RESOUNDING TRUMPETS with TRUMPETS PLAYSHOP!

Press release

Trumpets Playshop. You’ve probably seen us every year, or thought of us when summer workshops come to mind. You’ve pondered whether or not to join a musical theater class, or try your luck at striking poses for the runway! Enrolled in one of ours street dance or public speaking classes, or even upgraded to becoming part of Playhouse – the advanced level of musical theater workshops. But where did it all begin and how it manage to become a home for so many in the theater industry?

Trumpets Playshop was born as a product of TRUMPETS INC, the Philippine’s first Christian Theater company, and creators of well loved musicals such as Joseph the Dreamer, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Little Mermaid, First Name, and The Bluebird of Happiness to name a few. With Trumpets Inc, led by passionate and brilliant minds - Theater King, Audie Gemora, and business maverick, Butch Jimenez – Trumpets Playshop, its educational arm, was born. Since it’s humble beginnings in 1993, Playshop has proven to be a home that kids, teens, and grown-ups return to every summer to discover and explore their multiple talents in the performing arts such as acting, singing, dancing, hosting and modeling. And since then, it has grown and provided a wholesome, productive and enjoyable experience for its students for more than two solid decades.

In that amount of time, its graduates have made their own marks and continue to make waves in the local and international entertainment and theater industry such as teen icons, Sam Concepcion, and MTV Vj Tippy Dos Santos; Asian pop superstars Christian Bautista and Karylle, West End performers, Christine Allado  - currently Peggy in ‘Hamilton’ and formerly Vanessa in ‘In The Heights’, West End’s former Miss Saigon,“Kim”, Tanya Manalang, as well as its current European Tour ‘Kim’, Joreen Bautista, currently working alongside our homegrown Playshopper, Red Concepcion, who plays the tour’s “Engineer”.  And with much pride, it adds to this ever growing list, homegrown Playshopper and former Executive Director, Joaquin Valdes, who recently just left to join the UK touring cast of Miss Saigon to play the role of Thuy.

Not only does Playshop take pride in their graduates, but also in their leaders and faculty who have been with Playshop and now lead the theater industry to this day. From directors such as Jaime del Mundo and Freddie Santos, writers such as Luna Inocian, and Musical Directors such as Rony Fortich, and choreographers like PJ Rebullida – each of them have once called Playshop their home, and continue to serve as stalwarts of the institution.

And now on it’s 25^th year, Trumpets Playshop decided to come full circle as it gathers all generations of Playshoppers from its conception till present to celebrate our silver anniversary. As it celebrates twenty five years of success, Trumpets Playshop aims to remind the old and educate the new of what Trumpets Playshop is truly is and where we began. This year, Playshop will be #ResoundingTrumpets, as it breathes life back into TRUMPETS Inc, bring back the old and celebrating the new with its upcoming workshops:

PLAYSHOP PERFORMANCE

Childrens Theater (4-6 years old) and Childrens Musical Theater ( 7-12 years old)

Musical Theater for Teens and Adults (13 and above)