Fried Rice Paradise

The night before Joshua and I were to meet for a date on Thurs, I impulsively bought a pair of tickets on Sistic online. These were tickets to the musical Fried Rice Paradise for Thurs night, which would cost us a cool $160. [Didn't feel too guilty though, since Josh would pay for most of it. That's another story for another day.]

This Singaporean musical isn't too fabulous, it definitely will not hold a candle to the typical Broadway or West End musicals. But believe it or not, I will watch this again over Phantom of the Opera or most foreign productions. [And I have watched Phantom!] The musical is so fabulously Singaporean that I love it! I was laughing my ass off at so many lines. But of course, the ang moh many seats away was totally stone-faced.

The arts in Singapore are really awesome, just super gui only. [I'm waiting for something of equal brilliance to Pillowman, a psychological drama play I once caught.] If Singapore wants to see more of its people going to Esplanade and be willing to spend the penny, please subsidize students like 30-40% across all ticket categories. Then when we start working, we'll find it really natural to go to theatres. When I look at my parents who have both time and moolah, I realise going to theatres to catch comedy plays or musicals is seriously not in their consideration set at all.

Next up is the Law Musical staged by SMU Law students next Saturday! Yay!