Held at the CCP Tanghalang Ignacio Jimenez, Carla joked about how all the members of the audience were special guests and were occupying seats she had personally assigned. Carla Guevara-Laforteza kicked off the 2024 Triple Threat series of shows of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in her inimitable style. Carla has always been about sass, style, and spunk, taking any musical role she takes on and stamping it her very own.
It’s like you may have seen several versions of some musical comedy, but if there’s an iconic female role in it, and Carla has tackled the role, it’s her version that will be forever etched in your memory banks. That’s how ‘markado’ an attack she’ll utilize in interpreting that role - even her cameos or support roles become scene-stealers and those you’ll be recounting to friends the next day. Held at the CCP Tanghalang Ignacio Jimenez, Carla joked about how all the members of the audience were special guests and were occupying seats she had personally assigned.
Taking the seats right in front of the stage were Carla’s family: her parents and sisters, her husband Godfrey, and her son. Directed by Paolo Valenciano and with musical direction by Gerard Salonga, with the Filharmonika Orchestra, the show was an enthralling musical journey, with songs selected to reflect different stages of Carla’s career. What’s always been great about Carla is her unique sense of humor, her mock ‘taray’, and her ‘pagka-kalog’; and it was nice .