An all-Filipino cast of triple threats sang for their lives Thursday night when Rainbow Stage opened its 70th anniversary with the première of Joseph Sevillo’s Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * An all-Filipino cast of triple threats sang for their lives Thursday night when Rainbow Stage opened its 70th anniversary with the première of Joseph Sevillo’s Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? An all-Filipino cast of triple threats sang for their lives Thursday night when Rainbow Stage opened its 70th anniversary with the première of Joseph Sevillo’s The brainchild of the Philippines-born, Winnipeg-bred artist — no stranger to Rainbow Stage since his 2003 debut at age 13 in – has been gestating since 2018. It is the first commissioned page-to-stage musical in Rainbow’s history as well as being its 150th production. “Ma-Buhay” without a hyphen means “welcome” or “to live” in Tagalog; with the punctuation mark it expands to “mother in life,” or “singing for your life.
” Rainbow Stage opened its 70th anniversary with the première of Ma-Buhay! Thursday. And you don’t need to speak the country’s native tongue, with the ambitious 165-minute show (including intermission) intended for both Filipinos and non-Filipinos alike. Even so, characters do occasionally break into Tagalog both in song and dialogue.
The plot in the character-driven, high-tech “show-withi.
