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The curtains fall amidst tears shed..

Quintsical Productions 05/06 has concluded and it has now become part of QP's history.

Walking down memory lane for the past 7 to 8 months,i guess life would never be the same without this experience.
Walking thru memory lane:

June-August 2005
I was working part-time at Science Centre when i got a call from my producers to help out with a canvassing job in lieu for the upcoming funding for QP 05/06. It was a skit cum dance that we need to put up at secondary schools. The theme: healthy gums for healthy teeth! That was my first brush with performing and rehearsals after a hiatus of i dunno how long..
Thru tis, i got to noe QP 05/06's director, Andy who left his frens and comfort zone at Hall 12 and came alone to Hall 5 to join QP.
I also got to noe my co-director cum scriptwriter cum cast (Wing Fatt, the butcher), Samuel. He joined us later, and i found out then that he had been in the same hall for the past yr and was in the same hall orientation camp i attended..never knew tis guy existed!
Soon, a few of the other seniors in hall joined the informal committee slowly but steadily..we had our stage mag, our costume and makeup officer and me as the financial controller together with our biz mags..
The few of us, shuttled between lectures and breaks to put up the performances at secondary schools around S'pore..it sure wasn't easy..but the income we brought in was considerable..

As the freshies joined, we held our interviews etc to recruit our committee..By Sept, we had our QP05/06 formed!These were the ppl whom u guys saw during curtain call. A strong and dedicated main committee of 25!

September-October:
Once the main comm was formed, it was time to find our cast..the people who would be the face of QP05/06...
When we recruited the cast, the script was not finallised yet..and it continued to do so all the way till December. The version that eventually went to stage was version 4.5..
And i think some of u might noe..i nv intended to join cast..or rather i had the thot..but nv thot i'll go for the auditions becoz of the fear that i would not be able to cope with my schoolwork especially with all the rehearsals and recordings..
But i eventually went..seeing all my past comm frens going for auditions..i thot i'll juz join them and have fun..juz to have a taste of how the audition's like..

It took quite a while before the cast was confirmed..as the script was not out..and it took quite a bit of convincing skills to convince other ppl that we had to recruit 13 ppl..And i remembered sitting ard with my producers and directors gg thru the list of the ppl who came for auditions..shortlisting and confirming the cast..it was weird and ironic becoz i was one of the ppl who went for auditions..haha..but when i joined them for that session..they kindda had an idea of who they wanted already..

October-November:
Exams period..we had 4 cast trainings before we took a break for our exams..during tis 4 trainings..everyone grew from strangers to frens..there was a great difference in everyone's acting..
During tis period, i spent my time studying at the tutorial room with Andy..and i remember how i'll be disrupted from my studying by his sudden inspirations..
But he's definitely one guy who inspired all of us thru..his passion is...WOW!

December:
Holidays!!The finalised script was finally out!!wahaha..and thru out tis month..we also had carolings to do too!But the script came out late and the songs were not out at all..i fear..that things would not flow smoothly..Costumes were bought in one week becoz we had our cast photoshoot..by then the casting was out for only a few days...it was difficult to portray myself in the role i was assigned then..

January 2006:
Tis was the peak period for everyone!The peak was supposed to be in December,during the hols..but..things din turn out the way it was....
We had songs coming out every other day..recording of songs every week..and sometimes we can learn the song in the morning and record it in the afternoon on the same day!
The 2nd set of costume searching continued..it was not easy..costume searching continued even till Feb..and we had a last min decision to tailor my long-sleeved cheongsam..lucky for Andy's gf mum..so cheap..else..we'll be dead!!It was CNY peak period..and tailoring dun come cheap..esp for a cheongsam..moreover long-sleeved..better still.. we need it in less than a month!
We continued having our scene-by-scene blocking every nite..it wasn't easy..

February:
The scene-by-scene blocking and script memorising continues..We had our tech runs and full runs 2 weeks from show..coupled with performances for publicity stunts..It was tiring..and there were tutorials, quizzes and reports to pia..
Recordings also continued..we were still recording and mastering songs till the nite before our first show!That was how rush things were..i even had to bring my laptop to VT so they could use it to burn the soundtrack to sell..
Now..the bump-in week juz passed before i realised it..The curtains fell for the last time on 25th February 2006..i turned around and i hug my favourite girl..my lao po (scandal) Peiyun...i cried..unknowingly..See lah..i dunno..juz that when i saw her..i juz cried..things would never have been the same if not for her,Daowei(xiao gou gou), Manson (Qingsheng), Qiaomei, Clara, Andy,Samuel (Wing Fatt), Elayne (Meiyu) and so many others..
Ask me to re-enact the whole thing..i'm more than definite that i'll shed tears..tears of happiness, sadness, happiness, fulfilment, love, friendships, stress etc..
It's juz an indescribable feeling..the tears were shed for many reasons..

Tis year's experience was totally different from last year..Somehow..i made a lot of good frens tis year..they were really fantastic..i missed working with them.. But i noe there'll be many more times for me to hang out and havoc ard with them...
It was a hectic year..but i was more heavily involved..being one of the pioneers who saw the comm form and disintegrate..it wasn't easy...
Being part of cast was a totally indescribable feeling..i can't imagine how my life would be without tis cast experience..It seems i've juz closed another chapter of my life..Walked and fulfilled another dream of mine..I can say that i've officially conquered Victoria Concert Hall (1998) and Victoria Theatre (2006)...

Thank you to Quintsical Productions for making all these possible..



Love,
Carolyn

If only you knew at 5:39 AM