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| The Cast of Into The Woods. |
For
the 5th year anniversary of Upstart Productions, they are staging
the Tony Award winning “Into the Woods”, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by
James Lapine.
Upstart
Producer and the Director of the upcoming musical Joel Trinidad admit that he
loves dearly the said play, and when he see the venue, Kasalikasan Garden in
Bonifacio Global City, he only think of Into the woods that fit the said place.
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| Theater Actor & Director Joel Trinidad of Upstart Production. |
Trinidad
also said that he have no idea, the said musical becoming a Disney movie that
was shown in theaters recently, thus he is not making ride on it popularity.
However this Filipino adaptation will tell the complete story and all the songs
will be perform on stage.
“We
have all the songs that’s not in the movie, our production will give something
new, something unique that they never seen in any production.” Trinidad added.
Cast
as the witch is the singer Rachel Alejandro, Joel’s father the great actor Noel
Trinidad will play as the story teller of the play. During the press conference last Feb 3, 2015
at the Picasso Boutique Residences in Makati City, majority of its cast admit
the songs for the play are hard to sung, but they embrace it since they love
the play and it’s a challenge for their chosen craft.
“Throughout
the musical, there are so many parts where words are fast changing and tongue
twisting, and I don’t rap usually, but I love it, it’s so much fun”, Alejandro
said.
Into
the woods will have 8 runs, the schedules are Feb 21, 22 and 28, and March 1,
7, 8, 14, and 15. All at 6 in the evening at Kasalikasan garden in BGC. Ticket
price range from P1, 200 for VIP, P1,100 for Orchestra and P1,000 for Gallery.
Tickets are now available in Ticketworld.
Trinidad
informs us that he did cast a real sisters to play actual sisters in the play,
a real life couple to act husband and wife, plus different celebrities to play
the giant in every performances. The story based on the book is as is and not
change however he did some revisions in presenting it.
“The
overall concept is different from the original play, it’s a slumber party where
a bunch of people are playing role, set in backyard, it’s a dream like quality,
the whole time they are in pajamas”, added Trinidad.
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| Direk Joel, Rachel Alejandro and Noel Trinidad. |
Here
are the complete cast of Into the woods the musical, Rob Atadero, Renee Chan,
Kay Balajadua-Liggayu, Jillian Ita-As, Charley Magalit, Lorenz Martinez,
Julienne Mendoza, Jill Peña, Justine Peña, Mica Pineda, Gemini Quintos, Noel
Rayos, George Schulze, Only Torres, Nicky Triviño, Sheila Valderama-Martinez,
Chino Viguillas, and Robie Zialcita.
Into
the woods was last seen in Philippine theater wayback 1991 by Repertory Phils.
This year’s version is choreograph by Tristan Cheng and musical direction by
Dingdong Fiel.
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