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Review: Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is focus of artfully inventive ‘Here Lies Love’ on Broadway

Arielle Jacobs, left, as Imelda Marcos and Jose Llana as Ferdinand Marcos in "Here Lies Love."

NEW YORK — Imelda Marcos famously said she wanted the words “Here Lies Love” engraved on her tombstone. Good for her. Her many enemies would argue that the former first lady of the Philippines’ definition of love included corruption, the squelching of personal freedoms, the repression of the free press and at least a tacit role in the rubbing out of the political opposition.

But Broadway musicals are works of art, not journalism, and the new show at the

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