Musical Drama: Opera and Musical Play

Theater Roles

• A Make-up Designer ensures that the faces of characters in a stage performance look believable using different cosmetic products.
• A Playwright writes the script for a stage performance.
• A Director is the overall artistic coordinator of a production.
• A Set Designer is responsible for the concept and creation of the physical stage setup.
• Actors are the most visible people on stage during a theater performance.
• A Technical Director shadows the role of the director and handles sound, lights, and costumes to bring the director's vision to life.
• A Producer finances all the production costs needed.
• A Production Manager ensures that all necessary elements, facilities, and equipment are available and in good working order.

Theater Groups and Companies

• Repertory Philippines showcases the best of Broadway and London's West End to Filipino audiences.
• New Voice Company is a theater group that stages thought-provoking productions on "controversial" and profound topics.
• Tanghalang Pilipino is the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, founded in 1987.
• Philippine Opera Company is a group of classically-trained singers founded by Karla Gutierrez.
• Theater Down South is a theater group founded by Michael Williams that aims to widen the reach of stage productions beyond Metro Manila.

HealthCare

• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides paramedic services.
• Nutrition provides dietary advice through a dietician.
• Mental Health Care offers guidance counseling.
• Drug Prevention and Control provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
• Maternal and Child Care is provided by obstetricians and gynecologists, as well as midwives.
• Community Health Care is provided by barangay health workers.
• Environmental Healthcare monitors air quality.
• Pre-Final Examination in MAP is a musical play.

Musical Theater

• Opera is an art and music form that combines libretto and a musical score, where singers and musicians perform a dramatic work.
• Les Miserables is a musical play composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg.
• Sandugong Panaginip is the first Filipino opera.
• Bonifacio Abdon was the first Filipino opera conductor.
• Maria Clara is the childhood sweetheart of Crisostomo Ibarra in the novel Noli Me Tangere.
• Florante at Laura is a literary work by Francisco Baltazar.
• In musical plays, melodies are more manageable by an average singer.
• Jose Rizal wrote the novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
• Magsumula Ka is a story of young dreamers whose ambitions begin to fade in life's realities.
• Jerry Dadap is the composer/conductor of the musical play "Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis".
• Lola Basyang is the pen name of Severino Reyes.
• Lea Salonga is an artist who attained superstar status on both London's West End and Broadway musical.
• Ballet provides visual excitement as characters come alive through body movements.
• Les Miserables is the most famous French musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo.
• Rama Hari is a Philippine adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana set to music, dance, and drama.
• Atang is a musical play based on the life of the first superstar of the Philippines.