Hey guys,
just a quick one. I've been in London for about 4 weeks now. Heading to Mumbai soon-extremely sad to leave london. It's been great since I have met up with some old Melbournian friends such as Shilpa, Kavi, JJ, Gajan and Darshini. Last night (22/03/07) JJ, Darsh, Gajan and I went to check out what turned out to be one of the best musicals I have seen. It's called "Wicked". A very original and clever take on the 'Wizard of Oz' from the perspective of the wicked witch of the west and the good witch. It's bizarre that both Gajan and myself thought of George Bush as soon as we saw the Wizard of Oz character. The musical touches on issues of discrimination and individuality and how we tend to label 'good' or 'wicked' based on the truths that are being told to us by - well, the George Bush's of the world. It's fascinating and the performances were outstanding! I'm not even into musicals but this is one worth watching!
Will say more later.
Keep writing.
Love you all, Jag.
4 comments:
Hey Jag - good to see you're having a great time on your travels! I read the book of Wicked and while it was interesting, there was a lot I didn't like (flying Monkeys and how they got their wings for instance) but I had heard the show was pretty good. You can't go to London and not got to the theatre or a musical - it's compulsory.
You must have been a good influence on Shyama - she taught a class a couple of weeks ago and got all the directions right - even the tricky ones like"forward" and "back"...Really!!! JDC continues to try and take over the world - I am sure Marshie will fill you in about tram nights, and Corinne was recently interviewed on ABC radio about her career apirations in Bollywood movies. It's unstoppable :)
I am off on holidays tonight, back in a month so you look after yourself and keep blogging. Your public needs to know. Cheers, Temple
Hey Jag!
Australia missed you !!
we all do actually. Glad ur having a blast. thanks for the email too, will keep in touch soon. Hope ur having a ball. u should also check out the lion king...saw it in melb and it was just AWESOME.
take care and WRITE MORE! i check ur blog religiously, everyday!
Dev
Hi JB, good 2 c u back on blog.
had to LOL at Temple's comment re SS. Lots hapning here with JDC trying to stay on top ...last week Mohit got stuck in traffic so tereza helped me set up and take regs...its great that we have a bunch of regulars to count on. The bolly trams pics are in the email about pizza 27th - check out the link in that one. Remind me to tell u about the guy in charge of music on bolly tram - he said without a little discomfort we cannot grow....that was his reason for not changing music from pure bhangra to some filmi stuff...uff !
Hi guys - thanks for writing in. Dev - i did actually see The Lion King also and it was fantastic. Temple - not sure what the story is like - i didn't know there was a book out about Wicked - but I really enjoyed the show. where are you going for holidays? Marshie - i don't understand what the tram dj meant by we cannot grow?...maybe send me an email with details of what he was on.
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