Romeo Candido: How a viral video inspired the musical Prison Dancer
Podcast |
Q with Tom Power
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Dec 01, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:17:21
Back in 2007, a video featuring 1,500 inmates in a Filipino prison dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was uploaded to YouTube, quickly becoming one of the internet’s first viral videos. The footage inspired a new Filipino-Canadian musical called “Prison Dancer,” created by Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus. Guest host Talia Schlanger speaks to Romeo about the production, and travelling to the Philippines to meet the real dancing inmates.

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