Wazzup Pilipinas!
It's been years since I watched a live musical play. The last one
was a ballet show featuring Lisa Macuja, one of Manila's famed
ballerinas at Aliw Theater, CCP. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to
watch another live musical play this time just a few blocks from Aliw
which is in Star Theater for the "Romeo & Juliet The Musical" by
Kids Acts Philippines. This play as well all know is a reenactment of
William Shakespeare's famous novel but it was made it clear by the
production that it will be performed without sacrificing the original
texts of the author to let young adults understand and comprehend on how
the play is written. The dialogues are sung with full observance of how
phrases are being read.
Watching these young
actors and actresses portraying the characters was like me being
transported when I was a student because I used to memorize these same
exact lines just to pass our English literary subject. I wished we
should have watched a play like this before because the learning is much
better from watching than just merely reading a full text about it.
Though
I find it hard to keep up with the fast conversation of the characters,
maybe because the lines are written in heavy medieval English. I was
also sitting beside my fellow bloggers they also say the same thing. I
think it is better if they can also have a Tagalog version of "Romeo
& Juliet The Musical". This does not mean though that we doubt the
capabilities of the actors by any means but I think we can have this
play closer to our hearts if spoken in our language.
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
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