As its third offering
for its 40th theater season, the Philippine Educational Theater Association
(PETA) welcomes 2008 with Vincent de Jesus's Skin-Deep. This lively
musical extols the virtues of being beautiful—both inside and out.
Doctor Beau Batoctol, an internationally famous Filipino cosmetic surgeon opens the world's first one-stop beauty resort here in the Philippines—the Skin-Deep Beauty Sanctuary. And for its grand opening promo, seven lucky texters will win a chance to stay at Skin-Deep for a month and avail of all the beauty treatments, procedures and surgeries it has to offer—absolutely free!
The Lucky Makeover Seven—composed of an obese female call-center agent, a troubled married couple, a male wannabe model, a flamboyant florist, an abused housewife burned beyond recognition and the reigning Miss Artificial Beauty—go through different miracle procedures hoping to become more aesthetically acceptable to the cruel world.
Skin-Deep, directed by Nor Domingo with music by Lucien Letaba and arranged by Melvin Corpin, features some of today's most admired theater actors—Robert Seña, Isay Alvarez, May Bayot-de Castro, Bituin Escalante, Melvin Lee, Rem Zamora, Phil Noble, Gail Guanlao-Billones, Mary Ann Espinosa, Al Gatmaitan, Glecy Atienza, Diana Malahay, Joel Molina, Onyl Torres, Delphine Buencamino, Neomi Tabanao-Gonzales, Joan Bugcat, Eric dela Cruz and Eric Bisa.
Choreography is by Christine Crame-Santillan, costume design by Kalila Aguiluz, lighting design by Jonjon Villareal and production design by Leo Abaya.
Skin-Deep goes onstage at the PETA-Phinma Theater on all Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays beginning February 1 until March 9. The PETA Theater Center is located at #5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City. Tickets are at P300 each.
For details and other inquiries, call the PETA Marketing and Public Relations Office at 725-6244, 410-0821, mobile numbers 0917-8154567 or 0918-9354166, email petampro@yahoo.com or mpr@petatheater.com. Schedules are subject to change without prior notice.