Wish Date wins with novel concert-film series

Wish Date, the concert series periodically mounted by KDR Music House, has leveled up. Its most recent staging was just last Sunday night, 1 October, at the humongous Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, QC, which used to be the biggest indoor events venue in the country until the Philippine Arena was put up by the Iglesia ni Cristo in Bocaue, Bulacan in 2014. It was the first time ever that KDRMH held a Wish Date show at the Big Dome. Before the Araneta Coliseum, the concert's biggest venue was the Mall of Asia Arena last August.
The Wish Date series has become famous for its evolved format: a concert that flows out from a movie that tells a bittersweet love story narrated by a disc jockey who calls himself Dr. Clark. The first Wish Date concerts were just performances detached from each other. There were no filmed stories that somehow linked the songs with each other.
This Dr. Clark hosts a Wish Radio 107.5FM evening program called Wish Date where he reads letters supposedly from listeners who have deeply sentimental love stories to tell.
KDRMH is the entertainment and production arm of Wish radio, headed by broadcaster Daniel Razon who is now widely known as Kuya Daniel Razon. He is the nephew of the late televangelist Eli Soriano, whose Dating Daan religious group owns and operates UNTV and eventually also Wish 107.5 FM.

ALICE Dixson
Grandiose event
Last Sunday's event at the Big Dome, billed as Wish Date: Memoir, was grandiose because some segments of the movie were acted live on stage. In the past, the entire movie was shown on screen and the actors came out on stage only during the curtain call.
This was only the second time that some actors in the movie within the concert were asked to perform in person at the concert venue. The first was at Wish Date: Solstice held at Mall of Asia Arena, with actors Enzo Pineda, Aura Mariano and Jun-Jun Quintana performed some segments.


