What I need to Know

Good day!
Welcome to the world of music. In this module you will learn about the
different multimedia forms in the 20th and 21st century.
You will also learn how Philippine Opera, Ballet and Musical Plays influenced
the Filipino culture in today’s world.

Let us get started.

What I Know

Direction:Match the concepts/personalities in Column A with the descriptions in

Column B. Write only the letter of the correct answer in your notebook.

A B

A. National Artist for theater and music,

1 Musical Play was born in Pandacan, Manila.

B. The text of an Opera.

2 Showboat in 1927
C. A Musical that first opened at West
3 Lea Salonga End, London in 1989.

The Phantom of the D. A musical play composed by Ryan

4 Opera Cayabyab.

E. A Musical play depicting the life of

5 Les Misérables revolutionary hero, Andres Bonifacio.
F. A musical, composed in 1980 by
Andres Bonifacio Ang French composer Claude- Michel
6 Dakilang Anak Pawis Schöenberg.
G. A Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd
7 Noli Me Tangere Webber and Richard Stilgoe.

H. Filipino artist who attained superstar

8 Miss Saigon status in Broadway Musical.

I. First major Broadway Musical.

9 Libretto

Honorata "Atang" de la J. A much lighter form of Musical Drama

10 Rama-Hernandez

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 What’s in

Look at the given pictures. Answer the questions that follow. Write your
observations in your Music notebook.

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1. What multimedia art form is seen in these pictures? What do you think these
pictures tell us?
2. How did media, specifically radio, television, video and recordings, play a role
in the development of these musical genres?

What’s New

The musical play is a popular and generally lighter form of musical drama than
the opera. The themes are usually more contemporary and the musical melodies are
more manageable by the average singer. The acting is less intense and dramatic and
the choreography and dance sequences provide entertaining breaks in the unfolding
plots.

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 What is It

Broadway and West End Musicals

Musicals are perhaps most widely associated with the Broadway plays in New
York City and West End Productions in London. The first major Broadway musical was
Showboat in 1927. Since then, musicals have presented many other themes: Siamese
royalty in the King and I, English aristocracy in My Fair Lady, Australian history in the
Sound of Music, medieval English Tragedy in Camelot and interracial gang rivalry and
romance in West Side Story. Other hit productions through the years have included
South Pacific, Cabaret, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Cats,
Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Wicked and Mama Mia. Majority of these musicals
have also been into films, bringing them to much wider audiences the world over.
Scenes from the film adaptation of West Side Story

(Mullen, 2021) (Sunico,et.al., 2015)

Lea Salonga, International Theater Star

Broadway Musicals are
popular entertainment with themes and
texts which are generally light and easy
to understand. These may include the
problems of everyday life, such as love
and romance, social acceptance,
jealousy, intrigue and adventure. The
singing is usually amplified unlike the
operatic quality of classically trained
voices.

(Sunico,et.al., 2015)
Lea Salonga as Kim in Miss Saigon with actor Simon Bowman

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One Filipino artist who attained superstar status on both London’s West End and
Broadway is Lea Salonga. She is best known for her portrayal of Kim in Miss Saigon
a role for which she won the prestigious Tony Award for theater in the USA and the
Laurence Olivier Award in London. She also garnered the Drama Desk Award and
Outer Critics Circle Award for the same role in the USA. Salonga is the first Filipina to
have won so many international awards for a single role.
Miss Saigon, first opened at West End in London in 1989 and closed in 1994.
The London production became one of the Theater Royal’s (Drury Lane) longest-
running musicals. In addition, it was successfully produced in many cities around the
world. The USA production opened at the Broadway Theater in New York on April 11,
1991 and closed on January 28, 2001 after 4,092 performances. It was again re-
staged in London in the year 2014.

The Phantom of the Opera is

a Broadway musical by Andrew
Lloyd Webber and Richard
Stilgoe with lyrics by Charles
Hart and music by Lloyd
Webber. It is based on the
novel The Phantom of the
Opera by Gaston Leroux. The
story focuses on a beautiful
(Hyun, 2019) singer Christine Daaé as she is
seduced by a mysterious
disfigured musical genius known as “the Phantom of the opera”. The Phantom lives
beneath the Paris Opera House and terrorizes those who work there. He demands
that Christine be the star of the theater’s productions. When the young singer rejects
the Phantom’s advances and her lover Raoul intervenes, the Phantom sets no limits
in his pursuit of revenge and of Christine’s love. However, Christine escapes with
Raoul to the roof, where she tells him about her underground meetings with the
Phantom. Raoul is skeptical but swears to love and to protect her always, as
demonstrated in their song All I ask is you.

Les Misérables, nicknamed “Les

Mis” is a musical composed in 1980
by French composer Claude- Michel
Schöenberg with libretto by Alain
Boublil, based on the novel Les
Misérables by Victor Hugo. It is
perhaps the most famous of all
French musicals and one of the most
well-loved musicals performed
worldwide. (Sunico,et.al., 2015)

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Les Mis tells the story of a paroled convict Jean Viljean who, failingly attempts to find
work as an honest man, breaks his chains and conceals his identity in order to live his
life again.

PHILIPPINE MUSICAL PLAYS

In the Philippines, the musical play is a more recent development than the
Broadway and West End, relying mostly on adaptation of novels, literary works, or
biographical sketches of famous artist.
ANDRES BONIFACIO, ANG DAKILANG ANAK-PAWIS: THE MUSICAL
The musical play Andres Bonifacio Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis is a five-act work
commissioned by Alfonso Puyat in 1979, depicting the life of revolutionary hero Andres
Bonifacio. It was co-produced by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Andres
Bonifacio Music Foundation, Inc. and was staged again at the CCP Main Theater on
August 20 and 21, 1994 with Jerry Dadap as composer – conductor and the late Elmo
Makil as Bonifacio.
Ang Dakilang Anak Pawis Song In 2014, the UP College of
Music and the Andres
Bonifacio Concert Choir
presented their own
version of the musical play
in celebration of the 150th
birth anniversary of the
revolutionary hero.

(Sunico,et.al., 2015)

Biography of Atang de la Rama

On January 11, 1902, Honorata "Atang"
de la Rama-Hernandez, National Artist
for theater and music, was born in
Pandacan, Manila. Orphaned at an early
age, she grew up under the care of an
elder sister who was married to
a zarzuela composer where she was
constantly exposed to the zarzuela. She
would later become the lead star of around (Sunico,et.al., 2015)
50 zarzuelas and performed not only in locally renowned venues but also in "open
plazas" and "cockpits”. At the age of 7, she was already starring in
Spanish zarzuelas such as Mascota, Sueño de un Vals, and Marina.

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 At 14 she played Angelita in "Dalagang Bukid", a zarzuela in 1917 and
popularized the song "Nabasag ang Banga". The show was made into a movie in
1919, the first Tagalog full length feature movie. She was so popular in her role as a
simple maid turned flirt in "Ang Kiri" that it was immortalized in the film "Mahiwagang
Binibini".

De La Rama sung Kundimans created by some of the most important

composers of the 1920’s and 1930’s. She popularized the songs "Bituing
Marikit", "MadalingAraw", "Mutya ng Pasig" and "Anak Dalita".

During the Japanese occupation, she did her patriotic duty by carrying
secret messages, often hidden in her hairdo, back and forth to Filipino guerillas. A
civic-minded artist, de la Rama led several groups not only in culture and arts, but in
politics as well, namely the Kaisahan ng Kababaihan sa Pilipinas, the Gagalangin
Ladies Association and the Red Cross Fund drive and became a zealous supporter
of such groups as the Confederation of Labor Organization, the Home Nursing
Association, and the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Later, she supported various
groups like the PETA Babaylan and GABRIELA, by giving inspiring lectures. De la
Rama gave the best years of her life to the arts. She died on July 11, 1991.

The Musical Production

In the UP production
of the musical, the songs
rendered by Ms. Laurel as
Atang included notable
kundiman favorites – Nasaan
ka Irog, Pakiusap,
MadalingAraw, Nabasag ang
Banga (from the zarzuela
Dalagang Bukid) and
Masayang Dalaga (from the
zarzuela ang Kiri).
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Atang_de_la_Rama

She also sang duets with

her husband Ka Amado such as Kitang
Dalawa and Pilipinas kong Mahal but
what elicited enthusiastic audience
response were the duets with Katy de la
Cruz, Magkano ang Bibingka Mo? And
Mamang Gusting. The play also
featured the two men in Atang’s life –
General Artemio Ricarte and her
husband, National Artist for Literature
Amado Hernandez, Kitang Dalawa was
originally a poem by Hernandez dedicated to his wife, which Von de Guzman brought
to life with his music.

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NOLI ME TANGERE, THE MUSICAL
In 1996, Noli Me Tangere returned to the CCP, but this time as a musical play
composed by Ryan Cayabyab, with libretto by National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera.
It was staged at the CCP Little Theater from February 1-4, 1996 as a production of
Tanghalang Pilipino.
Noli Me Tangere the musical, closely follows the storyline of the original novel and the
opera. There are slight differences in the partitioning of the story into the different acts
and in the dramatization of the ending, as well as the music and libretto.
The musical play had its rerun in 2011-2012 during the 150th anniversary of Rizal’s
birth as part of Tanghalang Filipino silver anniversary celebration and again in 2013,
both times at the CCP Little Theater. Audie Gemora directed a young cast composed
of mainstream actors which include Mark Bautista and Gian Magdangal alternating
Crisostomo Ibarra, and Cris Villonco as Maria Clara.

What’s More

Complete the information chart. Follow these instructions and write your answers in
your notebook.

1. Define what a Musical Play is.

2. Draw an emoji that represents your emotion during your study of Musical
Play.
3. How can you use Musical Play in your daily life to make it more productive?

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 Assessment

Direction: Match the concepts/personalities in Column A with the descriptions in

Column B. Write only the letter of the correct answer in your notebook.

A B

A. National Artist for theater and music;

1 Musical Play was born in Pandacan, Manila.

B. The text of an Opera.

2 Showboat in 1927
3 Lea Salonga
4 The Phantom of the Opera
5 Les Misérables
Andres Bonifacio Ang
6 Dakilang Anak Pawis
7 Noli Me Tangere
8 Miss Saigon
C. A Musical thatfirst opened at West End
in London in 1989.
D. A musical play composed by Ryan
Cayabyab.
E. A Musical play depicting the life of
revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio.
F. A musical composed in 1980 by French
composer Claude- Michel Schöenberg.
G. A Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Richard Stilgoe.
H. Filipino artist who attained superstar
status on Broadway Musical.

I. First major Broadway Musical.

9 Libretto
Honorata "Atang" de la J. A much lighter form of Musical Drama.
10 Rama-Hernandez

Additional Activities
In your notebook, cut and paste or draw an Emoji that best describes your
learning with this module and give your reason/s why you choose such Emoji.

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