SRT's The Little Company's 'Rapunzel' is an exceptionally well put-together musical play for young audience and families. We watched it on Saturday and loved it.From March 14 to April 30, 2014The plot is easy to follow and keeps kids riveted to their seats. Dialogues are engaging and not excessive, pitched to cater to kids' short attention spans. It starts with a teenaged Rapunzel's imprisonment in the tower instead of retelling it traditionally from the time Rapunzel was a newborn … [Read more...]
Let your hair down with Rapunzel!
Reaching over 70,000 children and their families in 2013 with excellent productions like The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and The Frog Prince, Singapore Repertory Theatre's The Little Company has established a reputation for staging quality plays based on well-loved classics for young audiences.This year, The Little Company (TLC) opens its 2014 season with a witty retelling of 'Rapunzel' - Disney's 10th and newest princess. Loosely based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the … [Read more...]
A Simply ‘Loverly’ Musical: My Fair Lady in Singapore!
The musical, 'My Fair Lady' adapted from Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw's 'The Pygmalion', has won 6 prestigious Tony Awards for Best Musicals since it was first staged in 1912. The musical follows the relationship between 'Eliza Doolittle', a Cockney flower girl, and the snobbish, misogynistic 'Professor Henry Higgins', a teacher of phonetics, who wagers with an old friend that he can turn Eliza into a “proper lady" within three months. The popularity of 'My Fair Lady' stems from … [Read more...]
Starlight Express – All aboard for a rocking and rolling good time!
The name Andrew Lloyd Webber is synonymous with musicals. Some of his famous works we've watched are The Phantom of the Opera (my very first musical!), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita and Cats. We were ecstatic to watch one of his longest-running musicals which has been watched by over 25 million people worldwide last night - STARLIGHT EXPRESS! Starlight Express is so popular around the world that there are theaters purposefully built to stage it. This … [Read more...]
{Giveaway} World Premier of Care for My World Musical
“Think, Act and Care.”This is the message that the producers hope audiences will bring home from the new children’s musical show, Care For My World.Premiering in Singapore on 7 December 2013 at the Shine Auditorium, Shaw Tower, Care For My World is an original, fun-filled musical for children and families. It will be a great family bonding time as you laugh, sing, dance and learn about how to make the right choices and care for your world. It will convey the important message of caring for the … [Read more...]
{Giveaway} Dim Sum Dollies’ Crazy Christmas
It's that magical time of year when the world falls in love... Crazy in Love with Christmas! When we mention homegrown talents, it'll be hard pressed to find many people living in Singapore who don’t know the Dim Sum Dollies. The Dollies are known for their loud and colourful costumes, spectacular dance scenes and their comical but incisive approach to contemporary social issues in Singapore. This year, the much-loved Dim Sum Dollies will make their comeback, with Selena Tan and … [Read more...]
Motivational Monday: Meeting Annie!
Daddy and I are big time Musical fans; Musicals move us in a way that none other entertainment genres can. So we have endeavoured from very early that we were gonna raise the Dana to be a Musical lover too. Our family movie nights would comprise of well-loved Musicals such as 'Sound of Music', 'The King and I', 'Wizard of Oz' and 'Mary Poppins'. We also brought Dana for her 1st live musical experience 'The Lion King' last year which she absolutely loved. This year, we were thrilled … [Read more...]