“It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever seen!” were the first words I ever spoke, no, gushed to Sindak 1941’s creator…theatrical wunderkind, Atty. Vincent “Vince” Tanada, the multi-awarded (various awards as best director and best actor, including three Aliw Awards as Best Director, earning him a place in its Hall of Fame, as well…
Atlantis went Grand Guignol for its 20th Season opener, “Sweeney Todd” with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, displaying great taste, pun intended, to celebrate the musical’s 40th Anniversary. The tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a revenge tale…one of my favorite kinds…that of a wrongly imprisoned…
When I was a fledgling theater actress myself, at the backstage of my first professional play, the more seasoned actors kept rhapsodizing about “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” A true newbie, I knew nothing of this musical, but the description captured my imagination. I had become a certified Anglophile in high school,…
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Take a peek inside the SWEENEY TODD Manila rehearsal room! SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, starring Lea Salonga and Jett Pangan, runs from October 11 to 27, 2019 at The Theatre at Solaire, Parañaque City. Get tickets at www.ticketworld.com.ph. #sweeneytoddMNL #atlantisTWENTY
To finish off dead week, trainees in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music and Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Movie will present a one-night-only exploration of musical theater through the years. The display is a totally free event set for April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall Room 119….
Atlantis productions did it again, sharp production! Never really heard the music or watched much except some excerpts online, so I was ready for a brand new musical. Of course I was ready to like it since my previous experiences with productions from Atlantis are consistently good. Watched: Addams Family, In the Heights, Kinky Boots,…
The cast of Guadalupe the musical in the Philippines gave life to the pages in three months of intense rehearsals! Who is on that stage? (Alphabetical order) Addy Avecilla Adrian Lindayag Alecx Lorica Alfritz Blanche Arman Ferrer Charm Barretto Chaye Mogg CK Manalili Cocoy Laurel Dindo Divinagracia Erick Fatalla Faith Cabebe Hirohito Vicencio Ian…
UMC / Polydor Curated by Really Useful Group and Andrew Lloyd Webber, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: UNMASKED – THE PLATINUM COLLECTION offers a superb overview of the career to date of one the most successful composers of the modern era. Not just an ultimate greatest hits collection, it also offers two further discs that explore Lloyd…
‘ Manhattan Miracle’ runs May 4 to 13 at Cahn Auditorium EVANSTON – The annual extravaganza that Associated Press calls the “greatest college show in America” mines the origins of musical theater when the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University co-presents the latest edition of the Waa-Mu Show, a musical entirely written…