Hey, it ain’t easy being gay
To paraphrase “Sesame Street’s” Kermit the Frog: “It’s not easy being ‘gay.’” I learned this lesson when I accepted a gay role for Repertory Philippines’ production of “The Producers.”
December 14, 2013
To paraphrase “Sesame Street’s” Kermit the Frog: “It’s not easy being ‘gay.’” I learned this lesson when I accepted a gay role for Repertory Philippines’ production of “The Producers.”
It was a unique press conference in the sense that the two hosts—actors Reb Atadero and Arya Herrera—fielded all the questions to the panel of actors and directors. And the invited media persons kept prudently silent, because there was no open forum.
Trumpets’ “comeback” musical production “The Bluebird of Happiness,” with music by Rony Fortich and libretto and direction by Jaime del Mundo, leads the third-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 18 nods in the performance, creative and technical categories.
Miraculously, we survived the typhoon!” exclaimed designer Milo Naval, Sorsogon’s tourism consultant.
A lot of people are saying that there is no more room to build on Boracay island, that it is too crowded with resorts, restaurants and clubs lining the famous white beach. Well, don’t tell that to the Henann Group of Hotels, which includes the Boracay Regency, Boracay Lagoon and the Boracay Garden, all located at Station 2.
When the curtain opened in the first act of “San Andres B.,” one saw a highly cohesive and compact production design by Eric Cruz, with the orchestral ensemble not in the pit but in one visible part of the stage, becoming almost part of the action.
The sad thing about Atlantis Productions’ final show for the year, “The Addams Family,” is that it closed too soon—Dec. 1, after a mere three-weekend run.
I was travelling around Southeast Asia and was in Indonesia when I heard about Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” I booked a flight right away to go and help out.
IN 2007, Inquirer artist Albert Rodriguez created the comic strip Crazy Jhenny, inspired by Joyce Abaño, a coworker who had moved from Ormoc to Manila to work. “She’s really funny, and had crazy adventures and mishaps as an editorial assistant and as a reporter. I thought it would make a great strip,” he said. “When she left, I got ideas from my friends and family.”
In this week’s crop of viral stories on the Internet was a man who came home from a vacation in Dubai with a phone bill totaling P3.2 million. That’s easily the price of property in certain parts of Metro Manila.
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