thanks to mandy's friend, le sze, we got our tix for Les Ballet Grandiva's Men in Tutus less than half the price (paid RM60 for a RM130 tix). i think she's a gardnerandwife member, and there were some promo thingy going on. left the office about 7.20pm, grabbed some pretzels for a quick bite, and made our way to sentul. traffic was quite good, but we missed a turn because mandy wasn't paying attention (although she called it being "too engrossed in conversation". hahaha!) met up with her friends (all stylo milo babes 'em -- made me wanna go hide my shapeless hair in the washroom!) and her boyfriend (finally! i've heard so much about you! :) lol..)
ooh, also managed to meet up with chongy for about 2 minutes during the intermission - she was rehearsing for an upcoming musical at KLPAC in March, called "Bernarda Alba". do be a darrrhling and go watch it ok? hehe.. it'll be good. (more info on that later!)
i didn't fall madly in love with the show, but it was good nevertheless. standing, no - jumping en pointe - on those ballerina shoes must have been a b**** (they did say it was), but there were they, doing the almost impossible with such grace and poise. ooh la la!
the men were awesome. but i kept referring to them as "she" and "her" -- a freudian slip of the tongue perhaps? some of the men really looked like a woman, but a buff one at that (and yeah, there was a couple of them sprouting chest hair -- aiyor!! LOL), and i did get confused after a while. haha..
ballet still isn't my cuppa tea, but now i can say that i have watched Swan Lake. hehe.. nevermind where and that it was just Act II -- and i tink they changed the ending too. two other dances we saw were The Dying Swan (performed by a lanky newcomer, and it was quite good.. i think it was my fav act that night) and Beating the Tarantula (yea, u read that right! :P).. the MC ever so kindly introduced each act with anecdotes and brief history, but i couldn't catch the rest.
so yeah, good show, guys! :)
being back in KLPAC, in that theater, Studio 1.. reminded me of the one other act i've caught there: a youth jazz band. really good show that, but it was also the company i had that evening that triggered the memory. good thing i was too tired to watch the entire mental flashback, which is still ongoing. well, new memories will made..
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