... with pain caused by laughter.
Want to have a good time? Read the following promo for a theatrical production by a company
I've kept my eyes on for quite some time.
I really need to find the time and finish my write-up on Namaste: Ang Makulay na Buhay ni Gandhi. Just when you thought it was safe to return to the SM Theaters, along comes this one...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Trailer 3
Had Warner Brothers not gone against their word and went on with the release, Potterphiles would have been rejoicing by now. But, since HBP wasn't shown yesterday due to the company's greed, then we have to be content with this.
Intense trailer!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Seven out of the "Nine" women
Reposted from The Singing Stage:
Nine is a musical based on Mario Fratti's play inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film, 8 1/2. It is the story of a film director (Day-Lewis) struggling to make his next movie while juggling the demands of all the women in his life. The film will be directed by Rob Marshall, who also took the helm for the theatrical version of Chicago.
Source: http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2008/11/8/our-first-look-at-seven-of-nine.html
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Magbabalik ang lola niyo. ZZZ at the CCP 2009.
Magbabalik za Pebrero 2009
To miss this hysterical musical is a crime. I've been to the production twice already and it's the funniest and most entertaining original Filipino musical I've ever seen.Unfamiliar with the ZZZ ze Muzikal? Visit here: Old recording snippets, New recording snippets
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First heard from gibbscadiz.com:Tanghalang Pilipino's musical version of the landmark Eddie Romero film Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon, slated for staging in February 2009 as the closing production of its 22nd season, has been scrapped. Taking its place: a restaging of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah.
The reason, says TP artistic director Nanding Josef, is money--the lack of it. TP cannot, at this point, bankroll the creation of an original Filipino musical, much less a sprawling, multi-character piece like Ganito Kami Noon.
Director Chris Millado has confirmed the casting. Eula Valdes will be back as Zaturnnah, ditto with Tuxqs Rutaquio as Ada, Arnold Reyes as Dodong and Joey Paras as Didi.
The reason, says TP artistic director Nanding Josef, is money--the lack of it. TP cannot, at this point, bankroll the creation of an original Filipino musical, much less a sprawling, multi-character piece like Ganito Kami Noon.
Director Chris Millado has confirmed the casting. Eula Valdes will be back as Zaturnnah, ditto with Tuxqs Rutaquio as Ada, Arnold Reyes as Dodong and Joey Paras as Didi.
Read his full entry here:
Breaking news: 'Ganito Kami Noon' out, 'ZsaZsa Zaturnnah' in--again
Image from http://www.superheroeslives.com/internationals/zsazsa_zaturnnah_ze_muzikal_(2006).htmAudition for Spring Awakening 2009 [repost from Gibbs Cadiz and Atlantis]
Exciting. I wonder if I'll still be in Manila by then to catch this? I wonder if they'll get a breakthrough artist from the alternative/indie scene ala-Adam Pascal in RENT.
Atlantis Productions (“Avenue Q,” “Hairspray”) is mounting the 2007 Tony-winning musical next year, to be directed by Chari Arespacochaga.
The auditions are on December 9, 2008 (callbacks on Dec.11), for males and females 18 years old and above. Prepare 16 bars of a musical theater piece or alternative rock song.
Call Atlantis Productions 8927078 for details.
Atlantis Productions (“Avenue Q,” “Hairspray”) is mounting the 2007 Tony-winning musical next year, to be directed by Chari Arespacochaga.
The auditions are on December 9, 2008 (callbacks on Dec.11), for males and females 18 years old and above. Prepare 16 bars of a musical theater piece or alternative rock song.
Call Atlantis Productions 8927078 for details.
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2007 Tony Awards Performance
A&E Breakfast with the Arts Spot with the start of "My Junk"
2007 Tony Awards Performance
A&E Breakfast with the Arts Spot with the start of "My Junk"
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Official Apple Store Online Philippines now open!!!
I don't know if the news is new or not. Still, it's great that one can get everything Apple directly online, in pesos! Free delivery pa.http://store.apple.com/ph
Plus, this means that Philippine universities are already registered, so we can now purchase with discounts through the Apple Store for Education anytime.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
The doctor-writer who brought us hits like Jurassic Park and ER succumbed to cancer last Tuesday. I agree with what McGrath states in his appraisal of Crichton--his work may not have been great literature and may have even fallen under the scrutiny of hard-core scientists, but he sure knew how to write page-turners.
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From the NY Times:Builder of Windup Realms That Thrillingly Run Amok
by Charles McGrath
Most of his books relied on a simple formula. Like a scientist in a lab, Mr. Crichton (who had been a medical doctor before turning to fiction) would introduce some worrisome new specter into his fictional universe and then watch it run amok. Sometimes the menace was biological, like the space-borne plague in an early novel, “The Andromeda Strain,” or the genetically engineered dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” and its sequel, “The Lost World.” And sometimes the problem was human beings, like the Japanese businessmen in “Rising Sun” intent on taking over the United States economy, or the rapacious female executive in “Disclosure.” The implicit prophecies embedded in those two books — a world run by sinister, unreadable Asians or castrating female honchos — proved to be wide of the mark, which was perhaps slightly embarrassing to Mr. Crichton, but that did not deter him from speculating, in his 2004 novel, “State of Fear,” that global warming might be a hoax.
All the Crichton books depend to a certain extent on a little frisson of fear and suspense: that’s what kept you turning the pages. But a deeper source of their appeal was the author’s extravagant care in working out the clockwork mechanics of his experiments — the DNA replication in “Jurassic Park,” the time travel in “Timeline,” the submarine technology in “Sphere.” The novels have embedded in them little lectures or mini-seminars on, say, the Bernoulli principle, voice-recognition software or medieval jousting etiquette. Several also came with extensive scientific bibliographies, as if the author, having learned all this fascinating stuff, couldn’t help sharing it with his reader. Mr. Crichton, who also wrote for movies and television, was like a perpetually astonished graduate student who was more at home in the lab and the library than in social situations. His gizmos, as some critics never tired of pointing out, were often more subtle and more interesting than his characters.
The best of the Crichton novels have about them a boys’ adventure quality. They owe something to the Saturday-afternoon movie serials that Mr. Crichton watched as a boy and to the adventure novels of Arthur Conan Doyle (from whom Mr. Crichton borrowed the title “The Lost World” and whose example showed that a novel could never have too many dinosaurs). These books thrive on yarn spinning, but they also take immense delight in the inner workings of things (as opposed to people, women especially), and they make the world — or the made-up world, anyway — seem boundlessly interesting. Readers come away entertained and also with the belief, not entirely illusory, that they have actually learned something.
Like most genre fiction, the Crichton novels are windup toys of a sort, and in memory it’s hard sometimes to keep them all straight. We recall them by their themes and issues — the plague book, the gorilla story, the train-robbery one, the airplane thriller — and not for their characters or their fine writing. But they are nevertheless toys that require a fair amount of craftsmanship. Despite their way of latching on excitedly to the latest new thing, they often gleam with old-fashioned polish.
All the Crichton books depend to a certain extent on a little frisson of fear and suspense: that’s what kept you turning the pages. But a deeper source of their appeal was the author’s extravagant care in working out the clockwork mechanics of his experiments — the DNA replication in “Jurassic Park,” the time travel in “Timeline,” the submarine technology in “Sphere.” The novels have embedded in them little lectures or mini-seminars on, say, the Bernoulli principle, voice-recognition software or medieval jousting etiquette. Several also came with extensive scientific bibliographies, as if the author, having learned all this fascinating stuff, couldn’t help sharing it with his reader. Mr. Crichton, who also wrote for movies and television, was like a perpetually astonished graduate student who was more at home in the lab and the library than in social situations. His gizmos, as some critics never tired of pointing out, were often more subtle and more interesting than his characters.
The best of the Crichton novels have about them a boys’ adventure quality. They owe something to the Saturday-afternoon movie serials that Mr. Crichton watched as a boy and to the adventure novels of Arthur Conan Doyle (from whom Mr. Crichton borrowed the title “The Lost World” and whose example showed that a novel could never have too many dinosaurs). These books thrive on yarn spinning, but they also take immense delight in the inner workings of things (as opposed to people, women especially), and they make the world — or the made-up world, anyway — seem boundlessly interesting. Readers come away entertained and also with the belief, not entirely illusory, that they have actually learned something.
Like most genre fiction, the Crichton novels are windup toys of a sort, and in memory it’s hard sometimes to keep them all straight. We recall them by their themes and issues — the plague book, the gorilla story, the train-robbery one, the airplane thriller — and not for their characters or their fine writing. But they are nevertheless toys that require a fair amount of craftsmanship. Despite their way of latching on excitedly to the latest new thing, they often gleam with old-fashioned polish.
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