Went for a musical at City Hall on sunday evening to support my bro, who was performing for the first time. Attended the event together with Vince's mom, Thomas, Ashley and Wenzheng.

There were 2 different musicals that were staged:

Peter and Pierre

Two performers commence on a selection of songs, which they sing according to their thoughts and emotions. Tension soon builds between young and cocky Peter and veteran, worldly Pierre, as they confront each other across the generation gap. Peter tells his story of his childhood, youth and early betrayal of love. Pierre takes over and shares his experience of love, humility and letting go. Eventually youth and age are reconciled.

Roses and hello

A law firm tries to buy out a neighbouring floral shop. Penny, the shop's owner, finds herself facing some of the most difficult choices of her life, whilst Chris, the sin of the law firm's boss, learns about finding courage in the face of change. These and other memorable characters find and lose their way and direction in a story with romance, humor as well as a deep message to describe the intricacy of relationships.

Each musical was around 45min or so, and I enjoyed myself. It was interesting that they made use of symbolism and subtlety in the enactment of the various scenes in the musical. There was so much passion in the acting, kudos to the solid and excellent cast, song composer and music coordinator, as well as the screenwriter who made the various transitions in the musical seamless. I especially loved the music in "Roses and Hello" as it was being performed live by Esther Yang, an excellent pianist and composer. My bro acted and sang really well. I really proud of him! His mom was beaming from ear to ear and I could see that she is really proud of her son. Great work bro.

I look foward to have more opportunities to attend more musical dramas, as I really liked the stage-acting of musicals.

For those that are interested in musical/drama acting:

http://www.thenextstageacademy.com/programmes.htm

And I saw Rosalind Pho too...as part of the audience. The picture below is just one of the early random pics of her, when she was still involved in Channel 5.