i went for the full dress rehearsal just now.
there are so few people... 7 items in total... altogether there are about 30 dancers?
the absence of the alumni can be felt greatly. during the debrief, i am cutting a lonesome figure, sitting all by myself, right at the back. i reach out my arm and want to wrap it around darling's waist... but she is not there (dun worry darling i din wrap my arm around anybody just now). i turned around to flirt with hw, but he is not there. i am waiting for some random comment made by xuehong that always make everybody laugh and make ding laoshi roll eyeball, but that comment never came. after the debrief i went to find mummy, nzj and xiaoyun to talk cock, but they are also not there...
in short... i really miss their presence. and i am thankful that i still see bin ge ge and zhunian around.
let's talk about the full dress.
firstly, there was no proper briefing before the full dress. i din even noe the sequence of the items.
i din even noe where is the boundary of the stage.
when the full run was going to start, the president just said,"来, Pride, 请准备。" and so it started, just like that. ok lah maybe i was late, i reach at 745, and the briefing was done at 7 pm.
so my item was the 4th item. and the music started playing, and the president and secretary started to dance. after they dance their part, comes mine and lollipop whisky part. so both of us posed on stage and waited for our music. and then... THE MUSIC WAS WRONG. super anti climax.
and the president just laughed off the whole thing, saying that it was a technical error, and my item became the last item for the full dress. and i can imagine if xiaoyun was the stage manager, confirm will have a thunderstorm during debrief. but i think in the first place, if xiaoyun was the stage manager, the wrong music wun ever happen.
therefore, the most perplexed part of the night is, during the debrief, the stage manager, din say anything much about stage matters, and instead did a each-item analysis based on blocking, actions and expressions. and the most champion thing is, because she said all this in mandarin, there happened to be a dancer in one particular item who can't understand mandarin, asked the stage manager to translate to english for that particular item.
i was on the verge of pulling out my hair, thinking to myself, why cant she ask her choreographer later on, instead of wasting everybody's precious time, listening to the english translation. and the stage manager really translated for her, and for everybody to listen.
honestly, i have nothing against the president and the stage manager in person. i still can talk to the president normally, without any sense of grudge. i dun talk to the stage manager often, except during last october, when i talk to her quite a few times, because of ticketing matters. but just that i think more professionalism is needed in running a production.
next wednesday is the performance. i really cannot believe it. let us hope for the best.
right now, i can think of this song lyric:
不要问，不要说，一切尽在不言中...
guess the song title? haha.
