Me, Myself & Opera

Fan li hua, this role which May Teng has been wishing to do but she gave up liao. Yday, I did an excerpt of this show at the marriage scene, the part where Xue Ding Shan tried to kill FLH. The whole show was only 30 minutes. Good enough cuz we didn't have much time and I got lots of things to learn lately. Miss Tan got promoted. She is now Miss Tan Kim Deng. Look at her wig, it's new and it's the first time she is using it. It's nice to have a beautiful wig. lol... It wasn't easy for her. She practiced very hard on this role though she only made a short appearance. I think overall she still did quite well. Miss Doh Xian Tong. I think qy looked good. Her make up improve and with her nice new wig, she looks much better and younger. Me, my wedding day~ Never give me ang bao ah!!! My mother as the Tia bek gong. Lol, she looks so funny wth the funny moustache. Ang has forgotten to bring the beard so apparently she has to draw on thos fake moustache. My mum is a kan ch...

Recently we have many performance notices. So many that we don't really have enough time to prepare. COI want us to act 'Han Dan Ji' on Mid Autumn Festival which I think will be a disaster. A show like han dan ji will never appeal to the gzx audience. Especially when the script is in a mess, the audience won't know what we are acting about. Basically, you will only see many people running in and out of the stage but have no idea what the story is about. That aside, we are also acting ramayana again soon. Yesterday, I went for the rehearsal and surprisingly Miss Tan was there. She is not acting in Ramayana so I have no idea why she is there. Apparently, she thought that we are going to rehearse another show. LOL, she said she was kana tricked to come. Ang started off teaching my mum how to be a eunuch. The usual steps of walk out, turn around, walk 3 steps and stand one side. Miss Tan at this point suddenly shout,"Teacher, I never do tai jian before leh!" All e...

I can hear you groaning," Not again.....!" Yes but it's again. Again we are going to do Ramayana but this time, each opera type will be acting one scene in Ramayana. The GZX team was assigned to act in the second scene. The scene where the princess is a mega vase. No lines, no songs. Nothing. I thought that it's good. Then I can just doll up and stand there, be a vase. In the end, Ang ask me to learn the role of the evil concubine, Ke Fei. My second baddie role. So now, I will be acting one day as a vase princess and one day as Ke Fei. Ah May has been wanting to do this role for a long long time but too bad, I will fulfil her dream for her. Fortunately, I have learnt some tips about doing baddie from the Gao Wen Ju show. It proved useful during our first rehearsal last week. Ang didn't kp much. Thank god. I am rather excited about this role now because it's a change. For once I am not a damsel in distress. Lol. And some of Ang's fans are actually looking f...

Awwww.... I have finished all 3 days of Mu Dan Ting and am feeling rather empty right now. I miss the stage, the beautiful voices and the graceful movements. I should be grateful that I am able to see this. It has been what I was hoping for for years. Those who didn't watch it during their 3 days show here, you don't know what you are missing. My 3 days of tickets. My seat was pretty good, I can see clearly with unblock view. On the last day of the show, I decided to buy the DVD of Xi Shi just outside the theatre. Partly because I want the DVD and partly because they give away a nice paper bag when you buy something! Nice right??? Some more it's pink! My favourite colour. This was the DVD I bought. It's a remake of the famous tale of Xi Shi. I haven't watch it yet. And if you buy the DVD, they will give you this performance magazine for free. If not, you got to buy it for $20. Inside the magazine, there are lots of beautiful photos of my favourite mu dan ting. T...

Yesterday I had a mind blowing experience watching the Peony Pavillion! It was so beautiful and voices of the actresses and actors were so full of emotions. I was very touched at the part when the female lead was looking for a lost dream in the garden and when she was about to die. In fact I cried at the part when she died. The whole stage was very simple, not much props except the very basic tables and chairs. They used lightings mostly to differentiate each scene. As you guys know, we can't take photos in the theatre soin order to share my happiness with you, I am gonna post the beautiful pictures of the performers I found on the net. The female lead is so pretty and the male lead is so handsome! Tonight is the second night and I am so so so excited!!!! I am going to immerse myself into the world of beautiful kunqu again. Please don't wake me up from this beautiful dream.

Tonight's the night when I am going to finally watch my favourite Mu Dan Ting live! Oh yay.. It's like a long waited show for decades and finally, it's coming to Singapore. Tonight's the first night so I will be seeing the best part, you yuan jing meng, till the part when the female lead dies. Tomorrow I shall be watching the part when the ghost of Li niang meet Liu meng mei and finally Liu revived Li from her tomb. Sunday will be liu and Li going to find Li's father at the capital. Yay... Today I kpo go see the sistic website and I saw this. SOLD OUT All sold out liao... I didn't expect Kunqu to attract so many audience lor. Excited! Tonight I must FOCUS and watch with all my might.

Once again, my adventures in Indonesia ended with satisfaction and happiness. :D For those who are concerned, our performance went well (Thanks XJ for the good luck!). For those who are unconcerened, I am sorry to tell you that our performance went well. Hee hee.. I didn't make any mistakes during my si bao performance which is really a relief. I was so damn worried that I will fumble or the sibao will slip out of my hands and clatter to the floor. How embarrassing that will be! Heng heng, I focused and concentrated so although I didn't play super well, at least I never drop my sibao. However, I anyhow whack through the first piece which I just cannot grasp how to play! I have to follow the pipa's sound but the pipa is elusive. Sometimes I thought it is going to this way but it went that way instead. So when I am unsure, I just don't hit the sibao. If not I will create an out of beat weird sound. Though I anyhow whacked, I think the audience didn't realise cuz I put...