Thursday, September 14, 2006
forbidden city..... story of an spg


i was at the esplanade yesterday with kzag n had a great evening watching forbidden city..... i m always touched by the feelings n emotions n energy that the cast puts into the show.... the way the lights change, the costumes, the songs......we were on the front row , hence we could see every little emotion on the actors' faces, every litttle speck of spit that they splat, every bead of sweat n spot the slightest hint of a glistening eye....... kit chan was really better than i expected, in fact she was almost perfect for that role.... also love the fat mama... jerome said that she wasn't as guudlast year n i could believe that cos in the soundtrack that i bought she didn't sound as guud.....altogether , the story n the musical and the acting gave me so much inspiration.......ideas to do hair n makeup, wanting to know more about the politics n a man's dilemma in the olden days of china......maybe playing in a musical someday would be nice for my cv of Life.....
strangely enough, me being a third generation chinese in singapore feels so detached from this piece of history that was being laid before my eyes...... i think although we r singaporean chinese, we r brought up in such a different cultural backgrd(or actually the lack of it)that we r almost as different as the ploar bears in the north n south poles.... yet in some important minute ways we remain the same:-)
