Saturday, October 24, 2009

i had a drama / dream

was searching for reference pictures to make the intro video to the Drama Night 2009 play, "Bukit Batok West Side Story" and came across a very blur video taken by some student's friend. It was the band playing at the Musical Night 2008, and they were playing ABBA's "I have a Dream".

really brought back memories on how S and I first received the task of running the Musical Night in 2008, that was sort of left started but in a mess. we sat in the meeting, listening to people argued, and the next thing we heard was us having to take over the project. we silently messaged to each other, something like this:

S: 'we can die now'
K: 'let's die together loh'

but we both think that we shall die doing a nice job.
and the next thing we know was how frantically we squeez the 3 PAP groups to come up with items - Band, Choir, Drama
then how we'd clumsily search for venue, like 6 mths before the performance
then how we cut budget here and there, improvise costume, props, schedule rehearsals, programme list, nag at kids, W carrying her baby and managing the 30 drama casts, blah blah blah. it was mad.

and then the day came.
200 over human beings at MI. no dressing rooms, no decent food, shortage of drinking water, no stage lighting, our ge-tai uncle sound system went to the wrong venue, anything that could go wrong, went wrong.

but we managed to start on time.

everyone enjoyed the show. the auditorium was packed.

one tired night. we collasped after, happy.

so we didn't die, and we survived beautifully.

and made me love my friends more. i volunteered to have them go through another year with me this year - the last year, the last project.

we had more than one dream,
but somehow, some were shattered along the way,
thus this is the last year.

we will survive again,
and then we leave.

reader k | 10/24/2009 01:48:00 AM |
1 Comments:
Blogger Margaret said...

It will be a great, successful and wonderful night :)

1:17 AM  

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