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9 Works Theatrical is set to rock the Philippines with a new production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical come February 2010. Theater stalwart Robbie Guevara will helm the project. RENT Manila is currently looking for male and female talents (with or without musical theater background) who can sing, dance, and act.

PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE's production of IMELDA, A NEW MUSICAL opened Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at the Julia Miles Theatre, 424 West 55th Street, New York City.

As northern Philippines braces for potential super typhoon PARMA, yet still facing KETSANA's aftermath, international artists Katy Perry and Stephanie Reese have postponed their respective concerts in Manila. A local production of Tennessee Williams' play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has also rescheduled its opening night to a later time.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 9th ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino, CCP Complex, Manila.

AUDIE GEMORA, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, Robbie Guevara, Lena McKenzie, and Franco Laurel comprise the lead cast of Repertory Philippines' (REP) new stage production of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD. The musical runs at Onstage, 2/F Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City in Manila from November 14 to December 13, 2009.

ATLANTIS PRODUCTIONS, the Manila-based theater company that recently staged Broadway musicals THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE and HAIRSPRAY, celebrates its 10th anniversary and the voice of the youth as it opens its own production of Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City on Friday, September 25, 2009.

STEPHANIE REESE, Kim in MS. SAIGON Germany, will hold a Pre-Carnegie Hall concert dubbed I AM STEPHANIE REESE on October 2, 2009, Friday, 8 p.m. at the Music Museum, Ortigas Avenue, Greenhills Shopping Complex, San Juan, Manila.

BroadwayWorld.com Philippines recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Filipino-American stage actor and entrepreneur Mel Maghuyop in New York City. Maghuyop is playing the Philippines' controversial political figure Ferdinand Marcos in Pan Asian Repertory's Off-Broadway musical production of IMELDA, which runs on limited engagement at the Julia Miles Theater from September 22 through October 18, 2009.

Tony winner Lea Salonga, together with toddler daughter Nicole and mom Ligaya, took time to watch local gospel theatre Trumpets' new musical N.O.A.H. (No Ordinary Aquatic Habitat) on its first Saturday matinee performance.

Royal National Theatre's BLOODY MARY Sheila Francisco's newest musical role is the culinary challenged Mrs. Noah in a comedic adaptation of the biblical tale about Noah's Ark running at the Meralco Theater in Manila through September 27, 2009.

Katy Perry, 2009 MTV Music Video Awards' (VMA) Anita and celebrity endorser, will perform live in Manila on October 3, 2009 at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds.

MISS SAIGON Germany's Stephanie Reese will perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 7, 2009. Reese, who is part Filipino, is the third Filipino solo performer, after pop singer Regine Velasquez and Broadway star Lea Salonga, to sing at the famed concert hall.

Tony winner Lea Salonga celebrates 20 years of MISS SAIGON by staging a live by request concert series at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Plenary Hall on December 11 and 12, 2009.

Isay Alvarez, MISS SAIGON original London production's Gigi Van Trahn, dons Philippine democracy icon Cory Aquino's trademark yellow dress in the restaging of original Filipino musical CORY.

IMELDA, a new bio-musical that retells the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos- a highly controversial figure in Philippine politics, widow of erstwhile dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and owner of over 3,000 pairs of shoes - boasts an all-Filipino cast led by Jaygee Macapugay as Imelda, and Mel Sagrado Maghuyop as Ferdinand.

Producer and writer Lorenzo Thione told BroadwayWorld.Com that their new musical ALLEGIANCE has been eyeing Tony-winning actress Lea Salonga and television icon George Takei to open the show on Broadway in 2011/12.

Blue Repertory, Ateneo de Manila campus-based musical theater organization, celebrates its 18th anniversary with the staging of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical work TICK TICK BOOM running from August 5 to 15, 2009 at the Rizal Mini Theater.

Juno Henares, Lily Chu and Missy Maramara are featured in New Voice Company's (NVC) internationally acclaimed production of Eve Ensler's hit play THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, with a special one-night-only performance on July 31, 2009, 7:30 p.m. at the Carlos P. Romulo Theater, RCBC Plaza, Makati.

The Philippine premiere of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony award-winning rock musical SPRING AWAKENING will feature new actors Miguel Mendoza and Kelly Frances Lati when the production opens on September 25, 2009 at the Carlos P.Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza in Makati City.

Juno Henares, Lily Chu and Missy Maramara are featured in New Voice Company's (NVC) internationally acclaimed production of Eve Ensler's hit play THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, with a special one-night-only performance on July 31, 2009, 7:30 p.m. at the Carlos P. Romulo Theater, RCBC Plaza, Makati.