![]() “How do you combine joy with tragedy?” said Alex Timbers, the director, in a joint interview with Ramos.Įlizer Caballero, a fan who came from San Francisco, was practically vibrating with delight as he sang and bopped along to the score. The challenge - engineered by Byrne, who hoped that the nightlife setting would give audiences a taste of the limitlessness of power - is formidable. (Moses Villarama) acts as an emcee.Įvery day, Ramos said, as the creative team worked out the massive lighting rigs and costume transitions, they also asked the question: “Are we looking at history correctly here?” There is no book the action is driven by Byrne’s soaring tunes (with beats by Fatboy Slim) and by the exuberant choreography of Annie-B Parson, Byrne’s frequent collaborator. “If they want to boo Marcos,” Llana said of audiences, “then I think I did my job right.” Jose Llana reprises Ferdinand from the Public his path from charismatic leader to presidential despot is shorter. The narrative framework of the show has not changed: It still harnesses the gloss of a discothèque - as first lady, Imelda was a denizen of Studio 54 - to reflect the Marcoses’ dizzying rise to power, and the glittery allure of privilege and wealth that led the couple to spend their nation into massive debt, to live lavishly as their constituents suffered.Īrielle Jacobs, a new addition to the cast, plays Imelda, whose journey from naïve beauty pageant contestant to sentimental megalomaniac - “Why Don’t You Love Me?” goes a signature song - is the focus of the story. “Having cultural capital from the motherland, but also financial capital from the motherland, it feels like the authorship and ownership of the show are holding hands very tightly. “It only felt responsible, to fully engage with the motherland,” said the costume designer and creative consultant Clint Ramos, a native of Cebu, Philippines, who has worked on the show since its inception. Also new are a cadre of Filipino producers, including the Tony winner Lea Salonga, the Pulitzer-winning writer Jose Antonio Vargas, the comedian Jo Koy and the Grammy-winning musician H.E.R., along with investors from Manila. But only now has it added a fully Filipino cast - the first-ever on Broadway, organizers say. ![]() General William Devereaux: Escort him out.“Here Lies Love,” which opened to critical raves and sold-out crowds at the Public Theater downtown in 2013, arrives on Broadway after sojourns in London and Seattle, each time expanding its house and fine tuning its immersive staging. General William Devereaux: Feel free to leave whenever you like, Agent Hubbard.Īnthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Come on General, you've lost men, I've lost men, but you - you, you *can't* do this! What, what if they don't even want the sheik, have you considered that? What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we're doing? And put soldiers on the street and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution just a little bit? Because if we torture him, General, we do that and everything we have fought, and bled, and died for is over. ![]() ![]() General William Devereaux: The time has come for one man to suffer in order to save hundreds of lives.Īnthony 'Hub' Hubbard: One Man? What about two, huh? What about six? How about public executions? Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Are you people insane? What are you talkin' about? ![]()
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