I was trying to get all the pictures on the laptop into some kind of order when my eyes fell on a series of photographs
taken in a mall last Christmas.
Most of the malls here
have loads of activities planned during the holiday season. Some malls hold
colouring competitions, face painting, craft and henna-designs, some have
jugglers, acrobats and clowns entertaining the crowd and some others host musical plays based on
fairy tales or even on books like ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
My kids have
outgrown the colouring & craft programs but like watching the plays and acrobatics. The
musicals especially are very attractively put together with good looking
artists, colourful costumes and elaborate sets. And sometimes there have no props of any kind and yet they are a resounding success.
One day we went to
this mall to catch the 'Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs' show. We happened to reach
late and so weren’t able to get seats anywhere near the front. As the kids
couldn’t see anything we decided to go a level above and watch the show from
the top. Even upstairs was crowded but luckily a few people moved and we got some
space right in front.
The play was
already in progress but we had no difficulty catching up as it was about Snow White. My kids ofcourse were already engrossed in the plot and I was
idly following the act through my camera lens.
Snow White didn’t impress, the
dwarfs were just lil kids dressed up and the props weren’t upto the mark. The
step-mother was good though and the songs they all sang[real singing, not
lip-synched] were lovely. I was randomly clicking pictures when the prince
strode into view.
Snow White dropped everything and listened enthralled. So did
we.
The prince sang
like a dream. He was young; not a boy and yet not a man. He had the audience in
the palm of his hand the minute he opened his mouth and he knew it. I watched
my kids drinking in his every expression and couldn't help grinning to myself. If
he looked cute to me then imagine how attractive he must be seeming to the kids;-D.
Just then he looked
up and caught me at it. Grinning ie. I don’t know whether you’ll believe this
but after that he kept looking up say every minute or so and singing soulfully
to me.
My smile widened. He
was charming, I had to admit. I shook my head at him. He grinned back
naughtily. I zoomed my camera lens to take a picture but almost all pictures
came out blurred as he was never still. Honestly, he was an entertainer in
every sense of the word….he sang, danced, romanced Snow White and still found
time to look up and flirt;-D.
At first I thought
he was trying to impress the pretty Filipino girls standing next to me. Maybe
he was. But at that point it didn’t feel like that.
When the show ended
all of us clapped and cheered loudly. I wanted to put 2 fingers in my mouth and
attempt one of those ear-piercing whistles. Only the fact that I didn’t know
how kept me from trying. The kids rushed down after the show to take pictures
with the troupe but he was nowhere to be seen. Maybe he knew he was going to
get mobbed:-P
Here’s the only
clear picture I have of him…..
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