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When A Musical Is Not So “Musical”, Let Alone An Art-Tech Show: HighLights — The Memories of Charles Kao (一束光—高錕的記憶)
Trees, when they just grow together, do not form a “jungle”. A jungle should have different layers of vegetation like the emergent layer, canopy, understory, and forest floor. Each layer has a unique set of plants which mean a totality of the conditions such as sunlight and humidity. Likewise, when drama (through a sequence of…
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Growing Musicals In Hong Kong Never Shrink Back To Its Old Dimensions——The 9 Kinds Of Musicals in Hong Kong
19-10-20 My art memories are often evening moments and weekend encounters with musicals. Happiness radiated like fragrance when I saw friends between backstage and stage. Together, they formed the scrapbook of my life. When I was thirty years of age and uncritical, I loved western musicals and overrated their standards as being ‘godishly’ high. After…
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Hong Kong Musical Beyond, Really Love You―Dream it possible
28 April 19 Doing a musical in Hong Kong is bound up with 4 hurdles:(1) who can compose prepossessingly; (2) who can write great lyrics outpouring the composer’s feelings and thoughts; (3) where to find a group of gifted stage multi-talents who can act, sing and dance at the same time; and (4) where to…