Among the three evenings of this year’s Triple Threats concert series at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), “Koro Koro Boom,” directed by Melvin Lee, felt the most relaxed—more a convivial gathering of like minds than an all-stops-out song-and-dance extravaganza.
Did the performers have enough rehearsal time, especially since most of the songs required belting notes of the inhuman kind?
Multi-awarded lyricist-composer-musical director Vincent De Jesus is the second featured artist in “Triple Threats: The Composers” on September 24, 2015...
In the event Michael Williams decides to retire from acting, he can open a jazz club and take to the stage every night, seven days a week, singing Stephen Sondheim and Richard Rodgers, telling anecdotes from his colorful career, and engaging his male staff in flirtatious banter.
Michael Williams stages his solo concert entitled “Never Felt Better” on September 18 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) at 7:30 pm. This show is the second concert of the series “Triple Threats: Leading Men and Women of Philippine Musical Theater”. The first concert held in August was top-billed by Sheila Francisco.
Performing artists Sheila Francisco, Michael Williams and Bituin Escalante headline in “Triple Threats: Leading Men and Women of Philippine Musical Theater” from August to October 2014 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) at 7:30 pm. This event comes after the successful series run in 2013 that featured Nonie Buencamino, Audie Gemora and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo.
Sheila Francisco’s upcoming first solo concert, “Once in a Lifetime,” has been a long-time dream of hers. For years, the seasoned theater actress has been keeping a journal where she jots down songs for a possible line-up, in case she gets to have her own show.
It was 1977. The world was going to change for Menchu Lauchengco, 15, a high school student, but she didn’t know it yet.
“I decided to trace my journey as a musical theater actor from the time I accidentally stumbled onto the stage, to going into it as a profession,” says singing actor Audie Gemora. “I will mark milestones in my long 33-year career with songs relevant to that journey. That’s why I chose to title the concert ‘I Was Here.’”
