Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady the musical

I first heard about Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady when a blogger told me about the one-act play by Carlo Vergara as part of the Virgin Labfest. my first reaction was, "CarVer is now creating theater acts.

I am not surprised since his previous work, Zsazsa Zaturnah was adapted into a musical before it became a movie.

Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady(How I Became Leading Lady) is a story of a Filipina maid named Mely working for a superhero team. Even though it has comic book influence, the story is closer to a Pinoy TV series. It has romance, sibling rivalry, love triangle all rolled into one.

If you can see that the superheroes look Westerners, because it brings back to the old days when the superheroes in TV cartoons were all white(E.g. Superfriends), explains Carlo Vergara. You can compare Leading Man and the superheroes to Justice League type.

According to Carlo Vergara, Leading Lady does not exist in the same universe as Zsazsa. But the themes are the same. What I like about the graphic novels of CarVer was the comedy that uplifts ordinary heroes and makes them extraordinary.

Frenchie Dy and Bituin Escalante alternates for the the title role of Mely in Dalanghita Productions first musical. Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady will start staging at PETA on May 6. Watch out for my review by following this blog and like L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.