Lady Gaga and Kesha's Back-to-Back Concert in the Philippines!

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Production Staff/Cast

Belen, Fhoebe                         – Main character                           – Props Master 

Cedeno, Al Therese               – Dancer/Promo girl                   – Music Director/Synthesizer/Choreographer

Gadingan, Denise                   – Sales lady @ Ticketnet            – Contribution to the Script

Jover, Thea                              – Sales lady @ Music Store       – Casting Director/Synthesizer/Documenter

Lacatan, Thesamae               – TV Show Host                             – Contribution to the Script

Merced, Stephanie                – Sales lady @ Ticketnet            – Documenter

Nantes, Michelle                    – Dancer/Promo girl                                      

Pelayo, Mary Grace              – TV Show Host                              – Contribution to the Script

Sy, Vicelle                                 – Dancer/Promo girl                                      

Yodong, Mariz                        – Dancer/Promo girl                    – Contribution to the Script

Production

ü  How the idea came to life

o    The group really didn’t have a concrete idea or concept in mind for the said role-play. It’s funny since during our first meeting, all of the other groups were busy discussing their ideas and how they’ll carry out these ideas... while our group we were just laughing at a couple of jokes by our members. But even before the laughing came, we had no actual discussion. Some of the members tried to contribute a couple of ideas, but it always ended up with the said member delivering a monologue with no one listening.

o    Anyhow, the group agreed to do a Lady Gaga/Kesha spin-off that focused on Shortage and Surplus of tickets and CDs by the said artists. Several revisions were actually made before the group settled with this idea. Originally, it was meant to be a Lady Gaga/Justin Bieber spin-off, then it became Lady Gaga/Jovit, to Lady Gaga/Rebecca Black (for the love of God) until we settled with the current idea and developed it more from then on.

ü  The economic problem

o    While other groups focused on Perfect Competition (two groups did) and Monopoly, our group, as I’ve mentioned a while ago, focused on Shortage(a situation wherein the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied) and Surplus(a situation wherein the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded). The group thoroughly discussed the ways on how we’d be able to solve such problems in the context of our role-play, which we had difficulty in doing so since the idea was quite complex and none of us ever encountered such. Good thing we were able to manage.

ü  Acting approach

o    As much as possible, all of the group members tried to act in a way that was deemed natural and humorous. I believe we were able to deliver it the way we meant it to be understood by the audience. Most lines were constructed in a way as to contain wit and at the same time, humor.

 Synthesis

The scenario begins when Fhoebe decides to watch TV one boring day in her house. Shuffling through several channels, she settles watching “Hot News Ngayon”. Being popular and influential people, the hosts of this show, particularly Ms. Crazy serves as her incentives to consider whether she’ll come to a concert or not, or whether she’ll choose Lady Gaga or Kesha. Ms. Crazy informs Bretchen of how an impostor and how gaga Kesha is for copying Lady Gaga’s style.

Fhoebe calls the outlet of Kesha's tickets and finds out that no one has bought any ticket yet. Meanwhile, in Lady Gaga's ticket outlet the reciever gets so many calls that when Fhoebe calls only one V.I.P. pass was left and so she grabs the once- in-a-lifetime chance. In this part the one determinant which shifts the demand-- the tastes is at work. People preferred watching the original Lady Gaga than the impostor Kesha. Also, there was a clear distinction between the surplus in Kesha's tickets while a shortage in Lady Gaga's(well, in the case for those callers who were supposedly after Fhoebe).

After Fhoebe claims her ticket at the mall, she checks if there were still Lady Gaga’s CD's left for sale in the music store. The saleslady apologizes for all of Lady Gaga's CD's were sold out and convinces her to buy Kesha's CD instead. She even included freebies such as an additional copy of the CD to the additional copy of the CD, a limited edition Kesha Tupperware, and a limited edition Kesha spoon and fork just so the infamous Kesha would sell, at least. For crying out loud, Fhoebe says that she wanted only Lady Gaga showing her V.I.P. pass as an evidence and that she won't even make use of the Kesha CD when she gets one. This time again, Kesha's CD's were in a surplus while Lady Gaga's were in a shortage. Fhoebe leaves the store as satisfied as ever, anticipating the day when she'll be feet away from her favorite artist.