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Took Ben to see the ZsaZsa Zaturnnah musical today, and it was awesome. (Thank you, God, for giving me such a lovely, tolerant, open-minded boy. :D)

I /still/ didn't get to see the main cast's Dodong (Arnold Reyes), but I'm not really complaining about getting Janvier Daily again. He really, really, looks like Takuma Sugawara (see my icon for comparison). :9

Anyway, the point of this post is not to squee about the musical again (however much I want to), but to share these pictures with the rest of my treasured f-list. Did some research when I got home, and really, Janvier Daily is several kinds of hot. *____*



( After seeing these pictures, the most pressing question on my mind was: Do straight men get their nipples pierced? )

After kicking around YSI last night, beimprobable suggested I use SendSpace and yay! Mission accomplished! XD

These are fairly high-quality rips of the 2-disc ZsaZsa Zaturnnah musical soundtrack, so they're perfect for sticking on your i-pod. XD All ZsaZsa Zaturnnah merchandise is unavailable abroad, (which is the reason why I'm sharing this), but if you have the chance to buy them, please do. :) (To the other Filipinos on my f-list: Feel free to DL as well, but please purchase the CDs when you have the chance. ;D)

I also scanned in the booklet pages with pictures, but a lot of them were only lyrics so I left those out. The songs are predominantly Filipino, but there are a few which are completely in English. (Zaturnnah's nemesis-- Queen Femina Suarstellar Baroux-- is a feminist fashionista alien, so all her songs are in English. XDDD)

SENDSPACE MUSICAL UPLOADS:
Disc A: http://www.sendspace.com/file/a7dq9x
Disc B: http://www.sendspace.com/file/pbn6s9

( Translation of Tracks + Plot + Pictures )

Oh, and if you liked the cd, please consider joining the ZsaZsa Zaturnnah fanlisting. XD I got authorized to run it this morning, so it's still quite empty... ^_^;;


Click to join!

(Ada and his sidekick Didi. The actor who plays Ada is such a pretty, pretty guy-- the scenes with him in pink spandex post-change are hilarious. XD)

I've been waiting for YouSendIt to finish uploading my ZsaZsa Zaturnnah musical CD rips, but it says that I still have four and a half hours to wait. T___T Can anyone recommend a decent file share service? It's only 66mb, but yousendit is totally busting my chops. ;____;

In other news, I finally finished my ZsaZsa Zaturnnah fansite. So if you want to read my detailed synopses of the comic and check out pictures from the musical and movie, go here: http://www.trinitycross.net/zsa

I don't know if I'll have the time to translate the non-English songs from the musicals (75% of them are in Filipino), so you might want to familiarize yourselves with the stories before downloading.

So. I've been a fan of the Filipino (superhero) comic Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah for a while now, but somehow I'd never found the time to actually catch one of its musicals. I did catch the movie that came out last December, though, and I thought it was a pretty decent rendition. When I heard that they were running the musicals yet again this month, I realized that I *had* to watch it. I went with Tet and Rae and much fun was had by all, and the cast was even kind enough to stay by the doors to pose for pictures and sign autographs. *squee* (Pictures behind the cut).

For the uninitiated, Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah is a local comic about a young gay man (Ada) who owns a beauty parlor in the province. He becomes the gorgeous (and busty) Super Heroine Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah when he swallows a magical stone (pink and phallical, no less XD), and saves the general populace from random evil stuff. His love interest is Dodong, a young provincial man who tends his family's store (and has a crush on Ada's female alter-ego, Zsa Zsa).

The comic itself is already hilarious, but the musical-- with the sights, sounds, and costumes-- just makes it even better. :D And of course, the ending is lovely and poignant because when Ada eventually loses the stone (as well as his power to change into a woman), Dodong loves him anyway.

The final kiss between Ada and Dodong wasn't shown in the comic or the movie, so you can imagine that I went /absolutely/ NUTS when they kissed in the musical. :3 And it helped that the part of Dodong was played by a young man who is a dead ringer for Takuma Sugawara wtf. *_______*

In any case, you can read more about Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsazsa_Zaturnnah

( Pictures with the cast, oh my! )