Monday, March 26, 2007

Sing, City! superlatives

I've been pretty privileged to be one of three people who can post on this Sing, City! blog. The other two are the co-creators of the musical, Josh and Caleb Yap. My role in Sing, City! is twofold - playing acoustic guitar, and conducting overall admin sai-kang (given that Club Singapore "presented" Sing, City!). The similarity in these two elements of my role is that I got to piss off either one of the brothers. Caleb, because my eyes were glued to the score whenever I played the guitar and because I played too fast for my own good, and Josh, because I played the Suit throughout the creation of the musical - limiting the budget, procuring a smaller-than-expected performance space, melding the speaker series and musical into one event, worrying unnecessarily (in hindsight) about logistical issues paralyzing the process. There were times when I felt like Ari Gold in Entourage (minus the hot wife and sports cars), while Josh and Caleb were the Vincent and Eric of the musical. Constantly reminding Josh of what he could (not) do, getting Russell to report to me any suspicious spending activity, coming late for rehearsal because I had to get the flyers up in Harnwell, etc. How apt it was that on performance night itself, I run in an hour late for the final run-through, wearing a suit and tie while the other musicians were already spiffily decked out in their custom-painted hipster LoveSG tshirts. Then in my spiderish franticness to set up the video cameras around the room to produce a DVD of the event, I trip over the wire connecting the musicians' monitor to the mixer, spilling the amp on the floor and once again incurring Caleb's rancor. The only consolation is that while Ari Gold is the pompous and gullible suit in the show, at least he's quite memorable. Anyone wanna hug it out?

And now - Sing, City! superlatives! Vote in the comments!

Best Couple
1) Renhua and Janice
2) Kenny and Val
3) Guo Rui and May
4) Gina and Garrett
5) Yao Xiang and Emily (this one's for the musicians to have something to talk about)

Cutest Unforeseen Event
1) Philip's la-la-la through the You Are Here reprise
2) Guo Rui's powdery hair
3) The mass of people clamoring for tickets outside Rooftop Lounge

Best Guitarist (has to be settled once and for all, we all struggled to be louder than one another)
1) Wymen
2) Dennis
3) Terence

Best Bass Guitarist
1) Ben Gan

Favorite Screw-up During Rehearsals
1) Gina's "no pork, no floss"
2) Ren's "investment banking bay (Bain? Baby?) bonus"
3) The musicians. At every rehearsal.

Favorite Celebrity Who Sat Through Sing, City!
1) Alfian Sa'at
2) Colin Goh
3) Francis Seow
4) Ben Gan

Favorite Rehearsal Location
1) Caleb's room
2) Josh's room
3) Huntsman Hall
4) Bathroom

And most importantly:
Cast and Crew's Favorite Song
1) Results
2) University of Pennsyl-vania
3) Sweet Potato Porridge
4) Yellow People
5) Your Dreams Will Not Perform As Advertised (musicians' favorite, I believe)
6) Prayer For My Daughter
7) Hello My Dear / Oh No My Dear / You Know My Dear
8) Random School Facility
9) Sing Little City
10) Priorities
11) Midnight
12) You Are Here
13) Noodle Blues (appeared to be a crowd fav)
14) I Was Fine
15) After All This Time

4 comments:

fnb said...

best couple
5) yaoxiang and his organ. oh, i mean, emily.

cutest unforseen
2) guorui (didnt see but i imagine how funny it could be)

best guitarist
3) terence give you this one, considering just two months ago i still saw you reading guitar for dummies, and you had so much other saikang to do for this musical. but undoubtedly, the guitarists were the coolest group in this musical. very..laconic. like client eastwood in a western.

best bass
1) ben gan.

fav rehearsal screw up:
1) GINA!!!! damn funny.

fav celeb
2) colin goh! (ok terence, i know you would have spotted the irony here, but seeing him was just "larger than life")

fav rehearsal
2) josh's place

fav song
11) midnight. can cry.

grace said...

best couple
3) guo rui and may... *so cute!*

cutest unforeseen event
1) Philip's la-la-la through the You Are Here reprise

Best Guitarist (has to be settled once and for all, we all struggled to be louder than one another)
1) Wymen

Best Bass Guitarist
1) Ben Gan

Favorite Screw-up During Rehearsals
1) Gina's "no pork, no floss" -- dental hygiene v impt...

Favorite Celebrity Who Sat Through Sing, City!
*woo yen yen

Favorite Rehearsal Location
3) Huntsman Hall

And most importantly:
Cast and Crew's Favorite Song
11) Midnight... love the lines "children should be sleeping, lovers should be keeping time, heart to heart"... gives me goosebumps everytime

x said...

Best Couple
3) Guo Rui and May
the only couple who still refer to themselves as "mr and mrs heng" after the show is over and done.


Cutest Unforeseen Event
1) Philip's la-la-la through the You Are Here reprise
...

Best Guitarist (has to be settled once and for all, we all struggled to be louder than one another)

1) Wymen
but terence i still love u


Best Bass Guitarist
1) Ben Gan
by a landslide

Favorite Screw-up During Rehearsals
2) Ren's "investment banking bay (Bain? Baby?) bonus"

it was "bay ponus". which sounds like "bain penis". not freudian slip then what.

Favorite Celebrity Who Sat Through Sing, City!
1) Alfian Sa'at

my ou xiang.

Favorite Rehearsal Location
4) Bathroom

only terence will know how much of sing, city was written in the 709 toilet.

And most importantly:
Cast and Crew's Favorite Song

i cannot choose lah... but it's one of these four.

6) Prayer For My Daughter
12) You Are Here
13) Noodle Blues
14) I Was Fine

Unknown said...

Best couple
Guo Rui and May

Best Unforeseen
Philip's la la la...

Best guitarist
Wy-men
Dennis, I still love you.

Fav Screw-up
"no beef, no chicken, no pork, no floss... Oh shit!"

Fav Celeb
Francis Seow
On Caleb's video "was he on stage a while ago?"

Fav rehearsal venue
Chestnut hall 427!

Cast/Crew Fav song (wha hard to choose leh)
Sing Little city
My dear trilogy
Midnight