The other playmates were feeling broke due to the overwhelming amount of shows we were catching, so only J & I went for this one since we both love musicals.
To be honest, we did not know what to expect from Showstopper! The Improvised Musical since it advertised itself as a show that produces a brand new musical every night based on audience suggestions. As there were no fixed performances, it could have gone both ways, but luckily for us, we had a blast since the audience collectively came up with the zaniest plot (zany enough to rival Book of Mormons even).
To be honest, we did not know what to expect from Showstopper! The Improvised Musical since it advertised itself as a show that produces a brand new musical every night based on audience suggestions. As there were no fixed performances, it could have gone both ways, but luckily for us, we had a blast since the audience collectively came up with the zaniest plot (zany enough to rival Book of Mormons even).
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Our musical was titled Ang Moh in Ang Moh [sic] Kio about a hawker lady with flaming red hair who drew unwanted attention from overly amorous males in her life because of her beautiful hair. To escape an unhappy marriage, Katie murdered her husband at the suggestion of her boss only to find out that her boss wanted her for his own. When she rejected him, he threatened murder, so with the help of the man she loves, she escaped to the Singapore Zoo and hid out in the Orangutan enclosure. But alas, her beauty attracted the male leader of the orangutans.
Katie decided to kill him (just another murder anyway) and assumed leader position of the primates, becoming 'Queen of the Red'. In the meanwhile, her boss had used the corpse of her ex-husband to produce delicious dim sum that were selling like hot cakes. He decided to commit murder to obtain fresh corpses to keep his business going, but his lackey convinced him that murdering humans is akin to killing their customer base and not sustainable in the long run. So they hatched a plot to sneak into the Singapore Zoo to murder some orangutans instead.
The man Katie loved visited her at the zoo to warn her of the murderous intruders and she rallied her brood of orangutans to rise up and arm themselves to kill the intruders instead. The climax of the plot was the showdown in the orangutan enclosure between both parties, but instead of more bloodshed, the audience got a happy ending. It turned out that the boss had fell in love with his lackey during the murder mission and asked for mercy so he could be with his true love.
The actors delivered their humourous lines in the different musical styles requested by the audience, even managing to choreograph appropriate dance moves to match the songs they were singing. They definitely rose to the challenge of delivering a cohesive and entertaining musical, leaving us audience tickled.
I cannot vouch for the type of experience one would have on other nights of the performance, but I can honestly say that J & I had a genuinely great time watching Ang Moh in Ang Moh Kio.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Event Date: Tue, 28 Apr - Sat, 2 May 2015, 7.45PM
Venue: SOTA Drama Theatre
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