The Myth of The Ancient Sealed Door

“The Myth of The Ancient Sealed Door” is an original musicale of Marie Ernestine School and Marie Ernestine High School (Cebu-Lapulapu-Mandaue). This will be their musicale in their traditional play presentation following their commencement exercise this year 2010. The “libretto” was written by Pastor Dino Mapa and edited by Miss Peachi Fajatin-Pegarido in 2007. All the songs are composed by this writer, Eugene Tan. Play date is in March 27 at the SM cinema 1.

“The Myth of The Ancient Sealed Door” was shelved in 2008 because the school matriarch requested “High School Musicale”, a very popular Walt Disney musical movie in place of it. I was immensely disappointed because the musical compositions were already in the stage of refinement. All the vocal demos have been done and I have poured a great amount of time and effort on it already. I am glad they decided to do this play instead of the planned “The Princess and the Frog”.

Even though I worked on the musicality of this specific project two years ago, I will be working with the same amount of effort this year because creativity evolves. As of this writing, we are working on the arrangement of the musical accompaniment or minus one of the songs. We auditioned the singers and gauged their vocal range because the cast this year were different from two years ago.

I learned from Miss Peachi that we will be tapping a different sound system outfit this time - the same they used last year for the “Alice in Wonderland”, Colmenares Sound System.  The costume designer as well is different, it will be Danny Booc who's designing this year.  Most of the main cast are from the New School in Talamban.