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Last week, the style meter shot up when three of the country’s celebrity women got married in drop-dead glam wedding frocks.
Theater artist Cris Villonco and businessman Paolo Valderrama were married only yesterday, April 30, but the Filipiniana-themed despedida de soltera hosted by ninang Virgie Ramos at Swatch & Swatch Studio days before gave guests an idea what to expect on the big day.
Esang de Torres, quoting the musical’s money line: ‘Even if you’re little, you can do a lot. Mustn’t let a little thing like ‘little’ stop you.’
Pop Meets Big Band Jazz,” held last Oct. 8, was a double celebration of 100 years of jazz, one of America’s most original art forms born at the turn of the century in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the opening of the first American Express Asia Office in 1916. A century later, that led to the strategic partnership forged with BDO today.
Cris Villonco has been cast in English and Filipino productions, plays and musicals, dramas and comedies, classic and contemporary material, in character and lead roles, and, earlier this year, even in a male role (well, a female cross-dressed as a male, as Viola/Cesar in Philippine Educational Theater Association’s “D’ Wonder Twins of Boac,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”).
Theater leading ladies Cris Villonco and Joanna Ampil will alternate as Maria Rainer in Resorts World Manila’s staging of the musical “Sound of Music.”
Atlantis Productions celebrates its 15th Anniversary with the first professionally licensed production of “Ghost The Musical” in the Asia Pacific region. “Ghost The Musical” will run from April 25 to May 11 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati.
A different but nonetheless good way to spend Mother’s Day this weekend is to go to the theater. “Ghost The Musical” is worth your weekend.
In brief, everything in this production is on point
The last time Tanghalang Pilipino staged the Cayabyab-Lumbera musical-theater adaptation of Rizal’s novel “Noli Me Tangere,” the result was vastly...
