The 3rd of May was quite a mark for me. It was the night of the 7th Annual Boh Cameronian Awards held at the Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur… Why am I making it sound like a newspaper article!? And i know i’m very behind on this post.

It was a Sunday and while I was rushing my way back to KL from Penang for an event I definitely did not want to miss. You know how actors in Hollywood get to go to big awards like the Tony Awards, The Oscars, The Golden Globes, The Emmys, The Baftas and a whole long list of movie awards. Yes well this is the closest i’ll ever get to going for an event that has to do with a prize giving for performing art works. So no way will i miss this event

And i got a new dress for it too. heee.

The night was special for me, since I was in two productions last year that got into the nominees list. One was in the musical theatre category and another was in the group performance category. For the musical theatre it was “Ismail The Last Days” and for group performance it was “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. It was a bit of a torture, cause i was torn between the two groups . Regardless i love both productions.

The reception area where everyone was getting themselves registered.

The theme of the night was “Love”. As in love for the arts hence a big big sign was smack right there on the stage.

The emcees for the night were Fahmi and Tiong Wooi. They were very entertaining and left us giggling from their witty remarks.

An award ceremony by the theatre people is never complete without performances. Instant Cafe gave their rendition of the Abba song “The Winner Takes it All”. You can watch the video here.

Here are some of the other things that happened that night. Thanks to Kakiseni for the images.

 
Mr. Jonas A. Schuermann and Suhaili Micheline binti Ahmad Kamil

The ensemble of Air Con. The show everyone was expecting to sweep all the awards away.

The Young Aswara dancers, giving a very upbeat and ..”oomph”.. performance lol

Lee Lee Lan received the Boh Cameronian Lifetime Achievement Award with a prize of RM5000. I personally loved her line at the end of her speech. Which was “.. I have never worked a day in my life. I PLAY at my work.” Wow talk about inspiring

On a wonderful note I was delighted to hear that Ismail the Last Days managed to sweep away 7awards out of 10 nominations. That was a complete shocker. We all went up on stage totally not knowing what to do. We all made Tony and Nick give the thank you speech, while we helped from the back. lol

The awards won are:-
- Best Performance by an Ensemble – US!!!
- Best Original Book and/or Lyrics – U-En Ng
- Best Musical Direction – Mervyn Peters
- Best Lighting Design – Lim Ang Swee & Sandee Chew
- Best Set Design – Loh Kok Man & Caecar Chong
- Best Costume Design & Makeup – Dominique Devorsine
- Best Performance in a Leading Role – Malik Taufiq

Back to the camwhoring days of the Ismail Cast. Hahaha.

We were all just fighting to grab a whole of the award. That one very tiny tiny award

My next big surprise, the one that really made my heart just stick to my throat when i heard the nominations.. was the award of the Best Group Performance. The Footstool Players with the show “Crazy Little Called Love” was up next with other group performances.

You know it’s one of those things, where you hope with all your might that it is going to be great news, at the same time you don’t want your hopes to get too high up. Yeah i was having that feeling, which for that pure moment it got my stomach get anxiety pangs. I know I’m such a drama queen

Well guess what Praise the Lord!!!! Footstool Players won the Best Group Performance. That was seriously the biggest icing on the cake for that night. A lot of hard work and a lot of love was put into that performance. And I’m so terribly proud of it.

Ok here’s a clearer one of the award.

Then after all that we moved on to the Heineken Party. We were there purely for the free beer and free Boh Ice Lemon Tea

Kampppaaaiiiiiiiiiiii

See what I mean by we were all there for the booze. One Heineken which is still a preferred beer on my part and a chilled Boh Tea can in my hand.

Gosh there are just too many pictures to put up. So lets begin.

Me and darling Min Li all pretty in pink.

The suave Mr Tony  Leo Salvaraj who also happens to be the Cleo’s most unique Bachelor. I know this title is so overrated

Again with Tony and Amber, who was the busy PR for the night.

Mervyn Peters won for Best musical direction in Ismail the Last Days. Here I stand with Min, Mervyn and his wife

The not so Ghostly Isma and Me

Nick Dorian, Powder puff Min min and me.

Me and Giden. I honestly am very proud to say that he took this shot cam whore style.And it turned out nicely

Three sisters alike. Me, Charmayne and Min

Kevin Theisera and me goofing off.

Last but not least Mr Alfred Loh, who just had to had to had to dress up in a skirt and come with two Pippy Long stocking  pigtails.

Ok, the boys were just playing a fool. And i just had to do this. It was just too tempting. Another one of Aronil’s captions for the light hearted.

Ahhhh the award is all mine.. heeee me precious.

The 7th Boh Cameronian Awards was an absolute blast. Altogether it was 8 wins. Technically la. On my part I was happy that the ensemble for “Ismail the Last Days” got the wards for Best Ensemble and of course I was ecstatic when I heard “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” won.

Who knows what’s instore for next year. All the same that was an enjoyable night!

You can take a look at the full list of winners here.