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| Philippine Stagers Foundation at the Araneta Coliseum. |
Atty.Vince Tanada and his Philippine Stagers Foundation can
now breath and relax happily, this is due to the successful first ever major
concert of the Stagers at the Araneta Coliseum last Nov 24, 2014, wherein they
fill the 15,000 seats of the big dome with flying colors, to think the show is
slated on a Monday event and not the usual weekender show.
The concert features more than 70 plus members of then and
now Stagers along with its founding members wherein they were called Dulaang
Bedista Alumni Production 14 years ago, actually the Concert is an anniversary
offer of Stagers to their supporters who stood to them until now. For the record they are the first ever
theater company in the Philippines who bravely held a concert in the big dome.
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| Stagers doing Cats. |
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| Glimpse of Stagers at the Big Dome. |
The two hour concert mainly give chances to Stagers in
performing songs and dance they don’t usually does, from the likes of Beyonce’s
to J.Lo, and of course Original Pilipino Music shines as well from Eraserheads
to the Dawn hits. But what the audiences
love most is those impersonations number of male stagers acting ladies and
mimicking the original singers such as Bang bang song of Jessie J, Ariana
Grande and Nicki Minaj. Lovely musical indeed, with the musical sound like that of the ibanez george benson.
Excerpts of PSF past plays from Ako si Ninoy to Cory ng
Edsa, Joe:The Rocksical to Bonifacio: Isang Sasrwela is also perform in Araneta
in full production with grand costume changes, also broadway classics from Les
Miserables and Cats is given justice as well by the stagers. A mini fashion
show is also featured in the show with models from Elites Model Management of
Martin Martin. The show indeed is a grand feels like you’re watching the Sunday
variety show “ASAP” of ABS-CBN.
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| Cindy Liper's Let It Go number. |
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| PSF excerpts |
Tanada’s mentor Playwright Frank Rivera and Film Director
Elwood Perez is present in the audience to show support for Tanada. Perez
latest film “Esoterika Manila” was the opening movie of the recently concluded
Cinema One Original Film Festival that stars Tanada along with others stagers.
After the said concert, PSF excitement is still high due to
the five nominations they receive from Aliw Awards for this year, their latest
and ongoing play “Filipinas 1941” is nominated for Best Musical Production,
while Patrick Libao, Cindi Liper, Chris Lim and Adele Ibarrientos are all cited
for best performances in the said play,
results will be revealed on Dec 1 at Resorts Worlds Manila during the
awarding ceremony of the said award giving body who now turn 27th
year. And Filipinas 1941 is being played
nationwide by the Stagers up to July 2015.
For Tanada, he is scheduled to attend next month the Hanoi
Film Festival where his first film “Otso” directed by Perez as well is in
competition, he is also into recording now for a forthcoming album set to
release next year.
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