It can be said that the 1990s was
the decade when shows about young people, from teens to those in early
years of adulthood, both local TV shows and programming from overseas
networks, were prominent. Filipinos would likely recall watching shows like GMA7’s “TGIS” and
ABS-CBN’s “Gimik” and “Tabing Ilog,” and from former late-night timeslots or
Cable they would know of dramas like “Dawson’s Creek” or sitcoms such as “Friends.”
Speaking of which, with the media attention being given to a reunion special of
the “Friends” cast on HBO Max, there has been a quiet clamor for either
reviving or reuniting casts from these old TV series for the youth.
As it turns out, “Tabing Ilog” is
being adapted by the Kapamilya network into a stage musical, with original
series executive producer Raymund Dizon hoping to update the joys and struggles
of teens with the world around them in the new production’s story. But as The Philippine Star has it, a “Tabing
Ilog” musical does not seem enough for one of the show’s main cast. Actor Baron
Geisler is expressing his interest on the well-remembered teen drama getting a
TV revival, and he would not mind joining the project if he has friends coming
along.
Geisler, more recently famous in-camera
as the unkempt and ax-crazy criminal terrorist Bungo on ABS-CBN’s hit
tele-serye “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano,” and off-camera as a recovering alcoholic
making up for a spotty public persona, reveals in an interview that he is
interested in seeing “Tabing Ilog” brought back to television. It would be fun
though, he adds, if his former costar John Lloyd Cruz. Baron sees their return
in a revival of the show to be them portraying the parents of the new main
cast, similar to how Bobby Andrews and Angelu de Leon reprised their “TGIS”
characters as parents of the main teen cast in GMA7’s 2012-13 series “Teen Gen.”
Such an approach, muses Baron Geisler,
is appropriate for him and potentially John Lloyd in a potential remake of “Tabing
Ilog,” seeing as with Cruz already a parent and Baron a fairly new father since
last month, their being cast as parents will make them effective due to their
real-life perspective. Geisler notes that he first met his wife Jamie
Evangelista at an alcohol rehab center, but only entered into a relationship
with her when he had finished sobering up.
Meanwhile, preparations for the
premiere of the “Tabing Ilog” musical continue apace according to Raymund
Dizon, currently business unit head for ABS-CBN’s Star Hunt. Agot Isidro is among
the known veteran actresses cast for the project, which will be performed on
the Dolphy Theater from March 6 to April 26.
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