My Very Own Musical

I have always been interested in producing plays . I recall during my camping days i was required to direct a play and in order to ensure the play goes well, i did not sleep for two days writing and re-writing the scripts for my actors and actresses. I had to prepare the scripts, coordinate with the narrators and offer assistance to my team members with their rehearsels.

It was just a small play but at that moment it was an extraordinarily huge opportunity for us to prove to our camp members as well as our parents in the audience that we may not be as spectacular as Broadway, but we can produce a good show. Our activities were divided into three groups which were the dancing team, the sketch and the musicians and we needed to coordinate with each other .

It was a lot of work but we managed to pull a good show which remained as my fondest memory. In my opinion , team work is essential for if it wasn't for my friends ,the sketch wouldn't have been a major success.Guys, thank you so much for supporting me all the way.

In college, myself and Babu were assigned to plan and coordinate a sketch as well as other performances such as dances and so on for our annual night and according to the feedbacks received from our lecturers as well as audiences from a college of art studies , we did an excellent job . I would like to grab this opportunity to thank my team mates such as the carefree angels, the hot dance girls Cherrie and Annie as well as members of our play Ed, Hairi, Andrew,San-G and the rest. Out of being nervous, i did a few mistakes throughout the play but we managed to attain applauses in honoring our performances.

Andrew did a wonderful job in playing King Wakawaka and saved the play .Our tribal dance routine was deeply influenced by this dvd on a Japanese Samurai movie Zaitoshi. Ed was the victim being boiled in the pot and we were the native dancing around the pot with our poles and i guess i was so into my role at that time that i hit the pot and almost crashed into Ed ! Thank God the audience thought it was a part of the play.

During the fight scene , i was to die and slowly crept down from the stage as the light goes off . Lights went off and i got up unaware it was a lighting error and i was shocked to noticed that everyone else was still lying dead. Bu playing the warrior had to kill me twice lol but it was overall a good play.

Music, scene arrangements and narrations were in perfect order. I had to come up with the story line as well as play a role in our sketch and it was very exchausting for we were practising day after day. Student council ran out of budget and we need to fork out our own cash for the remaining expenses. In the same time, we had to visit one firm to another in gathering sponsors. We had to plead, begged, persuade and bribe. As students of the law faculty we had to come up with a play and as organisers of the performances, we had to persuade students from Accounting to perform and they did Chinese dance as well as hip hop which was fantastic.

It was a lot of work and days of sleepless nights but we pulled it through. Our hero had to borrow Aikido uniform from a fellow collegemate in order to save cost and we had our weapons and costumes invented out of banana leaves and card boards. Lucky for us, Chin Guan got us wooden poles for our tribal act.

We were stomping the yard with wooden poles and chinese opera mask as well as banana leaves skirtings. Upon receiving feedbacks that our performance was awesome to the extent that an Art College intended to employ us for a performance, we were deeply flattered. Despite the minor conflicts and disagreements, we did a hell of a great job.

We had such short notice and we had to perform in front of lawyers, lecturers, parents as well as other professional bodies. It was a lot of pressure but we really had a lot of fun.My third attempt at directing a performance was during my days in Sudong.

My Head Of Department specifically instructed me to choreograph a dance performance upon knowing i have some basic in dancing. As reluctant as i was, i had to invent a dance routine and trained a group of workmates that had no basic in dancing at all into dancers in 3 weeks . It was 3 weeks of neverending drill and one of them pulled out and i had to fill in for him as a dancer.

I guess the moment my team mates came hugging me and thanking me in appreciation for all my effort satisfies me more than the prize or anything else.Winning the best performance doesn't feel as good as witnessing the proud facial expressions on the faces of my team mates. I do look forward into getting involve in more plays and script writing if i am ever granted the opportunity.