Sweet Charity

Last night, a group of us from the Just So cast watched a musical called Sweet Charity, a broadway musical, at Laselle School of the Arts. The show featured final year students of BA(hons) Musical Theatre supported by year 1 and 2s, alumni and guest artists, in collaboration with BA(hons) technical theatre students.

Here's my take, they were completely awesome. Even though Laselle is a school in Singapore, majority of the cast were caucasian. (yeah, we were really surprise) They could really dance, sing and act. Sigh, it was so so good. All the Just So cast felt that our musical would pale in comparison to theirs.

Nevertheless, it was still a student performance, so it cost us only $12. I felt so sad for the production team! All that hard work for $12 when Chicago Musical is charging $100!! (Oh man, I'm missing this one cos it's so expensive) But there was a really weird part about the musical. The lead character, Charity, was played by 3 actors. At two points in the show, the character was changed. Well, after course, there was a lot of talk on who was the best Charity. I really like the third one but we also felt that her dancing was really stiff.

I felt envious that these students could study what they really loved. :) I wish them all the best.