Done! Done!
These are the other two events I've helped midwifed -- with the help of Mariekhan Edding and Bogy Lim, who really sweated big for these -- for Kisaw 2010, the National Arts Month celebration of Dumaguete City. One is a showcase of local poetry (balak) and folk music (balitaw), with a little kumparsa...
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Art Direction
By the time I've upload this piece here, Kisaw 2010—Dumaguete’s fledgling attempt at a celebration of the National Arts Month, which is now on its second year—would be in the last stretch, with a culminating burst of activity at Quezon Park during a special Tayada sa Plaza presentation that would...
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Philstage bares 2009 Gawad Buhay! nominees
[Complete list of nominees below]
PRODUCTIONS AND artists of Ballet Philippines (BP), the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), and Repertory Philippines (REP) topped the nominations for 30 categories up for grabs in the 2009 Gawad Buhay!: The Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.
Now...
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Celebrating Seasons of Love: Rent Manila 2010 Review
It was minutes after sundown, people gathered once again on an auditorium somewhere in Makati to witness a phenomenal musical written by an equally phenomenal songwriter and playwright, Jonathan Larson.
Well for most of the people this could be the second time they will witness this musical live since...
Source: Jori's Entertainment Journal
Spa Theater at Blue Water Day Spa
Hubby and I tried out Blue Water Day Spa's Foot Reflexology service inside their exclusive Spa Theatre a few days ago.It was a weekday evening. There weren't too many people around. After registering at the reception, we were both ushered in our respective locker rooms. I was assigned to locker number...
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Rent Coming to Manila in February
I was introduced to musical theater when I first watched Baz Lhurmann's Moulin Rouge! starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. Being a movie, theater and music lover I develop my love to Musical theater. Then I discovered Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, CATS, Miss Saigon and a lot...
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Unbelievable
Would you believe hundreds of 16 to 18 year old first year college students orderly and patiently lined up to watch a ballet? By the time Ballet Manila's performance started in the Aliw Theater, there were about a thousand of them. And even more astounding, they actually enjoyed it! Tomorrow, I'll show...
Source: My Manila
Teaser
“ROYAL CATFIGHT caps uncommon year of German drama in Manila.” That’s an efficient if rather glib way of summing up the year about to close, weaving as it does the three main imprints that marked local theater in 2008.
First, the German connection: By some serendipitous alignment of vision, various...
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Video: Audie Gemora and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo in A Little Priest
Ha! Managed to upload one vid today, this taken from the Rep presscon for Sweeney Todd some three weeks before the show opened. The clip comes quite late--the musical's on its third week--but not that late, with three more weekends to go, including this weekend. Audie and Menchu's offstage A Little Priest...
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Video: Lea Salonga sings Memory
Not my video, sadly. What the dickens is wrong with YouTube? I've been unable to upload my newer vids. Thanks to thewarrior119 for this clip, the first one to appear online, I think... At the presscon this afternoon for Cats (an Australian production of the Lloyd Webber musical opening in Manila July...
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