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Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Med Faculty's production surprised me somewhat. I guess Naomi was not as surprised as I was because she told me "med students have ALL the talent, it sucks". I did not know that was a naturally occurring phenomena, until I thought of House. I sincerely thought he was zee ohnlee vahn! (the only one, you noobs who don't watch Russell Peters)

Being my usual, critical self, I thought the vocals of the main characters were recorded and they were lip-synching during the opening number. Obviously I was wrong. I suppose the general word to describe the rest of the musical (as well as this post) is 'surprise'. I never expected a bunch of med students to be so talented. Okay I might be giving them too much credit, but it does remind me of what my group tried, but did not have the opportunity to complete. So the first song "Shine On" was rather HSM-like (it appears again at the end of the production in typical HSM style), with your solos from the stars and impressive vocals from the supporting cast (as Naomi puts it, CALEFARES, but I'm nicer). It ends with the large scale dance number you see in practically every professionally produced musical. Yes you heard me, PROFESSIONAL. The dance was not Disney perfect, but it was well choreographed and timed to near perfection, save for a few screw ups expected here and there.

In between there were other musical numbers that I fail to recall because I'm just like that. I wonder how I managed to survive IB. But let's not dwell on that now. The next number I can at least vaguely recall is "Pretty Me", the introduction of Miss Popular, bitchy beauty queen 'Tiffany'. The music composed was textbook, and yet it fit perfectly into the style of a university level musical production that managed to blow my mind, although that might be because my mind hasn't quite experienced the truly amazing. The blocking and dancing added to the genius of this broadway style musical number. As a student run project, it was brilliant.

"A Tumour in my Brain" was the next number to be implanted in my memory (I made a doctor joke!) depicting a love filled argument between Mervyn and Eugenia, the Beauty and the Geek with the gender reversed. The music was done in the style of a tango, with dancers appearing on stage and the characters engaging in a 'lovers' feud' around them. Well actually at this point, they're not quite "lovers" yet. Anyway, the singing and acting was great in this one, and once again the songwriting helped to make it my favourite number.

By far our most favourite character was Mervyn, cos he's funny *swoons*. The scriptwriting was excellent for his act-smart-act-suave-act-cool character that was so cheesy and stereotypical, it would have been a disaster if the acting was done badly. Fortunately, his acting was up-there. Naomi liked the singing guy at the end, during the 'Gala dinner' scene. He's actually one of the useless wannabes that follow Tiffany around. I don't know what you see in him, Naomi. And according to her, they all hunch. Bad posture=bad stage presence. Also, Tiffany starts backing off (she walks backwards a little) when she threatens people. Not very threatening, and ultimately a flaw in the acting. But screw that, it was great fun, and the best student-run musical I've seen so far.

Today,

Denise: HAHA I can totally imagine you screaming "CHARGE!", and when they all run off, you go "HAHA losers".

Me: ya.

Me: Brandon will yell "CHARGE!", and he'll be the only one doing it.

Denise: *laughs hysterically*

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