Rock Opera
Sunday, i went to this rehearsal for a show called "Rock Opera". The show is about a Malay rock band that just started and want to be famous. The show will be at Esplanade on 16th, 17th June. The so-called orchestra is made up of 20 strings ensemble, percussion section, electric guitar, bass, keyboards etc. The conductor is a Malay guy called Amin. Apparently he is quite well known in Malay community. And most of the cast members, crew, percussionist and guitarist and bassist are Malay. Only the orchestra ppl are chinese.
I got the "lobang" from Hwee Bing, they need one more violist, so i go and help out. Then Hwee Bing ask me to be Principal, i was like long time never really touch viola already...anyway, the scores are quite easy, much easier than Mr. Iskandar's.
Talk about the whole production, in my opinion, they are really not not efficient. They said start time is 1pm, we wait till 2:30pm then only start to play something, we just a while, conductor said rest for 15 min, because he want to go drink coffee. When he came back, he told us "4pm we full run". Walao, wait again, and looking at the cast's progress, we will not end by the specified end time which is 6pm.
The rehearsal venue is at a secondary school that is not in use anymore, the whole place is so deserted and the look is old and dirty. We practice at their assemble hall, and is not air-conned!!! so hot by the time we start the full run. Well, the full run started at 4:10pm, and till 5:40pm we finally finished the 1st half of the show, "break for 15 min!". hmmrrphhfftth!!!! that means we will continue 2nd half at 6pm!! I had an appoinment with friends at town, so l left at 6:30pm. Giving them another extra 30 min is quite good already, i consider myself semi- freelance for the amount of time i gigged and i am already sick of all these production ppl that never stick to the time schedule. I told the person in charge that i have another performance and i went off.
Luckily this is the 1st time i go for the rehearsal, according to other ppl, there were 2 rehearsals before that day and what they practice was a waste because the conductor changed the whole score yesterday. hmm...one word - inefficient
I got the "lobang" from Hwee Bing, they need one more violist, so i go and help out. Then Hwee Bing ask me to be Principal, i was like long time never really touch viola already...anyway, the scores are quite easy, much easier than Mr. Iskandar's.
Talk about the whole production, in my opinion, they are really not not efficient. They said start time is 1pm, we wait till 2:30pm then only start to play something, we just a while, conductor said rest for 15 min, because he want to go drink coffee. When he came back, he told us "4pm we full run". Walao, wait again, and looking at the cast's progress, we will not end by the specified end time which is 6pm.
The rehearsal venue is at a secondary school that is not in use anymore, the whole place is so deserted and the look is old and dirty. We practice at their assemble hall, and is not air-conned!!! so hot by the time we start the full run. Well, the full run started at 4:10pm, and till 5:40pm we finally finished the 1st half of the show, "break for 15 min!". hmmrrphhfftth!!!! that means we will continue 2nd half at 6pm!! I had an appoinment with friends at town, so l left at 6:30pm. Giving them another extra 30 min is quite good already, i consider myself semi- freelance for the amount of time i gigged and i am already sick of all these production ppl that never stick to the time schedule. I told the person in charge that i have another performance and i went off.
Luckily this is the 1st time i go for the rehearsal, according to other ppl, there were 2 rehearsals before that day and what they practice was a waste because the conductor changed the whole score yesterday. hmm...one word - inefficient
posted by Natcire at 10:43 AM
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