Memorandum

Philippine
May 5, 2014
STAGIRS
MR. DIOSDADO M.sAN ANTONIO
Foundation
Regionol Director
CALABARZON
Dear MR. SAN ANTONIO:
Greetings.
PHItIPPINE STAGERS FOUNDATION (PSF), a fast rising and muhi-awarded non-stock, non-profit theater
company duly organized and registered under the laws of the Securities and Exchange Commission will
be offering its various plays and Musicals for the Thirteenth 113tn1 Season, one of which is FltlPlNAS
1941, lsang Dulayawit lA Musicol obout Filipino hardships and suflering
duinE the time ol topanese
Occupationl. The said Musical is written and directed by world renowned stage director and writer,
Aliw and Broadway World Awardee, Atty. Vincent Taf,ada. lt will be shown in various theater venues in
Metro Manila and chosen provinces. PSF was recognized by no-less than President Noynoy Aquino as
one of the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations of the Philippines (TAYO Awards) and Dangal ng Bansa
by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. lt was also recognized for numerous times by the Aliw Awards and
by the Broadway World Awards for two consecutive years.
Enclosed herewith is the synopsislofthe play and musical of the Foundation for its 13'th Season.
It is in this light that we implore your indulgence and request for an endorsement from your good office
to enable us to invite the students to witness our musical and be inspired by the life and heroism of the
Filipinos during the time of Japanese Occupation.
Rest assured that this would benefit our audience not only academically
approach to study Modern Literature and Philippine History but
Theater Production not before seen in Philippine Stage.
Please feel free to get in touch
it
for it focuses on the holistic
is also an Artistic masterpiece in
with me. My contact nos. are 02-5053191 and 0927-2009225.
Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
MARY EIAINE T. CORONEI
10,
Board of Trustee/ Marketing Head
Philippine Stagers Offlce: 4th floor Vincent 1 Bldg. 411 Calabash-A corner G Tuazon St Manila'
Telbpnone: 7816227 Email: dbap sbc @hotmail com/Philstagers foundation@yahoo com
Vincent M. Tanada's
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Out of the oven and into the fire. After 300 years of Spanish colonial rule the Philippines got its first taste of
freedom then taken away by the Americans pretending to be the country's liberator. Sudden twist of events
turned everything upside down. History during the era will be told through the eyes of four intertwined souls,
brothers Felipe and Nestor, friends Emilia and Sofia, which would eventually unfold the truth of how Philippine
independence was won by Filipinos.
The difference between the two brothers was very obvious in the onset, Nestor was more successful in school, and
eventually he used all the things he learned in school to start a very successful shoe making business. On the other
hand his older brother Felipe ended up ploughing the fields. Eventually they will realize the impact of the war that
it spares no one.
When Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Japanese signalling the start of the Second World War, 10 hours after the
Philippines was not spared, lntramuros was decimated, HUKBALAHAP was formed and USAFFE experienced a
beating from the Japanese forces. Corregidor finally fell, General Douglas MacArthur left with his troops and the
hope of the people to Australia. The remnants of the defenders of the Philippines were forced to march to their
deaths.
ln these trying times our four characters will traverse the challenges of Japanese occupation. They will showcase
the resilience of the Filipino spirit and prove to the world that despite all odds, with minimal support coming from
the forces of MacArthur from Australia. The brothers will go on their separate ways, Nestor will become a
collaborator, using his business ties to get his vengeance for what happened with Emilia. Felipe will eventually join
the rebels in the mountains for the fate of Sofia.
The missing links of our history needs to be filled out and this play will try to fill in the gaps. The misrepresentation
of our history regarding our efforts in the Second World War needs to be corrected. Our war against the Japanese
was made successful because of the Filipino spirit. The country is already winning when MacArthur returned, as
such that only 12 out of 40 provinces was left to the Japanese forces and was bound to fall in coming months.
The Philippines is the apex of the Second World War and the end of it is the turning point that would spell success
or failure between the ruling powers. The Battle of Leyte Gulf is arguably the biggest Naval Battle in history. Our
characters
willjoin
us in this tragic battle. Lives will be lost, tragedy will be told, but at the end of the day, Filipinas
194L will give you a spectacular musical experience that would show our history through the eyes of our
countrymen and how the resilience of the Filipinos won the day for the Philippines.
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A IHEATFR wilh a PURPOSE
PHILIPPINE SIAGERS FOUNDA-ilON is a fasf-rising and uiticaliy
acclaified professional theater company duly organized and registered
undet the laws af the
Secu
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by Atty. Vincent M. Tafiada, a lawyer and w teL Jeffrcy T.
Ambrcsio, an inte or designet and Chtistian H. Lim, a professional
computet analyst and graphics designer. The thrce PSF incoryoratars
saw the recessily of Eansfatmation and rccupention of Philippine
2002
theateL
But PSF is notjusl an ofiinary pertorming group. lt is a Foundation with
an objectve of helping the paor, the sick, lhe elde y and the fotgotlen
thrcugh the nediun of theatet arts. At prcsent, the foundation has fi1rc
lhanfrlty (5A) High Schooland College Scholars. Aside fton its very active
Scholarshrp Prcgran, the foundafion is consistently handling absolutely
frce Theate WMkshop every summer with moe than two hundrcd (2001
panieipanis frcn vaious schoo/s in the country, For its rcgular season
runs, the Foundation has also otganized out+each activilies at vatious
cha table institutions such as Golden Acres Home for the Aged, Seryants
of Charity, Nati1nal Centet for Mental Health and Reception Study Cenler
stic
for Children. Through this, philippine Stage9 Foundation is an
team with a puryose ifi tire society. Remaining hunble and silenl despile
its phenonenal success, the foundation has produced several stage plays
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which brcke alltheater box office tecords in the Philippines. Fot its plays
Mactan 1521, Enza.,.Santo, Chi-noi, O'Maises, Pinoy Sanurai, Desapatecidos, A Filipino Musicale, Nan aste...Ang Makulay na Buhay ni Gandhi,
Ttoy Avenue, Ako si Ninoy, ( 22nd AIiw Awards Best Musical PIay),
Enzo..santo(rc-r,n), Cory ng Edsa ( Broadway World Best Musical Play
and Aliw Awards Best Musical PIay, 2012) and Joe A Filipino Roclasical
(Best Musical Play in the Brcadway Wo d Awads). Philippine Stagerc
Foundation has nade phenomenal ticket-sales, averaging frcm thitty five
(35) to tfuee hundred (300) shows all over the country such as, Pangasinan, La- union, Baguio, Cavite, Panpanga, Bataan, Laguna, Batangas,
Nueva Ecija, Ta ac, Palawan, Cebu, Zamboanga ta nane a few.
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Ihe aggressiveness of its rnarketing team remains its inspkation in Wopla'!s. Its narkels hailed all its plays as spectacula\
ducing quality
well-polished and innovative. The Aliw Awafts, the only awad-giving boCy
in the counry hono ng live peiormances, has rccognized for numerous
i,fles ils various stage plays and nusicales, as well as its Dircctor and
Cast Membe's,
On Decenbet 9,2010, the conpany was awatded by Prcsident Noynoy
Aquino joined by TAYA Awards Foundation at lhe Heroes hall of the
Malacanang Palace lor being ane of the Ten Acconplished Yauth
Oqaniatlons (TAYA) of 2010.
After ten yeas ol existence, PSF is here to stay. ,ls success may be
attibuted to God's guidance and the Foundation's selllsss desire to shate
its tiunph to nyriads of people by lowering the ticket Wice and continuing
ils va ous progftms to help the less toftunate.
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