Submitted by Abby (nolabel-justme)

“Hi thestagedoorcanteen! I’m glad that I found your tumblr. I love to read every posts that you have. Like you, I’m also a Broadway Musical enthusiast. Sadly, at the back of my mind, there’s only few people I know who also love broadway. It makes me feel kinda left out especially to my group of friends, when they borrow my ipod for music, they immediately bring it back to me because they don’t know any music in it. of course, it contains almost all the songs from the musicals I know and I love. Knowing you makes me feel belong because I know we have the same passion.

My biggest and wildest dream is to perform in broadway. After college, I’m planning to have a voice lesson (coz I know I’m not a good singer but I consider myself as a performer coz I can dance and act) and auditions in some musicals here in Philippines. I hope I can make it in broadway! haha. I know its kinda impossible but who knows, right? I’m willing to do everything to be there :)

Thanks to you! I feel much better everytime I read your blogs :) morepower! and I hope that I will be able to meet some of  broadway-enthusiast :) Break-a-leg! God bless :)”

Hi, Abby! First of all, thank you for supporting The Stage Door Canteen. We’re only a few months old, but, thank you for the great support.

You know what, the four of us don’t really know each other personally. We met over the internet, then we agreed to watch shows together and after some time we decided to do a blog for people like us. See, it’s not hard to find friends with the same interest, you just have to be brave enough to meet new friends over the internet. You could also join workshops—with that you’ll meet a lot of Broadway geeks! 

Us in SDC will find a way for you people like you out there to find theater friends. And, when that happens, you will always lose your iPod because everyone’s interested with your songs. 

This might be a cliche, but, always follow your dream. Never steer away from it. We feel you, Abby! You’re not the only one!

Thank you, again! We’ll see you soon! :) And guys, we really are trying hard to do this “meet up” for you! 

Do you have stories, frustrations and other stuff to share? Share it now!

Of course, yes! …but we’re not promising anything. But we’ll do all we can to get that star in the blog! :)

(Just don’t suggest anyone from the lines of Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin or Elaine Stritch. Because obviously….

they don’t know how to check their e-mails. KIDDING.)

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*Gives one big virtual Broadway hug* So glad you liked it!

…we’re actually planning on something ;)

Aww, thanks for sending us some love! We really wish more Filipinos get to know or at least be introduced to the magic of theater and Broadway! Here’s a hug back from us!

We are sure that most, if not all, of you would agree with us when we say that it’s not always ‘more fun in the Philippines’ when it comes to being an obsessed Broadway geek, especially if you’re a broke student who doesn’t have the means to just fly off to NYC whenever you feel like it (like us here in SDC. Sigh). How many times have you asked yourself, “why in the world doesn’t I live in New York?” We love the Philippines, really we do, but we are just really so obsessed with NYC that we know we’re going to faint because of extreme joy the moment we step foot on the city. No exaggeration.

Below are 5 of the most amazing things we Filipino Broadway fans had to miss out on because we live in Narnia. This is really depressing:

1. New York City. Not being in NYC itself. The  lights, the noise, all the show billboards in sight, theaters left and right, random people doing random things and weird New Yorkers being weird. Ahhh… our kind of heaven! Why is the Philippines on the other side of the world again? Ugh.

2. The Tony Awards. The superbowl of theater fans. How amazing would it be to watch the Tonys live in Times Square? With hundreds of other Broadway fans cheering loudly with you? It would be the most amazing thing… but we’re stuck in a place where the only Tony people know is Toni Gonzaga, and the superbowl is the Pinoy Big Brother eviction night. Sigh.

3. Watching legit Broadway shows. We looooove local producers who bring Broadway close to home, but the experience of actually seeing a Broadway show ON BROADWAY would just be really incomparable. Also, watching shows just whenever you feel like it: Opening, cast change, closing, or you’re just bored and wanted to see a show. Oh, and stagedooring.

4. Broadway on Broadway, Broadway Barks, and the Broadway Flea Market. Enough said.

5. The chances of randomly bumping into Broadway stars. On the streets, on the train, on one of the shops… how often do you get to see for reals Broadway stars here in Manila (aside from our Lea Salonga)? 

There are more, a whole lot more, but these are the ones that make us cry in the corner of our room the most. Sigh. Thank God for the internet, we get to experience these awesome things… virtually.

You know what makes all these tolerable, though? having a bunch of other Broadway-loving Filipinos who share the longing for NYC. People you can talk to about your love of Broadway non-stop and enjoy every bit of the conversation. People who are just like you! Broadway-loving Filipinos are the best! Here’s to us! Who’s like us? Damn few.

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Hey theater buddies! This is Dianne and I just wanna share with you my obsession collection. Here are all my theater-related memorabilia and stuff… well, sort of. We’ve decided to give away a few playbills and flyers from this collection (that were generously given to us by BroadwayWorld Philippines’ Oliver Oliveros) to you guys, so watch out ;)

So, I have posters, programmes, playbills, flyers, memoirs and solo albums of Broadway stars, movie musicals, and recordings. Not in photo but I have shirts and button pins, too. God, I love all my babies!!

Do you have a theater memorabilia collection, too? Share it with us! We’d love to see it :D

Thank you! Dianne made it :)

It’s in English. The Philippines uses English as a second language. :)