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See “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” at Pentas 2, KL Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are RM30 for adults and RM20 for students, senior citizens and the disabled.

Call the box office at (03) 4047 9000 or The Actors Studio at (03) 2094 9400. Visit www.footstoolplayers.com for moreinformation.

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I haven’t had much time to blog for a while especially since Thursday. That was the day, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” started its performance at KLPAC. Phew the first run of KLPAC is now over… 2 single shows on thursday and Friday, along with two shows back to back on weekeds. My gosh doing the performance twice is hard… Man it has been a crazy one. I just wanted to update on what our schedules and audience status has been like. 

So far pretty good! Very very encouraging to see that a number of people have heard about the show – even if we have performed to about 5000 people now from churches.. yeah I know 5000 people. Even I can’t believe it! Praise God for the numbers and so far the shows running at KLPAC have been getting the numbers too.   Jon, Adrene and Colin had the honour of being slotted in on the NTV7 Breakfast Show last week. JP was the host and while we “appreciate” the butchering of the names, we still forgive him.  You can watch and listen to three of the cast members speak their mind on what Crazy Little Thing Called Love is about. When to catch it and what to expect. Jon also manage to upload it to YouTube, so check it out! Print media has been going well too. So far we’ve been – in chronological order – TheStar Metro, New Strait Times and TheEdge. The papers just love the cutsy picture of Adrene and Sean in their piece called “I Love You More”. Hehehe… and now as I look at it, probably only that picture really shows some sense of loving between two people. 

NST – Life & Times 

The Edge Daily – Options – Love Vignettes

 

This week is our second and last run for the production.

Makes me kinda sad actually cause I’ve grown to know, work, play and smile with this family so much. It’s been a real blessing being able to work with them. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than to share my time and my trust with them. I think I’ve put up this pic before in a previous post. But I can’t help putting up again at this tender moment. 

 

Courtesy goes out to Bernard Goh from Creative Clicks who took the fabulous photos of the cast and crew!

 

Love you guys!

Yesterday was the first run of the show “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by the Footstool Players. Held at Segi College and hosted by Agape Church, I think the show went fairly well! All thanks to The Father in Heaven. To give a bit of a background on ”Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, it is show with 13 sketches all acted out by 7 actors. Each of the sketches is a story within themselves, with no relation to one another. The stories deal issues that are unresolved that revolve around the topic of relationships and love. Hence the title “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. Be it relationships with your family members, broken homes, and even between couples who are just starting out.  I never thought of it this way, but while Jon was praying for the team last Thursday, he said this..”Lord, thank you for making us nervous. For it is when we are nervous that we look to you.” I had never seen in that light before. It’s always usually so natural for a request to God saying something like, please don’t make me nervous, take away me feelings of anxiousness. But i had never thought to thank the Lord for making me nervous.. and for that I want to thank Jon for that moment of realisation. It’s true actually… when we are in dire need, that we will shift our eyes above and seek Him with all our might.  As always, when we focus and cast our eyes on God, things will go in place.  After many months of rehearsals, and days of getting lines crammed into the head. It all worked out for the better. The thing with theatre, is that you can never do the same performance you did the night before. Which is alright because it is always a new experience and yet another opening night (as how my music conductor would say from Ismail). With that, the characters one develops for a play, takes you on a journey. Along the way you learn a number of things.. not just about the play of course, but also about yourself.  In this case, about the relationships you have with the people around you. With those who are close to you. Even though I may play 3 different characters, but I learnt something from each of them.. I’m rambling, back on to the story of the first day… Nerves were all over the place and even more so because we have never performed in the college auditiorium before, which accommodated about 300 people, more than the usual number of people we rehearse for at SJGC. Hence we had to project a lot more, which was a bit worrying at first because we all had to make a conscious effort to raise our voices much more than the usual levels we were accustomed to. But no matter.. adapt and work with it.  Here we are getting ready by bringing all the props up to the auditiorium. Usually for those who know how Footstool Players work, is that they produce plays that are minimalist, using very few props and not much chnage of clothing. This time was a bit more different and we had a lot more stuff to carry.   

I wanted to take shot sof the Segi college, which by the way is huge! 

I don’t think I’ve ever had a crowd so close to the stage..

The crowd was very responsive which was great for the comedic plays haha. As actors we really feed of the crowd when they start to warm up to us, which was a good thing and pushed us on to do better than expected. There a few minor hiccups like the a handphone causing some interference to the speakers, a baby crying somewhere in the middle and a number of laughs which we never thought we would get in certain serious moments for some of the plays. Even still it all went well. Lines went well, tech went well and sound went well.. couldn’t ask for anything more After the show we took a picture with the teens of Agape church, who were busy ushering in people to their seats and also helping us take down our props and lighting.  Thanks Agape!