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The Original Kim and The Silver Anniversary Kim 🌏 Disclaimer:  This is NOT a religious blog entry Note:  I have shelved this blog entry for decades.  #LatePost  Today, in the year 2019, I will finally post what I think about this musical.  Honestly, I originally wrote this ages ago, but this blog entry also includes my thoughts about the other productions, so this is updated .  I am not expecting anyone to read this(thanks to the few that already did), but if you do, I hope you get to read this until the end.  Thanks in advance. source MISS SAIGON is still the biggest vehicle that brought a lot of my country people to glory, most especially Ms. LEA SALONGA who became more than a household name.  She was critically acclaimed worldwide, won awards, and her name became like a banner...an emblem for our country.  Through Miss Saigon, Ms. Salonga had a lot of projects with Disney and elsewhere. I had a chance to audition...

( source ) Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a 27-year-old grieving after the loss of her father (Anthony Hopkins), a genius mathematician whose mind gradually deteriorated from mental illness. With her sister, Claire (Hope Davis), urging Catherine to leave their family home, and an ambitious student (Jake Gyllen haal) searching through her father's notes, Catherine struggles to keep her composure and her sanity in this drama adapted from the stage play by David Auburn. -WWW Initial release :  30 September 2005 ( USA ) Director :  John Madden Story by :  David Auburn   (This was presented first in the year 2000(May- Off Broadway- New Brunswick, New Jersey/ October-Great White Way or Broadway).  It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play) Nominations :  Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama 2006 · Gwyneth Paltrow/ Golden Lion 2005 · John Madden/ Grand Jury Prize 2005 · J...

Helen and Bruce Lea and Eric Alison Cris DRAMATIS PERSONAE Cris Villonco as 43 year old Alison Bechdel/Narrator (Congratulations, Cris.  If  did not know better, I would think you are Alison Bechdel himself...you sang and narrated well...your acting?  You weren't acting at all. You truly are versatile. Keep it up. Break more legs! ;-D  ) Eric Kunze as Bruce Allen Bechdel/Dad (His singing reminded me of Les Miserables...wait, he was there...he was Marius when Ms. Salonga was Eponine...his voice is so melodically resonant and he does act well.) Ms. Lea Salonga as Helen Augusta Fontana Bechdel/mom (seamless acting...I felt Helen's pain, anxiety...almost everything, if not everything, that was going on inside of her...to be trapped in that kind of marriage because of, what's the word? Duty?...my heart is wrenched...when she was talking to Alison about "the past"(Days and Days), tears flowed like waterfalls.) Andee Achacoso and Katie Bradshaw as the y...

( source ) Thunder and lightning could not stop my Bestie and me from watching this show.  My family already had plans of watching another concert at the Music Museum, to support one of the composers featured(Mr. Dodjie Simon), but I saw someone  post about this before I purchased the tickets.  Since we were really bent on supporting that other concert, the deal was to find someone who was willing to watch CURTAINS UP with me and that person should be someone the family trusted and would be willing to fetch and drive me there(if that person's car was not available, that person should be willing to drive our car).  If I find that one(1) person, then I could watch Curtains Up.   Thankfully, my ever-so-busy Best est Friend, Eise, who is also a music lover, among other things, like me, was willing to watch it with me.  She was on her way to Boracay, but she would be back a day and 1/2 before the concert. So I purchased the tickets for both co...