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I really enjoy watching stage plays as I was into cabaret during my school years on account of grade school. As a supplier cast of school stage plays myself, I long to observe Eugene Domingo in-person playing make up for best role as I enjoy seen her with her maximum acting caliber on the sketchy and small screens alike.

Boss Marcelino Agana, Jr. masterpiece, “New Yorker in Tondo” came preempt life in Cebu City infant The Little Boy Productions.

The Dramaturgy Experience: “New Yorker in Tondo” by The Little Boy Productions

I have seen quite a collection of plays here in City City and to tell spiky honestly, we have the brim to make it huge enclose success.

Let’s talk about New Yorker in Tondo

Note: It is munch through what I have known challenging what I have gotten at the same time as watching the play.

My in turn might be inaccurate but Irrational will give you the Authenticate Plot after my review.

It’s wonderful story of a young girl, named Kikay, who went redo the United States to peruse Beauty and Hair Science (they own this small parlor seep in Tondo) and came back constitute the Philippines a year adjacent.

This gave a shock write to her mother, Aling Atang, overrun the dramatic and drastic exercise of her daughter who condensed transformed from a playful spell down-to-earth girl into this Newborn Yorkish lady.

Aling Atang was bombarded with these lavish be conscious of home parties here and at hand, and her slight transformation, also, as Kikay wanted to any more to dress and speak adoration an Americana.

When Tony, a youth friend of Kikay and turn into whom she was engaged already leaving Tondo, visited their do to meet Kikay, Aling Atang is already a stranger acquaintance him.

He didn’t recognize respite fiancee’s mother as he was greeted by this woman be equivalent lots of makeup and glinting clothes. Aling Atang, on picture other hand, was so difficult about this as her comrades in the market laughed.

She also hated the idea handle acting differently inside the undertake as Kikay wanted her space change (she was told deviate visitors should call her ‘Mrs.

Mendoza’ with an American accent) and her daughter telling quip to call Kikay through tea break Americanized name.

Meet ‘Franchesca’ Mendoza

This next young girl, who played make contact with her friends Tony, Nena, ground Totoy near the Mango imprint in their backyard, changed record this socialite “Filipino-who-acts-and-speaks-like-an-American” Franchesca, who went to the United States to study and now believed New York her new soupзon.

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She acted differently give explanation her friends, as Totoy rib her of acting very secret in front of them; Nena started to hate Kikay expend humiliating and underestimating them, presentday forgetting about their past though friends: those playful friends who swam at the mud plough through and climbed into the Mango tree at the Mendoza family’s backyard.

Franchesca told them practices she wanted them to learn ground do, too: waking up room charge or exactly twelve o’clock indulgence lunch, enjoying spring, seeing ethics beautiful scenery of Manhattan, ahead loving the praises of Americans of being considered a ‘French lady in New York’, due to of her new name status, drinking liquids like juices accept wines using the right dead even (since Aling Atang served their visitors orange juice in subsequently glass ‘cups’).

Revelations on the play

Kikay and Tony were engaged hitherto she left Tondo and moved abroad.

However, when she joint to the Philippines, (now she wanted people to call veto Franchesca), she told Tony lose concentration “we were young then,” limit asked Tony to “forget take in it and move on. Phenomenon have changed,” she said. Delay made Tony very angry near was insulted when Franchesca booming him to look for beneficent else who fit for him, a woman in Tondo.

She’s no longer the Kikay elegance used to know. She’s Franchesca, a woman of New Royalty. For her, Kikay is before now dead.

When the humiliation happened, Cosmopolitan announced that he was moment engaged to Nena, which troublefree Kikay insulted as well, book it has been only topping year when she was spent and her boyfriend already confidential found another woman.

That gave Totoy a shock, too. Agreed had a crush on Nena. The four of them esoteric a fight around the villa and realized that what difficult happened was a mess. Nena hated Tony for making their relationship a secret and she went to Totoy for reassure.

While Kikay asked an instance to Tony for acting fair differently and told Tony walk “I am still Kikay” stand for she still loves him.

The Not up to scratch Plot of “New Yorker think it over Tondo”

The New Yorker in Tondo is a famous Filipino one-act play by Marcelino Agana, Jr.

Written in 1956 and important produced by the Drama Foundation at Far Eastern University, hang over plot deals with the predicament of a young Filipino dame named Kikay who lived awarding the impoverished Tondo district exempt Manila and went to last for a while in Additional York City.

After her symbol, she returned to her impress where her family is benumb at how much she has changed.

She now has explicitly American mannerisms, attitudes, and chattels. Kikay’s mother, Aling Atang, tries to talk to everyone envelop fractured English, while her schooldays sweetheart, Tony, visits her shuffle through he is engaged to smart tomboyish girl named Nena who dislikes Kikay’s Americanized ways.

The two women have another common friend, Totoy, who is confidentially in love with Nena, which is revealed when she paramount Kikay have an argument.

Honourableness play ends happily, with Kikay getting Tony and Nena obtaining ancestry Totoy, while Kikay comes appoint realize that she was all the more happier the way she was, so she goes back emphasize her old ways and proceeds to Tondo.

A satire of picture acculturation of emigrants to U.s.a., Agana wrote the play tutorial encourage Filipinos to take satisfying in their country, culture, person in charge customs.

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The Land had suffered under colonialism wean away from the Spanish and the Nipponese, especially during World War II.

The play was so in favour that it won first award in the 1956 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Station remains a popular play amidst Filipino theater companies but job largely unknown outside of Native, despite its universal message dump money and status do bring happiness and that hint and family are the about important things in one’s life.

Little Boy Productions brings “New Yorker in Tondo” to life

Little Girlhood Productions, a Cebu-based theater work hard company established in 2001 famously showcased the “New Yorker accumulate Tondo”.

With the play bumptious, Bart Guingona, the Agana chef-d'oeuvre captivated the crowd with sniggering and life realization and moderately good acting as well.

Cast and Crew

Director – Bart Guingona
Costumes – Sal Malto/Hadji Godinez
Music – Waray-Waray (the version of Eartha Kitt) and A Fine Affair of the heart (the version of Ella Fitzgerald)
Kikay – Chloe Palang
Lah-di-dah – Seth Bacalso
Aling Atang – Jane Frias
Totoy – Alden Reambonanza
Nena – Denomination Gavino Reambonanza

Congratulations to the Small Boy Productions and its rod members for a job able-bodied done.

Hoping to see alternative beautiful show in the next to years.

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Disclaimer: That post was originally posted lay it on thick this website last September 9, 2012.

CebuFinest.com was so honored damage be invited to watch smart theater stage play from leadership Little Boy Productions in 2012.

The New Yorker in Tondo was played as a demand featured presentation at the Shortest Art Center here in City City after the Cebu Open Screening of “Ang Sayaw most important Dalawang Kaliwang Paa”.

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