Give me pennies: Wicked @ MBS

every year i travel to SG for mandatory training. this time i found out as early as dec last year and immediately reserved a room at Marina Bay Sands. i also called up my friend L in SG to let her know i'm coming over for 1 night so we can meet up.

last january, i found out that Wicked is showing at MBS.. such luck! i've heard so many good reviews that i just had to watch the show. Good thing my friend, who is not a musical lover, agreed to go with me (she previously turned out her friends who also invited her but when i invited her, she got curious and decided to go with me).. and i'm so glad the show didn't disappoint.

first up, the price was quite expensive considering we got the 3rd least expensive seats (SGD148). good thing it was a matinee show so we were able to get good seats.

here's the tricky part. the show starts at 1:30 pm. i bought the plane that leaves at 8:10am and arrives in Sg around 11.45 am. i gave myself a buffer of 1 1/2 hours for delays / immigration/ baggage claim / travel time from airport to hotel so i estimated that i will be arriving just in time for the show... unfortunately things didn't go as planned.

boarding was on time.. by 8:10 am, everyone was seated on the plane.. by 8.30 am the plane was still not moving. the pilot mentioned that there was a missing passenger so crew will just unload his baggage from the plane. by 8.45 am, pilot again said that the crew still have not located the baggage (big WTH!! -- this is SQ we are talking about). we finally got the go signal to take off at 9.20 am! OMG!! all through out the plane ride i was so stressed!!! that means the earliest we will arrive in Sg is 12.30 pm.. which gives me very little time to get to the hotel. the only good thing about the ride was watching the Taiwanese movie "You are the Apple of My Eye" -- so cute!! inspired by the director's ex-girlfriend (ex-gf so you know how it would end.. but still it was still a nice movie). i was able to get a cab and leave the airport by 1pm.. by now i knew i wouldn't be able to make it on time. i called up my friend who was already in MBS to ask if we can move our ticket to the night show instead but the ticket booth said only my ticket can be moved since my friend is already on site. good thing they said that they can let me in after 30 mins (which is around 2pm). when i reached MBS (it was quite huge and took me a couple of minutes to orient myself) and it was already 1.30pm. rather than run to the theater, i just decided to check in. sure enough i was able to get in at 2pm.. by that i have missed about 3 songs but it was ok since i was still able to catch the entire show.. and wow!! it was a pretty good show!!! the actress playing elpheba was amazing!!! there were certain times where she just overpowered Glinda (who from a distance reminded me of Elizabeth Hasselbeck)...this is interesting coz i read somewhere that the original cast (Kristin C as Glinda overpowered Idina M as Elpheba). after the show, we went upstairs to the huge tarpaulin and asked a random guy to take our pic.

we had a late lunch, went to my room, took a pic of the view, unfortunately i only brought my android phone so i couldnt fix the night mode (let's just pretend my shadowy profile was on purpose - hehe!)

we finally went up to the 57th floor called skypark which is shaped like a boat with beautiful infinity pool. it was almost around 7pm and there were so many people!!!! we were able to take some pics before the sky turned dark. we also attempted to go down the pool but it was so freezing cold!!! we just hurriedly took pics near the edge and quickly got up.