Category: Act I
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Broadway, here I come!
I’m high above the city I’m standing on the ledge The view from here is pretty And I step off the edge —Broadway, Here I Come from Smash. I’ve previously discussed how being brought up under Chinese tradition generally results in an obstinate tendency to refuse to admit failure and how it leads to an…
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The True Cost of Moving Overseas
So just how much does it cost to completely uproot your life and move half way across the world? For a change of pace, I thought I’d act the accountant that I am at my day job and do the analysis for you. That’s just the pure out-of-pocket cash costs and taking the differential…
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No Day But Today
We have massive news…and – before you even think it – no, I am not pregnant and we are not having a baby. -_-; The past year or so has really been a whirlwind for me. Not long after I was done with my audit busy season, I found out I was going to the…
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Start Up Weekend Sydney
Images in this post are from those posted by Barry (@nolim1t) and other participants via Twitter at #swsyd. Generally, my Monday mornings on the train to work are spent feeling exhausted and half asleep because the weekend is when I play catch up on all the housework that I’ve left undone during the week. But…
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The Art of Storytelling
Last month, I finally went and took the advice Stephen Flaherty gave to me over three years ago: “If you want to write musical theatre, don’t study music. Study drama. Learn about plot, characterization and structure.” At the time, I didn’t really grasp the importance of that advice. Sure, I intellectually knew that musical theatre…
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Now or Never
I am now twenty-six. It’s funny how time gets away from you. I reprogrammed this blog more than two years ago yet there’s so little visible progress to talk about. I thought that I had figured everything out; what I have come to realise and now believe is that epiphanies – particularly those to do…
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Guys and Dolls
When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he’s doing it for some doll… Call it sad, call it funny, but it’s better than even money That the guy’s only doing it for some doll! When you see a dame change the shape of her frame You can…
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Some Girls
Some girls take courses at all the best schools in France Riding their horses and learning their modern dance. They’re clever and cultured and worldly wise. But you see the world through a child’s wide eyes. Their dreams are grand ones, you want what’s just in reach. Some girls you learn from, some you teach.…
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Too Good To Be True
The past few months have really been a whirlwind for me. Not long after I was done with my audit busy season, I found out I was going to the Times Square New York office for a short ten week secondment – something that had been on my goals at Ernst & Young ever since…
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Jazz and Arancini
This is a post where I discuss the story behind my solo piano work Jazz and Arancini which I premiered at the Composers Collective Spring 2015 concert. You can skip the reflection and go straight to the background on this piece, the audio and video recordings or program notes. April’s been a pretty emotional month…
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Another Year, Another City
I am seriously unstable. I can hear you thinking now, “Deb, there’s no way you’re unstable. You’re: a) married; b) you’ve been at the same job since high school; and c) you have this crazy twenty-year plan to boot.” I can see why you would be confused. Allow me to observe that I am twenty-eight…
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A Tale of Two Generations
Recently, Sarah and I have been working on the opening number to our show, which is tentatively titled Graduation Day. Planning to do our opening number tmr @MTFmusicals's Factory Salon tomorrow w/@AdamGwon – a fan since I saw Ordinary Days @darlotheatre! — Deborah Lau | Paper Tiger YouTube channel (@DeborahLau) March 26, 2015 We recently…
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