‘Bituing Walang Ningning: The Musical’ opens at Resorts World Manila

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“You’re nothing but a second rate, trying hard copy cat!” This immortal line lashed out in utter contempt by diva Lavinia Arguelles to loyal fan and newcomer Dorina Pineda just before the former throws a glass of wine at the latter’s face makes for one of the most memorable scenes in Filipino entertainment.

Who could ever forget the stellar performances of actresses Sharon Cuneta and Sarah Geronimo who played the role of Dorina, and their counterparts Cherie Gil and Angelika Dela Cruz as Lavinia in past productions?

After crossing over various media from serialized comics to film and then television, this iconic story of superstardom with the redemption and humility that it entails is now given new life by the country’s premiere entertainment and lifestyle destination, Resorts World Manila (RWM), as it presents Bituing Walang Ningning: The Musical this June at Newport Performing Arts Theater.

This time, the classic story returns as a musical and is given a new twist with stage master Freddie Santos at the helm. Headlining the stage version of Bituing Walang Ningning: The Musical are newcomer Monica Cuenco who plays the role of protagonist Dorina Pineda alongside pop star turned stage actor Mark Bautista (fresh from his stint in London’s “Here Lies Love”) as Nico Escobar, and stage veteran Cris Villonco as Lavinia Arguelles.

“Resorts World Manila has always been a staunch advocate of the Filipino performing arts,” shared RWM’s Chief Entertainment Officer Colin Kerr.

“The dream of staging this iconic Filipino story is a dream come true for RWM. Bituing Walang Ningning’s adaptation into many forms shows its novelty to audiences and we trust that every generation will again fall in love with its story through our theater production,” Kerr added. 

Featuring some of the most memorable songs in Original Pilipino Music penned by the legendary Willy Cruz as conducted by Maestro Rodel Colmenar with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, Bituing Walang Ningning: The Musical also casts award-winning stage performers Michael Stuart Williams and the First Lady of Philippine Musical Theater Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, together with reality talent search standout Ronnie Liang and popular TV personality John Nite, among others.

Catch Bituing Walang Ningning: The Musical at Resorts World Manila every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8PM, and on Sundays at 3PM until July 18, 2015.

Tickets are now on sale at the Resorts World Manila Box Office at the ground floor of Newport Mall, and in all TicketWorld and TicketNet outlets. Visit www.rwmanila.com or call 908-8000 local 7700; 891-9999; and 911-5555 to buy your tickets to this Filipino musical.

RWM is the first one-stop, non-stop entertainment and leisure destination in the Philippines that features recreational thrills, world-class performances, unique events, and exciting lifestyle options.

Conveniently located across Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3, RWM is an instant gateway to world-class Philippine hospitality and is home to three international lodging brands, (MAXIMS Hotel, MARRIOTT Hotel Manila, and REMINGTON Hotel) with two more hotels (SHERATON Hotel Manila and HILTON Hotel Manila) currently under construction. 

Also home to RWM is The NEWPORT Mall which features international luxury brands, state-of-the-art movie theaters the Newport Cinemas, an award-winning, ultra-modern Newport Performing Arts Theater (NPAT), and a cozy, 24/7 entertainment hub at Bar 360. Dine in one of almost 50 restaurant outlets offering a diverse selection of local and world cuisine, prepared by top Filipino and foreign chefs and paired with a wide selection of the finest wines and popular liquors.

Amp all the thrills offered exclusively by Resorts World Manila by becoming a cardholder! Membership at RWM is free and provides an instant pass to numerous discounts, freebies, and exclusive invites to RWM events.

Resorts World Manila— Nothing Compares.

Eula Valdez, Allen Dizon major winners at the 38th Gawad Urian Awards; Nora Aunor given the Lifetime Achievement Award

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The winners of the 38th Gawad Urian Awards have been announced by Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and Cinema One held Tuesday, June 16 at the ABS-CBN Studio 10, Sgt. Esguerra, Quezon City. 

Hosted by Angelica Panganiban, Robi Domingo, and Butch Francisco, the awards night began with a shadow play performance from Asia's Got Talent champions El Gamma Penumbra.

The 38th Gawad Urian Awards night also celebrated the works of Nora Aunor, who was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lav Diaz's Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon (From What Is Before) won several awards, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing and including Best Director for Lav Diaz.

Here is the full list of winners:

Best Film: "Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon" by Lav Diaz

Best Actress: Eula Valdez ("Dagitab")

Best Actor: Allen Dizon ("Magkakabaung")

Best Director: Lav Diaz ("Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon")

Best Supporting Actress: Gladys Reyes ("Magkakabaung")

Best Supporting Actor: Martin del Rosario ("Dagitab")

Best Short Film: "Kinabukasan"

Best Documentary Film: "Walang Rape sa Bontok" by Carla Ocampo and Lester Valle

Best Sound: Corinne De San Jose ("Violator")

Best Music: Erwin Fajardo ("Buwaya")

Best Editing: Lav Diaz ("Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon")

Best Production Design: Popo Diaz ("Dementia")

Best Screenplay: Lav Diaz ("Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon") 

Best Cinematography: Neil Daza ("Bwaya")

Natatanging Gawad Urian Award: Nora Aunor

Here is the full list of winners and nominees

Best Picture

Barber’s Tales (APT Entertainment/Octobertrain Films)

Bwaya (Cinemalaya, FrontRow International, Eight Films, Source of Light Films)

Dagitab (Ten17P)

WINNER: Mula sa Kung Ano Ang Noon (Sine Olivia Pilipinas)

Best Director

Giancarlo Abrahan, Dagitab

WINNER: Lav Diaz, Mula sa Kung Ano Ang Noon

Jun Lana, Barber’s Tales

Jason Paul Laxamana, Magkakabaung

Francis Xavier Pasion, Bwaya

Kanakan Balintagos, Esprit de Corps

Best Actor

Robert Arevalo, Hari ng Tondo

Noni Buencamino, Dagitab

WINNER: Allen Dizon, Magkakabaung

JM de Guzman, That Thing Called Tadhana

Sandino Martin, Esprit de Corps

Robin Padilla, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo

Arnold Reyes, Kasal

Jericho Rosales, Red

J.C. Santos, Esprit de Corps

Dennis Trillo, The Janitor

Best Actress

Nora Aunor, Dementia

Angeli Bayani, Bwaya

Ai-Ai delas Alas, Ronda

Eugene Domingo, Barber’s Tales

Hazel Orencio, Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon

Angelica Panganiban, That Thing Called Tadhana

WINNER: Eula Valdez, Dagitab

Nova Villa, 1st ko si 3rd

Best Supporting Actor

Nico Antonio, Red

Roeder Camañag, Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon

WINNER: Martin del Rosario, Dagitab

Joel Lamangan, Violator

Nicco Manalo, Barber’s Tales

Karl Medina, Bwaya

Jess Mendoza, Mauban; Ang Resiko

Noel Santodomingo, Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon

Best Supporting Actress

Sharmaine Buencamino, Barber’s Tales

Iza Calzado, Barber’s Tales

Alessandra de Rossi, Mauban; Ang Resiko

Barbie Forteza, Marquina

Karenina Haniel, Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon

WINNER: Gladys Reyes, Magkakabaung

Gloria Sevilla, M: Mother’s Maiden Name

Best Screenplay

Kanakan Balintagos, Esprit de Corps

Jun Robles Lana, Barber’s Tales

WINNER: Lav Diaz, Mula Sa Kung Ano Ang Noon

Francis Xavier Pasion, Bwaya

Giancarlo Abrahan, Dagitab

Jason Paul Laxamana, Magkakabaung

Enzo Williams, Keiko Aquino, Carlo Obispo, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo

Remton Siega Zuasola, Soap Opera

Antoinette Jadaone, That Thing Called Tadhana

Best Short Film

WINNER: Adolfo Alix, Jr., Kinabukasan

Kevin Ang, Lola

Joe Bacus, The End of War

David Corpuz, The Ordinary Things We Do

Neica dela Cruz, Lunod

Thop Nazareno, Eyeball

Alyssa Mariel Suico, Ugkat

Petersen Vargas, Lisyun qng Geografia

Best Documentary

Lav Diaz, Storm Children, Book One (Mga Anak ng Unos)

Cha Escala & Wena Sanchez, Nick & Chai

Rafael Froilan, Jr., Mananayaw

Richard Soriano Legaspi, Ang Walang Kapagurang Paglalakbay ng Pulang Maleta

Jan Tristan Pandy, Gusto Nang Umuwi ni Joy

WINNER: Lester Valle, Walang Rape sa Bontoc

J. Luis Vargas, Portraits of Mosquito Press

Paolo Villaluna, Sta. Catalina

Baby Ruth Villarama, Little Azkals

Best Cinematography

Alber Banzon and Gym Lumbrera, Violator

Arnel Barbarona, Alienasyon

Mycko David, Children’s Show

WINNER: Neil Daza, Bwaya

Mackie Galvez, Dementia

Carlo Mendoza, Barber’s Tales

Carlo Mendoza, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo

Sasha Palomares, That Thing Called Tadhana

Rommel Sales, Dagitab

Best Production Design

Whammy Alcazaren/Thesa Tang, Dagitab

Hal Balbuena, Esprit de Corps

Joel Bilbao and Roy Lachica, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo

WINNER: Popo Diaz, Dementia

Perry Dizon, Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon

Ron Factolerin, Alienasyon

Maulen Fadul, Bwaya

Chito Sumera, Barber’s Tales

Best Editing

Lawrence Ang, Barber’s Tales

Lawrence Ang, Violator

Manet A. Dayrit, Hari ng Tondo

Vanessa de Leon, Hustisya

WINNER: Lav Diaz, Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon

Tara Illenberger, The Janitor

Carlo Manatad, Bwaya

Melvyn Quimosing, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo

Benjamin Tolentino, Dagitab

Best Music

Diwa de Leon, Lorna

Mon Espia, Dagitab

WINNER: Erwin Fajardo, Bwaya

Jesse Lucas, Alienasyon

Myke Solomon, Hari ng Tondo

Jorge Wieneke, #Y

Best Sound

WINNER: Corinne De San Jose, Violator

Mark Locsin, Mula Sa Kung Ano ang Noon

Mark Locsin, Barber’s Tales

Albert Michael Idioma, Bwaya

Adam Newns/Mikko Quizon, Dagitab

Ang Natatanging Gawad Urian: Nora Aunor

Can you survive in the wild alone? History Channel brings an exclusive 4D experience in Trinoma

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With the launching of its newest survival program “ALONE,” History Channel is inviting everyone to take part in an exclusive 4D experience at the Cinema Lobby of Trinoma Mall in Quezon City on June 20 to 21.

The weekend event will allow everyone to have a feel of what 10 men experienced in the wilderness of Vancouver Island in Canada. The TV show, which is the boldest survival experiment ever attempted, will be premiering on June 22 in more than 200 territories across the globe.

History Channel will let you feel how being alone in the wilderness feels and what to expect from the show before it premieres on TV. The activity will help you understand what the participants went through using a 4D technology. 

The show revolves around the contestants who are trying to stay alive as long as they can and whoever lasts the longest will win $500,000. The brave men will enter the backcountry carrying only what they can fit in a small backpack. Each of them has the freedom to choose the 10 items to bring in order to help them survive in the harsh environment where wild animals are present.

These men will hunt, build shelters, and fend off predators. They will face extreme isolation and psychological distress as they plunge into the unknown and document the experience themselves. 

The show, which is dubbed as the ultimate test of man’s survival and a first ever attempt of its kind on TV, will have no camera crew and producers to help them in the most difficult and dangerous situations. With no crew behind, the contestants are also tasked to record all the challenges they will face in the wild forest. 

The 10 ordinary men, who left their career and family behind, will be dropped off in separate and extremely remote locations and will have no interactions with each other. Each of them will have to depend on their instincts and skills alone.

In the first episode of the series, the contestants will learn what they put themselves into and will realize the struggles that lie ahead. 

While each character battles to simply enter the dense forest and find a suitable base camp, they must also find water and make a shelter before night falls and temperatures drop. As the sun goes down, a new challenge presents itself: relentless rains and the struggle to build a fire without matches. Even worse, some find that water, shelter and fire are the least of their worries when the island's large predators wake from their dens and begin to stalk their new neighbors.

The the diverse list of contestants, who are all fans of outdoor activities and survival challenges, includes law enforcement officer Josh Chavez, carpenter Dustin Feher, corrections officer Alan Kay, outdoor gear retailer Sam Larson, former military man Brantley McGee, outdoorsman Lucas Miller, Boy Scouts of America member Mitch Mitchell, family man Joe Robinet, expeditioner Wayne Russell, and post-apocalyptic fiction author Chris Weatherman.

Hue Studio Salon officially opened at the Magnolia Residences

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Taking time for yourself is not an indulgence. It's a necessity and a great way to deal with stress. It's rare that we set aside time to be refreshed. Take a break! Relax. And pamper yourself in a place to give you what you need and what you want.  Get a massage. Enhance your beauty. This is a perfect way to renew and rejuvenate.

A beauty salon recently opened by beautiful ladies and with professional staff who dedicated to provide the absolute finest services for your body, nails and hair.

Hue Salon was officially opened to the public last June 12, 2015 located at the Magnolia Residences, New Manila, Quezon City (directly across Robinsons Magnolia mall). 

Hue Studio Salon is a full-service salon that offers professional hair, nail, skin care and massage therapy services. 

Hue Studio Salon’s modern interiors, mood lighting, tranquil music, and soft comfortable couches provide the highest level of customer pampering.

HUE Studio Salon is located at Unit 1, Basement level, Tower B, the Magnolia Residences, New Manila, Quezon City (directly across Robinsons Magnolia mall).

For inquiry and for your next salon appointment you may call us at 542-3145 or 0917-5386852. For more information on future marketing promotions and salon details, like us on Facebook – huestudiosalon and follow us on Instagram – Hue_StudioSalon.

"The Normal Heart" is set to open on July 3

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"THE NORMAL HEART" is the 2011 Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Play about the early rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. During this period, a deadly epidemic was decimating North America’s gay population, killing people in the thousands, devastating an entire generation and changing the way we think about sex forever.

Written by playwright and activist Larry Kramer, "The Normal Heart" is set to open on July 3 (Fri) 8pm with succeeding limited performances on July 4 (Sat) 3pm & 8pm; July 5 (Sun) 3pm & 8pm at the Carlos P. Romulo auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City.

Topnotch theater actor Bart Guingona, who also directs the play and shall essay the role of the very intense activist Ned Weeks who is both difficult and charming.

"The Normal Heart" shows with stage actors and tv personalities like Richard Cunanan, Topper Fabregas, TJ Trinidad, Roselyn Perez, Red Concepcion, Nor Domingo and Jef Flores who will take on multiple roles such as Craig, Grady and the Hiram Keebler City Hall representative.

Topper Fabregas and Bart Guingona in The Normal Heart

SYNOPSIS:

During the early 1980s, Jewish-American writer and gay activist Ned Weeks struggles to pull together an organization focused on raising awareness about the fact that an unidentified disease is killing off an oddly specific group of people: gay men largely in New York City. Dr. Emma Brookner, a physician and survivor of polio, as a consequence of which she is using a wheelchair, is the most experienced with this strange new outbreak and bemoans the lack of medical knowledge on the illness, encouraging the abstinence of gay men for their own safety, since it is unknown yet even how the disease is spread. Ned, a patient and friend of Brookner, calls upon his lawyer brother, Ben, to help fund his crisis organization; however, Ben's attitude toward his brother is to give merely passive support, ultimately exposing his apparent homophobia. For the first time in his life, meanwhile, Ned falls in love, beginning a relationship with New York Times writer Felix Turner.

The increasing death toll raises the unknown illness, now believed to be caused by a virus, to the status of an epidemic, though the press remains largely silent on the issue. A sense of urgency guides Ned who realizes that Ben is more interested in buying a two-million-dollar house than in backing Ned's activism. Ned explosively breaks off ties to his brother until Ben can fully accept Ned and his homosexuality. Ned next looks to Mayor Ed Koch's administration for aid in financing research about the epidemic that is quickly killing off hundreds of gay men, including some of Ned's personal friends.

Ned's organization elects as its president Bruce Niles, who is described as the "good cop" of gay activism, in comparison to Ned; while Bruce is cautious, polite, deferential, and closeted, Ned is vociferous, confrontational, incendiary, and supportive only of direct action. Tensions between the two are clear, though they must work together toward the promotion of their organization. Felix, meanwhile, reveals to Ned his belief that he is infected with the mysterious virus.

Although he continues to try to strengthen interactions with the mayor, Ned ruins his chances when his relentless and fiery personality appalls a representative sent by the mayor. Dr. Brookner gradually takes the role of activist herself, noting the epidemic's appearance in other countries around the world and even among heterosexual couples. 

Although she desperately asks for government funding for further research, she is denied; the rejection releases in her a passionate tirade against those who allow the persistence of an epidemic that is taking the lives of the homosexual individuals already marginalized by the government. In the meantime, Ned's conflict with Bruce comes to a head, and their organization's board of directors ultimately expels Ned from the group, believing his unstable vehemence to be a threat to the group's attempts at more calm-mannered diplomacy.

As Felix's condition worsens, he visits Ben Weeks in order to make his will and with a hope of reconciling Ben with his brother. Felix soon dies and Ned blames himself for Felix's death, lamenting that he did not fight hard enough to have his voice heard. The mortality rate from HIV/AIDS is shown to continue increasing as the stage fades to black.

Ticket prices for "THE NORMAL HEART" are:

Php1,500 orchestra center
Php1,000 orchestra side & loge
Php500 balcony. 

For ticket inquiries, please call Call 2150788 or 09175378313. Or call TicketWorld at 8919999.

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