The document discusses the history and development of theater in the Philippines, including the founding of Repertory Philippines in 1967 to bring Broadway productions to Filipino audiences, and the careers of stars like Lea Salonga who began with Repertory Philippines before starring in Miss Saigon internationally. It also provides overviews of Miss Saigon the musical and Les Miserables the novel and film.

1. Brainstorming:
Guides Questions:
Are you familiar with Leah
Salonga?
What about Miss Saigon?

2. Meanwhile, other Philippine theater
groups are also staging original and
adapted plays and musical productions,
primarily in English. Best known among
these are Repertory Philippines,
Trumpets, and New Voice Company.

3. More recently, Theater Down South
has been added to their roster. And
championing the cause of the more
classical form of musical
performances is the Philippine
Opera Company.

4. Repertory Philippines

5. In 1967, theater director Zenaida
Amador fulfilled her dream of bringing
the best of Broadway and London’s
West End to Filipino audiences..

6. Together with actress Baby Barredo,
Amador established Repertory
Philippines, a company that not only
staged English-language plays and
musicals year-round but trained
actors and actresses as well.
The company continues with this
vision to this day

7. Multi-awarded theater actress and
singer, Lea Salonga, in fact, began
her career as a child lead in
productions of Repertory Philippines.
From there, she went on to become
an international stage superstar in the
lead role of Kim in Miss Saigon—
putting the Philippines on the world
map in terms of theater talent.

8. Also among Repertory’s many notable
achievements was the 1993 staging of
the international hit musical Les
Miserables in Manila with an all-Filipino
cast and production team.

9. In its 2009 season, Repertory added a
Filipino classic in English to its
productions—A Portrait of the Artist as
Filipino, by National Artist Nick Joaquin.
To date, it continues to offer a mix of
productions ranging from literary
classics to contemporary satires,
comedies, and musicals.

10. Overview of Miss Saigon

11. Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-
Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil,
with lyrics by Boublil and Richard
Maltby Jr.
It is based on Giacomo Puccini's
opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly
tells the tragic tale of a doomed
romance involving an Asian woman
abandoned by her American lover.

12. Set during the Vietnam War, Miss
Saigon begins in 1975 when the
conflicting cultures and ideologies of
the world seemed to meet violently in
one city: Saigon. ... Miss Saigon tells
the story of Chris, an American male
GI, who falls in love with Kim, a young
Vietnamese orphan who works as a
bar-girl and prostitute

13. The setting of the plot is relocated to
1970s Saigon during the Vietnam
War, and Madame Butterfly's story of
marriage between an American
lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by
a romance between a United States
Marine and a seventeen-year-old
South Vietnamese bargirl.

14. Les Misérables is a French historical
novel by Victor Hugo, first published in
1862, that is considered one of the
greatest novels of the 19th century. In
the English-speaking world, the novel is
usually referred to by its original French
title.

15. The story follows former prisoner Jean
Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who, after
being released from the watchful eye of
police officer Javert (Russell Crowe), is
unable to find work because of his
status as an ex-convict

16. He eventually steals from a local
church, but when apprehended, the
priest claims that Valjean was given
the valuables. This triggers a
change in Valjean, and he
constructs a new identity for
himself as a pillar of society and a
local businessman.

17. Years later, he adopts a young girl
named Cosette, whose mother
Fantine (Anne Hathaway), a former
employee of his, became a
prostitute and died a horrible death
in the gutters after being fired.

18. As the years progress and the
French Revolution begins to
foment, a grown Cosette (Amanda
Seyfried) falls for a passionate
revolutionary named Marius (Eddie
Redmayne), while Javert begins to
close in again on Valjean's secret
past.

19. Does it aim to develop the
performers to create enriching
performances?

20. Values Integration:
Presence of mind
Following instructions
Subject Integration:
English(Pronunciation, Spelling)
Arts(Body Mechanics, postures)
Science/ P.E(Parts of the body being used)
Health(Mental- mastery of lines)
Araling Panlipunan (Beginning of the Repertory
Philippines)