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Yesterday after saying "see you later" to Farah (as she never liked the word "good-bye"), I didn't feel like going home. Walking on the Ousegate Bridge, slowly, I felt calm and ... empty. Taking a detour through King's Arm pub, I saw pleasant faces enjoying their breezy afternoon with freshly brewed beer in their hands. I carried a smile, genuinely, from my heart, for everything I'd gone thru these days. Bitter sweet, I reckoned. Kept on walking, saw a crowd in front of a terrace house, wandering what was going on there. Silly me, it wasn't a residential area, it was Grand Opera House. Then I noticed a huge poster on the wall, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". "Wow, that's the play i really wanna see." Ironically, I didn't buy the ticket cuz I thought I probably would work hard on my essays. Stared at the poster for a while, reluctant to leave. Still I turned my back and headed toward Wellington Street where I parked my car. I passed by the Quaker Centre, thought about Richard, since he was the only Quark I knew. Suddenly, I changed my mind. Checked the time, "it's 7pm". "Why don't I go to see this play now? since I'm already in town and the show starts today. And the work... what the heck, my life is not just about study!" Entered the theatre and asked the receptionist if they got any tickets left for today's performance. She was nice and kind. She also smiled a lot, which put me in good mood. I didn't expect to see many kids for this show. How ignorant I was. It was me who didn't know what the story was about in the first place.

 

The musical, once again, touched my heart from the beginning to end. Especially the way of how Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber incorporate the adulthood world into children's naivety in one musical struck my heart so soundly. Some of the phrases I remembered better than others...one definitely would stay in my mind for a long time: "You are what you feel!" And the song, "Any Dream Will Do", was the theme which brought the whole plots and anyone either on the stage or in the audience seats united.

 

Strongly recommend it! The show will be in York Grand Opera House one week only: Mon 16 - Sat 21 April 2007.

 

Joseph & Children - Any Dream Will Do