OH MY GOSH!!!
i only have that to describe my whole phantom experience... it was really really fantastic...
watever i've spent on my ticket, i think half of it was used to manage the set and the props... but it was really worth watching... not to mention that i've got very very good seats! (right foyer, very close to stage)
and not those that u can only barely see the faces too... just too bad i wasn't seating at the stalls or the chandelier dropping would have been right above me... but it was still good seats...
music-wise, while it can't compare to the michael crawford and sarah brightman originial phantom cast, it was still quite good... i actually quite like the Carlotta in this cast compared to the OST one (which was the one i had been listening to since sec sch) as her voice wasn't the overtly screeching type...
of course, my favorite scene has got to be the masquerade scene... fantastic music, and quite the highlight of the whole musical... though the phantom disappearing part at the end was quite cool too...
all in all, i am so glad that i managed to catch it...
after 11yrs of waiting that is...
next entry... my take on spring anime 2007... once i've watched ep.1 of most of the anime i've wanted to...
^_^.``
Showing posts with label musicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musicals. Show all posts
Monday, 9 April 2007
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
Forbidden City
i am so glad i decided to watch Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress.
so so SO glad i finally got to watch it on yesterday night with meow meow... it's was so good, i went to buy the soundtrack during the intermission... have been listening to it on my mp3 player whenever i have the chance...
Kit Chan sang very well, Hosanne Leong and partner were the funnymen, and there was a cute little emperor Tung Hsu that only had one line in the whole musical...
the only thing stopping me from enjoying it thoroughly was this hyperactive moving head in front of me belonging to a ACJC boy...
ugghh....
the worse thing was that he so wants to talk to his friends on either side of him (hence the hyperactive moving), yet none of them seems to want to talk to him, thus giving him single-sentence answers...
hello... get the hint and stop moving already!!!
*coughs*
but of course, other than irritating ACJC boys, the whole musical went very well... we even had quite good seats...
unlike when i went to watch Snow.Wolf.Lake where i could barely make out who's who at the stage, i could at least see Kit Chan, and not cos i looked at the program to know she's coming out at that particular scene...
i'm getting hooked on Dick Lee's musicals... wondering what is gonna be showing next...
^_^.``
ps. countdown!! 2 DAYS!! 2 DAYS to bangkok trip!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!!!
so so SO glad i finally got to watch it on yesterday night with meow meow... it's was so good, i went to buy the soundtrack during the intermission... have been listening to it on my mp3 player whenever i have the chance...
Kit Chan sang very well, Hosanne Leong and partner were the funnymen, and there was a cute little emperor Tung Hsu that only had one line in the whole musical...
the only thing stopping me from enjoying it thoroughly was this hyperactive moving head in front of me belonging to a ACJC boy...
ugghh....
the worse thing was that he so wants to talk to his friends on either side of him (hence the hyperactive moving), yet none of them seems to want to talk to him, thus giving him single-sentence answers...
hello... get the hint and stop moving already!!!
*coughs*
but of course, other than irritating ACJC boys, the whole musical went very well... we even had quite good seats...
unlike when i went to watch Snow.Wolf.Lake where i could barely make out who's who at the stage, i could at least see Kit Chan, and not cos i looked at the program to know she's coming out at that particular scene...
i'm getting hooked on Dick Lee's musicals... wondering what is gonna be showing next...
^_^.``
ps. countdown!! 2 DAYS!! 2 DAYS to bangkok trip!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!!!
Tuesday, 23 May 2006
driving test, among other things...
driving test
more on my God-sent miracle...
friday morning, house phone rang at around 8.30am... Raymond, my driving instructor, couldn't get me on my mobile since i switched it off...
imagine shock and horror when he told me some student of him got a last minute test slot at 10am!!
10AM!!!!
my test was at 11am and i was to have my warm-up lesson (plus circuit practise) at 9.30am!! b'cos of that student of his, that meant, i couldn't go for my circuit practise...
i was in a state of panic... really really panic... especially when my S-curve was the one thing i think abt every time i wake up... and i woke up alot of times the previous night too... >_<.``
he actually wanted to juz meet me before my test, without any practise or wat so ever! like i would ever pass if that happened... my circuit was already compromised, and he still wants to juz meet me before the test??!!!
in the end, he got another instructor, a Mr. Lai, to take me for 1hr, juz driving around the test routes...
well... at least that was better than nothing at all...
and thank God i did haf that 1hr of practise... b'cos the last route that Mr. Lai led me through was the exact route that i took during the test... though i had more marks this time compared to my 2nd attempt, the important thing was that i PASSED!!
i really really PASSED!!!
WOHOO!!!!!
other things...
went for a Dick Lee musical on sunday night with the hong sisters, Man of Letters, staged as the grand finale for NUS' centennial celebrations...
inspired by Professor Arthur Lim's "From a Doctor's Diary", Dick Lee wrote the music and lyrics, while the script was written by Jean Tay... set in the politically unrest Singapore in 1955, the story tells of a geeky medical student who falls in love with his childhood friend once again when they meet during their freshman yr... of cos, in comes his best fren who juz so happens to likes the girl too...
i love the musical... really really love it... Dick Lee is a genius... hands-down... there's no question abt it...
and i have to thank Ike for getting free tickets for us... heehee... Master See was invited to play the violin in the orchestra...
and of course, Lydia for asking me along for it when she was told we could get free tickets...
another of Dick Lee's musical, "Forbidden City", is having its 3rd rerun at the esplanade in Sep... and it seems like Kit Chan will be reprising her role as the young empress dowager...
hmm... i'm thinking of whether i should go for it... since i missed her in Snow.Wolf.Lake...
more on my God-sent miracle...
friday morning, house phone rang at around 8.30am... Raymond, my driving instructor, couldn't get me on my mobile since i switched it off...
imagine shock and horror when he told me some student of him got a last minute test slot at 10am!!
10AM!!!!
my test was at 11am and i was to have my warm-up lesson (plus circuit practise) at 9.30am!! b'cos of that student of his, that meant, i couldn't go for my circuit practise...
i was in a state of panic... really really panic... especially when my S-curve was the one thing i think abt every time i wake up... and i woke up alot of times the previous night too... >_<.``
he actually wanted to juz meet me before my test, without any practise or wat so ever! like i would ever pass if that happened... my circuit was already compromised, and he still wants to juz meet me before the test??!!!
in the end, he got another instructor, a Mr. Lai, to take me for 1hr, juz driving around the test routes...
well... at least that was better than nothing at all...
and thank God i did haf that 1hr of practise... b'cos the last route that Mr. Lai led me through was the exact route that i took during the test... though i had more marks this time compared to my 2nd attempt, the important thing was that i PASSED!!
i really really PASSED!!!
WOHOO!!!!!
other things...
went for a Dick Lee musical on sunday night with the hong sisters, Man of Letters, staged as the grand finale for NUS' centennial celebrations...
inspired by Professor Arthur Lim's "From a Doctor's Diary", Dick Lee wrote the music and lyrics, while the script was written by Jean Tay... set in the politically unrest Singapore in 1955, the story tells of a geeky medical student who falls in love with his childhood friend once again when they meet during their freshman yr... of cos, in comes his best fren who juz so happens to likes the girl too...
i love the musical... really really love it... Dick Lee is a genius... hands-down... there's no question abt it...
and i have to thank Ike for getting free tickets for us... heehee... Master See was invited to play the violin in the orchestra...
and of course, Lydia for asking me along for it when she was told we could get free tickets...
another of Dick Lee's musical, "Forbidden City", is having its 3rd rerun at the esplanade in Sep... and it seems like Kit Chan will be reprising her role as the young empress dowager...
hmm... i'm thinking of whether i should go for it... since i missed her in Snow.Wolf.Lake...
Wednesday, 21 September 2005
of musical, sparklers and more teh bing
Anime News: One Piece 245 is out (chinese subbed).
of Snow.Wolf.Lake...
it was GREAT!! i mean, dun compare it to broadway musicals like Phantom or Miss Saigon of course... considering it was an asian production, i think it was very successful... the music was good, the dancing was good, the leads were good... thankfully, i managed to watch this time round, cos apparently, this is jacky cheung's last performace for the musical... which makes sense also lah... he's not young anymore, any more vigorous dancing and i'm afraid his bones might break... and chen songling has such a beautiful voice! oh my gosh!! it's so much better than xu hui xing whose voice was more soprano and airy. the only bad thing was that though we were sitting in the $148 seats, we still couldn't see their faces... sighs... should haf listened to my mom and brought the binoculars...
before the musical started, we (joreen, me and junli) was trying to find shannie amongst the audience... after calling her, we finally found directly opposite us... i think the 3 of us were on drugs; or the food that we ate at crystal jade la mien had too much msg or something... we keep laughing over the slightest things, making silly comments, or (our fav) make fun of shannie cos she wasn't with us... haha... that'll make her wary of having the 3 of us on our own without her... heehee...
of sparklers and more teh bing...
sunday was the 15th (chinese calendar)... i.e. mooncake day... after a tiring day of ktv, curry chicken and mahjong, moo moo called again to go out... this time, to play sparklers... i swear, no matter how much we use, the sparklers never seem to run out... it's like a neverending supply... at that time, i was still playing mahjong at jiahui's house, so that was cancelled due of lack of people... 30min later, it was a call to supper, but at the new taman jurong hawker centre... though i initially said no since it was so far away, in order to make me go, they went by my wishes and changed it to boon lay... =p
so instead of making noise at taman jurong, we were making noise in boon lay (right behind where my mom works too)... cos they bought those sparklers that makes loud piercing noises when they are lit up... i think the people there hates us... 4 girls making so much noise below their block... *sweatdrops*
we adjourned for drinks at the hawker centre where we drank not very nice teh bing... the color wasn't right, there wasn't enough milk, it wasn't even sweet enough... next time, we are definitely not buying from that stall anymore... at least, not teh bing anymore...
subject of the session: cockroaches aka 小强's... there was one running beside our table in the circle where some plants were... we started trading horror stories of not juz 小强, but also lizards...
conclusion: except for meow meow, all of us are terrified of 小强... though at desperate times, we would still kill it if we have to... as for lizards, that's a definite no-no for me, and probably meow meow too...
sober news: my ah ma's admitted into the hospital again... 2nd time in 2 weeks... she was shivering and trembling very badly on sunday nite at around 1pm... before that, she already had on-off fever for the past couple of days... it scared us so much we immediately called the doctor... turns out it's a urinary tract infection... she's very weak and also dehydrated cos she keeps talking deliriously without stopping and drinks little water thruout the day... juz today, she had a blood transfusion, probably due to a low Hb, and she was also having fever and trembling again...
now, all we can do is pray for how God wants to deal with her... all of us are actually prepared for the worst, but we also want her to be well again... but if she's gonna suffer so much, i rather He just takes her away from this pain... cos it hurts to see her like this too...
of Snow.Wolf.Lake...
it was GREAT!! i mean, dun compare it to broadway musicals like Phantom or Miss Saigon of course... considering it was an asian production, i think it was very successful... the music was good, the dancing was good, the leads were good... thankfully, i managed to watch this time round, cos apparently, this is jacky cheung's last performace for the musical... which makes sense also lah... he's not young anymore, any more vigorous dancing and i'm afraid his bones might break... and chen songling has such a beautiful voice! oh my gosh!! it's so much better than xu hui xing whose voice was more soprano and airy. the only bad thing was that though we were sitting in the $148 seats, we still couldn't see their faces... sighs... should haf listened to my mom and brought the binoculars...
before the musical started, we (joreen, me and junli) was trying to find shannie amongst the audience... after calling her, we finally found directly opposite us... i think the 3 of us were on drugs; or the food that we ate at crystal jade la mien had too much msg or something... we keep laughing over the slightest things, making silly comments, or (our fav) make fun of shannie cos she wasn't with us... haha... that'll make her wary of having the 3 of us on our own without her... heehee...
of sparklers and more teh bing...
sunday was the 15th (chinese calendar)... i.e. mooncake day... after a tiring day of ktv, curry chicken and mahjong, moo moo called again to go out... this time, to play sparklers... i swear, no matter how much we use, the sparklers never seem to run out... it's like a neverending supply... at that time, i was still playing mahjong at jiahui's house, so that was cancelled due of lack of people... 30min later, it was a call to supper, but at the new taman jurong hawker centre... though i initially said no since it was so far away, in order to make me go, they went by my wishes and changed it to boon lay... =p
so instead of making noise at taman jurong, we were making noise in boon lay (right behind where my mom works too)... cos they bought those sparklers that makes loud piercing noises when they are lit up... i think the people there hates us... 4 girls making so much noise below their block... *sweatdrops*
we adjourned for drinks at the hawker centre where we drank not very nice teh bing... the color wasn't right, there wasn't enough milk, it wasn't even sweet enough... next time, we are definitely not buying from that stall anymore... at least, not teh bing anymore...
subject of the session: cockroaches aka 小强's... there was one running beside our table in the circle where some plants were... we started trading horror stories of not juz 小强, but also lizards...
conclusion: except for meow meow, all of us are terrified of 小强... though at desperate times, we would still kill it if we have to... as for lizards, that's a definite no-no for me, and probably meow meow too...
sober news: my ah ma's admitted into the hospital again... 2nd time in 2 weeks... she was shivering and trembling very badly on sunday nite at around 1pm... before that, she already had on-off fever for the past couple of days... it scared us so much we immediately called the doctor... turns out it's a urinary tract infection... she's very weak and also dehydrated cos she keeps talking deliriously without stopping and drinks little water thruout the day... juz today, she had a blood transfusion, probably due to a low Hb, and she was also having fever and trembling again...
now, all we can do is pray for how God wants to deal with her... all of us are actually prepared for the worst, but we also want her to be well again... but if she's gonna suffer so much, i rather He just takes her away from this pain... cos it hurts to see her like this too...
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