The Forbidden City - Portrait of an Empress

Woohoo! I went to watch the forbidden city yesterday afternoon!

Mayflower made it available to some of their students and their staffs to go to watch the forbidden city. Tommy and Chris Deng couldn't go, so they let me have their tickets. No lah, of course I only took one seat lah.

The tickets were for the matinee show and thus were only $58. However, I only paid $20 because it was subsidised by Mayflower! And to my surprise, they were darn good seats too! On the flip side, not all the main actors were on the matinee show, just the understudies, so we didn't get to see Kit Chan and the lady playing her role kept having difficulties hitting that 1 note! We got to see the ever funny Hossanne Leong though.

It was also funny to watch with a theatre that was at least 70% filled with students. You get people whistling when the emperor was having sex and a roar of thunderous cheer when one of the characters scolded the man who cheated her, "You bastard!"

On the whole, it was a totally enjoyable experience. The music, the scrpit and the stage setting were great. 4 and a half out of 5 stars!