The Zhen Zhu Scroll

It is the yearly tradition of Marie Ernestine School and Marie Ernestine Science High School (Cebu-Lapulapu-Mandaue) to do a “musicale” or play following their commencement exercise. In 2006, The “Zhen Zhu Scroll” was the title of the play. The venue for the play was in SM Cinema 1.

Zhen Zhu Scroll is not a regular play you’ve already seen in theatres or videos because the “libretto” of this play was written by the young school director Marie Ernestine Denise Fajatin-Pegarido also known as “Miss Peachi”. Peachi is the daughter of the school founders, Mr. Dennis Fajatin and Marie Ernestine Fajatin. Peachi directed the play. This musicale is original and the music was composed by this writer (Eugene Tan). This writer also did the accompaniment arrangement of the songs and background music.

 

The preparation in terms of the music and the songs were done ahead of time (December 2005) to give room for improvement and augmentation. The cast and performers did a lot of preparation as well. The cast was represented by children and youth of Marie Ernestine School and Marie Ernestine Science High School from all grades and level. Although the performers were all amateurs, the presentation was fantastic and awesome considering they did not have basic training of acting and dancing. There were two presentations, the gala and the matinee.

 

Additional recordings and back-up vocals were recorded at Salonga Recording Studio handled by Eugene Tan, Miss Peachi and owner Ompong Chiong, The lights and light effects of Mao Dizon was overwhelming, The artistic creativity of Val Sandiego’s costume team was so appealing and the sound system in the cinema provided by Salonga Audio System was cool.