More than 40 Broadway Barkada members attended a performance of Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams at The Public Theater on December 11 to support New York Barkada member Jaygee Macapugay and the rest of her cast mates Dan Domingues, Lulu Fall, Kenyl Ito, Francis Jue, Peter Kim, Michelle Krusiec, Joél Pérez, Jamar Williams and Katrina Yaukey.
After the show, we headed next door to The Bari for Broadway Barkada’s holiday party.
Broadway Barkada’s co-founders Liz Casasola, Billy Bustamante, and Brian Jose chatted about Balikbayan: A DC Homecoming Concert, which will be presented one night only, Monday, December 17th at 7:30PM at Bistro Bistro in Washington, DC. Bistro Bistro is located at 1727 Connecticut Avenue N.W. , Washington D.C.
Celebrating Philippine Independence Day, the concert includes cast members of the US Tour Company of Miss Saigon, artists on Broadway and Off-Broadway, as well as local Washington, DC Filipino artists. Broadway Barkada will be producing the concert in partnership with La Ti Do Productions.
The show will be directed by Broadway Barkada co-founder, Billy Bustamante with musical direction/arrangements by Paige Rammelkamp.
The performers comprise three different contingencies of artists:
New York Barkada members Billy Bustamante, Cyn Casasola, Liz Casasola, Emy Coligado, Audri Dalio, Brian Jose, Bennyroyce Royon; Miss Saigon cast members Eric Badique, Christine Bunuan, Eymard Cabling, Joven Calloway, Red Concepcion, Jonelle Margallo, Julius Sermonia; and local DC talent Matthew Aninzo, Lumi Bustamante, Krystle Cruz, Russwin Francisco, Sally Horton, Jordan Moral, Justine Moral, Don Mike Mendoza and Michael Santos Sandoval.
Part of the proceeds from Balikbayan: A Homecoming Concert will be donated to The Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project.
Tickets now available at: dcbarkada.eventbrite.com
BROADWAY BARKADA was co-founded by Liz Casasola, Billy Bustamante, and Brian Jose in the fall of 2009. They are a collective of professional artists whose mission is to provide a community for the Filipino artist, that CULTIVATES their talents, EDUCATES their audiences, and ELEVATES their global impact.
La Ti Do’s strives to be a premier community of cultural and artistic diversity and inclusion through music and spoken word collaboration.
Filipino Veterans and Education Project (FilVets) is a nonpartisan, community-based, all-volunteer national initiative whose mission is to raise awareness through academic research and public information and obtain national recognition of Filipino and Filipino-American WWII Soldiers across the United States and Philippines for their wartime service to the U.S. and the Philippines from July 1941 to December 1946.
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
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The evening will feature cast members from the Broadway company- two-Tony nominee André De Shields (The Full Monty, The Wiz, Play On), Ken Page (Cats, The Nightmare Before Christmas). and Charlayne Woodard (FX’s “Pose”). Frenchie Davis (“American Idol,” Dreamgirls) will take on the role originated by Nell Carter and Cynthia Thomas (Ain’t Misbehavin’) will take on the role originated by Armelia McQueen.
