Article: 'Imagine' Julie Danao as Yoko Ono

Wong, Gerrye
AsianWeek
04-27-2005
When Yoko Ono wanted to meet me to audition to play her in the musical
Lennon, undeniably that was the most exciting moment in my life!" exclaimed
Julie Danao. "I have always been a huge Lennon fan and even had a poster of
him on my bedroom wall when growing up," she explained further, "It had
been said Yoko Ono had the final say on the actors chosen, so imagine my
excitement when I was called back [and ] told I would be meeting her in
person. I knew I didn't look like her but I wanted to catch the essence of
who she is."

As it turned out, the directors and Yoko Ono felt Danao did portray an
essence of Ono from her very first audition monologue, and they chose her
...

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