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San Francisco-based Royal Underground Theatre Company stages the West Coast Premiere of pop/rock, one-act musical 'Glory Days' at the Boxcar Studios (125 A Hyde Street) running till this weekend, November 5 and 6, 2010 at 8 p.m. and November 7, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Broadway and US television stars Lea Salonga (Gloria Suzuki), George Takei (old Sam Omura), Telly Leung (young Sam Omura), Allie Trim (Hannah Campbell), Michael K. Lee (James Omura), Paolo Montalban (Ben Chin/Mike Masaoka), Christine Toy Johnson (Kimiko Omura), Alan Ariano (Tatsuo Omura) and Jason Tam (Frankie Suzuki) led two public staged readings of 'American Idiot' associate producers Lorenzo Thione and Jay Kuo's Broadway bound musical 'Allegiance' on Monday, October 25, 2010 at the Julia Miles Theatre, 424 W55th St. New York, NY. BroadwayWorld.com has been covering the new Asian American play's different stages of development since its private staged reading in Los Angeles, CA last year.

In Theater Down South's hilarious production of Stephen Sondheim's 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum', theatre stalwart Michael Williams mentors his junior thespian apprentices, and contributes a lot to this delightful madness!

Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally ('Master Class', 'Kiss of the Spiderwoman') was formally introduced to revered Filipino film and television actress Cherie Gil at the writer's home in Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Gil recently received rave reviews from both media critics and theatre-goers when she essayed the larger-than-life role of 'La Divina' Maria Callas thrice (two seasons in Manila and a touring production in Dumaguete City, Southern Philippines) in Mr. McNally's 1996 Tony Award-winning play 'Master Class'.

2006 Tony award-nominated 'The Wedding Singer', starring mainstream television and recording stars Gian Magdangal and Iya Villana, opens at the Meralco Theatre in Manila on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. The proceeds from the opening night will directly benefit the medical outreach and feeding program of The Orange Project, a nonprofit educational foundation that helps needy and hungry Filipino children.

Being named new UN goodwill ambassador in action against hunger may probably be Tony winner Lea Salonga's biggest role so far in her more than 30 year illustrious career in theatre, film and recording.

BroadwayWorld Philippines correspondent Bing Shimizu was in the midst of the huge crowd that gathered during the two live concert performances celebrating epic musical LES MISÉRABLES 25th anniversary at the O2 Arena, Greenwich, South-East London on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Ms. Shimizu, a loyal supporter of the Pride of the Philippines and Tony winner Lea Salonga, shares her own photographs of some of the concert's highlights to avid BroadwayWorld.com readers.

Filipino actor, playwright and director Joel Trinidad's 'Crush Hour', a two-character play that's less than ten minutes, recently received its Off-Off-Broadway premiere at the Roy Arias Studios, 300 West 43rd Street, New York City. It was performed, alongside five other short plays, through producer and playwright John Chatterton's regular series of 'The Short Play Lab'.

It's Manila's turn to greet musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim a happy 80th birthday. Two Sondheim musicals are opening this month of October: one of which is prolific theatre company Atlantis Productions Inc.'s touring production of 'A Little Night Music', starring Philippine cinema's multi-award-winning actress Dawn Zulueta as Desirée Armfeldt; the other one is community theatre company Theater Down South's (TDS) production of 'A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum', featuring young thespians Chino Veguillas as Pseudolus, Jacob Kliatchko Gayanelo as Hero, and Carla Gonzalez as Philia.

Korean American playwright Lloyd Suh's Off-Broadway play 'American Hwangap' holds its Asian premiere in Manila through a co-production arrangement between the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) resident theatre company Tanghalang Pilipino, and New York-based Lark Play Development Center. Top billed by the Philippines' most respected actors on stage, television and film - Mario O' Hara, Celeste Legaspi, Gina Pareño and Bembol Roco - 'American Hwangap' is presented in its original English form, and in a Filipino translation written by Philippine literature professor and writer Joi Barrios-Leblanc. The play runs until Sunday, October 3, 2010 at the CCP Little Theatre.

Broadway-bound musical 'Allegiance' has just released a promotional video clip that shows Tony award-winning actress Lea Salonga ('Miss Saigon', 'Les Miserables') singing the musical's opening and closing song titled 'Second Chances'. Its beautiful and infectious melody, penned by the musical's composer and lyricist Jay Kuo ('World's Apart', 'Insignificant Others'), has been getting favorable first impressions.

Together with Tony winner Lea Salonga, husband Rob Chien, and Joanna Ampil's manager Girlie Rodis, BroadwayWorld Philippines attended Ms. Ampil's second solo concert in Manila Saturday evening, September 18, 2010 at Onstage, Greenbelt 1, Ayala Malls, Makati City.

Featuring international Filipino child actor Martin Delos Santos, stage luminaries Jojo Atienza, Bembol Roco, Bodjie Pascua, and the world-renowned Loboc Children's Choir, the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) has just presented a Filipino adaptation of Indian poet and playwright Rabindranath Tagore's 'The Post Office' at the PETA Center Theatre in New Manila, Quezon City.

London-based musical theatre actress Joanna Ampil ('Miss Saigon', 'Les Miserables') is back in Manila for 'Joanna Ampil: West End Girl', a one-night musical theatre/pop hybrid concert at Onstage, 2/F Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 8 p.m. Ambient Media's FILharmoniKA orchestra, under the baton of Gerard Salonga, will accompany the singer and actress. Sony Music Philippines' balladeer Ariel Rivera is her special guest artist.

Moonlight Stage Productions (MSP) fills the Brengle Terrace Park in Vista, California - not just with local residents and tourists on a picnic but also with a giant statue of Vietnamese communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, and a US military helicopter falling from the sky on Wednesday through Sunday - as MSP concludes its 2010 summer season with a grand presentation of Tony award-winning musical 'Miss Saigon' at the Moonlight Amphitheatre running until Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. 'Miss Saigon' alums Filipino-American stage actress Jennifer Paz (Kim) and Johann Michael Camat (The Engineer) reunite onstage in this lavish open air production.

International pop singer from the Philippines Charice walked the red carpet at GLEE's Season 2 premiere party held Tuesday evening, September 7, 2010 at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California.

Base Entertainment Asia ('Jersey Boys', 'Defending the Caveman') and Singapore Repertory Theatre ('Golden Child', 'Into the Woods') are holding auditions for Filipino young talents, ages 8 to 13, to fill the roles of young cubs Simba and Nala in the Southeast Asian premiere of Disney Theatrical Group's 'The Lion King'. Auditions will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 12 noon to 6 p.m., and Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Arts in Taguig City, FVR Park, 26th Street, Bonifacio Arts Center, The Fort, Taguig City (www.artsintaguigcity.com). Singing and dancing experience is required.

Base Entertainment Asia ('Jersey Boys', 'Defending the Caveman') and Singapore Repertory Theatre ('Golden Child', 'Into the Woods') are holding auditions for Filipino and Singaporean young talents, ages 8 to 13, to fill the roles of young cubs Simba and Nala in the Southeast Asian premiere of Disney Theatrical Group's 'The Lion King'. Auditions will be held on Sunday, September 5, 2010 from 2 p.m. onwards at the Singapore Repertory Theatre, Robertson Walk #02-08, 11 Unity Street, Singapore 237995. Singing and dancing experience is required.

Tony award-winning actress Lea Salonga ('Miss Saigon', 'Les Miserables') took time out to watch one of the most popular shows playing on Broadway Greenday's 'American Idiot' at St. James Theatre in New York City Wednesday evening, September 1, 2010. Ms. Salonga was accompanied by composer and lyricist Jay Kuo ('Worlds Apart', 'Insignificant Others'), who is also one of the associate producers of 'American Idiot'.

Recording star Rachel Alejandro and favorite leading man Felix Rivera lead the whole cast of 'Xanadu' Manila in a promotional number on Sunday musical variety show ASAP XV aired on The Filipino Channel (TFC).