The Snow Wolf Lake Experience

Last weekend was the return of the grand tour of the Snow Wolf Lake Musical, by Jackie Chueng, a renown Hong Kong artiste with the first Cantonese musical. Here in Singapore, it has a mandarin twist to it.

We were looking forward to it so much! Because, when it fist came to Singapore, I attended it with my sis (courtesy of Colin's free tix hee...) and we got totally mesmerized by the performance. It was one of my first musical experience, I was so sold onto it that I bought the musical sound track right away and have been humming to it ever since. =D

Yup....after 8years, its finally back! Without hesitation, we rounded up our family and friends who are fans and got the Sat night tickets. hee... *excited*

We were greeted at the entrance by many urshers who were interested in our bottles more than if we had metallic objects on us that can potentially cause serious harm to the musical. The urshers went through all our bags to ensure that we did not bring ANY bottled drinks into the venue. *strange* *scratch head*

Besides having "lockers" (open pigeon holes) to "store" the 50cents plastic bottle drink that you may want to bring home, they also prepared a huge bin to empty out the contents of the bottles for those who wants to throw the bottle away instead.

In another few metres into the Indoor Stadium, there boast a robust shop selling DRINKS! Ah ha.... we wonder what sort of signals the organisers are sending out by their water actions. If we had wanted to do damage to the show, we can still purchase the $1.50 drink in a plastic cup and whack it against the stage. Just that it would cost us MORE $$.

Oh well, we were early and decided to check out the washrooms first hee... for some strange reasons, Ad kept going to the loo.... again and again! More often than Em, the preggie mum hee.... Maybe he was nervous about watching a mandrian musical which he had little knowledge of. He was asking me if he would like the plot of the musical, with my sketchy 8yr memory, I told him what I remembered and he din look like he would quite enjoy it.... hmm....

We were greeted by nice big curtain with lights shining on it to make the print:


The musical started with a loud Bang! And we were all excitedly Screaming!!!! YES, finally.... after 8 yrs....

The musical sounded a way bit too queer for me.... cos this was the first time I'm listening to it in mandarin!! The lyrics and the music do not seem to go hand in hand with the storyline. I must be too used to the cantonese version. I spend the rest of the night being confused by the lyrics that were flashing on both sides as they sang. We were not at all impressed by the lead actress,instead, we preferred Nydia the 2nd lead actress. Some of the other singers had their voices bursting our ear drums and poor Em had to withstand her little baby kicking her in protest for the loud "noise" hee...

During the interval, we spotted a semi-local celebraty...Dr WW the famous or infamous cosmetic surgeon. He was with a younger lady who is also preggie. We all assumed that they were husbands and wives. We grew so proud of ourselves because we got BETTER seats than they did! HA HA HA.... *smug look*

As the performance progressed, we were all engrossed in how lights played an important role in the whole show. Most of the stage setup were in grey... it was the lights that gave them the color and thereby creating the mood and the setting for that scene. Impressive huh?



check out how lightings transformed the whole stage....



cool eh? ;)

Overall, we rated the show OK only, perhaps we were all to tired from the week's worth of running around to fully immerse ourselves in enjoying the performance. Nonetheless, we concluded that there was no other artiste in this current musical era that can or will carry off a musical of this scale other than Jackie Chueng himself.

Jackie, we are so proud of you!
because you made it possible to have a chinse musical worthy of mentioning.

because you made a musical that will etch deeply in our memories, as part of our growing up years.

because you sang so well, holding on to each note so clearly as you did 8yrs ago.