歌舞線上 A Chorus Line -- 新加坡2012（澳洲製作版）

《歌舞線上》（A Chorus Line）這齣自1975年開演，到《貓》出現前 最長壽的經典音樂劇，2012年澳洲重新製作(A Chorus Line: Australia production)，選在澳洲演出前，先在新加坡金沙酒店劇院公演一個月。

歌舞線上是一齣沒有三兩三，千萬別上梁山的音樂劇。導 演很重要，演員很重要，編舞很重要，音樂很重要，燈光很重要，舞台設計很重要，全部缺一不可的音樂劇。

有些音樂劇可以賣舞台噱頭，有些服裝 華麗，有些編舞讓你亢奮難耐，而大部分的音樂劇只要主要演員撐起來就沒啥大問題，如果有搶眼的配角更是景上添花；可是這些完全不適用在歌舞線上這齣音樂 劇。19個主要的角色，幾乎每個人都同要重要（雖然還是有些微的差別，但是差別真的不大）。每個人都有獨白、內心戲、solo、合唱、群舞，所以這不僅僅 是劇中的徵選，更是血淋淋地舞台現場廝殺。跳舞我能輸你嗎？不行。唱歌我能輸你嗎？不行。演戲我能輸你嗎？不行。每個演員都拼了命地在台上拿出真工夫殺個 你死我亡。（被月影千草老師關進冰凍庫大概就是這樣吧）




















歌舞線上澳洲版預告（看起來很讚吧！）

很可惜地，這個2012年澳洲的重新製作基本上摧毀了這齣經典的音樂劇。演員常常走音不說，舞蹈無 法齊一也是個大問題。不過可能要負起最大責任的是曾經擔任原版演出Connie的導演Baayork Lee。她可能是很好的編舞家，她可能當年演得、跳得很好。可是她沒抓住歌舞線上的節奏。在19個角色都有內心獨白的音樂劇，節奏是很重要的。節奏該快該 慢，情緒該鬆該緊，一個不對就會讓人想睡覺。而我是真的看了想睡覺。（連我看了都想睡覺！！！）（這樣算客觀公正的評比嗎？）Lee在這點上是失職的，也導致了整齣音樂劇最終的失敗。

而選角選到一堆常常唱走音，卻又沒有情緒渲染力的演員（特別是女演員）也是一個很大的問題。唱到最後的What I did for love，聽到前奏一下，我整個雞皮疙瘩都起來了，結果Dianna（Karlee Misipeka飾演）一唱，我就醒了。怎麼會有人把What I did for love唱的這麼平淡無奇，一點感情都沒有？（大概只有電影版本可以拼）這可是最後的結尾啊！！！（我內心真的在尖叫～～～）當然最後還有豪華歌舞One 謝幕，這種再出錯我也不知道該說啥了，所以我就跳過不說。

於是這個重新製作的歌舞線上就在沒有半點情緒，絲毫高亢激昂情感皆無，連觀眾都搞不清楚原來結束 了的狀態下結束。

句點。

ps 所以我回家還是看了2006年百老匯版跟Idina的What I did for love平撫一下心情。
《2006百老匯版》


《Idina（Wicked女主角）版》
 

Arief's wedding vows

You are my best friend and constant companion.
Your heartfelt compassion and unwavering love have guided me through uncertain times.

Today, we join our lives. I promise I will always be your side ready to share in every successful and every obstacle.
Today, I join my life to yours. From this day on, I will be your partner and companion for you are my dearest love and my best friend.

I look forward to the joy we will find in each other's separate success, as well as our shared ones.
I welcome the challange of whatever obstacle we encounter as for I know that whatever we face, we face it together.

I pledge I will be your friend, your love and your partner for all the days of our life.

My wedding vows

This probably is the most negative wedding vows ever. In one of my favourite movie, "Picnic", the leading actress CoCo said, "the day I was born, the world was born. The day I died is the end of the world." Tomorrow, tomorrow is always a luxury dream for me. You all know that my favourite lines is "tomorrow is another day." But I'm the person who never knows where is tomorrow. Does tomorrow really exist? Everyday I wake up, I so wish that will be the end of the world. Every night I sleep, I so wish there won't be tomorrow anymore. But someday, at a magic point made me met someone who has been and will always be changing my life. That person is you, Arief, my love and my only one. In the past, I tried and tried so hard to survive to believe that tomorrow will be another day, but you, you, just as an exist, just standing there is already more than anything, more than any evidence, more than thousand words, to tell me that tomorrow, tomorrow is really another day. Thus, I won’t said, “no matter for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part”, those are for the optimistic couples, although it is a fact now.

I love you, I love you so much, I love you more than anything or anyone in the world, but that you’ve already known. What I want to say is, I will live, I will try my best to live, and I want to live by your side. I’ve given my love to you and now, I will give my life to you, and hold your life in my hands to through all the tests we have been overcome in the past and those we might face in the future. So, yes, I will give you my life and to see each sunrise, each sunset and each tomorrow with you until my dying day. So many words, but these words still cannot express my feelings, and my gift is my song and this is for you:

It's not against the religion, it about we as a human being.

To my dearest:
I didn't sleep well last night. All my mind is still about this thing, why and how could they cut speech so important like this. And I was also sad about our conversation stopped in the wrong point.

I won't say it's to against the Muslim religion, because as a Christian background gay man, I deeply understand how contradict it was inner myself long time ago. Therefore, I would like to tell you a story, a story about a boy who was 16 years old grow up in a church school. One day when this boy found he was attracted by the same sex boys, he was totally terrified. "I will go in the hell, I will burn by the fire, I'm sin, I'm immoral person." There was no hope for him, after day after day prayers, he still couldn't get any sign or message from hit God. He felt he was left, although everyday he sang for the God in the choir, every week he went to the church. There was still no hope.

So many years after, he met a female paster who told him "it's not a sin if you are a gay or lesbian. The most important is the relation between you and God. Interpretations are created by people. But what God tells you? He said I love you no matter who you are."

And one day, this boy on the way to the choir practice, he heard a voice and light from inside. That voice said, "Oh, my lovely child, you know I love you!" The boy was touched and cried and cried. From that moment he knew that God loves him and didn't leave him no matter he is gay or not.

For me, I believe that churches should bring and take people in not push them out. If you believe that there's a truely relation between you and God and no one can take it away. Then why can't you believe that some teachings from men might be wrong, the are pushing gays and lesbians out not taking them back? Is there any possible to open the dialogues inside the religion? If you don't believe this possible, how can you say you believe in God? How can you explain what God tells you directly but not from others?

And further more, if we just be quiet like this, are we trying to make this world better? I cannot, and I won't forgive myself when I am going to marry with someone I love but I leave others might be in similar situation in a difficult time. Can we just pursue our own happiness and say others it's not our business? It's not what we concern for? Then are we still in the goodness road in our lives? What will God say to us for our selfish?

Thus, I felt I was wrong to said that I was sorry to tell you those opinions. No, I'm not sorry for that because I know I'm doing something good for people like us. What I do is not to against the religion, but to earn the equal and just very very simple a respect as a human being! If there's one day Jr. ask us why can't we live in papa's country. I don't want to tell him or she that we are sorry and we didn't do anything for that. How can we face our child or to tell him this cruel fact just because we didn't do anything? I really really hope that you can understand this.

your love

蕭泰然 愛與希望

愛與希望

種一欉樹仔　在咱的土地
不是為著恨　是為著愛
二二八　這一天
你我作伙來思念　失去的親人

種一欉樹仔　在咱的心內
不是為著死　是為著希望
二二八　這一天
你我鬥陣相安慰　不通尚悲傷

從每一片葉子　愛與希望在成長
樹仔會釘根在咱的土地
樹仔會伸上咱的天
黑暗的時陣看著天星
在樹頂閃熾

跟你長談之後我想起了蕭泰然老師的曲子，愛與希望。

也許你又要笑說我頭長在天頂。（音樂？哈。）

但是我們如果只能教導下一代仇恨，而不是教導以之愛，對這片土地的愛。

仇恨只會延續，如同盧安答數十年不斷地重複種族滅絕。

我們要這樣的台灣嗎？我要我的主權，但是我不認為仇恨可以達成我們彼此寄望的最終目標。

如果每個種子都受到我們做長者父母得悉欣呵護，有沒有可能會長出強壯的大樹？

如果沒有希望卻寄望暴力，我們怎麼可能說透過這方式得來得是真實的民主？

蕭老師以一個走過那段歲月的歷練寫下這首曲子，黑暗的時候看著天星，而愛與希望的種子就在那裡。