Teatro Thread

[revan17]

Hi guys! Wala pang thread sa Teatro, so naisip kung gumawa.

Bale, if you have any upcoming auditions, if you need actors, backstage staff, production staff, etc., just post here.

Also, if you want to post about your favorite plays, or upcoming plays, post lang ng post. 

The official theatre thread of pinoyg4m! 

[Elphaba]

for sure maganda yun... me rep pa ba?

[boggs]

for sure maganda yun... me rep pa ba?

repertory... di ko sure kung on-going pa ung seussical e... tagal na rin akong di nakapanood sa rep...

[Elphaba]

thanks, ibig sabihin buhay pa sila. super like ko kasi sila. it's been a decade since i last watched rep.

[Lanchie]

Cultural Center of the Philippines’ real shocker
By: Roger Pe
Philippine Daily Inquirer 11:58 pm | Thursday, August 25th, 2011

http://business.inquirer.net/15039/cultural-center-of-the-philippines%E2%80%99-real-shocker

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With all humility, there is more to the Cultural Center of the Philippines than Mideo Cruz’s shock art that unfairly overshadowed the larger part of the whole.

And the real shocker is, it’s long been neglected.

Not everyone knows the CCP produces about 800 shows a year and that the Filipino art institution has more than two million people listening to its award-winning radio program: “Sugpuin ang Korupsyon,” elevated to the Hall of Fame by the Catholic Mass Media Awards.

Most recently, it celebrated Jose Rizal’s 150th birthday featuring prominent artists and performing groups led by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and Ballet Philippines.

A follow-up, “Noli Me Tangere: The Musical” is ongoing at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino to critical acclaim.

More than 40 years of feeding hunger for the arts, the CCP now looks like a visibly haggard lady obviously spent.

Put side by side with Singapore’s Esplanade and Hong Kong’s Museum of Art, it looks decrepit and needs a major overhaul to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with these two, which never existed before CCP was born.

We built new cities, some of the world’s biggest malls, fattened the military budget, yet we left the country’s haven for the arts fend for itself in the last many years.

Before Cruz’s art exploded on our faces, CCP was already gasping for its breath, digging deeper into its own pocket much too often and its resident artists crying for help.

From afar, the once envy of Asia still mesmerizes. The architectural wonder, which former US Ambassador to the Philippines Henry Byroade mentioned as “it makes our Kennedy Center look cheap,” still makes people stop.

On closer scrutiny, however, the Venus-like beauty is aging faster, battered by time and dwindling support.

The 43-year-old edifice is in dire need of money for its upkeep, against the threats of fiscal neglect and those who wish to see her untimely demise.

The ceiling of the orchestra section is inching closer to becoming like that of a rundown movie theater.

The hydraulic unit at the back of Main Theater, an integral part for seamless, multi-vantage point staging, is about to be shut down. Seriously damaged during the 1990 earthquake, it has not been repaired since then.

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra rehearsal studio does not befit its name in spite of the many accolades it has brought home. It is just as pathetic and looks like a provincial university auditorium.

French maestro Olivier Ochanine told media people during a recent tour of the premises: “Careful not to jump up and down, you’ll feel the rickety vibration of the floor.”

Ballet Philippines is another sordid sight. The Philippines’ biggest ballet school is housed in a cramped, uninspiring piece of space. A ballerina could easily hurt herself on a miscue while doing pirouettes.

Yet, the ensemble under former Miss Universe Margie Moran-Floirendo is ever passionate nurturing Filipino ballet talents to world-class status even with diminishing resources.

Further down the once elegant foyer nests Ramon Obusan’s folkloric dance company. The group now handled by the National Artist’s sister, Iris Obusan-Isla, has enthralled the world many times over. Like the rest of the resident companies at CCP, it is literally begging for government’s help.

At Tanghalang Pilipino, actor John Arcilla, one of local thespians of Actors Company, says it best: “Rizal’s novels and teachings are even more relevant today. Walang nagbago. Mga personalidad lang ang nagbago.”

Arcilla laments the theater’s outdated equipment and artists’ meager wages: “Kung pababayaan natin ang mga Filipino artists, sino pa ang magpa-paalaala ng ating kultura sa mga kabataan kundi tayong mga alagad ng sining?”

At the height of a controversial art exhibit a couple of weeks ago, CCP chairperson Emily Abrera reiterated that the CCP would continue to be a refuge for artistic freedom and uphold it as enshrined in the Constitution. Her “intransigence” enraged the bishops.

Artistic freedom, whether it was compromised or not, has brought forth original Filipino content in dance, theater, music, literature, visual arts and film to Filipinos for four decades.

CCP artistic director Chris Millado told media that CCP provides local and global artistic experiences to Filipinos.

“About 400,000 attend shows at the main venues, and more than 100,000 compose audiences and artists in the regions,” he said.

Last Tuesday, CCP opened the first international jazz fest with 150 international artists on the bill. “The festival is part of our program to open up CCP on a global scale,” says CCP president Raul Sunico.

Around 20,000 also view CCP’s TV programs (“The Red Carpet” among them) on arts and culture. Through the years, CCP has nurtured and developed artists who have become world-class and masters in their field.

Millado says CCP even responds to national calamities and emergency situations through art and culture via Art Therapy programs for children and families affected by natural disasters and from conflict-ridden areas.

Creative excellence

CCP’S flagship for artistic excellence is the Resident Company Program composed of: Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, UST Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Philippines, Philippine Ballet Theater, Philippine Madrigal Singers, Tanghalang Pilipino, Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company, Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group and the National Music Competition for Young Artists.

CCP produces and hosts festivals, among them, the Pasinaya CCP Open House Festival, considered as the largest multi-arts festival in the country, attracting more than 50,000 people and 2,000 performers in a single day offered free to the public.

CCP’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival is now considered as the biggest and most influential film festival. It is changing the landscape of cinematic art in the Philippines.

The 13 Artists Awards and Exhibition has become the career launching pad of painters, sculptors, installation artists whose works are now recognized in Asia and the world.

In contrast, not many people know that a large chunk of money gobble up CCP’s budget on physical maintenance alone.

Upgrading instruments, equipment, facilities and salaries are an entirely different matter—they’re mind-boggling.

“CCP is our proud link to our earliest ancestors, living proof of our creative genius, bridge of understanding between nationalities. May it forever stand as a shrine for that immortal part of us,” CCP Tanghalang Pilipino executive director Leslie Noble states.

When it unleashes its grand fountain, CCP is a joy to behold with the Philippine flag gently flapping at the background. Just lazing away on its grounds, biking or jogging around its premises gives freedom to the soul. It has given us so much. It’s time to give something back.

[boggs]

thanks, ibig sabihin buhay pa sila. super like ko kasi sila. it's been a decade since i last watched rep.

yeah.. usually naman sa greenbelt 1 sila nagpeperform...

[boggs]

may caredivas pa ba? di ko pa napapanood un...


attended the National Universities and Colleges Theater Organization (NUCTO) regional conference and i will be one of the representatives of the NCR region for the National conference to be held at UMak along with 15 other representatives from other school theater orgs...

[GeekyGuide]

sana nga makapanood din ako nian...

enwei... Peter Pan by Trumpets.... gusto ko rin mapanood....

Repertory is currently staging Seussical until October and then it'll be staging Peter Pan. Not sure if I want to go - or if I still have the funds, LOL.


Garapata and I caught The Lion King at Singapore for my birthday this past weekend. Amazing costumes and puppetry although some of the actors didn't seem well-suited for their roles, primarily the Simbas.

[Elphaba]

Repertory is currently staging Seussical until October and then it'll be staging Peter Pan. Not sure if I want to go - or if I still have the funds, LOL.


Garapata and I caught The Lion King at Singapore for my birthday this past weekend. Amazing costumes and puppetry although some of the actors didn't seem well-suited for their roles, primarily the Simbas.

i guess lion king is a musical play... are the songs good?

[boggs]

Repertory is currently staging Seussical until October and then it'll be staging Peter Pan. Not sure if I want to go - or if I still have the funds, LOL.


Garapata and I caught The Lion King at Singapore for my birthday this past weekend. Amazing costumes and puppetry although some of the actors didn't seem well-suited for their roles, primarily the Simbas.

thanks for the correction geeky ^__^ .... i wasn't really sure kc kung trumpets or repertory ung Peter Pan, i just assumed na trumpets un since sam concepcion is a trumpets alumni...

[isthisyue]

International theatrical sensation Stomp in Manila for 8 shows only 

 [size=85%]The international theatrical sensation “Stomp” comes to Manila in October 2011 for the first time. The highly-anticipated show that features a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy will be staged at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, Cultural Center of the Philippines, from October 18-23, 2011, for eight shows only.

 “Stomp” is a high-energy, percussive symphony, coupled with dance. Although “Stomp” is played entirely on non-traditional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms and sticks, it transforms the stage into a pulsating, witty and utterly irresistible theatrical event. It has little or no melody in the traditional sense, so it doesn’t matter if one's taste in music is jazz, classical, dance or pop. “Stomp” has no words, yet everyone can understand it.

 “'Stomp' brings the house down!” (Independent on Sunday, UK)

 Founded in Brighton, UK, in the summer of 1991, “Stomp” was the result of 10-year collaboration between its creators, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. It was previewed at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre and premiered at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, where it became the Guardian’s “Critic’s Choice” and won the Daily Express “Best of the Fringe” award.

 

 Between 1991 and 1994, the original cast of “Stomp” played to capacity audiences around the world: from Hong Kong to Barcelona, from Dublin to Sydney. The touring culminated in a sell-out season at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre in January 1994, where “Stomp” received an Olivier nomination for “Best Entertainment” and won “Best Choreography in a West End show”.

 “Pure stage magic, you’ll be dancing in your seats!” (The Sunday Telegraph, UK)

 “Stomp” began its run at the Orpheum Theatre in New York in February 1994 and quickly went on to win both an Obie and a Drama Desk award for “Most Unique Theatre Experience”. By the summer of 1994, the first American cast was in place at the Orpheum, freeing the original cast for sell out tours of North America and Japan.

 “Stomp”, now on its 9th year in London’s West End and its 17th year on Broadway, has been seen by more than 15 million in 48 countries across 5 continents,

 Tickets are priced at P750, P1000, P1500, P2000, P2500, P3000, P3500, P4000, P4500, P5000, P5500, and P7000. Senior citizens enjoy a 20-percent discount.

 All tickets are available at all TicketWorld outlets, selected National Bookstore branches, Robinsons Department Store (Galleria, Malate, Metro East, Festival Mall & Starmill Pampanga), and Ayala Center (Greenbelt 1, Glorietta 4, and Trinoma Mall Cinema Booths) and TicketWorld Office at 6793 Ayala Avenue, Suite 701 V. Madrigal Building, Makati City.  To book, call +632-8919999, or visit www.ticketworld.com.ph

 “Big, noisy and irresistible!” (Sun Herald, Australia)

 

[GeekyGuide]

i guess lion king is a musical play... are the songs good?

Yup, it's a pretty big musical with some pretty compelling songs. You should get a copy of the soundtrack!

On Topic:

We're catching the last show of In The Heights on September 18. Initial reviews are extremely positive!

[Elphaba]

billy elliot musical is super!!!

[boggs]

please support our former supervising director by watching seussical... kasama siya sa cast.. ^__^ wala lang.. nagpromote lang haha

[Mandragora]

please support our former supervising director by watching seussical... kasama siya sa cast.. ^__^ wala lang.. nagpromote lang haha

wow.
awesome! I've been a theater enthusiast myself.
It's been quite some time thought.
Anyone seen Rama at Sita back in the days?

[Naivete]

I've been thinking whether to catch Seussical or Peter Pan...

[GeekyGuide]

I've been thinking whether to catch Seussical or Peter Pan...

Toying with that as well. At the very least, I've eliminated Little Mermaid from my to-watch list for now. =P

[Naivete]

Toying with that as well. At the very least, I've eliminated Little Mermaid from my to-watch list for now. =P

oh... why? that's later this year pa di ba?

[GeekyGuide]

oh... why? that's later this year pa di ba?

Friends aren't recommending it too highly for now, hehe

[Lanchie]

How about we watch as a group? 
i vote for Seussical.

[Naivete]

Friends aren't recommending it too highly for now, hehe

ooh... hokay...

How about we watch as a group? 
i vote for Seussical.

i think that's a great idea!