Worth all the expense

JENNIFER Lopez photo:NIÑO Jesus Orbeta

“Love don’t cost a thing,” Jennifer Lopez sang to more than 11,000 people at her concert Monday night at SM Mall of Asia Arena—even as many more of her fans couldn’t watch the show due to the exorbitant ticket prices.

But the production itself—which mixed and matched elements of theater and film as Lopez flaunted her washboard abs and hourglass figure while sailing through difficult numbers—was a spectacle that was worth all the expense. Pocholo Concepcion