| Bedazzled 5, year opener
at Club Mwah You think
you've seen them all. This is not true in the case of the shows at Club Mwah,
considered the Philippines' answer to Caesar's Palace of Las Vegas and Studio
54 of New York. One is definitely different from the others. Club Mwah is the
multi-awarded Outstanding Theater Bar in the Philippines and in Asia.  For
its year 2006 opener, the fabulous and multi-award-winning Club Mwah has prepared
a spectacular Las Vegas and Broadway-inspired extravaganza entitled, "Bedazzled
5.
Bedazzled 5 offers new
surprises never before seen in previous presentations. The pacing is faster and
the change of sets is more seamless. In
Madonna's "Who's That Girl," beautiful damsels regale audiences in their
elegant gowns and masks, and segues to a hilarious spoof of Maria's I Feel Pretty
from the famous Broadway musicale of West Side Story.  The
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, full production ends up with the dancers actually
holding high a huge diamond. The spoof of Little Mermaid is campy. It leads to
another spoof of Titanic from the movie complete with ship details and the ever-haunting
theme song, My Heart Will Go On.
A
Jennifer Lopez dead ringer actually, pretty and sexier than the original, does
an interpretation of "Waiting for Tonight" complete with JLos trademark
bumps and grinds. The Samba
suite is a feast for the eyes with the colorful costumes and props reminiscent
of the Mardi Gras festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A
fully costumed repertoire Egyptian Tableau features Queen Nefertiti with a whole
phalanx of slaves and soldiers in their extraordinary dance number against a backdrop
of a giant pyramid and sphinx. The elegant Queen Nefertiti with her subjects are
clad in elegant gold and blue regale. As
Club Mwah moves on its second year as the only Las Vegas and Moulin Rouge combined
kind of entertainment bar in the Philippines, its artistic director, Cris Nicolas
and vice president and partner Pocholo Malillin, keep on concocting fabulous production
numbers for the viewing delight and visual satisfaction of its international clientele
and prestigious corporate accounts and well-heeled clients. •
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