just watched 'a twist of fate' this afternoon at abut 4.00pm today.. ever since before my olevels, i've wanted to watch the show.. i was absolutely fascinated by the trailer with the adrian pang interview with laura michelle kelly, who played mary poppins in the london, west end, 'mary poppins'.. for this musical, she won the olivier award, which is the london equilvalent of the tony awards in the us. for those who dont knowwhat the olivier award is, or even the tony award, it is a very highly prestiged award that is given to stars in musicals, in Broadway or the West End, in the us and london respectively.. of course i was totally excited about it.. luckily my mom also wanted to watch the musical too, otherwise i would have never been able to convince anyone to watch it with me.. :p

anyway, i went to watch it today.. because i was busy playing this afternoon, my family and i were kinda late for the show in the esplanade theatre.. when we arrived at the bottom level, i managed to galnce at the digi-clock at there and it was 3:59:11pm.. i was totally in a rush and became totally flustered as i only had about...41sec to reach the theatre.. as everyone knows, if you are late for ANYTHING in esplanade, you have to wait outside the area until the song/segment is over, so as not to disturb the viewers as well as the actors on stage.. i was practically running up the escalator.. lolz.. luckily, the usherers were quite jing3 zhang1 also, and quickly rushed us in.. and when we sat down, the lights just started to darken.. i was like *phew* "luckily we made it"..

the show was really nice and it was the total epitome of a murder/comedy musical.. it wasnt anything i expected.. really... i really enjoyed it, bcos my last musical was 'mamma mia' in july, so i was really looking forward to the musical.. during the musical, i just realised that i really idolise musical stars the most because they are able to sing so perfectly (because they are singing live) and they always manage to sing so vibrantly and expressive, and not all alot of singers can do that, esp pop singers.. and they can act as well sing and they're voices are just....so loud and impressive.. i wish i had vocal cords like that.. :p well, more abt the musical..

the musical is about this girl who just arrived from england to find her biological parents who left her on the steps of raffles hotel in 1917.. and she finds her supposed family in a pernakan hosuehold.. however, in the matter of 2 days, she finds that her supposed grandfather was killed and then the murder part of the musical develops.. along the way, you find out things that slowly link the story and the murder together.. the jokes that was amde are absolutely hilarious and spiced with a local twist of singaporean and peranakan culture.. and there really is a twist in the end.. something that you would least expect.. the songs are also ver funny.. overall, the musical was not something i expected but i enjoyed it tremendously.. :p

the characters were extremely varied like the snooby matriach to the ditzy daughter of Baba Lim.. of course i will not spill the whole storyline of the musical and the ending for you.. if you really want to know, you will have to watch it urself.. :p its really very fun and lets you experience a temp change in scenery outside reality outside the doors of the esplanade..

i give it 4.5/5 for its plot, humour and singing.. a definite must-watch.. (the theatre was fully-packed even though i watched a afternoon matinee)

bytheway.. Billy Gilman rawks.. :p

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