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The worldwide phenomenon known as Blue Man Group, in partnership with the Philippines’ #1 mobile brand Globe Telecom, has successfully brought their comedy, theatre, rock concert and dance party into our shores, much to the delight of Manila audiences, Blue Man Group opened on Thursday last week, Sept. 14, to a full house, rave reviews and standing ovations, and the show continued to astound Filipinos night after night since then.
It’s a scene straight out of a Scorsese film—you enter a casino, walk past people playing at the slot machines and card tables, and your ears catch bouncy, brassy music from a bygone era.
Stage veterans exhibit paintings to ‘take care of each other’–that is, to raise funds for their fellow actors’ medical expenses
If they could change one thing about the story, what would it be? ‘Madame Thénardier should leave her husband and run off with Jean Valjean!’
THEY may be godsends in other ways, but inside a theater, where you’re supposed to be savoring and focusing on an ephemeral work of art, a cell phone can be the bane of a theater-goer’s existence.
EVENTS these days in Manila are getting more and more detail-oriented that sometimes I forget I’m still in the Philippines.
Little inconsistencies in detail and character can niggle at you–it’s melodrama, after all–but the Manila show is a tightly staged production with a superb cast
French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg profusely thanked Filipinos and the Philippines last night at the gala opening of “Les Miserables” for the many local talents that had headlined and continue to star in international productions of “Les Miserables” and “Miss Saigon”, the long-running musicals he wrote with lyricist and fellow Frenchman Alan Boublil, and produced by legendary British impresario Cameron Mackintosh.
“Les Misérables,” Boublil & Schönberg’s spectacular musical, is expected to deliver a memorable experience to Filipino theater goers as it opens on March 11 at The Theatre at Solaire.
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