Club Mwah presents Bedazzled 6

As a theater cum-bar, Club Mwah!, nestled on the 3rd floor of The Venue Tower on Boni Ave. Mandaluyong City, has become synonymous with world class, opulent, first rate and quality.

One thing nice about Club Mwah is that the owners never scrimp on the budget for sets and costumes for the sake of the authenticity and visual delight. This is again evident in their latest presentation, bedazzled 6. There's no recycling of sets, props and costumes.

"We don't want to shortchange our patrons. We always try our best to give them what they deserve: quality entertainment. It's a commitment, and we are not reneging on that, " says Pocholo Malillin, vice president and administrator.

Bedazzled 6 presents entirely new numbers except for a reprise of the Cell Block Tango dance sequence lifted from the hit musical Chicago starring Catherine-Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger), this time with Club Mwah! president Cris Nicolas doing the dirty dancing gigolo part - the world-class choreographer-director in a fantastic display of passionate dancing. Great!

Madonna's Vogue is given a Thai choreography complete with golden temple as background set and exotic Thai costumes.

"These are all imported from Thailand: the silk cloth, necklace, everything," informs Pocholo.

Everything looks authentically Thai. Malillin confides that the materials used in the golden costumes and the Bangkok Temple in the background were all imported from Thailand. No wonder! Whatever extravagance there maybe is for the better, and that's that! And the Madonna clone, she's really something. Can you imagine the Material Girl performing for the Thai royalty in Bangkok? Fabulous!

The African tribe dance goes hip and contemporary with a luminous spider web converted into a wall by tumbling scaling jazz dancers garbed in golden ethnic costumes with matching headdresses and cannibal sticks to booth! Call it novel and higly creative!

Out from the depths of the African jungle, the stage is transformed into the meadows with Karma cavorting with three colorful Ostriches. Find out the toilet humor which is injected into the scene strictly for laffs. Superb!

Follies de Mwah! takes audience to Seoul, Korea with a Sakura Flower Festival. Korean Flower Production number. Fantabulous, beautiful, lyrical, very Asian! A veritable feast for the eyes!

Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger wearing gold rhinestone coming out from the hydraulic has a bevy of glamorous damsels in dramatic black gown gliding on the ramp very much like James Bond's temptresses in the 007 spy movies when Sean Connery was the title role. What do you say Ian Fleming?

Madonna's Die Another Day presents the James Bond movie with eight dazzling performers in gold outfit with huge hair.

The most lavish number in Bedazzled 6 is their version of Miss Saigon. Would you believe a helicopter in mid-air and American GI soldiers in regulation military uniforms? And the Vietnamese villagers, all 30 of them are dressed and made up to look like real Vietcongs down to the last chinky eyeshadow. Kim enters on a boat, paddling onstage and turns the scene into a riotous comedy when she shows her exaggerated pregnancy and her ala-Rapunzel long long hair. And the Mwah's Kim, dear, dear Karma, paddling onstage with the mid-protuberance and here ala-Rapunzel hair intended to draw laffs and even more laffs when she barks and impersonates a frightened dog!

The penultimate number billed, "Iam What We Are" has the gender-bending dancers in doble-cara getups. Mind boggling, Dizzying! Segue to the dazzling curtain call with the performers in all opulence parading down the lighted staircase.

Club Mwah! Continues to live up to its reputation as an upscale entertainment venue doubling as a party place. it has even earned another trademark: Favorite launching pad for new products and services. And a taping, shooting site for TV shows and movies! It has lately been accredited by Dept. of Tourism as a must-see tourist stopover. The lavish costumes and excellent choreography as well as the choice of music set design is well crafted by Club Mwah Artistic Director Cris Nicolas.

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