Archive for October, 2009
And the Show Goes On…
I hadn’t really cared about Rent till the 1996 Broadway rock opera by Jonathan Larson became a 2005 big-screen ordeal by Christopher Columbus, though I heard things here and there about the original musical. When I saw the movie, I immediately became hooked. The music, the characters, the story about friends struggling and pulling together, [...]
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Tags: adam pascal, anthony rapp, musicals, rent
Entertainment by local (and not-so-local) Filipino artists, dancers, and models, as well as a stuffed bee, was hosted at The Shops at Tanforan in San Bruno, CA on Saturday, October 17th. This festivity, the 4th Annual Samahan Fest, was a free event hosted by the mall as a celebration of Filipino American Heritage Month. Mallgoers [...]
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Tags: event, ramiele malubay, samahan fest
The television genre of musical comedy is hardly new. For me, it started with a 2000 made-for-MTV movie called 2Gether, which documented the creation of a fictional boy band, back when the real things were hot in the day. Not only did the movie give way to a spin-off series, two albums, and music videos, [...]
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Tags: 2gether, concerts, glee, high school musical, music, television, world series
I haven’t been doing it much myself lately, but who doesn’t enjoy going to shows, concerts, and musicals? If you love them (or even if you don’t) and have spare time and cash to check some out this weekend, here are some suggestions for you to check out. Click on the markers on the nifty [...]
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The Vince Vaughn comedy Couples Retreat opened at number one this past weekend, beating out last week’s number one, the horror-comedy Zombieland. The 3-D animated feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs also remained strong in its third week of release. Another 3-D animated feature, a double re-release of the 1995/1999 Disney/Pixar hit Toy Story [...]
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Tags: box office statistics, cloudy with a chance of meatballs, couples retreat, movie, paranormal activity, toy story, toy story 2, zombieland
