Short+Sweet Musical Malaysia 2018
will be held on
26 Sep to 29 Sep (Wed - Sat)
Gala Night: 30 Sep (Sun)
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Pentas 2, The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac)
Shortlisted Musical
My Best Friend, Amy
Director,
Playwright & Lyricist:
Lee Yoong Shin
Musical Director & Musician:
Casper Ng
Composer,
Choreographer & Musician:
Twinnce Ng
Cast: Angel Chin, Anna Chin,
Jessie Yeong, Rowena Joy Ashreen, Lee Xing Fei, Gan Zi Jun, Chin Wei Ern &
Joanna Jayne Ashreen
Musicians: Tan Wei Thong, Soh Ping
Sher, Lim Lin, Brenden & Poh Aik Cheong
Synopsis: First day at school is
never easy, but Mei Ling’s best friend, Amy, make it even harder.
Throne of
Games
Director: Chang Mei Wei
Musical Director: Alvin Looi &
Foong Lih Shern
Playwright: Terence Toh
Lyricists: Terence Toh, Alvin &
Josephine Tiew
Composer: Alvin Looi &
Josephine Tiew
Cast: Lim Boon Seong, Gabriel
Tham, Josh Navin & Ross Stephenson
Musician: Foong Lih Shern
Synopsis: Life may be a game, but
two different sides discover there’s more than one way to play.
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Director,
Lyricist & Composer:
Kevin Eng
Musical
Director & Composer:
Claire Tan
Cast: Maya Hanum, Farisha
Nadia, Edidiong Bassey
Synopsis: Anita dreams of finding
her Prince Charming, so when she swipes right on a Nigerian prince... will her
dreams finally come true?
Something In The Air
Director,
Lyricist, Composer & Playwright:
Christian Palencia
Assistant
Director: Ping Khoo
Cast: Kai Chalmers, Aimee Choon
& Phraveen Arikiah
Synopsis: The earth is silent -
night sky swimming with an eruption of stars. The moon however, is missing!
He's fallen onto the earth and now in the form of a man searching for his love,
the Ocean. The Air who everybody forgets, tells us why: every breath is a
second chance.
囚著的家 (The Imprisoned Home)
Co-Director,
Playwright, Lyricist & Composer:
Dylan Yeo
Co-Director: Juno Chen
Musical Director: Maxilus Ooi
Cast: Kelvin Wee & Jacky
Chea
Synopsis: 心里一直有个位置。那个位置叫-家。There’s
always a place called home.
Practically Purrfect
Director: Nicole-Ann Thomas
Musical Directors: Shaun Chen
Playwright
& Lyricist:
Alvin Looi
Composer: Karynn Tan
Cast: Brian Cheong & Ian
Abel Nathaniel
Musician: Lee Han
Synopsis: “Dogs kind of
default to making friends unless provoked. Cats seem to default to making
enemies unless convinced otherwise.” ― Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick, The 12 Cats
of Christmas
MALAYSIA, TRULY
Producer:
Dennis Lee
Director
& Composer:
Dominic Lucien Luk.
Musical Director & Musician:
Grace Foo
Playwright
& Lyricist:
Syazwina Saw
Choreographer : Megan Chng
Cast: Mae Elliesa, Tria Aziz,
Wilson Chin, Matthias Phoon, Pryanka Rasa, Shermaine Lee, Kara Yee, Zickry
Yusoff & Emily Tan
Musicians: Wai Leong, Travis
Tan, Brian Lasung & Tasneen
Bolhassan
Synopsis: There once was a tweet:
"You know how everyone has a preferred toilet at home that they're
comfortable with? That's kinda what Malaysia is to me. It may be a shithole,
but it's my shithole."
'Malaysia,
Truly' -- it's about what we love and hate about Malaysia. In the end, though,
it's still home, and there's no place like it.
44 Days
Director: Yoke Tan
Musical Director & Musician:
Caroline Yeoh
Playwright,
Lyricist & Composer:
Lenny Wan
Cast: Mia Fitri, Sudhan Nair,
Matthew Koh, Rasyidah Rahim & Hans Lim
Synopsis: What would you do if you
had just 44 days to live?
记一份爱
Director: Tai Meng Wei
Musical Directors: Jacqueline Teng
& Wesley Wong
Playwright
& Lyricist:
Apple Yong
Composer: Wesley Wong
Cast: Toh Shir Ling, Jacqueline
Teng & Juno Chen
Musician: Andrew Lim
Synopsis: 人生中，遗忘的事太多，记得的事太少。当这一辈子最爱你的人也忘了你的容颜，你该怎么做？你能怎么做？你会怎么做？失去面容的爱，还爱吗？珍惜当下所有，竭尽全力地珍惜。在忘记、被忘记之前。
In life, we tend to forget more than we
remember. When you fade away from your loved one’s memory - what would you do?
What could you do? All that is left to be done, is to embrace the
present...before all is forgotten.
glamouRISE
Directors: Ishak Allan & Bow Martin
Musical Director & Musician:
Bow Martin
Cast: Isadora De La Funtart
& Cat Leyow
Synopsis: A touching, tragi-comic,
drag tale of love, loss, and discovering your true self.
Coming Out
Director: Ping Khoo
Musical Director & Composer:
Eric Loong
Playwrights: Denise Yap & Cheryl
Tan
Lyricist :
Cheryl Tan
Choreographers
& Cast : Denise Yap & Joshua Gui
Synopsis: A pair of sperms crash
land into their egg and are immediately confronted by Questions. What's in
there? What's OUT there? Why does no one tell us how to handle what's ahead?
And who are these voices?
*One liner - Ah... to be young, and a sperm, and.. wait, what?
*One liner - Ah... to be young, and a sperm, and.. wait, what?
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