of first run-throughs, birthdays and theater history

We finally finished blocking Blue Jeans last Friday night. It was also Cindy's birthday, so after class, a bunch of us went to Giligan's in Malate to celebrate it. A bunch piled in RJ's car--Cindy, Princess, Joyce, Paul and Sir Nazer, while the rest of us (Gino, Guia, Allein, Christian and I) walked there.

Hahaha, Cindy and Paul were camwhoring the whole time we were there. Because they had already ordered the food before we arrived, we didn't know what to expect. Holy kamote, there was so much food! Parang bibitayin kami kinabukasan, hahahaha! There was also a band playing, and the most hilarious part was right after Princess had left with Joyce, the band played "Mahirap Magmahal," which was her song in the play. A bunch of us said our goodbyes a little after midnight, leaving Cindy with Paul and RJ. Hahaha, I heard from them that Cindy had jammed with the band and even plugged our recital!

Went to CCP early afternoon to attend the Philippine Theater History tour by Sir Dennis Marasigan. By the time I arrived at the entrance, I found Betty sitting on the steps. We took a peek inside Batute, then she went with me upstairs to the 4th floor, where the tour was supposed to start. To my surprise, not only the people from AC were there, but a whole bunch of people from the cast of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah. As it turned out, they were part of the tour (more on that later). Allein and Christian caught up with us, and after I had to go back down to pay the fee, Sir Dennis began the lecture. When we entered the gallery of musical instruments, there was a whole lot of hilarious comments from TP and the rest of us as well as we checked out all the stuff. After that, there was a little film viewing outside the gallery, then we proceeded to the Little Theater, with a side trip to the Main Theater for those who haven't seen it.

On with the lecture inside the LT, where we got to sit on risers onstage, then 3 script readings by actors of TP. First was by Carlon, Bong, Sugus and Joel, then by Cynthia and Lionel Guico, and finally by Shing and Tad.

Our final stop was the Batute Theater, where we finally got to more contemporary plays and discussed theater groups that had emerged during the time when Ferdinand Marcos was president. We got to watch another excerpt from another play, by Wenah, Tad, Bong and Marj. And of course, they ended it with a bang with excerpts from TP's hit musical, ZsaZsa Zaturnnah. Ooooh, gotta love the new Didi!

When the tour ended, Allein and I headed for the buffeteria for a bite to eat before we went to the conference hall. And by the time class started, half the class was late because of the Aliwan event. Sir Roeder decided that since we were beginning to focus a lot on the play, we did a bit of improv before we started our first run through that evening. Thank goodness for that, hahaha. I miss doing improv and even combined it with gibberish, wheee.

So on with our first run-through. Argh, I felt that I wading in mud, because it was pretty mediocre. That entrance in "Syotang Pa-class" was a mess, waaaah. I don't know how to be more girly, hahahaha! Anyway, when we were done with the run, notes galore, then a 5 minute break. Gino and I headed out to the lobby to check out if the intermediate class' recital was still going on, but by the time we got there, the show had been over for about an hour already. But we did find Betty, Tin, Carmi, JP, Jonna and Merv hanging around the LT lobby. Darn, we had missed seeing Acel and Fiancee, who were there earlier.

Another run through after the break, more notes, then I quickly left to meet with the BA gang at Teriyaki Boy. There were the people we saw at the lobby earlier, then Gem and Ian joined us as well. Listened to them talk about Betty's recital, more talk here and there. When we were done eating, we moved to Dencio's. Apparently, the TP crowd was there a couple of tables away. Anyway, at our table, we mostly talked about Ian's lovelife, and were enlighted by Carmi's advices. We stayed there until almost the entire Harbour Square closed, and then we moved again, this time outside Starbucks, with Ian, Betty, Carmi, Tin and I being the only ones left. More talk about Ian's ladies, hahahaha!

We called it a "night" when it was just Ian, Betty and I left, and we decided to head home at 4 in the morning.

Check out Tin's pics of our reunion dinner here.