Zsa Zsa and Zia, dream team

MOTHER-DAUGHTER tandem topbills musical treat on May 13.

WE may have to be elsewhere on May 13, but if we were in town, we wouldn’t miss the “Zsa Zsa and Zia Live!” show at 7 p.m. at Venice Park at McKinley Hill. To us, it’s the best possible Mother’s Day musical treat, featuring the new “dream team” in local entertainment, Zsa Zsa Padilla and her and Dolphy’s pride and joy, Zia Quizon.

To the show biz manner and manor born, Zia is the quintessential scion, blessed with her mom’s beauty and singing talent, plus her dad’s iconic wit and performing sass and savvy, which in her has been transmuted to a delicious effervescence and artistic simplicity and honesty that doesn’t require her to be giddily “on” all the time to be exquisitely entertaining.

Yes, she’s still very young, so she hasn’t fully found herself and her long-range, evolved entertainment persona, but with Zsa Zsa for mommy with the mostest and Dolphy for deadpan but doting dad, she can afford to bide her time and see where the spirit moves her. Given her fresh-faced beauty, we bet that it will eventually include the movies, too. On May 13, however, her “Z and Z” outing will be limited to the musical mode—and that’s great, for starters. Happy Mothers’ Day, one and all!

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TV special

Speaking of mom Zsa Zsa and darling daughter Zia, another stellar mother-daughter tandem, Sharon Cuneta and KC Concepcion, should also do more things together in the biz this season. Could they cut an album together? A TV special would also be great.

And, why don’t they help make the Philippine performing arts more popular by costarring in an Original Filipino Musical production? With all the imported musicals being done here, our own shows are suffering, and the popular likes of Shawie and KC would help our musical-theater productions come into their own.

While that OPM show is being prepped, however, Sharon and KC could think of doing an existing show that would be perfect for them—the “sing and dance” musical, “Gypsy,” with Shawie playing the control-freak stage mother, Rose, and KC as her rebellious daughter—a recalcitrant striptease artiste who would later become the famous Gypsy Rose Lee!