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Protégé Cast In A Glee-Like Project?

If I were GMA Network, I would cast the 10 Protégé in a Glee-like project immediately after the finals of Protégé. The project should be a funny and warm musical drama aired only once a week for one season taking either the Saturday or Sunday slot. The musical drama series should not be the typical soap with annoying, repeating plots like:
  • Mother loses child; child looks for mother
  • Someone is killed; somebody takes revenge
  • Kid is kidnapped; then there's an explosion
  • Amnesia, murder, guns, amnesia, murder, guns .... and never ending amnesia, murder, guns
Are Filipino writers running out of creativity? Filipino writers should study the success of Glee. Light drama, subtle acting, with sense of humor, and simple plots made heart-warming.

Let it be called "Play"

Here's a suggestion. Name the musical drama series "Play". It's about the lives of young theater actors. It's a drama on stage, backstage, and back home. Tackle ordinary day-to-day subjects like:

  • ambition, goal setting
  • practice makes perfect
  • success and failures
  • misunderstanding
  • struggles and disappointment
  • sensibility
  • being positive
Forget about violence. No guns, no kidnapping, no killing, no over-acting bitchy women. Let there be change in what the audience watch.

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