Whether you’re pro or anti-Glee, you have to admit that they helped introduce musicals and Broadway references to the young pop culture generation that was once too busy gloating over Bieber. Who can blame the Manila crowd for going crazy after hearing the news that Wicked will be staged in CCP early this year? Theater purists […]

Making musicals out of pop and rock albums is a sure way to get more people to watch plays. Remember the one-act musical, American Idiot, back in 2010? It was an adaptation of Green Day’s American Opera and the band’s other punk/rock singles. There’s Mamma Mia!, the smash hit musical based on Abba’s disco tracks, […]