Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ricky Davao’s performance in Aloy Adlawan’s indie film Signos (The Sign) earned him the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award in the recently concluded UK International Filmmaker Film Festival, which was held in England from 20-27 June 2008.
Let Me Dance The probability of anyone staging West Side Story again in Manila is pretty low to nonexistent, so I asked permission from STAGES President Audie Gemora whether I could join dance rehearsals so that I could experience, even just once, dancing the choreography of the legendary Jerome Robbins.
“Come rain come shine, the show must go on!” declares Donald O’Connor’s character in the Hollywood film Singin’ in the Rain.
SM Little Stars 2008 Finalists And, the 24 young finalists of the SM Little Stars got a first hand experience of the famous line when Typhoon Frank hit Manila, and a Storm Signal No. 3 was raised over the metropolis on the day of the show on 22 June 2008.
Jose Mari Avellana Collapses During Curtain Call Before they were to take their bows, director-actor Bart Guingona recalls in a Philippine Daily Inquirer article, “He [Jose Mari Avellana] collapsed. Mari’s family rushed up onstage, his daughters near hysteria. When they sat him up, he vomited what looked like at least a bucket of blood.
“When I turned to the audience to call for a doctor in the house… I was faced with an uncomprehending audience, glued to their seats. I later learned that many had thought it was all part of the show.”
Marian Rivera Verbally Attacks The YouTube video opens with Marian Rivera saying under her breath, “Ang kapal ng mukha mo a.”
Then she strides up the stairs where the man she’s referring to is and angrily accuses him, “O, bakit ngayon ganyan ka porke maraming nanonood sa yo mabait ka? Kanina tinatarantado mo ko kase walang nakakarinig sa yo?”
I expected technical expertise of the finest caliber, and, yes, there was purity of sound, a finely placed voice that the US-imported microphone was only too happy to transmit through PICC Plenary Hall. What I did not expect was the emotional maturity and acting behind the singing during the technical dress rehearsal on 22 May 2008 of Lea Salonga’s concert celebrating her thirty years in the entertainment industry aptly titled Lea My Life On Stage.
