Gian Alvarez

The Lead

Gian Alvarez

In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O Lord, the God of truth. -Psalm 31:1-5 (NIV)

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Farewell To Skid Row!
7:09 PM, Friday, June 02, 2006 | Link to this post | 0 comments


Cast Party at Teriyaki Boy Eastwood right after the show.
We'll all miss each other!

What a show!!! We’ve made it! MTF had a blast last night! Wooohoo!!!! We did a great show! Everyone has been captivated by the people of Skid Row. Astig!!! We were more than thankful to God for giving us strength, energy, and passion to put up this show on the stage. Thank you Lord!!!

We had a little party at Teriyaki Boy Eastwood after the show with some of us still have our make-ups on. We have our last group pictures taken there. We’ll surely gonna miss each other, but were planning to have a reunion on Mariel’s debut on September. So, this is not goodbye yet. I have them write farewell messages on my yearbook and voila... my yearbook became a slum book! Haha!

- Gian

Rehearsals And All That Jazz!!! Part 5
10:12 AM, Thursday, June 01, 2006 | Link to this post | 0 comments

We have a good run yesterday during our TDR at the AFP Theatre. The theatre is just right, not big as what I’m expecting it to be. It’s smaller than UP theatre. Anyway, we have a good time during the run yesterday. We started at 8pm and ended up at 11pm. And all of us were dead tired right after. Since we are the last class for the day to do our TDR, we managed to evaluate the show and highlight some important points while we were resting onstage.

It’s difficult adjusting your blocking on a new stage. You really need to see to it that you can’t harm anyone or destroy the scene when making your move onstage. So Tr. John needs to interrupt us from time to time for us to adjust in our respective spaces. We also have a hard time with the lighting design. Personally, I don’t like the lighting techniques that the techies are using. Our lapels are working properly but I was disappointed when the techies didn’t put it on when I was about to sing.

We did some ‘backstage blues’ during Git It! We danced with the music doing our own choreo while James and Anton are singing onstage. Tr. John will gonna be our keyboardist on the show itself. Yahoo!!!

I came home past 12 and I was so dead tired. I only have 7 hours of sleep. I woke up this morning nervous because the show will be later this evening. Call time will be at 4:30pm later at the venue.

- Gian