Wish Upon A Sea Star - They are just differently abled.

I got the tickets from my sis to watch this charity musical play "Wish Upon a Sea Star". I was still hesitating to watch the play because I have had a bad diahorea and gastric was feeling really awful in the morning. I was worried what if I keep running to the washroom every few mins in the mid of the play? But then again, it would be a pity if I miss this play since tickets been bought and my little presence will help to show some support to it.

Crowds started to building up about 45mins before the play started. I looked and saw presence of men, young nice gentle looking, "soft spoken" men speaking in good english all around me. Many of them came in groups and gathered around the hall chatting and giggled. Then I also saw supports from families, bringing their young children, members from the different communities, some in wheelchairs, some with their walking sticks.

We made a little donation before grabbing a copy of the programme booklet and headed to our seats. The play started with three characters, the "Hey Bee Hiam" (Prawn), The Sea Snail, and Crab. These are the crawlies whom represents the minority whom were deem "different" from the normal sea creatures with fins. Initially, I thought the performance were put together by some professional stage players or volunteers only to be surprised to see involvements from the disabled members too.

You will get to see performances from the members of the SADeaf, SAVH, AESN, HWA just to name a few. It wouldnt be easy for norms like us to remember every steps and moves let alone expecting the disabled to do exactly well, but they did it! Throughout the whole performance, all you can feel is sincerity and they are all 100% givers. They give all they have in order to make this performance successful and possible. They dance hard, they skate fast, they wheeled diligently and every part of their movement moved me.

I particularly likes Hannah the Hammerhead Shark, Mdm Manta The Stingray and Cornelius the Crab (well, some part of me is still very much child-like).

The ending was the most emotional part when you see the full cast standing on stage, while the screen played back some of their rehearsal scenes. There wasn't a look of tiredness nor feeling of
"hardships". In contrary, all I spotted were enjoyment, happiness, and seriousness among their practices.

I was simply captivated by the claps of encouragements and appreciation from the audience and the heart warming performance put together by every single performer.

And all they want is to make this performance possible and indeed it was! I am glad I never miss it!