Musical on Wenceslao Q. Vinzons ’30 to be staged in Baguio

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This article about Bintao, the upcoming musical on the life and death of Wenceslao Q. Vinzons ’30, was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on 01/16/2008

The short, short life of Bintao Vinzons
MANILA, Philippines The cultural scene of Baguio City perks up on the first month of the year with the premiere of the three-act musical Bintao based on the life and death of Wenceslao Q. Vinzons on the 26th.

Vinzons is the man after whom Vinzons Hall, the student center at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and a town in Camarines Norte, formerly Indan, are named.

Playwright Efren M. Yambot, a retired insurance executive and who, like Vinzons, is a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity, started researching the patriots life three years ago and found a paucity of materials. He stumbled on a masters thesis on Vinzons written by a Far Eastern University student and took it from there.

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