Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won three Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of "An American in Paris" (1951), "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and "West Side Story" (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for
Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area Inquirer", "it could very well have been called the New York Filipino Film Festival". In 2014, Here Lies Love, a bio-musical play about the personal and political dynamics between former Philippine first couple Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, opened off-Broadway. The majority of the cast members were of Filipino descent, and the play was set in a discotheque. The growth in the New York City metropolitan region's Filipino populace has been accompanied by growth in the number of Filipino restaurants, with the accessibility of Filipino-Chinese specialties such as siopao joining traditional Philippine cuisine, including inihaw na liempo and kare kare, snacks