Club Mwah! What a Blast!
by Dennis Adobas

FEATHERS, chiffon, silk and rhinestones.

According to Club Mwah!'s PR nonpareil, Pocholo Malillin, these characterize the club's summer repertoire onstage since the first week of March. Add such to fantastic and excellent performances - whether dancing, mimicking international divas or mouthing crackling choice punchlines - and clever, brilliant terpsichore, and you have a great world-class show comparable to the Caesars Palace revue in Las Vegas!

Follies De Mwah! 2 (Mondays to Thursdays) is a colorful musical entertainment kaleidoscope featuring a hodge-podge of witty and funny vignettes told in songs and dances guaranteed to tickle your discriminating funny bones and loosen up clogged blood arteries (hmm, cholesterol and creeping age, my dear!); excerpts from well-loved hits like Cabaret, Moulin Rouge and Phantom Of The Opera.

Club Mwah!'s version of Phantom is a riot as it reveals at the end a gay Phantom donning laced, sequinned and ribboned undies! Funny, really, but what would Andrew Lloyd Webber say had he been in the audience?

Bedazzled 2 is a feast for the eyes and ears. It opens with a Tina Turner wannabe perfectly lipsynching What's Love Got To Do? complete with the signature spike wig, pout and mike tossing!

Triplets Karmi, Karla and Karma (this Joy Viado deadringer is a real scene-stealer withoutmeaning to!) take center stage and engage in "okrayan blues" and later give away to an Indian rhapsody number, the very first spectacular and breathtaking production number of the evening.

The Motown Suite is something else featuring Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Pointer Sisters and other black icons in a medley of Motown hits. This is followed by Britney Spears' Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, which ends in a riotous boxing match with Karma as the round girl-cum-referee. You really have to see it to enjoy it!

Another spectacular number is an excerpt from All That Jazz, which features performers garbed in luminous purple and yellow green outfits clambering up a spider-web wall, crawling, kicking, tumbling and climbing again to perch and freeze on the web.

Would you believe Madonna and Nicole Kidman doing a duet of Diamnonds Are A Girl's Best Friend? Yes, that's on the repertoire!

The evening piece de resistance is the Samba Batucada number designed to recreate an authentic atmosphere of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro festival. It's very colorful and - as the show's finale - such a blast, minus the pyrotechnics. But who cares?

Club Mwah! moves on to dazzle its audience with fabulous entertainment fare till God knows when. Mwah!, Cris Nicolas! Cheers!

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