29 March 2010 – I watched the above musical over the last 2 weekends – first one with Huzz 2 Sundays ago at 10am, with Yi Long at 1pm yesterday and with Eve 4pm yesterday.
I took my 2 twins along (separately) because Jia Hao who plays the Chinese cast’s Toda Sensei reminded me strongly of Yi Long ever since I knew him through NUSSD. As for Eve, it was a kind of meetup after a really long time and my sis is an English cast.
Anyway, a short background about why there’s the SYM this year. Ok not really a background but some history. Every 5 years, SSA will organize a Youth Cultural Festival (YCF) which is actually a performance by youths in SSA. This year, as the year coincides with SGI’s 80th anniversary and _______ hence they put up a musical instead.
I participated in pasts YCF before. First one was with SD back in 2001.
Source: SYM 2010’s Picasa
And the next one was 2005’s:
I admit that I’m a bit disappointed that SNCO wasn’t involved in this year’s. The next one’s like 5 years later! But anyway, I’m pretty proud of my sis as she’s a cast in it! So I wasn’t that sad anymore. Haha.
I’d originally bought a pair of ticket for English cast (for Huzz and I) to watch my sis, but in the end wanted to watch the Chinese show after knowing that I know quite a few friends from NUSSD who are part of the Chinese cast. So I went around searching for tickets to the Chinese show. THEN, Eve contacted me and I decided to ask her along for another English show.
All 3 shows were awesome. I cried the most for the first show, mainly because it was near perfect and the story touched me. Almost cried for the Chinese one, because it was just as touching. But there was a sound glitch I believe that scared me into NOT tearing. The last show was almost teary as well. I think Lionel (I don’t know him but my sis told me his name), is a really consistent actor as young Shin’ichi. The actor as Toda (English cast) was excellent as well. It’s as though he channelled Toda Sensei’s spirit.
For the Chinese cast, Jiahao was OMG! How did he make that hoarse voice? Yi Long commented that his acting was good. 🙂 Oh ya Yi Long likes the voice of the young Mineko (not sure of the actress’ name).
Eve almost teared if not for the fast change of scenes. My twin shared my same sentiments and felt that Lionel’s an excellent actor.
I still cannot believe that none of them are professional actors, dancers, etc if not for the fact that I know some of them personally (and know that they have skills in other areas as well). They should all go into PT acting!!!! 😀 Damn good!
But well, I think we should just get the DVD when it comes out (heard from my sis that they have to go through the censorship review board and everything before it can be distributed).
I bought the soundtrack btw and my sis was just singing along with it this morning. Haha 🙂
Money well spent. 🙂
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It’s been a few weeks since SYM. Last week my sis and the rest of the cast received the SSA Culture Award! It’s one of the highest award that SSA gives. So proud of her! 🙂
At times as such, I cannot be weak.