Oliver Oliveros News

The music of Pinoy pop-rock band Aegis makes its Philippine theater debut as Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) closes its 46th theater season with 'Rak of Aegis,' a rock musical comedy featuring the songs of Aegis. Opening Friday, January 31 at the PETA Theater Center (No.5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City), 'Rak of Aegis' will run for six weeks only, Friday to Sunday until Sunday, March 9, 2014.

A pair of tickets to the Broadway transfer of 'The Bridges of Madison County,' a new musical by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Marsha Norman ('The Secret Garden') and Jason Robert Brown ('The Last Five Years'), opening at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Thursday, February 20, will be up for bid--via a silent auction--tonight at New York-based advertising and media agencies' fundraiser for typhoon Haiyan victims at the International Center of Photography (43rd Street and Sixth Avenue) from 7 to 10:30 p.m.

On his way out of the Amazura Concert Hall in Jamaica, Queens, where the cast of GMA Pinoy TV's hit TV series 'My Husband's Lover' had a well-attended thanksgiving concert for fans, model-singer turned actor Tom Rodriguez had a quick interview with BroadwayWorld.com, whose readers from the Philippines have earlier nominated him for Best Actor (Musical) and Best Crossover Artist (Mainstream to Theater) at the 2013 BroadwayWorld Awards-Philippines.

Repertory Philippines and BroadwayWorld.com (BWW) are giving away a pair of tickets to the former's last Saturday night performance of 'The Producers,' a hit Broadway musical comedy written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, on December 15 at 8 p.m. at Onstage Theatre (2/F, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas corner Legaspi St., Makati City).

When famous Mattel Inc. dolls Barbie and Ken rekindled their romance on Valentine's Day in 2011-- after their much publicized separation in 2004--throngs of people packed Times Square to witness the ex-couple's reunion, acted out by real-life Barbie and Ken dolls. So it is no surprise that a stage musical, featuring real-life Barbie and Ken dolls, and their friends, was in the offing.

Carlo Orosa (Max Bialystock), Robie Zialcita (Max Bialystock), Topper Fabregas (Leo Bloom) and Giselle Tongi-Walters (Ulla) star in Repertory Philippines' 76th theater season final offering, Mel Brooks' 'The Producers," which runs at Onstage Theatre (2/F, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas corner Legaspi St., Makati City) until Sunday, December 15.

Bit by Bit Company and BroadwayWorld.com (BWW) are giving away a pair of tickets to the former's last Friday night performance of 'Maxie, the Musical,' an acclaimed musical adaptation of Michiko Yamamoto's screenplay for ufo Picture's critically acclaimed independent film 'Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros' ('The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros'), on Friday, December 6 at 8 p.m. at PETA Theater Center (5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City).

TV, film and stage actor Tom Rodriguez, alongside his co-stars on GMA Pinoy TV's breakout hit 'My Husband's Lover,' will headline 'My Husband's Lover'-the U.S. Concert Tour at Amazura Concert Hall (91-12 114th Place, Jamaica, N.Y.) on Sunday, December 1 at 5 p.m.

Philippine broadsheet BusinessWorld has picked the Philippine premiere of the hit Broadway musical 'The Addams Family' as the show to watch before it closes at Meralco Theater (Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City) Sunday, December 1.

In a one night only performance in New York City on Monday night, the disco musical 'Here Lies Love' concert for the Philippines raised more than $100,000 to benefit the survivors of supertyphoon Haiyan.

Contrary to an earlier report, young actors Julia Abueva and Tanya Manalang, recently announced to be playing ensemble in the record-breaking West End revival of 'Miss Saigon,' will be covering--not alternating for--the female lead, Kim.

Together with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and PETA Theater Center, Bit by Bit Company's screen-to-stage adaptation of "Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" ("The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros") held its world premiere November 9, and is running at PETA Theater Center (5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City) until December 8.

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The local promoters behind the upcoming Manila run of “Broadway's biggest blockbuster” “Wicked” have just announced that the international production, which premieres on Wednesday, January 22, 2014, at the main theatre of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, will be holding a benefit matinee performance and a special auction during curtain call on Friday, January 31, 2014, to raise funds for supertyphon Haiyan victims in central Philippines.

The Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI), which works year-round for the largest Philippine Independence Day celebrations in the East Coast of the United States in June, together with the Miss World Organization (MWO), held a fundraiser--about 230 people attended-- at Double Tree by Hilton in Newark, New Jersey last night, November 20. Despite the freezing weather, members of the Filipino-American community flocked to the event for a worthy cause plus the chance to see the Philippines' first ever Miss World winner Megan Lynne Young, who was escorted by reigning Mr. World Francisco Javier Escobar Parra, a N.Y.-based Colombian model.

BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater site on the Internet covering Broadway, London's West End, and beyond to 100 U.S. cities and 30 countries worldwide, and whose contents are catalogued in the Library of Congress, has recently announced its annual theater awards nominees from more than 50 regional markets across the globe, including the Philippines.

North Shore Music Theatre's (NSMT) production of Claude-Michel Schonberg, Richard Maltby Jr., and Alain Boublil's phenomenal popera “Miss Saigon,” which ran for a limited time, starring Jennifer Paz (Kim) and Jason Forbach (Chris), officially closed yesterday. Interestingly, real-life couple Jennifer and Anthony Fedorov's seven-month-old son, Julian, also made his professional stage debut in the show's final performance!

Resorts World Manila presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella.' Leading the show's star-studded cast are Karylle as Cinderella and Christian Bautista as the Prince. The beloved musical, which opened at Newport Performing Arts Theater Wednesday, October 9, is directed by veteran stage actor Michael Williams.

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Casino and entertainment complex Resorts World Manila has just announced that it is going to unveil Broadway's ultimate party bus in the Philippines next year via Stephen Elliot and Allan Scott's musical 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.' Open auditions are set Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22 at Newport Performing Arts Theater