Sunday, June 29, 2008
omg so missing the musical now! i miss the drama centre, the stage, the backstage, the dressing room, the corridor, the green room, the rehearsals, the lunch + dinner [ok not really]... most importantly, I MISS THE FUN OF WORKING WITH THE CAST AND OTHER PERFORMING GROUPS!! it's so saddening lah.fine, maybe i said in some of my previous posts that i hate the musical and rehearsals. is it too late to take back what i said? hope not. because i seriously love'em!
THURSDAY:
went to the drama centre for the 1st time. at 1st i didn't really like it cuz the dressing room was too crowded for 60+ people. haha lucky they split us in matinee and gala, so there would be fewer people on the actual day. waited for like 2 hour plus before we ate lunch. watched some people play psp, chatted, goofed with my phone etc. some guys + mr yeo also came in to take some photos and do an interview with daryl, debra and suetyee. it was strange, cuz they told us they were filming this thing called "Where's Alvin?" or something like that. damn funny when they acted out a part of it. super exaggerated. too bad i forgot whether it was before or after lunch time.
after lunch, we started the rehearsals. they tested the sound and lights. super cool man! the tech there is wayyyy better than our school's one. everything was so dark when they off the lights to change scene. the backstage had some spooky green lights. i played with my shadow while waiting. goofed some more with tingying by saying things like "i want to be a CIRCLE or SQUARE or TRIANGLE?!" and kicked mr gay's thighs and side-butt 3 or 4 times. haha it was pretty interesting to hear him say "ouch!" in a high voice.
rehearsals ended fast on thursday.
FRIDAY:
went back to drama centre. did pretty much the same things, but waited shorter cuz everyone had adjusted to the place already. some issues for the day was that the dance people were unhappy at us for some weird reasons, ms lini wanted senior girls to wear the choir gown for "i want to be a star" jazz version and we protested cuz it'll look weird for "change the world" and "i want to be a star" finale where we have to dance?! ok that sentence was pretty long. summary: WE DON'T WANNA WEAR THAT GOWN FOR A FAST DANCING SONG! the leaders tried convincing but to no avail. that's that. i felt so frigging pissed when we did our 3rd rehearsal for the day. almost cried lah.
and the music director left early to attend to some family matters. so they had to just... i dono... play some other version? "job well done" was really fast! all of us felt the endorphins after we finished that number.
rehearsals also ended fast on friday.
SATURDAY!:
ahhh the day of performance! i felt so freaking excited, yet calm. dono why. did some last minute rehearsals and changed and put makeup. it's official! i look weird in makeup. after that, just watched other people do their makeup and stuff. oh yea i also got erika to do eye shadow. thanks man! she's a PRO. ate lunch. it was gross cuz i had lip gloss on my spoon. lucky i didn't expel my lunch.
did the matinee performance. it was F-U-N!!! even though not many people showed up. we waited backstage at like 2.10pm. my heart was thumping but i felt normal in my head. my hands were cold too. shared hand warmth with shervin and clarissa. thanks you 2 too! when it started, i just let out all my energy and got high! wow it's super duper wooper looper gooper tooper fun lah! it didn't feel like we were really performing. rushed back to change after the 1st song. "job well done" was cool too! many people laughed at the ahlian song. i like that. it's kinda cute.
the performance was a success! hmm actually wearing gown to dance wasn't that bad. just hope that you don't fall in those heels! everyone cheered and clapped after the matinee show. me and some of my choir mates did a group hug [me, clarissa, tingying, chelyn, crystal, shervin, huixin etc...] there was a meet-the-audience session after the performance. i hugged seowhwee, and that idiot sebastian kept saying some stuff that i shall not mention o.o took photo with huixin, jasmine and siying.
went back to the dressing room. forgot to mention just now that the whole place reminded me of a hotel without beds. it's really interesting. ate lunch at 4.30pm?! we totally wasted the food cuz we weren't really hungry. i wasted my fish and rice [even though i didn't really want the fish anyway]. but whatever.
touched up makeup again. then sat down and watched the crew people do their makeup. omg they're more vain than us! the makeup was so thick, they remind me of those wayang opera thingys. ms michael and some other teachers came to do makeup for us. chelyn and i managed to escape. our makeup wasn't see-able but we didn't want more, so yea. we sat at the corridor for almost 2 hours, talking about the sky colour which didn't change for 1 and a half hours and penguin shit and very regular 10 minute intervals. she's really random. i talked to claudia too. she kept complaining that she couldn't watch the musical. and so we just waited and waited and waited... till it was 7pm. some sec 3s came out and we sang songs. that really killed time.
at last, we could go on standby for gala. the crew had to clean off their makeup cuz it wasn't allowed. aww tooo baaadddd!~ the performance was SOOO COOOL as it was almost full house! everyone had fun on stage like there was no tomorrow. there was confetti at the finale!
but like they say, all good things must come to an end. we all felt kinda sad when it was over. i almost cried. i think clarissa almost cried too but she denied. rachel ang cried. some dancers also cried. i was crying in my mind. we group hugged again, now with more people. mrs wong was there! that's totally awesome. cheered and cheered some more. alex, music director, ms lini etc did some sort of concluding speech. felt even sadder. choir did area cleaning for everyone! nothing much to pick up anyway.
met wantian downstairs. she gave me a big flower [it's real]. hugged her too. met daddy. he picked me up. didn't bathe cuz i was so sleepy. but did bathe this morning lah. [if i keep putting fullstops, means that i'm feeling sad again] aww man back to studies. needa catch up with TONS of undone homework. i'll wait till i'm 65, then i can watch hihs's 100th anniversary musical as an audience.
it may be over, but memories of it will be etched in my mind for a long long time. i'm good at remembering experiences. tha's a good thing. another good thing is that everyone is in the same school, so it's actually not very sad as we can see each other any time. too bad there won't be a chance like that anymore.
this post is almost as long as camp posts.