Club Mwah!

Club Mwah is building its landmark in the entertainment map of the world. Even incyberspace, people are crashing in thousands, as they visit www.clubmwah.com, to see for themselves why this Las Vegas counterpart in the Philippines has been talked about by expats and other foreign tourists.

Its two fantastic revues, "Bedazzled 3" and "Follies de Mwah 3", have been drawing a good number of foreign tourists since it opened to the public last year. Word-of-mouth publicity played a great deal in making this place the most luminous spot on 652 Boni Ave. in Mandaluyong City (tels. 535-7943 and 532-2826).

Club Mwah's EVP, Pocholo Malilin, takes pride in the world-class ambience and shows that their club offers.

"People from as far as Germany, Italy and Switzerland have been writing through our website, saying they won't go to and leave the Philippines without getting a feel of Club Mwah," said Pocholo.

Credit goes to Cris

Pocholo said the credit should go to his partner, Club Mwah president Cris Nicolas, a professional dancer and performer, who choreogrpahs most of the movie and Broadway take-offs, which leave the audience breathless. "They're better than the originals," a bedazzled guest said.

Club Mwah is the cutting edge in the total theater and entertainment industry in the Philippines. It is a cross between Studio 54 of New York and the old Caesar's Palace of Las Vegas in Reno, Nevada.

It boasts a high-ceilinged main floor with a deep multilevel theater, which is the envy of other performing arts-the aters in the metropolis. In front of the stage is a granite-and-glass dance floor awash with lights and syncopating with the latest techni, retro, ballroom music - from swing to samba, rhumba, reggae and whatever is the delight of the audience and crowd for the highs. The black velvet seats are the envy of first-class airline passengers; the red fireball seat are perfect for that intimate bottle of wine or champagne on silver pedestals by illuminated silver tables.

Both floors have a full-complement bar and areas for elegant dinner buffet service. The upper balcony gives you the feeling of watching modern-day operas and musicales from center parterre boxes. Behind the computerized sounds-and-lights control booth are the more sedate, zebra-sinspired lounges for those quiet and memorable gatherings and meetings, after which you can glide onto the fully carpeted floors for a view of the spectacular show that unfolds behind optic curtains.

Sentimantal beginning

Club mwah has nostalgic, nay sentimental, beginning. it is the fruition of the hard work, sweat and tears of principal partner and artistic director Cris Nicolas who, teary eyed, would relate how he danced through life from being part of an orphaned brood of 13 children, with a supportive mother, nonetheless, taking odd jobs at backyard handicraft factories, to becoming an international dance and theater director of the most prestigious club he can call truly his own.

Ir Cris is the consummate perfectionist with an eye even for that last rhinestone on the plumed headpiece, his dynamic business partner, Pocholo Malilin, is the ever gracious and efficient administrative and marketing genius who makes sure that all seats, fragrances and banquets are served to the T!

These two principals are ably supported by a world-class team of theater and dance performers who have tens of years of performing-arts experience, as well as a handsome and customer-oriented service staff who all look great and smell wonderful in their smart and snazzy outfits, complete with bejeweled shoes.

Club Mwah can also be your venue for all kinds of parties, anniversaries, corporate and product launches, awards night - name it. The celebrators who have lent memories to Club Mwah from a long line of hall of famers from the entertainment, music, performing arts, business and other industries.

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