Link, come here.

*We were 40 minutes late. Oh, let me start that again. I was standing in front of the main entrance of Star City at eight o’clock waiting for my two high school friends while the show started and probably Tracy Turnblad was singing “Good Morning, Baltimore” by the time. Hence, we were late.

*During the fifteen-minute break of the Hairspray musical—curtains closed and lights on, I was caught by a member of the production holding a big and almost empty pack of chips in my right hand. Believe me, it wasn’t mine. I was just so unlucky that my beloved friend passed it to me and put me in the limelight. 0.o

*Anyway, the show was awesome! The stage was cutely designed. Pink dominated the stage, but other colors were still vibrantly visible. The cast was great! Aside from singing really well during the show, the artists really made effort to resemble the characters in the movie—from head to toe! If you were able to watch the movie before hand, you can surely identify each and everyone of them—Link, Tracy, Edna, Amber, Amber’s Mom, Seaweed, Penny, Seaweed’s mom, and so on. My personal favorites are Seaweed and Amber.

I like Seaweed, because the character was played by Nyoy Volante and because I like him as an acoustic singer and because it was first time to see him sing and dance.

I like Amber. I like it when she says the line, “Link, come here,” in a high-pitched note. She reminds me of Sharpey of High School Musical. Basically, I like kikay antagonists. I think they’re cute.

Without any biases, I also like Seaweed and Amber’s mothers, who happened to be Dulce and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo respectively. Of course, as we all know, Dulce is a really good singer. And, take this as a compliment, she looked like a clone of Queen Latifah, the actress behind the character who played in the movie. It is just so amazing to me. I felt like I was just watching the movie ‘live.’

And oh, before I forget, Michael de Mesa also did a good job playing Edna. :)