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Dee Done Pround
Ther Samer: The Musical' will get your mind off the flooding - almost
'Rak Ther Samer: The Musical" has of course been highly anticipated.
Lyricist Nitipong "Dee" Honak, the William Shakespeare of Thai pop music, has written more than 400 songs over the course of three decades, and many became big hits that launched singers' careers.
Anyone who's between his late 20s and early 50s can sing Dee's tunes, which can be witty, insightful and straight to the heart. I remember a woman I loved replaying one of his songs over and over in my car as we sat in a Bangkok parking lot.
Now stage director Damkerng Thitapiyasak and Thanavadee Stityuthakarn, the writer of award-winning TV dramas who first worked in theatre, are presenting "Rak Ther Samer".
Thanavadee has partially reinterpreted and reworded 32 of Dee's biggest hits to fit them into her dramatic script. Though somewhat predictable, the three-hour show is quite entertaining, with very few dull moments.
I saw Sunday's matinee and was engaged most of the time by the love quadrangle set in New York and Bangkok, laughing occasionally and even crying at one touching scene toward the end. I say "most of the time", because the musical didn't engross me enough to forget the half-metre-deep pool of polluted floodwater in my house.
This is a jukebox musical, for which tickets cost as much as Bt2,500, so we have the right to expect more exercise for the brain - perhaps, for example, more surprises in the song reinterpretation. Instead, the show frequently looks and sounds like a concert or a TV drama.
As Natsha, the centre of two men's affection, Patcha Anek-ayuwat is the show's true star. One of the most successful "Academy Fantasia" alumni, she provides a performance that's filled with integrity and sincerity. It was she who moved me to tears.
Patcha deserves better songs and better roles in her young career. Her duets with Thitima "Waen" Sutsoontorn, who portrays her mother very convincingly, are among the highlights of the show, both musically and dramatically. They make the songs their own.
Pichaya "Golf" Nitipaisalkul still hasn't completely shed his "teen sensation" character. With more training he could be a serious actor, but he's not really credible in this role as a celebrated film director.
By contrast, Peerapat "Be Crescendo" Tenwong, who has less acting experience than Golf, is more successful as the gentlemanly Tantai, whose unconditional love for Natsha is unrequited. As played by Peerapat, the character is so charming that people were queuing outside to buy "Tantai carrot cake".
Professional cellist Uthaisri "Parn VieTrio" Srinarong rounds out the main cast as actress Nam and sings very well, but frequently her concentration is more on the music than on her scene partners. Those moments are, again, like a concert.
In the supporting cast are many players from contemporary theatre, some of whom get moments to shine. The choreography doesn't require much dance skill. Interestingly, Scenario seems to have gone for dancers and Dreambox singers.
The show's chief problem is an overload of spectacle, especially motion graphics that try to do too much and achieve little. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White", which I saw in London six years ago, had more sophisticated technology and still failed in the same way.
The script provides all the necessary information, the songs drive the emotions and viewers have imagination. If the producers thought the theatre was too big and the audience needed close-ups of the actors' facial expressions, they should have chosen a more intimate venue.
Index Creative Village's next musical is an adaptation of late SEA Write-honoured writer Vanich Charungkit-anand's psychological drama "Mae Bia" next year. Let's hope the motion-graphics team isn't doing research by watching the film "Anaconda".
Songs go on
_ "Rak Ther Samer: The Musical" continues Friday, Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm, with a 2pm matinee on Sunday at the Thailand Cultural Centre. It's all in Thai.
Credit: http://t.co/ZzliibB4
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