuring Filipino culture on the show. "One of the characters happens to be Filipino so when we realized no one else had even made the effort to show a Filipino family on an American comedy, it taught me a lot about Filipino culture," she said.

"It’s also taught me really about how important diversity is, if you want to tell a new story... America is a melting pot of immigrants and I don’t think it’s acknowledged half as much as it should be on television."

The TV series stars Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a Manhattan lawyer who drops everything to follow her high-school boyfriend, Josh Chan—a Filipino-American—to the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina, California.

"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is considered the first US series to depict Filipino-American family life.

Aside from her upcoming appearance in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," Lea also stars in the ongoing Broadway musical “Allegiance” with Asian-American actors George Takei and Telly Leung.

Lea is also set to star as Helen Bechdel in the first international production of the musical "Fun Home," which will open in Manila this coming November. —Bianca Rose Dabu/JST, GMA News