It is well known that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. I do not know whether they have a solid reason for it or not. But, I can assert confidently that what has been taking place in Sinclair should never be staged in the better interest of the masses. It is a not secret that I and few friends wanted to stage a musical last year. God knows the ordeal I had to go through to get the permission of the college to stage that play. The dramatics society did not want a bunch of freshmen to do what they were not able to do in two years; to produce a simple English play! After getting a green signal from the dean of students we went ahead with the rehearsals. We did not want to do Shakespeare, thinking it was too redundant, so we choose Pygmalion, I know, oh-so-passé but the logic behind it was that we are catering to the masses. Due to the ultimatums issued by the Dramatics society about how they wanted to stage the play in February we were not able to complete the rehearsals so I decided not to do the play at all. This year, however, the dramatics society undertook this arduous task by itself. Let me spit out some trivia about dramatics society; it is headed by a Lady from Udru department and her accomplice, the guy moi do not know the name of, s'excuse, is also from the same department. I do not know who in the world deemed them capable of selecting a script and then directing an english play? That being mentioned let me just swiftly move on to recounting of my own experience with the Directeur of the play. When I came to know that the University level students have decided to do Cinderella, my reaction was less than astonishment, okay! It was OMG! I mean how…why...when? Well, then a confidant privy to the matter disclose that the very play was staged by the society some two years back…Viola and I had my answers right there and then! The society thought it convenient to stage the same-old-juvenile play. Okay, okay, I really really really wanted to act so I did go for the late auditions, more like closed auditions. After a futile conversation with the Lady Directeur I had an epiphany…that it is not my thing! But I sat through some rehearsals to see where the whole thing was going and OMG! The dread! I still have nightmares! The misfit female protagonist, apparently they were not able to pick a proper female lead! I am sorry, but that girl can not act to save her life. The rest of the cast is such a misfit, with an exception of the step-mother. The play seemed like an under-rehearsed, amateurish and droll, in a bad way,
production. The play is staged on the 16th of this month to the best of my knowledge; yet another shoddy attempt to produce entertainment?
