Sing Dollar

Attend the week night screening of Sing Dollar at the Esplanade recently. The show was to start at 8pm, I was a little late off work and me and the missus had to get a quick dinner and header for the show.

The comedy play basically centered around a hawker stall in Geylang, with the regular crowd of people from the beer lady to the hooker and how they came to find half a million dollars and how it affected their lives. It was directed by Zahim Albakri and Selena Tan (who acted as well) What was innovative was the program which came in a huge money like format even had 4-D type page with the songs.

Some celebrities were spotted, including Koh Cheung Mun (Dolly fame) and that NUS professor or something in that academic show on TV, can’t remember his name. Some of Singapore big names from theatre were in the production the cast list included :-

 

Hossan Leong as Boon Huat (the stocker broker younger son)

Kumar as syed (the Blangadeshi worker)

Najip Ali as Sa’adiah (the Malay ‘lady’ cleaner)

Lim Kay Siu as Mr Siong (owner of Geylang store run by elder son)

Sebastian Tan as Valentino (the elder son)

Selena Tan as Tiger Lily (the beer lady)

Emma Yong as Lan Lan (the China call girl)

Pam Oei as Glory (the Filipino maid)

I have to say the play was hilarious, I love Kumar best of all, his jokes and the delivery was really good. They even had all sorts of dig at the Singapore local events and even world events, talking about Michael Jackson dying, Ho Ching, and even Mas Selamat’s escape, not forgetting the 4 widely known white collar crimes by David Rasif, Joaquim Kang, TT Durai and Ming Yi (Ren Ci head)

I had no regrets getting the more expensive tickets we were like 5 seats from the front of the stage. I guess the only issue I had was the lady audience 2 seats to my left who was really into it and was like giggle and giving piggy snorting laughter, arm chair beating, at times it was she who made me laugh and she was I think either Indian or Eurasian and she laugh the loudest at the Hokkien jokes, guess that tells you what a multi-racial community we have become. Go catch it if you can, there are still a few more tickets as they open up 2 more shows.