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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Hoping That Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady Gets A Rerun

Well, I'm just quietly hoping that PETA's Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady gets a rerun! I was invited by a friend who works in ABS-CBN to watch it during it's first weekend but I think it was Mother's Day so it was a no-brainer.

Then tragedy struck with one of our best friends dying in that Valenzuela fire. She loved the theater and she would've watched this musical with us. It's just that her passing was so sudden that watching the musical would rekindle too many memories of our play-watching, baka mag-iyakan lang kami sa loob ng PETA theater. We even watched the Cherie Gil play earlier this year!

Finally, enrollment time din, so ayun, nasimot lahat ng budget. I guess most of those who watched the play do not have kids or mga single pa! Hayy, the sacrifices a parent has to make just so mapa-aral ang mga bata, charot!

Anyway, I am hoping that PETA would restage this musical, kasi based naman sa sales nila now, mukhang sold out naman sila - and I'm sure, marami, like me missed it for one reason or another.

Mabuhay ang Pinoy musical!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

1st MyFABE Theater Awards: Best Musical

Five entertaining musicals are nominated for Best Musical this year. Care Divas sings about the plight of a group of cross-dressing caregivers in Care Divas. In the Heights explores the lives of the Latinos based in New York. Next to Normal brings forth raw madness while Sweet Charity brings us back to the swinging 60s! Finally, Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah brings us again to the world of Pinoy superheroes.

BEST MUSICAL

Care Divas

And the award for Best Musical goes to...............Care Divas from PETA!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Theatre Review: PETA Gives Shakespeare a Contemporary Voice in 'William'

Watching this play gave me memories of high school Shakespeare. It's funny that subjects that used to terrorize us before continues to do so on today's youth, 20 years after taking it! I don't blame them. I grappled through Shakespeare till second year college when we took it in Humanities 1! That time, we even had to study his sonnets! Que horror!

Anyhow, 'William' is a clever production from PETA (Philippine Educational Theatre Association), where they use rap and hip hop to defuse the fears of today's youth whenever they pick up that intimidating book containing the Bard's plays. Through music and the use of contemporary plots (a wife working abroad, broken families, discovering one's homosexuality), the play was effective (at least on the day I saw it) in bringing to the very young audience, the complex yet relevant messages of Shakespeare!

My favorite scene was when one of the actors did Shylock's monologue from The Merchant of Venice. It was exactly the same monologue I did for English class almost 25 years ago! Of course with less dramatic flair than what the actor did. It was great that the writer chose several famous monologues of the Bard and infused it into the lives of each of the characters. At least it would make it less intimidating for the students and it would transcend their usual choice of Romeo and Juliet. Mind you, each of the main characters did their own respective monologues! Hmmm....I'm sure the writer also did that in his own English class in high school!

Interestingly, I might watch one of Shakespeare's most violent plays this weekend in UP - Titus Andronicus. That would be a totally different experience I'm sure. And I think it's going to be in Filipino - patay!