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Media celebrity G Töngi, newly appointed Artistic Director
of Upstart Productions, heads the cast of a dramatic reading of the powerful
American play The Baby Dance, brought
to you by Metrobank Card Corporation. This one-night-only performance is set
for 7:00 pm on Sunday, June 15, 2014 at Century City Mall, and kicks off an
entire series of dramatic readings called Upstart
Soundstage. No props, no sets, no costumes—just a different play or musical
every other Sunday until September 7.
Jane Anderson’s The
Baby Dance, the performance of which also doubles as Ms. Töngi’s
birthday celebration, is the story of a well-to-do suburban couple and their desire
to adopt the unborn child of a poor couple living in a trailer park. Witty and
deeply moving, the drama explores the complications and consequences of
surrogacy from the first meeting of the contrasting couples to the fateful day
of the baby’s birth.
An actress turned playwright,
screenwriter, and director, Jane Anderson has won numerous awards, including an
Emmy for writing the 1993 TV movie The
Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. Her recent accolades include an Emmy nomination for writing
and directing the movie version of The
Baby Dance, the script of which she adapted from her own play; a Writer’s
Guild of America nomination for her work as a writer on the enormously
successful TV series Mad Men; and the
screenplays for the 2005 film The Prize
Winner of Defiance, Ohio (which she also directed) and the 1994 Nicolas
Cage romantic comedy It Could Happen To
You.
The Baby Dance
was originally produced by The Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of California,
and then subsequently produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The Manila
cast features Ms. Töngi and some of her closest friends in theater,
including Upstart founder Joel Trinidad, who also directs the dramatic reading.
Metrobank Card
Corporation in cooperation with Century City Mall presents Upstart Soundstage:
The Dramatic Readings. Starting Sunday, June 15, at 7:00 pm at the Century
Plaza Event Center, 5th floor, Century City Mall, Kalayaan Avenue,
Makati, and playing continuously every other Sunday from then on. Tickets at P300
for plays, P500 for musicals, available at the door. From Upstart Productions.
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