Performed by Tex Ordonez, Roy Rolloda, Isay Alvarez, Pinky Marquez, May Bayot,

Celeste Legaspi, Mitch Valdez and the entire cast of Buhay!, the culminating
concert of the National Theater Festival, 2004. At the main theater of the Cultural
of the Philippines

Katy!--medley of 3 songs from the original Filipino musical by Ryan Cayabyab/Jose

Javier Reyes

Vaudeville/bodabil in the Philippines, more commonly referred to as bodabil, was a

popular genre of entertainment in the Philippines from the 1910s until the mid-
1960s. For decades, it competed with film, radio and television as the dominant
form of Filipino mass entertainment. It peaked in popularity during the Japanese
occupation in the Philippines from 1941 to 1945. Many of the leading figures of
Philippine film in the 20th century, such as Dolphy, Nora Aunor, Leopoldo Salcedo
and Rogelio de la Rosa, began their showbusiness careers in bodabil.

Bodabil is an indigenized form of vaudeville, which had been introduced in the

Philippines around the turn of the 20th century.[1] It featured a hodgepodge of
musical numbers, short-form comedy and dramatic skits, and even magic acts, often
staged inside the theaters of Manila.[1] Bodabil proved the vehicle for the
popularization of musical trends and musicians, performance genres and performers