Uncomfortable experience

Ok, so...Wed night I get a call asking me to sing at a function the following day.  Of course, the first person I called was Lawrence (my cousin who is the best guitarist in Shanghai) to see if he would be able to play for me.  Unfortunately, it was too last minute for him to pull out of his gig at JZ.  So....one of the musical directors, Jeff was happy and willing to help me out.  We show up early at the club "Attica"...which looks very different in photos.  It could have been the fact that it was VERY dark in the club.  Anyways....Jeff and I are waiting for the engineer guy so that we can do a sound check.  We end up going through the song twice without plugging in the keyboard to the speakers...and without my microphone....and still...no sign of the engineer guy....so, we hang out outside for a min...and the view is INCREDIBLE!!!  The breeze was soooooo nice and it just didn't feel like Shanghai...except for the familiar Shanghai buildings in front of our faces...hahaha....anyways....when the engineer FINALLY arrives....we have a half sound check because there are already people at the club.  This means that while we were testing the keyboard sound from the speaker, loud "boom boom" music was playing as well.  And when I was testing the mic...the same thing...it was ridiculous!!!  What type of sound check was that!!!  For some reason...I was embarrassed that we had such an unprofessional experience...I wanted to appologize to Jeff...of course, I knew it wasn't my fault and had nothing to do with me...

So....I thought that this function was a special function/party for the cast of 42nd St...therefore, more private?  But....little did I know....there was loud music playing and everyone was dancing...it was like any other club in Hong Kong.  At first, there were about 4 of us who were going to sing....as the night went on, however, I was told that I was the only one who would be singing.  I started to worry because the atmosphere seemed too awkward to suddenly get up and sing a musical theatre ballad.  So...basically, we had to stop the music to do our little thing...Kristen (the lead of our show) played MC and asked everyone to enter the lucky draw and introduced me. So...I sucked back all my fears of embarrassment...and decided that if I sang the song for all the cast members...forgot completely where I was....then I'd be fine!  And that is exactly what I did....I think...other than that one time I had to sing "All That Jazz" with hardly any music....this was the most uncomfortable experience I've had....singing "If I Loved you in the middle of a disco club....but...it's all good....life is full of these moments....right?

星期天的晚上，我突然收到通知讓在第二天的晚會上表演唱歌...當然我第一個想到的是我的表哥Lawrence，他現在可以算得上全上海最捧的結他手了，如果他能為我伴奏，什麼問題都解決了，但我也知道這可能性不大，他那天晚上在ZJ有演出...其中一位音樂總監.Jeff說是願意幫我，他和我很早就來到了"Attica"練習...

我以前從來沒去過“Attica”，它看上去和宣傳照很不一樣，我們先是坐在黑暗裡等待做音響的來幫我們檢查一下聲音，但一直沒等到，結果我們練了二次都是沒有音響效果的，也就是說他幫我的伴奏的琴鍵沒了音響，而我的麥克風也完全沒有聲音，練完了那做音響的還沒到，我們只有站在外面看風景，沒想到那外面的風景實在是太美了，簡直不敢相信這是在上海，當然那些熟習的上海市的建築依就在眼前…哈哈哈

終於那做音樂的出現了，但是我們卻只夠時間半隻曲子的驗聲，因為這時觀眾已經絡續進場了，也就是說如果我們還繼續試聲的話，我們的琴鍵聲就會和他們很大聲的音樂重在一起，我也是同樣情形試我的麥克風，我為我們這麼不專業的行為感到不自在，所以我主動向Jeff道歉，…當然我知道錯不在我，我不應該負任何責任…

我一直以為這是屬於我們[42街]的私人宴會，但後來我漸漸發現，那像一般的香港的士哥俱樂部一樣，人們在大聲的音樂中跳舞狂歡…

他們起先跟我說，我們有四個人唱歌的，怎麼知道最後只有變成我一個人唱，我開始有點擔心，讓我在這種場合唱一個音樂劇的歌曲…

整個感覺有點怪怪的，他們突然把原來的音樂停了下來，由我們的女主角Kristen擔任司儀，開始我們小小儀式，我們開始抽獎，然後介紹我出…

終於我鼓足勇氣，試忘卻這些不自在，因為我現在不止代表我個人，還代表了整個[42街]仝人，我告訴自已，我一定要唱好它...

我想除了那次，我在幾乎完全聽不見音樂唱了"All That Jazz"以外，這一回讓我在迪士哥中唱這首“If I Love You”，可以說是我最不自在的一次演出…

  但是我知道這是件好事，人生中必定會經過很多這樣的時刻…

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