Rep to stage ‘Pippin’ at Meralco theater.

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Language

English

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Business Day Volume XIV (No. 132) August 29, 1980

Year

1980

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Entertainment events--Philippines.

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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Page 14 Business Day Friday, August 29, 1980 Mirador Hotel’s long running dinner theater hit, "Close Encounters with the Third Sex,” stages a repeat performance tonight and tomorrow at the hotel's El Pueblo supper club. “The Best of Close Encounters” is directed by Nestor Torre and produced by Applause International. Tickets for the show, which will be theater-style (non-dinner), are at P50 and P30. Opening a four-weekend run tonight at the Insular Life Auditorium, Repertory Philippines’ production of "Whose Life is it Anyway?" — a controversial play about a quadraplegic’s right to die that has won plaudits on Broadway. Rep spearhead Zeneida Amador takes on the leading role. Celebrity Sports Plaza features noted guitarist and singer Earl Klugh in a dinner show tonight and tomorrow at the Celebrity theater ballroom. Dinner is at 7 p.m., followed by showtime at 8:30. Second weekend run of “Biglang Bigla Isang Umaga,” starring Anita Linda and Dencio Padilla, at the Bulwagang Gantimpala of the CCP. On its last day today at the Hyatt Regency Manila, a luncheon fashion show featuring Gregg Centeno’s haute couture collection. At today's show, two round trip tickets to Singapore courtesy of Philippine Airlines will be raffled off to lucky patrons. A the Holiday Inn Manila this Sunday, La Table du Baron treats dinner guests to a Sunday Supper Club, featuring French specialty cuisine and music by the Four Notes. American guest conductor Miles Morgan leads the CCP Philharmonic Or chestra in a concert at the Cultural Center’s main theater. The one-night per formance opens tonight at 8 p.m. Tomorrow at Philtrade, an evening of Cultural lore. Sunday afternoon at the Philtrade complex, a showband called the Jubilation will give a solo concert The show is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. @ MYRA’S A CO. SPORTING GOODS We help people pley their way to health and fun. KRYPTOkross OFF HOURS Jazzie launches search for five 1981 models Apparel ------------Corp. (ARC) and Man hattan Sportswear Ex change (MSEX) recently announced the launching of the “1981 Five for Jaz zie DVS Selection.” Five pretty, person able, and career-oriented girls will be chosen in a private selection which will be highlighted with the formal public presen tation at a gala show of the Jazzie DVS Inaugural Collection by October. ARC and MSEX exec utives as well as a panel of experts in beauty, fa shion, and merchandising will choose five girls, each epitomizing the spe cific look and character of any of the Jazzie DVS six brand new labels: Claudine, Vicki Davies, Preppy, Jazzsports and ------- - - - ----Jazzjean. The Destino 89-17-83 until Sept. 6. Resources menswear label will be represented by a male model handpicked by the committee for a contract of one year. The five winners will have careers in fashion modelling, merchandising and mar keting lined-up for them by ARC and MSEX. This year’s thrust is on career development in the gar ment field and estab lished careers in the fa shion trade. The “1981 Five for Jazzie DVS Selection” winners will each receive P27.000 cash prize and a one year contract with ARC and MSEX. Applicants are re quested to contact the Jazzie DVS Makati West drive Arcade Shop at tels. 86-62-80 and Liv Ullmann is Unicef goodwill ambassador Liv Ullmann, the first woman “goodwill ambas sador" of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has comple ted her mission to Bang ladesh, India and Sri Lanka to leam about ch il dren’s problems in developing countries; The Norwegian act ress, who gained inter national acclaim through movies by Ingmar Berg man, was asked by UNICEF to undertake various efforts to in crease international understanding of child ren’s needs and to sup port related UNICEF fund-raising and promo tional activity. This week Miss Ull mann will start her cam paign against misery anc starvation to which child ren in various parts of the world are still ex posed, said a report re ceived this week by the United Nations Inform ation Center in the Phil ippines. Miss Ullmann, mother of a 1 4 - y e ar- old daughter, has agreed to become the advocate of 960 million children in 108 countries under UNICEF assistance. About 30% of children in developing countries are still dying of mal nutrition and disease be fore they have reached the age of five. Rep to stage ‘Pippin’ at Meralco theater Once again Repertory Philippines is preparing for a new musical pro duction, Pippin, which (although it has Jjeen ex cerpted and produced for dinner theater before) will be produced for the first time in its original form on the legitimate stage in the Philippines. Pippin will open on Oct ober 7 at the Meralco Theater and will con tinue through to October 19. /The cast includes Cocoy Laurel as Pippin-, Freddie Santos as Charletnagne ; and Audie Gemora as The Leading Player. It also includes Zenaida Amador, Joy Virata, Enchang. Agudo and other veterans of musical stage as j some bright new talents chosen from the hundred or so hopefuls who tried out during Rep’s last audition. Executive producer is Celia Diaz-Laurel, music al director is Baby Barredo. The production is being directed by Zeneida Amador herself. Pippin is loosely based on the life of Charlemagnes’s eldest son, an idealist trying to find himself amid the bawdy - pleasures of court, the pandemonium of battle, the aggravation of being Holy Roman Emperor, and the multi-faceted exertions of being a common laborer on the estate of a rich widow. The music and lyrics of Pippin were written by Stephen Schwartz who also wrote the mu sic and lyrics of GodA case (in fact, 102,000) of the bubblies Imagine an airborne wine cellar stocked with 102,000 cases of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne. Pan American World Airways will perform that feat this year on its flights to 76 destinations ranging from Abid jan to Zurich. About 18 million pas sengers will enjoy 1.1 million quarts of wine from this formidable supply. Pan Am has long been a major pur chaser of French and other wines. Bruce Axler, director of the firm’s food and beverage planning procedures, says the airline this year will stock Its flights with 15,000 cases of red Bordeaux, 15,000 cases of white Burgundy, and 17,000 cases of Champagne for first class passengers alone. Economy class on Pan Am flights will have 27,000 cases of white Burgun dy, 24,000 cases of red Bordeaux and 4,000 of sparkling wine. "Pan Am may be the largest foreign purchaser of French products that doesn’t subsequently re-sell them," says Axler. Pan Am’s wine expert is Paris-based Maurice Zaidman, who has worked for the airline for 30 years, and knows wine both as an oenophile and as a merchant. Zaidman is instrumental in helping Pan Am purchase its French wines In bulk, after the airline first sets a yearly wine monetary budget. Each year, usually In February, Zaid man arranges the annual Pan Am winetasting, held at the Inter-Continental Hotel In Paris. The wines — and there may be as many as 200 to sample — are divided by classification, such as color, vintage, and region. FRENCH WINE. Pan Am’s basic wine provisioning is French, and the airline purchases about 80% of its wine in France. The remainder comes from the US, Germany, and Italy, and these wines are available on appropriate routes. “On flights from Frankfurt, for example, we will have a Rhine wine ’ available for our passengers," Axler says. TASTERS. Zaidman’s fellow tasters are Axler, Fred Haverly, who is system director of dining services for Pan Am, a member of the Jure Picquer de Vin, and the sommelier of the Paris Inter Continental Hotel. The bottles to be tasted are wrapped In paper, and mark ed only with a number of alphabet letter, to provide a truly blind test. The "jurors” will sample five or six wines, and then choose the best of each individual group. "We look for coJpr, for bouquet, for smell, for taste -* of course, and there is an extra mark for the ‘aura’ of the wine," Zaidman says. "Each year Is different, due to the different quality of the vintage." Zaidman says the ultimate goal Is to "satisfy our own tastes as well as the taste of our passengers.” In 1980, Pan Am's first class travelers will have a Chateau des Roches 1978 as their red Bordeaux, a Macon Laforet 1978 as a white Burgundy, and Charbaut champagne. Economy class passengers will be served a Papillon de la Reine red and a Blanc de Blanc white; both wines are from Caves de La Reine Pedauque. Buying wine in such quantities obviously is different than a casual visit to the neighboring grog shop. "Each year, when we make our choices, we order from 7,000 to 8,000 cases from a vineyard at a minimum," Axler says.

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