While some urbane theatergoers scrambled to throw a fortune or scrape their last savings for Cameron Mackintosh’s world class “Les Misérables” at Solaire, almost on the same timeline, semi-retired UP theater honcho Alexander Cortez, Ph.D. staged his own métier at the Diliman Commune (sounds very 70s) at Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, Palma Hall.

Cortez saw the play four years ago in Beijing and got the iconic Nicholas Pichay to bring it in the country as part of Dulaang UP’s 40th Theatre Season, short of one decade prior to the First Quarter Storm.

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