It’s always nice to watch a preview and/or an opening night of a show which barely has flaws. It shows how the production maximizes their preparations. For The Wedding Singer, I only have two points to raise: PUSH and PULL
PUSH. I believe Iya Villania can do more than that. Her voice suits her role (and blends well with Gian Magdangal’s superb voice), but she just needs to push more or else she’ll lose her voice before the end of the run. As my voice coach always say “push, add force, support the diaphragm and you’ll be more comfortable with your high notes.” Aside from this, Iya is a good choice to play Julia Sullivan.
Listen how well their voices blend
PULL. The energy of the cast is just contagious! You just want to get up, dance with them and have fun. I just hope they’ll pull back just a liiiiiittle energy for scenes which should focus on the leads. There are moments when too much energy distracts the essence of a particular scene.
This is my current LSS. Everything about this spells F-U-N!
Although the material has a lot of unnecessary fillers, it's fun watching a great cast enjoying their work. And oh, Gian Magdangal is a great choice to play Robbie Hart: very clean voice, good audience connection and commendable acting.
Official review will come out after I watch the play again on the 30th.
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Catch THE WEDDING SINGER the MUSICAL Manila on October 23 to November 14 at the Meralco Theater. There will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows at 8pm, with Saturday matinees at 330pm and Sunday matinees at 4pm. For details, you may call 586.71.05, 557.58.60, 0917.554.5560, or visit www.9workstheatrical.com or Ticketworld at 891.9999.
hahaha OMG. So I think nakulangan pa ako sa energy nila. Another thing they need to fix, the sound system. The Mic always fails.
ReplyDeleteHey Jori!
ReplyDeleteWasn't able to say goodbye to you after the preview. I needed to rush eh. :-) Anyway, I think bumababa yung energy during the fillers. Ang daming fillers nung story, yung mga unnecessary scenes na kahit wala, the story can still stand on its own. Yeah, I have problems din with the sound system.t. :-)
Oh by the way, I got your email invite. I'm not yet sure if I can go there. Maybe next time. Thanks. See you again soon!
:-)
Wow pumasa, for a change =)
ReplyDeleteOliver,
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, yes! Hehehe! Although may problema nanaman ako sa material. :-D
The material is always independent from the direction of the director. I simply believe that Mr. Robbie Guevara squeezed the best from the material. It didn't fail to make me laugh, it completed my saturday night!
ReplyDeletePierre,
ReplyDeleteYup! Couldn't agree more. :)
I think the material is poorly adopted to stage musical version. Unlike all other movie to broadway titles, The Wedding Singer has a lot of filler scenes. I think the show could be much better if it is just in a one act run like Xanadu.
ReplyDeleteJori,
ReplyDeleteOMG! You have read my mind! I wrote that in my "official" review for TWS. I felt like the writer squeezed in too much fillers just to make it a two-act musical.
for the november 6, 3:30pm showing, please contact the following for tickets:
ReplyDeleteErika 0922.837.3233
George 0917.560.0227
or visit http://bit.ly/weddingsinermanila
thanks!
For tickets to the Oct 30, 330pm (Sat) show, contact Cla @ 0917-8852526 or 0922-8351585.
ReplyDeletevisit www.theweddingsingermusical.blogspot.com to view the available seats and make online reservations! :)
hi. may review ka ba sa a little night music?
ReplyDeletehello mr theaterrific! do you have a review for a little night music? we watched the opening night and i want to know what your opinion is of the play....
ReplyDeleteHello to you Anonymous and Irina Phi,
ReplyDeleteI'm watching ALNM this weekend pa lang. I should be done writing my review by Sunday. Sorry, late na yung review. :-S
For tickets to the Nov 7 (Sun) 8PM schedule, contact Onay @ 0918.536.2116 or visit http://www.watchplays.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteCelebrate a night of music and laughter as love finds you!