Meow ... It's CATS!

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Let the Memory Live Again!

The record-breaking 2015 Olivier award nominated musical CATS by Andrew Lloyd Webber is back again in Singapore!

On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.

Look out for world-renowned theatre star Joanna Ampil who reprise the role of Grizabella. Joanna Ampil has performed in several West End musicals, including Miss Saigon, Jesus Christ Superstar and Avenue Q, and she played the role of Fantine in Les Miserables in London.

This is my first time watching CATS musical. To be honest, I'm not a cat-lover, I don't quite understand them, only that cats are proud and sensitive.

And the musical performance totally blew my mind!The performers were not only phenomenon, their dancing and how they portrayed cats were simply inspired and brilliant!

Never have I thought a performer can show me so much of a cat just by his/her dancing and every little movement. If you are a cat-lover, you have to watch this musical! If you are not (like me), you will be pleasantly surprised and entertained too!

For a limited season only at Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands, the musical will be performing from 17 Dec 2019 to 5 Jan 2020.

Get your tickets here!

Photo credit: CATS Tour 2019 Photography by Alessandro Pinna.

Aladdin the Musical - too good to be missed!

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If you are looking for a musical to wow your friends or family, this is the one you can’t miss. Bring your kids, bring your parents, bring your neighbors, bring someone! Cos this is a show you cannot enjoy alone, it has to be shared!
(spoiler alert: there is scene stealer that is absolutely top class)

Genie + Princess Jasmine + Aladdin

   

Why do I recommend this musical?

1. It is a storyline most of us are familiar with.
Hence, you can follow the musical from beginning till the end and be totally immersed in the pleasure. The songs are easy to follow, and of course the all time favorite “A Whole New World” definitely wooed the crowd to the max!

2. It is highly interactive.
Not your usual musical where the show is just one way, from stage to audience. But the casts include the audience in some scenes and even asked for applause. Highly entertaining.

3. Simply magical!
From the dancing to the singing, from the costumes to the stage set, everything was done to perfection. Watch out for the flying carpet scene! Don’t even blink!

Get your tickets from https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/aladdin0919.
The musical’s ending its run in Singapore on 1 Sep 2019 (In fact, Singapore’s its only Asia stop!).

Singapore Duck Tour

If you are a traveling guest, I would recommend this tour. If you are a local, I would highly recommend you not to miss the Duck Tour. This is probably the best way to tour around the city landscape of Singapore. For an hour, embark on a land & sea tour on the remodeled WWII amphibious Vietnamese war craft that will bring you up close with some of the iconic and historical landmarks around the Marina Bay.

The girls got their wish to sit in the pink boat.

Every tour has a tour guide that will introduce some of the facts around the area. Our guide is an elderly auntie who speaks pretty good English and is quite humorous too (tho quite dry at times).

If you choose to sit on the front two rows, especially on the side, be prepared to be a bit wet as the vehicle goes into the water, nothing a few tissue paper cannot clean.

Sights of the dragon boat sports are common along the bay.

 

As we cruise along, it is the best opportunity to bring out your cameras or mobile phones and take some photos of the usual scene we see on land, but now from a different point of view.

Marina Bay Sands which has 2,561 number of rooms.

  

Our tour guide introduced the ArtScience Museum as the ‘Lotus Museum’.

Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC)

DBS Marina Bay Sailing, gliding slowly along the Marina Reservoir. Interesting fact, with the completion of the Marina Barrage in 2008, the reservoir which contained salt water, became freshwater and in 2010. Now the Marina Reservoir provides 10% of the island’s water needs.

We passed by one of the few 6-stars hotel – The Fullerton Hotel – previously known as the General Post Office Building. Another tourist attraction is the Merlion.

The tour makes a u-turn at the Merlion and we get to see the Floating Platform and F1 Pit Building. Do you know that starting this year (2016), we will no longer have our National Day Parade (NDP) at the Floating Platform? This August, we will shift the NDP to the new Singapore National Stadium.

Also this year is the 9th year Singapore is hosting the F1 Night Race, next year 2017 will be the 10th and last year based on contract.

Before we go back to land, the last attraction will be the largest observation wheel in Singapore, opened in 2008.

The Singapore Flyer used to be the largest Ferris Wheel in the world at 165m, until Las Vegas overtook the prestige with High Roller which is 167.6m tall. We lost by a mere 2.6m. Blah!

Back to the land.

We went one round towards some of the Colonial buildings like the Fullerton Hotel, and the Victoria Theatre.

Another building is the former Supreme Court, now part of the National Heritage and converted to National Gallery Singapore.

As a Singaporean, I was quite embarrassed when I realised that I was so ignorant of the history and facts surrounding me. Which is why I highly recommend anyone who is staying in Singapore to join this tour. It will be quite insightful.