Just ended yet another typical rehearsal. It's so late, and I am physically and mentally tired. I just need to tahan for a week! A week to end this suffering and torture. I really am getting more pissed by the day. Lord, please forgive me for the inappropriate (well actually they are quite appropriate) actions and words I've used.
Let's start by saying that... we have an arrogant, unorganised, rude, domineering and stupid director. Someone who said that no auditions were needed for singers. What was the outcome? There was so much difficulty in grouping the singers to fit into all items. And well, a lot of time was used to train and teach the poorer singers and probaby the standard of the singers are comprimised. There were also no songs decided yet when they started to call people in for rehearsals.
2 months into trainings on our own, our very clever director decided to cut 2 singing items without even vetting through them. I mean, it's your problem if you do not know how to plan programmes of a production. You don't just cut people like that because you were overly ambitious and wanted to put so many items. People worked hard for it okay. Students sacrifice their own time from studies to stay back for trainings and alumnus come all the way down when they can be resting at home or doing their work. If you want to cut the item, cut it from the very beginning!
The fantastic director also needs to learn some communication skills. Hello, you are working with "kids". You need to win them over. Not be rude and treat them like your own dogs. Being fierce or strict is one thing. But being rude is totally unacceptable to me. You can be rude maybe if you live up to it by directing well and being very sure what you want to produce. But sorry. You are not entitled to be rude to us!
Your costume designer sucks. Not only she tailors and designs horrible clothes. We singers are neglected and I had to spend MY vacation week finding costumes, which I will send many images to the school officers to approve before I can purchase it. Even before my last paper in sem 1, I could not think of anything else but the costumes I had to look out for. And in the process, some minor hiccups happened and I went through tremendous stress and anger. Thanks man. I enjoyed every single moment of it.
I also had enough from the vocal instructor during rehearsal. Okay. She commented that we were slow and not singing with the music. I tried to justify that the monitors were not switched on and we were hearing echos from the hall. Physics proves that sound travels. You tell me a mistake and I explain the phenomenon why the mistake happened. And you took it that we have bad attitude and kept insisting that we sing out of our memory. I do agree to a certain extend. But I still think that we will sing with an off timing if you don't settle the monitor issue. You don't know me. I sing with a live band almost every week. My ears are trained. I have enough experience to know what to do if technical issues cock up. I know how to react to situations. So you don't just go out there and find fault and blame us. Instead, assess what are the difficulties we face. And improve the situation. You are not my "shi fu". You're just hired to help us sound better.
Urgh. There is so much more to write but I'm too tired already. I just hope these individuals will chance upon this and reflect on your actions, like how I do sometimes too.
I used to happy doing productions with the school. But now I'm just dreading every single rehearsal. I thought that this could enhance my advanced diploma experience. I planned my time well so that I could be fully committed. But this is the outcome.
A week more till all these end. I learned so much about myself than ever before. And by observing all these horrible people, I will achieve to do a better job if I had the chance.