Beauty World... CHA! CHA! CHA!

"Beauty World.. Cha-cha-cha!" :)



Thanks to er-jie.. we got really front seats.. like 4th row from the front!! We can see like everyone on stage SO CLEARLY! nice. There were a lot of laughter from the play itself. With very little knowledge of the story (ok.. i know i very mountain tortoise), there were a lot of surprises presented to the audiences (or at least to me).

Ok.. it's actually abt this girl - Ivy (Elena wong), from batu bahat coming to sg to look for her long-lost father, from the clue of the jade piece left with her when she was young. 'Beauty World' was engraved onto the jade, thus she decided to enter beauty world hoping to find out who her father is. And so the story goes as she found her penpal in sg - Rosemary (Alemay Fernandez) to help her. Successfully getting in to the cabaret with the very nice 'mummy' (Neo Swee Lin), she then met Ah Hock (Daren Tan) and Wanchoo (Irene Ang) and Lulu (Denise Tan). then blah blah blah. er. i'm not so going to tell u the rest. haha!

What i like is... I think this is something very special about very local plays. Each role has its iconic actions or dialogue lines... and they do leave me a very good impression of the playwright and the director being able to do that. This is especially true for the supporting roles like wanchoo, the towkays, ah hock, rosemary joseph and frankie. Anyway the last 2 were quite interesting... most of the time they weren't connected to the beauty world itself... and i thought they would end up tgt. dotx! I just dun like the ending! haha!!!

And of cos... Dick Lee did a great great job in writing the songs. and well... leaving me in the poison of Beauty World.. Cha! Cha! Cha!... and my sis in "I-i-i-i-i-i-vy... I love you..." haha. That's the only song poor Frankie sang in the whole play! Ok... i like Ivy's "I don't care" too... But well... i didn't buy the soundtrack lah... hee. so whoever has it... pretty please?? :))

Nonetheless... it's a very good musical with very realistic actions and well... very nice sets. technology is really great. oh.. i dunno how many cigarettes they wasted each night actually... and weird thing is... there's no smell although they were all 'smoking'. cos they didn't really inhale the smoke... ok... or so some did i do not know... but some were quite obvious. oh. there was this instance that ah hock threw a lighted cigarette butt on the stage floor and i was taking note if anyone will step on it to distinguish it.. but apparently it wasn't but nothing happened lah... i think the set that moved out just squash it or something near.

Oh... I like their dances too... thumbs up for the choreographers! i like the good coordination between the main dancer (usually the person singing) and the chorus... when some were so entertaining... the most impressive ones (to me) are the first and the last (the finale).. both dancing to the theme song. :) The weird thing is... not all the songs are as lively and bouncy as the theme to match the cabaret... but OK. I'm obviously very satisfied! :)))

If u want to know more and well... have a really good laugh! I mean a really good one... pls go to sistic now and get urself a ticket to the show. Dun miss it man! It's only a few days left to the last show this sat. GO!! haha. Oh-oh... it will be better if u can understand a bit of cantonese dialect cos some funny lines came from there.

'I also donch know' - wanchoo's fav line (when she actually knew what was happening).
'Oh goodness gracious' - Rosemary's fav line... she's very pokka-dotty... everything she owns is of pokka-dots pattern. haha.

The play is just so cute and entertaining. I like! :)