Me, Myself & Opera

正月点灯红，点啊点灯红，顶卢烧香伊都下卢香。 I am now learning 桃花搭渡 for my next guan yin dan show. It is on 11 March. I was very happy to know that we are learning this because this show has been frozen for many years. Finally it is seeing the day again! Although this time we are not acting this show like an opera show but more of a 曲艺 style, I am stil happy to learn it. It means that we will not be dressing in opera costumes, we will be performing in our normal uniforms. Also, the original very long show has been cut short to 15 minutes. The middle part has been cut off. But we will keep the January to June singing part. That is like the classic lor. There will be 2 tao hua and 2 ah peks. One pair will be of course me and Susan. The other pair will surprise you, Li juan and shi bao. These 2 disappeared from SL long long time ago. More than 10 years. They now making a come back with this tao hua da dor show. We haven't decide who sing which part yet. We are just learning the full song first. This is a b...

On 17 March we will be performing 比文招亲 at Henderson CC. We have acted this show in Malaysia but we haven't acted in Singapore yet. I think teacher is rather nervous about this performance because... 1) Our female lead is Xin En and it's the first time she doing female lead. 2) Xin En wasn't able to come for a lot of rehearsals. 3) We haven't tried combining rehearsals with the drums yet. 4) Our dearest LZ said she cannot act in this show so we are short of one actress. And so the anxiety is building up. Nonetheless, I believe these all will be ironed out nicely in the end and our show will go on smoothly, like it always does. Our next show will be 王宝钏 and recently we started rehearsing a little here and there. I was being assigned 王宝钏 and it is a major ku dan role. I am not really good at ku dan-ish roles but I will not comment or say anything about the roles given to me. It has provened that commenting too much about your assigned role will bring you nothing but tr0ubl...