We decided to catch the last staging of "Across the Universe" at the Albertus Magnus Auditorium in UST to support our good friend Eco who topbills the play as Jude. We already knew Eco had a voice with some of his videos posted in multiply but it was unbelievable to see him sing live in front of a full-packed auditorium. This guy just has it down pat - and we bow our heads in shameless jealousy.
Congratulations Hector dela Sala. Like what Lemon said, impressive performance! (insert applause here!) Special thanks to Hannah and the rest of the staff because they gave us really good seats and all of them were very accommodating. Everyone was super nice!
The best part of it all was sharing the night with really great friends - the ever-popular heartbreakers "the killabotz" - lem, mj, brian, jm and marjo, gorgeous ladies - malou & ohsie, new friend jeremy and the very helpful & accommodating dino dimar. we sat through a couple of hours of beatles songs that helped me realize why the beatles is considered one of music's great bands. the songs were fantastic - across the universe, all my loving, i've just seen face, strawberry fields to name a few. there were indeed fun moments in the play when we were laughing really hard ("we want charice!") and irritable moments as some photographers shamelessly flashed-filled their pictures. if that flash-thing in men-in-black was real, i'll probably won't have any memories of last night anymore, or of my whole childhood for that matter.
We also saw eco's ever-sweet mom & groovy lola along with eco's other friends we've met during the "share a smile 2" charity project a couple of weeks back - jan, sammie & anjo. a whole of eco's friends obviously were there last night to support him.
Dinner at shakey's was even more fun. we were all pretty famished after the show and pigging out seemed like a logical thing to do. the conversations were funnier this time because most were pretty much at eased already with each other. poor bunsong marjo though looked starved post-braces attachment. JM & Brian were the guys to beat in chow territory (but it seemed like kuya lemon finished the carbonara) - you gotta love being young with a fired-up metabolism. di bale, tataba din kayo ... you'll see (ok, that's me sourgraping). still, hanging out with these guys is always a BLAST. can't help but love 'em cause they're so friend-worthy. Thanks Eco for the pasalubong.
Here's a couple of videos of Eco's performance - "All My Loving" and "I've Just Seen Face."
More photos courtesy of Lem Estiva at this link : Across the Universe (with eco dela sala)
Photos & Video Cover/Montage courtesy of the super talented Lem Estiva. Used with permission. The videos are a bit shaky since i was just using a P&S camera and i was trying to cover the LCD so as not to disturb the other people watching the show. No further editing done except for titles & credits.
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