The Mahsuri Experience

My first big-scale musical production and I like!

Angel is starring in Mahsuri and so she invited me to go watch the press screening. So apa lagi? Go lah! And so I dragged Elaine with me to go watch la.

Out of the musical, I think that there was no proper system with: the cafe, before entering the theater. First of all, the cafe had no queue and had a very messy system. We ordered our food, stood 'in-line' when suddenly everyone rushes everywhere. Imagine a piece of corpse and all the vultures are eating it up, that was how the situation was like. We ordered our drinks then the lady told us, after paying to go repeat our orders at the drink counter. Without a bill, anyone can just go over to the drinks and order whatever they fancy even if they didn't pay for it. Second of all, there was no queue before going into the theater so once again, people where like pushing and shoving to get into 2 entrances. In the process, I got my foot stamped over by a lady in heels which I will get into shortly..

Malaysians have no etiquette or courtesy or politeness. The lady in heels pierced the edge of her heels into my loafers and did not even turn around to see whom she had hurt (let alone say sorry). People (big men) were pushing around without consideration for us smaller and weaker beings. Before the start of the performance, they played the 'Negaraku'. People behind us were actually laughing during the song. Disrespectful and immature. When the show had begun, members of the audience were loudly chatting away. Its sad to see such mentality in our people.

However, that aside.. The musical was incredible! Props were amazingly beautiful, very well made and also professionally planned. A lot of attention to details. Costumes were colorful and bright. No pics cuz filming or recording ain't allowed. Actors and actresses performed really well in terms of vocals, timing, choreographing and etc. The lead actor had a rich tone of voice which really brought the emotions out of the song. The lead actress had a beautiful voice too. Me + Elaine loved the soundtracks to the musical. :) nicely composed, written and just plain beautiful. The performers were also really good at their own characters. Me + Elaine grew a hatrate towards the witch lady; wife of Sultan guy. Her 'sihir' act was creepy and very distorted. Scary... Overall, I give my thumbs up for that enjoyable musical. Only comment I would give is: language barrier (difficult words & lack of proper intonation) for people whom are not as advanced in her Bahasa as the Malays themselves and therefore the plot is sometimes rather hard to follow. If you haven't seen it, should definitely go. Tickets are cheap anyways! Why not?

On the comical note;

1) Mahsuri is too plain as a name; It should be renamed to: Everyone loves Mahsuri (except the witch).

2) The education system in Langkawi is good cuz' a kampung lady could actually say: "Please! Somebody help!"

3) Langkawi should invest in better equipment! They use made-in-China swords that's why can't kill Mahsuri!

That's it! My Mahsuri Experience! Thanks to Anna Maria/Maya/Angel a.k.a. AMMA! :p

The critical, the loud, the bold (drum rolls) Alexie!