Friday, September 17, 2004
Wearing Silver Sneaks
Give me some spunky funk!
"..to have even the slightest chance of escape"
I always thought that musicals would be boring and difficult to understand. But after watching my first musical, The Wiz, everything seem to have changed.
The Wiz is, as they say, the ghetto remake of the classical "Wizard of Oz". True enough, it is quite ghettoish with all the apparel and lights and the sounds. From the Michael Jackson looking scarecrow to the afro-haired lion to the silver sneaks (not your average ruby glass slippers), the musical has given the old a new twist. Performed by the Ateneo Blue Repertory, I was bedazzled by the spectacle that is The Wiz.
Though the price, costing an amount of 200 pesos, is quite tight for my pockets, I tried to squeeze a couple of hundreds to support a friend of mine, Pia who was the Evil Witch of the West. Unfortunately, it was the performance wherein she only belonged to the chorus and didn't play an acting part.
Though I felt disappointed because I can't watch my friend, the delightful musical simply took it away.
The play had all the right elements executed at just the right cues. The Wiz has trully inspired me to be a supporter of the theater.
It's Friday night and I should either be enjoying myself or enjoying the scenery in dreamland. But on the contrary, after this post, I have to start flipping through pages after pages of short stories for tomorrow's deliberation.
It's Friday but I know Monday would inevitably come. It's no wonder I'll do anything to have a pair of silver sneaks, just like Dorothy, and have even the slightest chance of escaping this world into that of Oz.
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