Saturday, August 13, 2005
7 August! I waited for the long anticipated day! And you know why? It’s because it’s the DIM SUM DOLLIES day for me!!!
I’m catching them cheekily shaking their bon bons and teasing the audience by tickling us their funny antics and exaggerated accents.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Audrey and I were seated at Circle 1 seats in the second row. The view was not obstructed and was able to catch any possible action on stage much to our pleasure.
PART 1
The curtains rise for the first segment. Three little cute mini Dim Sum Dollies (children) were dressed in kindergarden uniform complaining about going to Primary 1 when the 3 adult versions gracefully descended down with the help of suspended wires. They urged the mini versions to dream and joined them. The six of them sang the Dim Sum Dollies theme song and later joined by six muscular guys called the Lo Mai Guys.
The next segment call Make Me Like Her is poking fun at slimming centres and their advertisements that had been mushrooming these years. A giant poster came down with Selena as the cover girl of Simple Her (I think). Then Pam and Emma came begging the doctor (Hossan) about wanting to gain more weight because they are too thin! The doctor refused Emma at first because she’s under the acceptable weight of 45kg. Emma who was so determined to go on the Weight Gain program, ate a mac burger and was finally accepted.
Following that, is about Food Court Aunties. Scenario was that three food court aunties were completing with each other to clean the tables. And I spotted stall names like Ho Ching Ho Economy Rice and Catch No Fishball Noodle. And the catchy Food Court Aunties song was hilarious. Hey, everybody, respect your food court auntie the next time.
Next up was Pam’s solo segment as a kua kua soft spoken girl singing a sad ballet about falling out of love. There was a part where she sang that her boyfriend didn’t get her a Hermes bag but instead gave her Herpes. Towards the end, she sang more violently till she bang her guitar like most rock singers do. And looked apologetic at the audience.
Then IOC banner was carried onto the stage. IOC = Icons of Consequence. The Lo Mai guys were wearing different countries famous icons as headgears attending the IOC meeting. The headgears resembled the Petronas twin towers, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. Then a white figure surreptitiously tried to pass the bouncer to attend the IOC meeting. Then upon closer, it was the Merlion with a spittoon who ganna rejected..lolz.. Emma came onto the stage as Vanda Ms Joaquim who was barred too. Pam as Kuchingta was kicked out of the IOC. Everyone lamented that they are no longer loved in the song, Yesterday;s Iocons.
After this, Selena and Emma appeared as best friends giving the birthday girl (Pam) a Brazilian wax at 40. A commerative segment for Singapore turning 40.
PART 2
This Bolly Dolly segment was my favourite. In this, Emma (my fav dolly with delectable and delicious voice) as a girl with many aspirations to be an actress in Bollywood and rejected a poor milkboy in the process to be famous. Emma changed her clothes faster than any face changing master in China…lolz… The scenes projected were similar to the stories of Bollywood movies, the poor milkboy rejected by the girl, saved her from the enemy and live happily ever after.
Kung Fu Hassles
Hossan portrayed as Bruce Lee who was a judge for a fight between Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’s Zhang Ziyi (Emma) and Kill Bill’s Lucy Liu. The fighting sequence involves “flying” with the help of the suspended wires, and in the middle, Selena as the landlady in Kung Fu Hustle, interrupted them by speaking in perfect Cantonese accent and beating the other two up.
Next one is spoofing the NKF saga.
The Dim Sum Dollies were dressed in nursing uniforms and standing under a board, “National Sperm Bank (NSB)” They herded the Lo Mai guys who are patients into the scene and encouraged them to do their national service (sperms). And the Dim Sum Dollies turned towards the audience and chorused together to donate generously by dialing to 1900-SPERM-05 for 5cc of sperms, 1900-SPERM-10 for 10cc of sperms and 1900-Sperm- 50 for 50cc of sperms. Selena provided a gold cup for the guys to donate and invited peals of laughter in the audience.
The Prize is Right segment involved the lucky few people in the audience. Two participants were suppose to guess the price of the car and a range of merchandise and the closet one would join other winners from other Dim Sum Dollies show to win a Honda Jazz!
Towards the finale, the entire cast sang those all too familiar National Day songs and we on the other hand waved our little Singapore Flags with the beat. And after a standing ovation and thunderous applause, they sang an encore and the show ended with a high beat.
After experiencing the fun and wackiness of the Dim Sum Dollies cabaret musical last year, I had been an ardent fan. I loved Emma’s singing prowess and voice. Both Kit Chan and Emma’s voices are capable of complementing the music and not the music enhancing their voice. Last year, I was hesitant in taking a photo with them and this year I didn’t chickened out…heh….Hopefully, this cabaret musical become yearly national day feature!
Dreams never come true
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