After much anticipation... finally and unfortunately.. it's over. the songs are cool. that's no doubt. the actors are good! My fav is of cos 陈瑞彪 (Sebastian Tan)... er. ever since long ago lah.. and that's one the reasons why i insisted on watching this show cos i missed too many of his musicals already... and i dun think i can afford missing another one. Moreover.. in my memory i haven't really seen any chinese musicals be4. After watching this show. i really have the urge to start getting in touch with the company and such... And in fact. i'm going to do so. :)
Ok.. back to the show. Even though Sebastian (A-Qiang) not like the main main character of the musical... I still like his singing lah. A singer after all... A winner of a singing competition after all... Yeah.. :) George Chan (A-Le) was not bad too... had to switch between current and pass for a few times. Ok. This is becos his ex-girlfriend (Xiao Jing) was dead already. In between, there was some recollection scenes. So the thing is that the actor(s) has to change their expressions and mood in a split second so that the audiences would know what's happening. And i think they did it quite well.. But of cos in addition, the lightings changed when he start thinking of the past scenes lah. Joanna Dong (Rose) sang very well.. I think everyone already said that when she got into the 30finalists of Singapore Idol 2005. but i didn't watch SI.. so i will just say it now.. She got a really clear and powerful voice. Every word and note is clearly projected and presented to the audience. The cast wasn't very big... but i felt that they brought life to the stage. with all the chorus singing and dancing.
The one thing that is more touching is to know that this LOCAL CHINESE musical is getting a full house for their shows. Even the Drama Center wasn't big like Esplanade.. it has its numbers. and i think it's commendable for a chinese musical. what more to say a local one. Yes.. we see typical singaporeans in the show.. the typical way a typical singaporean will speak and act. But they are mature actors and actresses too! As the papers (Lian He Zao Bao) has published and say that there's kinda like a revival of chinese musicals with the recent Li Da Sha and this If There're Seasons... i would like to agree with it too.. And i'm excited to see more of such works coming up...
The music for this musical.. what more can i say abt them? They are all written by the established song writer.. Liang Wen Fu. my sisters' fav. I was too young then. All the XinYaos... thou there were some i've nv heard be4... most of them were familiar to my ears. It's like a reminiscence time when the actors started singing older works of his. Wow! like they made use of so many songs in this short 2h show! 35 in all! Some of them were my favs too. haha. Great gratitude for his contribution to the chinese music industry!
Then for the script.. seriously we are amazed.. he actually wrote and arranged the musical out of so many songs of Liang.. was thinking of how he chose them and arrange them and write a story that could link the songs together. Becos the songs are all ready-made.. it makes it more difficult to fit each song into a perfect situation. After reading the interview with the script-writer in the prog booklet. Got clearer of the picture. 50 songs out of 100+ to Liang's preference were chosen for him to write the script with. It makes things easier but still.. not that easy. But i think everything flow every well... there's no question mark of why is the song used at that very moment of the musical or whatsoever. So i'm totally impressed.
If i can work with them for even once... i'll be floating all over. haha! Anyway to those who missed it like my sisters. Well... u can wait till 2009. Think they will rerun the show again... WEll.. hopefully again. Perhaps i will give it another shot. :)
ps: you dun want to know how long i took to type all these.
pps: 'If There're Seasons'... I dun want Yeo's. LOL!! ok. i like yeo's better =x
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