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KLIA / December 2003

While I do nothing tomorrow night, some people will be attending the 6th Annual BOH Cameronian Arts Awards at Mandarin Oriental.

(The BLAM boys designed a whole bunch of publicity stuff for the Cammie's this year, including this year's theme: Come dress as your hero)

Nominations for Five Arts Centre:

Music

• Best Group Performance (Instrumental) - Alih PungGONG by Rhythm in Bronze
• Best Musical Direction - Jillian Ooi & Susan Sarah John for Alih PungGONG
• Best Original Composition - Jillian Ooi for "Runtuh" in Alih PungGONG & Susan Sarah John for "In The Beginning" in Alia PungGONG
• Best Production Values - Alih PungGONG

Theatre

• Best Group Performance - Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari
• Best Director - Mark Teh for Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari
• Best Lighting - Mac Chan for Know No Cure
  
• Best Actor in Leading Role - Anne James for The Breath of Life
• Best Original Script - Fahmi Fadzil, Wong Tay Sy, Lim Chung Wei & Mark Teh for Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari

As you can see, it's quite an exciting line-up. I'm rooting for Alih PungGONG because it was a good gamelan concert directed by Namron and designed by Bayu Utomo Radjikin. But Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari remains closer to heart because it's the first theatre production I had produced after being Assistant Producer in other Five Arts projects. Managing production, people, sponsorship and publicity for Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari was very stressful especially when we toured colleges in KL but it went well and I'm very proud of it. It doesn't matter lah if we win or not... we had fun and it was worth the time/effort/money/etc.

Oh, I veh excited because same time last year, Second Link won Best Group Performance - beating other contenders like PGL The Musical, etc (we, some of the Singapore cast were there too, literally jumped out of our seats! Great fun). Fahmi was also named Mandarin Oritental Kuala Lumpur Fan of The Arts For Most Promising Artist Award.

Also rooting for Edwin and Zahim for their nominations.

Fingers crossed!

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