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Review of GTF's FLORANTE AT LAURA: Throwback Theater
August 1, 2015"Florante at Laura" by Francisco Baltazar or "Balagtas" is a required staple in Filipino high school curriculum up to the present time. Unfortunately, not everybody appreciates anymore...
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Review of Sandbox Collective's NO FILTER: A Gen X'er Meets Gen Y
August 2, 2015I am not a millennial. I am already probably at the age of their parents. I did not really know that this term existed until lately. The media had long been labelling generations with hip...
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Recap of The Music of REY VALERA: Nourishing Nostalgia
August 2, 2015Rey Valera is really a big name in OPM when I was growing up. It really seems like all his songs from the late 70s all the way through the 80s and early 90s were big hits, either for...
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Review of PhilStagers' #POPEPULAR: Pontifical Paradigms
August 9, 2015Before watching this show, I only knew that this latest PhilStagers' musical would be about Pope Francis. I had no idea whatsoever how theater wunderkind Atty. Vincent Tanada could...
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Recap of My WWTBAM Experience (Or How I Almost Sat on the Hotseat)
Aug 10, 2015On May 20, 2015, there was an announcement on the Mensa Philippines FB page that the TV5 show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is on its 14th season and is looking to partner up with Mensa...
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Recap of FULL RANGE - The Music of JESSE LUCAS: Enchanting First Encounter
August 20, 2015Honestly I am not familiar with Mr. Jesse Lucas until his name was cited in this year's Triple Threat series at the CCP. Previously, the CCP had concerts by actors who could sing, dance...
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Review of Red Turnip's 33 VARIATIONS: Baffled by Beethoven
August 22, 2015When you base it on the synopsis, "33 Variations" does not sound an easy show to watch. This straight play runs for almost three hours, about two subject matters which most people will...
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Review of 9 Works LA CAGE AUX FOLLES: Funny, Feeling and Fabulous
August 23, 2015I knew the basic story of "La Cage Aux Folles" from the hit 1996 movie "The Birdcage" starring Robin Williams. As far as the musical itself, I only know one song, "I Am What I Am". This...
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Review of MLQ - Ang Buhay ni Manuel Luis Quezon: Sage Statesmanship
August 25, 2015Last August 19, 2015, the occasion of President Manuel L. Quezon's 137th birth anniversary, a musical about the life and times of MLQ debuted at the brand spanking new Kia Theater, the...
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Review of GTF's KANSER @ 35: THE MUSICAL: Putting a Long-Running Play into Song
August 27, 2015"Noli Me Tangere" is probably the most well-known novel written by a Filipino author in the Philippines. Every Filipino who went through local high schools should know the story and all...
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Review of Artist's Playground TAG-ANI: Aging with Amour
September 5, 2015One morning, an old lady named Andang was doing her crocheting on a bench in the park in front of a star apple tree. An elderly man named Johnny was passing by and was taken by...
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Review of SINGIN' IN THE RAIN: Wet, Wholesome Whoopee!
September 11, 2015When the foreign touring production of "Singin' in the Rain" opened at the Theater at Solaire last August 20, I was not convinced I wanted to see it. I loved the classic 1952 film...
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Review of DUP's # R < / 3 J: "Current-ifying" a Classic
September 12, 2015Despite being a tragedy, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" has endured through the years since its initial publication in 1597 with its story of a pair of young lovers whose romance...
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Review of PETA's NOLI AT FILI DEKADA DOS MIL: Romance and Retribution
September 19, 2015Because the "Noli Me Tangere" and the "El Filibusterismo" are the best-known books written by a Filipino author, many theater plays have been written and staged to bring these...
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Recap of SPANDAU BALLET LIVE IN MANILA 2015: Rejuvenating Reunion!
September 22, 2015Spandau Ballet was one of the famous British bands from the 1980s who are only coming to Manila for the very first time in their career. Their contemporaries Duran Duran and Tears for...
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Review of VOICE CARE FOR TEACHERS by Pocholo Gonzales: Purposeful and Practical
September 25, 2015In my line of work at the hospital, I meet a lot of patients with voice problems. In the past, majority of these patients were school teachers. I have long thought that voice care...
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Recap of THE AMAZING MENSA RACE 2: Fighting Frustration
September 28, 2015The first Amazing Mensa Race was held May 2014. We joined it, ran and did challenges all over Bonifacio Global City, and ultimately lost. However, it was a great exhilarating...
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Review of Ballet Phils' SARONG BANGGI: Folk Songs and Family Bonds
October 16, 2015Honestly, I had no idea what "Sarong Banggi" was going to be about when I decided to go watch it. I just knew that Maestro Ryan Cayabyab himself is going to be conducting the Philippine...
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Review of TP's MGA BUHAY NA APOY: Folklore, Fabrications and Family
October 17, 2015"Mga Buhay na Apoy" just won the First Prize for a Full Length Play in the 2015 Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature for playwright/director Auraeus Solito. Since 2013, Mr. Solito went...
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Review of DUP's HARING LEAR: Campy and Colorful
October 24, 2015Afraid that his end is near, King Lear decided to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. The elder two, Goneril and Regan, praise him to high heavens, and they got to divide the...
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