It's The Venue's 8th year celebration and they celebrated by inviting Vice Ganda (add Vice at Friendster here) and Anton Diva for a night filled with stand-up comedy, dancing and sweaty gyrating, violent and raunchy jokes, and spine-tingling singing. It was already SRO (standing room only) but lots of people still wanted to buy tickets to get in.
Methinks The Venue couldn't have chosen better performers to invite on this night. The duo is even better for entertainment than any local band in the Philippines right now. Vice Ganda is positively witty without going into the obnoxiousness of customer-bashing that lots of stand comedians usually let their spiels go to, and Anton Diva, is well, a diva-- (s)he sang "And I am Telling You," the showstopper's version by Regine Velasquez and popularized lately by Charice Pempengco.
Everyone definitely got their money's worth in that show. Hope they could do it again!
I have to say something here about the location. I know it was their 8th year anniversary but outside, which is called the Venue Compound, the place is painted in a different stroke. I think the bars there are basically left to ruin. One can certainly see the struggles of the few remaining bars with the slow trickle of customers that goes milling in the area. Before, the place was a center for fine dining and a pa-sosy place to see and be seen but it has steadily deteriorated over the past years. Right now, they replaced half of their parking lot with an area that seems to resemble the popular Torres nightspot but so far, nada-- people either thought it wasn't yet finished or they're just upfront ignoring it. I guess they could stage more shows like this one but then that could lose the novelty of the show with Davaoenos, who are far more discriminating and needs more push in spending their hard-earned money, and who it seems, easily favor the new over the old, especially when the fare are the same. Just saying.
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