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"panty kung panty," said my fellow recitalist. ehm...okay! pardon the stomach, but it's a happy stomach *ting* ;-) i really do look like a rabbit. and when in makeup, a japanese rabbit!
Finally! Thanks, K, for taking such nice shots :) To fellow recitalists, lemme know if you want hi-res versions and i'll email them to you :) Don't you miss rehearsals, already? Gah.
swollen feet? no problem! bellydancing helps you forget the pain :) despite what happened to me friday, i decided to push through with the recital, else i thought i'd feel even worse. it was bearable and nobody would expect me to be at my best. got a lot of love that day :) these girls are the coolest :) i have a newfound love for this and plan to be able to teach by the time i am 40 years old. (photos courtesy of fabi, kristine, alda and www.toji.multiply.com--official event photog). i'll upload mine soon :)
March 29, 2008 - Roofdeck Productions, a group of theater lovers, takes theater to the masses as they stage a free one-act play at coffeehouses, all for the love of the art. Congrats, guys. Oh and my friend Joy, she's the director ;-)
After the unintentional horror that was The Corpse Bride (sorry, walked out on it), I'm glad to see that Burton is back in top form. The trademark blue-grays, pale faces and dark eyes, and the blood! Ooh preeetty!... His take on Sweeney Todd is entertaining, but strangely not enough (but still muuuuch better than TCB).
Acting was A-plus, with Burton's old reliables Johnny Depp and wife Helena Bonham-Carter playing the main characters. Credit also goes to the always Always wonderful Alan Rickman, who seem to give the movie some much needed (hmm...what's the word?) muscle. Glad to see they can all sing (That was an orgasmic duet by Depp and Rickman). I was surprised to learn that one of my favoritest songs comes from the play ("Not While I'm Around"--I'm a Streisand fan, and she covers this a lot). Nice, nice.
Generally, props all around but there seems to be something missing. It didn't hit me at the jugular with the same ferocity as Todd's friendly razors. I don't know exactly how it happened, but I couldn't empathize with any of them, except for Todd's victims. And that's strange.
About an hour-and-a-half long, it seemed, I dunno, a little rushed. I have no way to compare this with the Broadway version but I just couldn't get in there with them, know what I mean? I'm happy that Burton has his groove back but next time, I hope there's a little more heart and a little less style.
Oh well, he may be Tim Burton but I guess even He is not immune to the curse that's befalling Broadway-turned-Hollywood schemes.
After almost 12 years of making the youthful cry and the hipsters balk, open-hearted musical Rent counts it's last 525,600 minutes.
If you want to read more about the play's closing this June, hop on over to the New York Times website. I'll be too busy locking myself in my room with SoftBatch cookies and defending myself from the cooler and more intellectual people who'll be laughing at my dilemma.
I like this quote from the paper, "Rent is nothing, if not earnest." Earnest is always enough for me.
i was hesitant at first, and not a little scared. i've heard stories about how the production outfit decided to get big-name actors for box-office appeal. still, i love this musical (thanks, sarah!), and thought it was a stroke of genius to cast aiza seguerra as gary coleman.
for those who have the music burned into their brains, atlantis' production of avenue q may not be as great as expected. but i chalk that up to the fact that the spoken dialogue add little to what we knew through the music. but if you're not looking for extra revelations, you'll have fun. for those who will just hear the songs for the first time, it'll be a hoot. (thanks, dar, for helping me score the tickets!)
rachel alejandro was a pleasant suprise, exuding the most energy among the cast and playing goody-two-shoes Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut with such commitment. joel trinidad was also very, very enjoyable. he played Nicky and Trekkie Monster. felix rivera played both Princeton and Rod, although I have to say I enjoyed his Rod much more than his Princeton (maybe i'm biased, always loved Rod, anyhoo). His Rod is earnest, super sweet, yet also, well, indeed a Republican ;-) Aiza, she did good. But she seemed a little conscious about the raunchy male stuff her character has to do. Her voice lacked a little projection, too. I'm hoping I just caught her at a bad time.
The set was perfect, too. saw the bootlegged youtube video of the broadway performance last year and the local stage design was loyal as possible given the size of the RCBC stage.
My only problem didn't have anything to do with the production. It's more about the play's milieu, with some of the jokes falling a little flat. Ah well. Still, all in all, a good job!
