Singer-actor Jett Pangan, the lead star of Atlantis’ new musical “Nine,” has added his voice to the campaign of local artists to impose proper dues on foreign productions like “The Phantom of the Opera.” Pangan said foreign artists should pay P5,000 each pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed in 1989 between the [...]
When the Manila production of the stage musical “Rock of Ages” opened in the same week as its film adaptation of the same title, it could’ve gone either way—the stage musical would suffer due to the film version’s powerhouse cast led by Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Alec Baldwin; or it would benefit from the exact same reasons.
Rocker Jett Pangan fully understands the duality of his character, a doctor who turns into a monster, in Repertory Philippines’ staging of the Broadway musical, “Jekyll & Hyde.” Jett leads a double life himself, as rock singer and musical-theater actor. He juggles the two worlds quite easily, though. Sometimes the parallel universes intersect – for [...]
