Monkey Goes West is W!ld Rice‘s year end holiday musical for 2014. We’ve caught the musical and here’s the review of Monkey Goes West – just for you!
Monkey Goes West Musical Review
Monkey Goes West @ Victoria Theatre
Synopsis of Monkey Goes West
The matinee session that we attended started at 2:30pm and ended at 5:15pm. The entire musical took approximately 2hrs 20 minutes with a 15 minutes intermission in between.
The first half of the musical shows Ah Tang (played by Joshua Lim), the star of the show, falling out with his adoptive parents. He runs away from home and finds himself at Haw Par Villa where he meets with the Monkey King (played by Sugie Phua) who was punished to be placed under the 5 finger mountain. Ah Tang frees Monkey King and they begin their journey to the West in a mystical world of demons and fantasy. Along the way, Ah Tang meets Pigsy (played by Frances Lee) and Sandy (played by Siti Khalijah Zainal) who joins him in his journey to the West.
After the intermission, the party of 4 meets their obstacle – the fire mountain. The only way to quench the fire is to use Princess Iron Fan’s (played by Chua En Lai) fan who is also the wife of King Bull (played by Lim Kay Siu). Monkey King then uses ways and means to get the fan…
A typical conversation between Ah Tang and Monkey King goes something like this…
Ah Tang : Wu Kong (referring to Monkey King), you should do it (referring to using the fan to put out the fire from fire mountain)
Wu Kong : Master, zhe si ne eh journey (translating to “Master, it’s your journey (you should use the fan)”)
and
Ah Tang : Wu Kong, what should I do now?
Monkey King : Actually…Master, zhe bo wa eh dai ji (translating to “Actually…Master, it’s none of my business”)
At the end of the journey, Ah Tang learns a few things about himself. What did he learn? Catch the musical to find out!
Review of Monkey Goes West
Monkey Goes West is a laugh out loud musical and is the perfect year end holiday musical for all Singaporeans. As for non-Singaporeans who would like to catch the show, there are more than several phrases in hokkien and it would be recommended for you to bring along a Singaporean friend to do some translation.
What we loved about the show is how the characters took every possible opportunity to interact with the audience. Throughout the show, we could hear the audience (especially kids) shouting and telling the characters what to do and to be aware of impending dangers. Kudos to the production team in going to great lengths to get the audience involved throughout the musical.
There are ups and downs, fun and laughter as well as lessons to be learnt at the end of the musical!
Everyone should catch Monkey Goes West!
Ticket Prices and Discounts for Monkey Goes West
Ticket Pricing
Previews: 21 Nov 2014, 7.30pm & 22 Nov 2014, 2.30pm
Standard: S$70, S$60, S$45
Tue – Thu: 7.30pm
Thu: 2.30pm
Standard: S$75, S$65, S$50
Fri & Sat: 7.30pm
Sat & Sun: 2.30pm
Standard: S$80, S$70, S$55
Discounts from 23rd October onwards
– Discounts available for Students, Senior Citizens, Full time NSFs, OCBC Cardmembers, SAFRA, PAssion, British Club and IKEA FAMILY Card Members
OCBC Family Package – Limited Availability
– 25% discount for Family of 2 Adults and 2 Children (16 years and below)
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Enjoy W!ld Rice’s year end holiday musical – Monkey Goes West!
