Showing posts with label spring manila. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring manila. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

spring awakening manila


Finally got to see Spring Awakening Manila!


Have posted about why I think this play is brilliant and everyone should go see it for the beautiful story and gorgeous music. Was both excited and apprehensive (coming from being a fan of the original). And it turns out that I was justified in feeling both ways.

Heaven must feel like this


Plays are meant to be live. There is no substitute, not a CD, not YouTube videos (and there are a lot of bootlegs). When things are live there is potential for magic.

There were a few standouts in the cast. I really liked Melchior, Moritz and the Adults.



Friday, September 04, 2009

Jett Pangan plays a loving and supportive father


"Jett Pangan plays a loving and supportive father in Atlantis Productions’ Spring Awakening."

Don't worry, the article was complete in saying that he also plays an abusive father. It was just funny to see this quote because his son eventually, well, you know. No spoliers ☺ (I wouldn't want this to be like the time I saw Titanic - and saw a friend in line to enter the theater as I was leaving. She asked how it was and I replied sarcastically that well, the ship sinks! And the random girl behind her interjected angrily that I had spoiled the ending for her. Right.)

An interesting thing about the Spring production from Duncan Shiek and Michael Sater is that it has only one actor play all of the adult male roles and one actress play all of the adult female roles. This kind of confused me at first because I thought that Wendla's mother was also their school teacher... but also a very inappropriate piano teacher!

I thought that this was sort of brilliant in the semiotics of it - instead of having a cast made of several adult actors and several child (teen) actors, the ratio is now 2 adults : 10 kids. And that really tells you where the spotlight is.

So, Jett Pangan has several large (pairs of) shoes to fill in Spring. But he sounds like he is up to it; again from Philppine Star: Having heard about Spring from director Chari Arespacochaga, he recalls “Chari asked me to name possible young leads for the show. I volunteered as a young lead, which disturbed her a little bit,” he smiles.