MANILA, Philippines—More than a week after veteran actress Amable “Ama” Quiambao succumbed to heart attack, Philippine theater lost another prime mover, Elmar Beltran Ingles, who died Tuesday morning in his apartment.
It’s only a ponytail that separates man from beast in ‘Jekyll and Hyde,’” went the opening line of Ben Brantley’s blistering review for the New York Times of the Frank Wildhorn-Leslie Bricusse musical when it opened on Broadway in April 1997.
Haggling for talent fees but getting paid less than what was agreed upon. Negotiations conducted through text messages, with no official contract to back up the deal. Having the same talent fee for the last five years. Enduring long hours of taping in a rugged out-of-town location and provided only with monobloc chairs as bed for much-needed rest.
