Oh gosh.
Our private facebook page has been flooded with snippets and videos of our performances and everyone's uploading docs and notes of how grateful they were for the whole production and how emotional unstable they were feeling with all the hardships and enjoyment etc; all over.
I cannot believe it because i've only been with them for one and a half weeks and the rest have been together for months. If i'm feeling this much inclination what do they feel? Unimaginable. I know i'm bugging a lot of you out there because you have almost absolutely no link to what i'm feeling/rambling about these few days.
Let's just go back to two wednesdays ago when i sat in my first rehearsal!
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012
The secondary twos were called out of the AVA to start on doing some props. We were outside the AVA getting instructions from Mizz Tnee when Sarah pulled me out and told me that i had to sit in the first full run because i had to know what was going on.
Now at that time, i didn't know what role of the musical i would be playing so i was a bit stunned.
I sat down at the AVA room for about two hours watching the cast piecing their scenes together to form what would be the first of a couple of full runs. I was quite...amazed. I had no idea what the whole musical was about and which character was played by who. By 1845 that day, everything was automatically jotted down in my brain.
Nicole. Jerry. Benji - Leg, Lynette. Fifi? Fiona. Songs. Bebot. That's Amore. Finale Dance. Mashup. Stanford High. Ms Tang.
There was a lot of confusion during the briefing that evening. A lot of emotions for the cast while a couple of us, the crew, were scurrying all over trying to find one receipt. What the hell was i supposed to do for the musical? Lighting? Me, ALONE?! Are you kidding me...i have to pull out of camp? Huh. Miss Tnee doesn't want to me to do lighting but i have t...???
Yeah that was me when i was taking the almost empty 184 home that day. I texted YQ to tell him that i may have to pull out of Tanglin Halt Camp. Basically the camp was focused on having fun with a bunch of kids aged P1-P6 who come from broken families. It was from the 31st May - 1st June and with the newly assigned job of doing the lighting that obviously meant i couldn't go for the camp.
It was a little bittersweet. This musical opputunity is hard to come by but the camp...i thought "there's always next year for the camp but not another year to do this for the musical"
Thursday - Saturday 24th - 26th May 2012
I knew that there would be another musical in 2014 but i wouldn't want to do lighting then. I wanted to act. Basically the next few days were spent sitting on practices. Familiarising myself with the script and the dances - what songs etc; helped out with doing props and such as well. Was bracing myself for the week of intense rehearsals during the holidays and now that it's over, i wished i could've spent more time doing more.
Monday, 28th June 2012
The sec 4s & 5s were taking their 'O' Level Mother Tongue papers. I felt so worried for them omg i can't even...prepping for such a major exam + the musical must be crazy stressful. Wore my purple drama tee and reached school at around 2. I thought i was running late because the other sec 2s were there but no we were freaking early.
We started on the design of the vending machine that day (: Rui Min was the one doing the font of e Cola Cola because the rest of us were too not talented artistically to do the job hahaha + we were uber lazy. We did secret letters for each other before that and we individually worte letters for the musical. I wrote one sentence while everyone else wrote paragraphs *burries head in groud like ostrich*
I decided to help out ith the posters/banners instead hah.
Tuesday, 29th June 2012
It was a rather long day. Wore my mint drama tee and bumped into Zhe Ern on the bus (: was telling her about singapore-ang mohs and how...nevermind (: we spent the whole day painting the vending machine and we're glad Mizz Tnee was pleasantly surprised when she saw it :D
Hahaha the second photo is supposed to be a secret photo but not like anyone reads my blog anyway!
Wednesday, 30th May 2012
Wore our 2012 class tee. I honestly cannot remember what we were doing. Hmmm...oh yes, i brought Derek the Elephant to school! I met Brenda at the traffic light and she snatched him away heh. I never touched him for the next few days...because everybody loves derek! Did prop tagging which was basically just finding props and what scene they belonged in. It was a very tiring day and ChongRay kept wanting to take a photo with the carrot so here it was :
Thursday, 31st May 2012
Wore our 2011 class tee. Oh it was black, i can't colour the font then HAHAHA. Okay, lame. Spent the morning prop tagging and lazing around. Started on a new last minute prop which was doing the lockers. I totally didn't do anything for the locker. I just went around finding props and buying lunch for the seniors hah.
We did a technical full run before shifting all the props to the hall for a full full run. I was in the control room with Mr Chia, Zhi Lum and (extra) Kai Ming. It was quite creepy going back down to the hall after that coz the control room is kind of in the middle of no where.
We ended at around 9 and went for a late dinner with Zhi Lum & Derek (the human) at Macs before reaching home at around 10.
Friday, 1st June 2012
We start the cycle with me wearing the purple drama tee again (: it was the day we were moving in to ACJC! Spent the morning shifting props from the hall down to the foyer. I dropped my eggtart (which the lovely sophia bought for all of us hehe) in the midst of picking up a broom.
ChongRay then said to me : "Carrot, you dropped your eggtart."
For some reason, i find that line extremely hilarious.
Sorry for being so retarded.
It was a short 10 minute bus ride there but we had to wait for a while because we had to wait for the gate to open. Then we did one proper full run after i familiarised myself with the lights. I'm quite proud of myself eh! (i'm kidding but i'm not) but it's seriously a super fun job doing the lights. Stressful, but fun. Just like a lot of other things in life.
That was my working set :D
Didn't go home that night. Went to Marina Mandarin for a night's stay because my mum just happened to have a free stay. Ate two buns while waiting for my sister because i was damn hungry. Showered then went out. We ate at the food court. Had Indonesian BBQ and Garlic Naan. Both were pretty darn good but i wasn't too hungry thanks to the erm, two buns i had prior to the meal :P
Went shopping at Diva, Zara, Topshop ++ before walking over to the Esplanade for a while. Then returned to the hotel. It was around 11 then. Watched 'Untamed Tapes' on Animal Planet before sleeping at around 12+
Saturday, 2nd June 2012
IT WAS SHOW DAY! I woke up at 0700 because i had planned to shower before leaving for ACJC but didn't feel like doing it so i went to warm myself at the balcony. I was starting to feel a little nervous like what happens if i screw up? :/
I was ready by 0730 and my dad then fetched me to ACJC from Orchard. I was the first one at the canteen. Dad had bought my Nasi Lemak but i was feeling pretty nervous and when i do i have these massive stomach aches so basically, i had no appetite. Brenda, Nicole, Kabir, ChongRay and Parames joined my after that followed by the other groups of people (:
The crew came in last hah.
The cast was doing warmups while i was doing final light plotting. Song Han and Derek were a little high.
We start work by 9am and the full run started at near 11am. There were a few last minute changes and i was really quite scared. Thankfully, i had an army of such huggable and nice people that i calmed down after lunch (: we did a short full run and then the afternoon show began.
I wouldn't say it was bad neither was it fantastic but we weren't that prepared. Miss Tnee posted on the page yesterday that she frankly found it a little disappointing but i think we all were quite proud of it considering we didn't have a good full run prior to this day.
In between acts and shows i ran down to go backstage to hug people and to comfort some of them. Everybody was hyped and focused and the night show was really near-perfect. After the first act of the night show i just ran down and hugged the crap out of some people. Then i danced around before we had to clear the stage for the video to be shown.
We were prepared to deliver a fantastic act two and we did. After the curtain call + finale dance i just ran down and started tearing up. Makeup was running and some of them looked like ghosts. A little creepy but we were just so overwhelemed with the sense of accomplishment and overjoyment.
Sadly, we couldn't stay around much longer. We had to quickly pack up and leave the place. Took the bus back to school and then we had to unload all the props. Then took the bus home with Zhi Lum and bumped into Lucas. He thought i was coming home from camp because i was in FBTs and was carrying Derek the Elephant around (i left him in school from wednesday-saturday)
I went home feeling so accomplished and happy. I was sad that the two shows had come and gone. Would i ever work the same group of people ever again? Probably not but they will always stay in my hearts.
Gosh, how close i'v gotten to some of them (':
Lub chu guys
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