Colma: The Musical

Embracing all the grey, foggy anti-glamour of the suburbs, Colma: The Musical springs life out of ordinary track homes and the ennui of recent high school grads. Billy’s an aspiring theater actor who knows he has no future in Colma. Maribel is eager to leave her teenage years behind. Rodel (H.P. Mendoza) is an occasional poet who struggles to come out to his dad. In meticulously staged musical numbers, the three dance through sidewalks, college parties, and graveyards and sing to enchanting pop beats that sound more 8-bit video game than Broadway spectacle, but are all the more charming and authentic for it. (San Diego Asian Film Festival)