Last night was the night that we've been waiting for... the last run of Iloilo Zarzuela... Padayonang Istorya of UP in the Visayas Alumini Performing Group under the direction of Alfredo Diaz before they leave for its Manila run. It was my second time to watch this zarzuela and I'm not tired of watching this show because of its cultural and historical value, it's very entertaining and informative. It started with an excerpt about a datu and his misfortune on love, it was a serious act that everyone was so quite and was trying to ponder what the act is all about. It was followed by an act about the condition of a mother who has three children, one was schooled in Spain the other one in America and the other one is left behind in Iloilo and is fluent in the native dialect. The third act was about Ma Pa Ta. It was an act about a son of a rich man who do nothing but spend his parents money to vices and girls, until the day that his father caught his lies. The fourth act was the most entertaining because the theme is all about love. The story is about a "laon" who bet on her friends that the guy who is "laon" also will court her. She did not know that the guy also bet with his friends that he can make the girl say "yes" to him. The last act is not very clear to me but it was also very entertaining about a woman who has a beautiful daughter whom a lot of guys in the barrio are dying to marry including Obal, a "patpatin" guy. Indeed, zarzuelas are very entertaining. I am so happy that I experience to watch a zarzuela in my lifetime. I hope that the succeeding generations will still be able to witness a zarzuela.
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