KATY PERRY, STEPHANIE REESE, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS shows postponed

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.

Perry, who was booked to perform with Boys Like Girls at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds tomorrow night, October 3, will not push through.  A new performance date has not been set.

Reese, on the other hand, was supposed to hold a Pre-Carnegie Hall gig at the Music Museum in San Juan, Manila tonight, October 2, has reset her concert date to October 12.  She will donate proceeds of her show to typhoon victims.

"I had hoped that the show tonight could be a way for people to have some inspiration and joy, even for a short while, as they go through such a difficult time.  But after the recent news that another storm is coming, it was clear that tonight is not a good time to put up a concert.  We will deliver relief goods to struggling areas instead," Reese tells BroadwayWorld Philippines.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino's production of William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has scrapped its first weekend.  Opening night has been moved to October 9. 

Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy in the Philippines) unleashed the heaviest rainfall in the past forty years – one month's worth of rain poured in just six hours in Metro Manila – submerging 80 percent of the capital of the Philippines under water, and placing 27 provinces under a state of calamity.  Casualties have reached to nearly 300, and almost half a million people have been displaced.

 

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