At First Sight | A 'January Sun' Directing Analysis
“Do I seem different?” — If you have to ask the question out loud, the answer is most likely yes. But then it takes another look in the...
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Playing Pretend
because this world, this breathtaking masquerade
– whether you find yourself within the roaring crowd or dolled up for main attraction –
is a reveal; a show and tell of what you know and thought you knew to be true.
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Sol Searching | A 'January Sun' Lyrical Analysis
“Sometimes life is just the things you don't now and the things you thought you knew.” You are at the beginning, Act 1 Scene 3. Listen to...
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Living Paradox | A 'January Sun' Experiential Analysis
What is your least favourite feeling? Normally, one would go about avoiding sadness in their daily lives like a natural reflex. But with...
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Brunch Talks: How Music Tells Its Stories
Musicals present more music than dialogue, and carry less words than theatrical plays (song lyrics included). Therefore, it’s not always...
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Behind The Curtain: Familiar Strangers
“I don’t think any creatives could get away with not writing a part of themselves into their pieces.” — Liti Nguyen, Music Director And...
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Town of Parallels | A 'January Sun' Lyrical Analysis
How can we decide if we are alike or different? Do we resonate, do we empathize, or do we separate and isolate? How could we know?
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Behind The Curtain: Sunday Treats
From the composers of January Sun Prep Time: ~ 2.5 years Cook Time: ~ 5 months Yields: ~ 400 servings per night The initial ideas came...
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Fragments of Time: New Pages | Page 3: The daylight I thought I had lost
(kéo xuống để đọc tiếng Việt) The daylight I thought I lost (or A Play of an Adult Life with a Relieving Ending) ACT 1 – DAYLIGHT 6PM, a...
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Fragments of Time: New Pages | Page 2: How have you been?
(kéo xuống để đọc tiếng Việt) Hi Hardy, How’ve you been? I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone, out of our busy Hanoi to engage in an...
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Fragments of Time: New Pages | Page 1: On FRAGMENTS
(kéo xuống để đọc tiếng Việt) People often tell me that I have an ‘old soul’, which one way or another means “oh, you are only sixteen...
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Interpreting Stories as Non-Storytellers
Our Head of Graphics (A) and Head of Content Development (T) chatted about enjoying stories, interpreting them and preserving them as a...
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Oh Éponine!
“In adolescence, Éponine becomes a "pale, puny, meagre creature", with a hoarse voice like "a drunken galley slave's", having been...
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Mia's trip to an unknown world
It was not the first time Mia went out with her class. Almost every year, their primary school would host at least one field trip for the...
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a letter to my dearest father,
who claims himself to be “tone-deaf” and to have the “inability to enjoy musicals” I recently expressed to you and mom at a family dinner...
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Mini Science Series #2: Acoustic II
In this series, we’ll take a look at how certain elements enhance the greatness of a live performance experience, all thanks to science....
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A Note To Music
To the friend who has always been by my side, even in the darkest of times, even when I pushed you aside.
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A Fragment of Theatre
The rise of social media has taught us something important: people need people. We have come a long way since the day the internet only...
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Gray Areas
The Children’s Hour turns out to not be as child-friendly as its name might suggest. As it touched on a taboo, homosexuality, and was set...
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World of Weirdos
What was your first impression of Ms Darbus from the High School Musical franchise? Don’t remember who she was? You know, the middle-aged...
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Aphasia
This is a poem dedicated to my husband Who hasn’t just lived a life with me and his Bernese Mountain, But also with broca’s aphasia. For...
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Ekphrastic
Incandescent spirals that draw all souls Enchanted by its otherworldly beauty Winding notches and alluring swirls The epitome of...
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Hues
I was a gloom Wandering colors You were a blue, the brightest of hues Somehow we crossed And fragile red strings Wrapped around fingers,...
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Mini Science Series #1: Acoustic I
In this series, we’ll take a look at how certain elements enhance the greatness of a live performance experience, all thanks to science....
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Sometimes I Wish Life Was A Musical
It began with headphones and a thought. Most of the time, I’d choose music over the noise of this city. I love the view. It’s just that...
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A Paramount Question
It comes to me now and then, the question of where I should actually be. The maps are all drawn out yet I am lingering between nowhere....
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fragments of a 21st century long distance relationship
You arrived at a very strange time in my life. I was on the verge of throwing my whole world away, and by my whole world, I meant all...
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"K.O"
LE MINH HA MILLIE DESIGN ANALYSIS: SHE KILLS MONSTERS I arrived to She Kills Monsters expecting carnivore epicness, and it did not...
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How amateur productions could be doing justice in the theatre industry in Vietnam
I don’t remember myself growing up seeing a lot of professionally produced theatre pieces. I remember changing channels immediately if a...
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I guess if I'm shy, theatre isn't for me, right?
Surely, I could run the props, adjust the lights or probably design costume. But doing the acting myself? Can “shy” and “acting” even...
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"MOCK IT ALL"
LE MINH HA MILLIE DESIGN ANALYSIS: MACHINAL Did you hear the machines? The detail that caught my attention before the play even began was...
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THE ROLLERCOASTER OF A MUSICAL PRODUCTION - THE FINALE: SHOW DAY(S)
WELCOME TO MUSICAL THEATER! In this piece, more or less, we want to help bring you closer to the preparation process behind a musical...
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THE ROLLERCOASTER OF A MUSICAL PRODUCTION - Act 3: The Hustle & Getting Out There
WELCOME TO MUSICAL THEATER! In this piece, more or less, we want to help bring you closer to the preparation process behind a musical...
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THE ROLLERCOASTER OF A MUSICAL PRODUCTION - Act 2: Hunting & Application
WELCOME TO MUSICAL THEATER! In this piece, more or less, we want to help bring you closer to the preparation process behind a musical...
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THE ROLLERCOASTER OF A MUSICAL PRODUCTION - Act 1: Construction & Organisation
WELCOME TO MUSICAL THEATER! In this piece, more or less, we want to help bring you closer to the preparation process behind a musical...
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