Not worth going at all

Seems like the up and coming 3 million dollar musical may not be worth going at all(unless there are people having fetish over yellow boots) as Cinewhore share his side of the story about the latest singapore production:

"...Their "director" was basically a sleazeball producer who was just out to make a quick buck. He was, in two words, completely incompetent. The actors didn't know what the fuck they were doing, the tech stuff was all over the place, and everything that could be going wrong was going wrong. And yet, he was doing nothing about it.

The people he had were good people, but they could do nothing without his approval, and he was skimping on everything. The department heads, when he could get away with it, were all volunteers with zero experience. He got actors on the cheap, giving some of them only a minimal transportation allowance. He got choirs and kid actors from schools instead of the real deal. Basically he's been exploiting the name of the show and hooking desperate people in on the supposed "exposure" it'll give them. His dancers and orchestra were (and still are) filled with people from China, who didn't understand a word of English. He housed his China dancers in chalets. When I got there the first night, they were rehearsing in an abandoned warehouse with no air conditioning. Catering looked like it was provided by a school canteen. He was going to force a dancer to be a stuntman and fall from the second floor, which is one of the most unethical and irresponsible things I've ever heard of.

And don't even get me started on the script, which had gone through tons of drafts, each one progressively worse than the one before.

Even an idiot would know that this was not the way to run such a huge project. And basically, everyone has this question to ask: "Where the fuck is the S$3 million budget going to?" I don't have an answer to that, but he's driving a new Jaguar. That oughta say something.

We talked to some theatre folk today, and apparently his entire career is a sleazefest. At this moment he's involved in a huge bribery scandel, and everyone in the scene knows he is someone to avoid like the plague. Unfortunately, someone at my company fucked up and thought it would be a good idea to work with him.

And now we're paying for it. It's been hell, we've had to re-work almost everything, but it's coming along as best as it can be. We only have a few days before the first performance, and hopefully, just hopefully, it'll all work out. In spite of him and his shenanigans.

I may not have any say on this, but I'm definitely advising the big brass on my end to sue. I don't know on what grounds, but I'm
sure they can think of something. They are a corporation, after all. And guys like these, they don't deserve to live. I'd run him over any day without hesitation." 7 June 2005

And I found out why our local shows sucks. One less question for God.

"...Actually, I think I can put most of the writers here in The Dark Side too. They're just so incredibly lazy and unwilling to do research. When I went to the guy in charge of the drama I'm supposed to be writing next week and proposed a certain scenario, he said he didn't want to write it because there was too much research involved. I was blown away. No wonder the scripts have been so shitty thus far, he just didn't want to get down and dirty with the material.

It does not work when you don't do the research, and when you do your homework, it shows so very clearly. Given this, I cannot fathom how a writer can refuse to do research, it should be illegal. It pissed me off so much I decided to write that scenario and thoroughly research it and write the best fucking episode ever. Just so I can wave it in their face and say, "Fuck you." Seriously, they should just be fired. Maybe that'll give them a wake-up call..." 31 May 2005