The Other Wise Man - A Musical
It's two days to Christmas. Mrs Lim (the NHHS Student Council teacher-in-charge if you don't know or don't remember) had once again invited a few of us to her church to watch a Christmas musical. Kegan, Bernice, Xin Jie and I had accepted her invitation.
The musical is titled The Other Wise Man - A Musical. It is a fictional story about a Magi named Artaban who had hoped to meet the Messiah and present him with three gifts when he saw the sign in the heavens. However, for 33 years, his journey led him to use his gifts to help the people in dire need. He finally met the new King after helping a lady with his last gift and dying in an earthquake.
My humble review:
The first scene, where the Narrator (played by Paul Seow) started his story about Artaban (played by Jameson Soh), was a great introduction to a great musical that was to culminate in a powerful conclusion. Scene changes were done tastefully with the help of (what I believe to be) overhead projectors projecting images behind a white screen. The main credit for the singing went to Artaban and the people whom he helped in his journey. The most touching and powerful scene came in the scene A Pearl of Great Price, where Eunice Wong sang to the Gods to help the dying Artaban, and Artaban himself opened his eyes to meet the King. That moment, I truly felt touched.
The music was great too. Though the 60-strong choir's voices didn't carry much 'oomph', it was the lyrics and the songs that were truly amazing. The only few letdowns I felt was the over-elaborate costumes in The Hall of Dreams (which took quite a bit of attention away from the text) and the (apologies for using the term) mediocre movement pieces. Sorry, but they don't even qualify to be called dances. Only one dancer impressed me with her professionalism; at the end of the second dance (by a couple of ragged women), she was the only dancer who walked off stage in her ragged character, while the other dancers in front casually walked out.
All in all, the show is excellently executed. I give it four out of five stars. :) For more details, please click on the following link: THE OTHER WISE MAN - A MUSICAL
The musical is titled The Other Wise Man - A Musical. It is a fictional story about a Magi named Artaban who had hoped to meet the Messiah and present him with three gifts when he saw the sign in the heavens. However, for 33 years, his journey led him to use his gifts to help the people in dire need. He finally met the new King after helping a lady with his last gift and dying in an earthquake.
My humble review:
The first scene, where the Narrator (played by Paul Seow) started his story about Artaban (played by Jameson Soh), was a great introduction to a great musical that was to culminate in a powerful conclusion. Scene changes were done tastefully with the help of (what I believe to be) overhead projectors projecting images behind a white screen. The main credit for the singing went to Artaban and the people whom he helped in his journey. The most touching and powerful scene came in the scene A Pearl of Great Price, where Eunice Wong sang to the Gods to help the dying Artaban, and Artaban himself opened his eyes to meet the King. That moment, I truly felt touched.
The music was great too. Though the 60-strong choir's voices didn't carry much 'oomph', it was the lyrics and the songs that were truly amazing. The only few letdowns I felt was the over-elaborate costumes in The Hall of Dreams (which took quite a bit of attention away from the text) and the (apologies for using the term) mediocre movement pieces. Sorry, but they don't even qualify to be called dances. Only one dancer impressed me with her professionalism; at the end of the second dance (by a couple of ragged women), she was the only dancer who walked off stage in her ragged character, while the other dancers in front casually walked out.
All in all, the show is excellently executed. I give it four out of five stars. :) For more details, please click on the following link: THE OTHER WISE MAN - A MUSICAL
yours truly, tobias at 11:31 pm
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