There is a reason I Dreamed a Dream hits Filipinos harder than a typhoon advisory. It is a song built on hope, cracked open by reality, and left standing in the rubble. If that does not sound like the national emotional template, I do not know what does. When Fantine sings about losing the life she once believed in, she
Tag: les miserables
Not a Broadway Number Do You Hear the People Sing? is not theater in the Philippines. It is not performed on a stage. It is performed in the slums, in evacuation centers, in the lines at pawnshops and remittance centers. It is the anthem of people who were promised a better life by every administration and then handed crumbs. The