Beauty and the Beast 2011 ::: Penang Free School stage musical production

Hello! It has been really really long. Sorry, this blog just died for the past few weeks (?), months? Okay, so, I had my STPM Trials last for the last two weeks. The thing I'm going to blog about was supposed to updated long time ago, I suppose 3 months? :o

If you know me, you'd probably know what I'm going to say next. If you do not know me , let me do the introduction =) I'm a student in Penang Free School and no, I'm a girl... and is in Upper Six currently.

This year has been the third year my school, producing a musical drama entitled Beauty and the Beast. Penang Free School with its new musical drama of the year 2011, entitled Beauty and the Beast, the story of an enchantment and true love, not to mention the lesson of the whole idea of this musical is to tell us that, "not to be deceived by appearances, for Beauty is found within".

It was part of my childhood movie! Heh :D So, my school production of this musical's storyline was totally based on the fairytale Waltz Disney Animation movie :)

PFS musical centers around a prince who is transformed into a beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever.
One fact you guys should know about the original movie itself, Beauty and the Beast was the first ever animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture !


A beautiful but unusual young woman named Belle lives in a nearby French village with her father Maurice, who is an inventor. Belle loves reading and yearns for a life beyond the village. She is pursued by the arrogant local hero, Gaston, but has no interest in him.

Maurice's latest invention is a wood-chopping machine and when he rides through the woods to display the machine at a fair, he loses his way and is chased by wolves before stumbling upon the Beast's castle, where he meets the transformed servants Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts and her son Chip. The Beast imprisons Maurice, but Belle, offers to take her father's place. When the Beast agrees to this and sends him home.




Beast decides to give Belle the castle library as a gift, and they become friends.


Later, they have an elegant dinner...

...and a romantic ballroom dance.

When he lets her use the magic mirror, she sees her father, who was trying to rescue her from the castle, dying in the woods. With only hours left before the rose wilts....

...the Beast allows her to leave to rescue her father...

... giving her the mirror to remember him by. This horrifies the servants, who fear they will never be human again, since the Beast never told them of his reason why he had to let her go. As he watches her leave, the Beast admits to Cogsworth that he loves Belle.

Belle finds Maurice and takes him home, but...

...Gaston arrives with a mob.

Unless she agrees to marry Gaston, the manager of the local madhouse will lock her father up.

Eventually, Belle proves Maurice sane by showing them the Beast with the magic mirror, but when she says the Beast is her friend and calls Gaston a "monster", he becomes jealous.

He locks Belle and Maurice in the basement...Gaston arouses the mob's anger against the Beast, and leads them to the castle to kill him.

While the servants drive the mob out of the castle, Gaston finds the Beast and attacks him.

The Beast is initially too depressed to fight back, but he regains his will when he sees Belle returning to the castle with Maurice. Gaston, refusing to admit defeat, follows the Beast and stabs him from behind, but...

...loses his balance and falls to his death. While the Beast is dying from his injuries..Belle whispers that she loves him...

breaking the spell just before the last petal drops from the rose.

The Beast comes back to life and he becomes human again.

The castle and its grounds return to their beautiful, previous state while the servants become human again.

The film ends as Belle and the prince dance in the ballroom with her father and the humanized servants happily watching.



Celebration. Just right before the curtain call.

From left: The plate, the Beast and me as Belle, the Prince Charming, Lefou, Belle's dad Maurice, and the asylum caretaker

The dance. I was in the middle! <3


Full view.


Looking so happy! :) Actually, I was looking up to the audio room cus the people (crews) were dancing together with us too! :D



Curtain call ;)

This hairstyle was the only one like the most compared to the other days' hairstyles! Just so you know, this one was the first night of the musical. Picture with the Prince Charming (Joel Thum) and the Beast (Mega).

It came out two full page in the STAR Newspaper with an excellent write up! <3


Again, if you know me well, you should know that I played a character in "The King and I" stage play, a minor one LOL. If you can recognize me I think you should know that I was playing one hell of a major role in Beauty and the Beast, the heroine :P

Adios!

Are you?

It's an old song I know! Anyway, enjoy! :)

Song of the night

This song will accompany me for this whole night. The title of the video says it all.

It's been long......right?

I...finally have some time to update this going-to-die blog. Well, I've been busy and always wanted to share my days here but time just won't let me do this. So, now, having extremely lots of stuff in my head, I don't know which to start first. Lemme think....but first. Let me tell you this. After all these while, I finally get to learn human nature and that has taught me to be a different person. I am a different E-Laine now. I've learned so many things in their very own hard way. In life, you learn to succeed, right?

...I'm a boring person now compared to the old me (LOL) Do you think so? I am not that talkative anymore (ooops) Now, you know I was a talkative person. It is surprising how things changed just in a short period. For eg, my baby cousin is now already near to one-year old and that reminds me I'm no longer a young girl. I am young *smirks* but you know -.- this is my last year of teenage life. YOUNG TEENAGE LIFE. My doom day is on the 22nd yes, this coming June 22nd. Which is my first day of show as well as the day he's leaving...to somewhere it makes me feel that my life in this little island wouldn't be the same anymore. To be able to think carefully and clearly of what I've always wanted and not choosing the path that will lead to the devastation of my life and future.

BE REALISTIC, E-LAINE

1) I have less than 2 weeks to musical *slams head*

2) I am so freaking near to STPM *gasps*

3) So many of school activities right after musical - Orientation Ball, Sports Day, Kolokium, STPM Trials, FINALS FML needless to say, tuition like it will never end..

Boring isn't? All of these are about STUDY STUDY STUDY. But, seriously educations are by far *winks* therefore, don't be lazy people! *whistles*

I shall continue to write more after this. Don't want this post to be too congested of what I want to say, simply because I have so many things to write and something is not meant to be written here. Think about it first. Bye! :D

Simple

My friends always used to tell me..

"If something happened, take it easy and for good, something better or much more wonderful will come. God have His own reason for things happened or did not happen."

Well, I have encountered with pretty much problems lately and my one and only solution to all the problems is to be SIMPLE. It reminds me to take things easily and take it for good. It happened only, for some reasons that we might know or might not know. If things happened to be not good, or not the way you wanted it to be, what is the big deal? Come on, just be happy and don't be sad because it's not worth your time :)

Problems which I have encountered, it's better not to be revealed here =) Cause, it's not something good to say :( What can I say is, with this problem, it taught me not to trust anybody else surround me. Especially guys. So, now that I've said, you must be thinking I was having a relationship or breakup problems? No. Got raped? LOL Hell no. I just hate guys to do things I don't like behind my back. Enough said!

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Should I wait or should I not? To think of something else and put this thing aside is a little bit too hard sometimes cause I miss him so much! :'| Yes, no joke.

I've always thought I got over him already. But, that dude just won't stop crossing my mind :( I was wondering also, if I have ever crossed his mind. Well, I don't know.

It's good to know that I got over him already but sometimes, the feelings just keep pouring in and the same feelings as if 2010 was just yesterday. Sometimes I just think it's better o leave this aside and sometimes, I just can't help with it! I've never loved a person like this before. What is so good about him, that was what my friend asked me. But, I just can't tell you how amazing he is to me. No words can describe him. If there are words, there would be countless of words.

The sadness is that you have to build a relationship on trust.

I wasn't very happy about it actually, it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you had not realised.