Tuesday, December 27, 2011

"Ang Regalo" LUMC's First Musical Play

For the first time, the Lagro United Methodist Church has presented a musical play last December 23, 2011 with the title "Ang Regalo”: (The Gift). It has been a product of a rigorous brain storming by the young people.


They wanted to come up with a story about message of Christmas and its relevance to the life of young people today amid the different circumstances surrounding them. Ideas flowed profusely. As one of the advisers of the young people, I helped out in putting together the story line and produce a script for a musical play, which I entitled “Ang Regalo”. 

It’s all about five teens and the different circumstances surrounding them: because of scarcity, one of them thinks that Christmas is a time to earn from Christmas caroling; another, because of hunger for love, thinks of Christmas services as an opportunity to search for young love; another, because of her rich family thinks that Christmas is the time for luxurious gifts; yet another, because of longing for her parents working abroad, thinks of Christmas as time for family reunion. Yet in the long run, even all those could not give them happiness anymore.

However, one them has lost her mom to cancer but has found true happiness in the Christ of Christmas. She has found meaning in life in Christ who knows all our brokenness and heals them with His love.

The story speaks of the true essence of Christmas and that we will not find true happiness unless Christ is born in our hearts, unless we receive Him as our Lord and personal Savior. Christ is the Father’s greatest gift to us and we only need to receive Him in our hearts for us to receive the free gift of everlasting life.

The main characters were Elijah Alivia, Andrew Agovida, Angel Vinluan, Vanessa Vinluan and Abby Ojenar under the direction of Ghenalee Alivia while I did the musical scoring. Ivy Velasco handled the tambourine dance choreography while Elijah Alivia and Cyrus Robles handled the dance choreo for “A King is Born”.
We had basically just one week of thorough practice but everything went well. Kudos for the young people for a job well done!