NEW YORK -- “Imelda,” a new musical of former First Lady Imelda Marcos ,?is showing at the Julia Miles Theater in New York until Oct. 18.
Staged by PanAsian Repertory Theatre, the musical?spans the years after Philippine Independence in the 1940s to the Marcoses’ fall from grace in the 1980s.
Pan Asian Repertory said in its website the musical is a “story of a powerful and controversial figure… an ambitious woman who wants to make her country an equal player on the world stage.”
Directed by Tim Dang, the musical opened last Sept. 22 and will run until Oct. 18. Among its many highlights are the songs “A Beautiful Place,” sung by Imelda Marcos, “IF I Had Raised a Butterfly,,” sung by former strongman Ferdinand Marcos and Ninoy Aquino, and “Myself, My Heart,” sung by Cory Aquino after her husband’s assassination.
The New York Times has published a review of the show?with good words for the show’s lead star.
“The New York premiere has taken it up a notch with the f-foot-6 “Miss Saigon” and “Aida” vet Jaycee Macapugay as Imelda. And Chou has made sure she is properly swathed in Imeldific ( a self-coined adjective that Meldy used to mean “ostentatious extravagance”) wear,” it said.
?And what is an Imelda musical without the famed shoes?
“Of course, there are shoes,” the New York Times review said. “And a song about them., “3,0000 Pairs of Shoes” – though Imelda insists there were only 1,060 (“Why the thrills for my espadrilles?What boring chat, I will tell my story, all without this Imelda Marcos shoe mystique. Love and youth, tragedy and truth, laughs, romance and all that. Talk of shoes, what a pain. I’m here to entertain!).
For more details, visit?http://www.panasianrep.org/imelda.shtml
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