Remembering Bibot Amador, ‘the lovable terror’
Rep stalwarts pay tribute to the company’s legendary founder, who would have been 83 last Feb. 7
Rep stalwarts pay tribute to the company’s legendary founder, who would have been 83 last Feb. 7
In the Spike Jonze film “Being John Malkovich,” John Cusack plays a file clerk who discovers a secret doorway into the head of the actor John Malkovich. For 15 minutes he is able to witness what Malkovich sees and experiences. Then he is ejected back into his own humdrum reality.
As a Christmas treat, this production barely bursts with the excitement of holiday cheer. Even the final scene featuring Scrooge dressed up as Santa and spreading the love to the whole town wasn’t enough to stop the kids in front of us from prematurely rushing to the bathroom.
The big musical of Repertory Philippines this year is “Scrooge,” a takeoff on Charles Dickens’ beloved novel “A Christmas Carol,” with formidable character actors Miguel Faustmann and Chinggoy Alonso alternating as the cantankerous, usurious old man whom everybody hates.
Repertory Philippines proudly presents its special holiday treat for the entire family with the new production of “Scrooge the Musical”.
The raves are still pouring in, even as Repertory Philippines’ “August: Osage County” is on its last weekend. The lion’s share of the praise goes to Baby Barredo, the company’s cofounder, artistic director and now the play’s main performer after an absence of more than a decade. Barredo remains at the top of her game at 72—an age she is not ashamed to admit.
“August: Osage County,” the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by actor-writer Tracy Letts, is set in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a speck of a town of less than 4,000 people somewhere in the Great American Plains. The state is just north of Texas, so it’s perfectly acceptable to assume that they must speak in a sort of Southern accent there.
“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second, because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.” Words of wisdom from the great living icon Johnny Depp, his perhaps most-shared and retweeted quote in social media lately.
“Don’t throw your shawl on the sofa!” commanded a voice from the dark. So back to stage left I went to do a reentrance. But the voice continued. That voice could never be contained.
“You have a stage prop. Use it!”
I don’t even remember the last time I danced this much,” a girl friend said, in between huffing and puffing. Me, too. Must have been in the ’80s and the ’90s, we all said, but then we also went further back in time, to the ’70s or even the ’60s, when the band named Daddy Cool struck the irresistible disco hits of those eras.
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