{"id":34497,"date":"2014-11-01T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/?p=34497"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:19:07","slug":"wild-child-x2-happy-and-bee-rogers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wild-child-x2-happy-and-bee-rogers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"W!LD CHILD (x2): Happy and Bee Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet Happy and Bee Rogers \u2013 a pair of sisters who were inspired by a W!LD RICE pantomime to become actors themselves. Happy, 11, and Bee, 6, joined our FIRST STAGE programme last year with Jack & The Bean-Sprout!<\/em>, and are thrilled to be returning for Monkey Goes West<\/em>. We chat with Happy and Bee about auditioning, rehearsing, and getting onstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you decide you wanted to be part of a W!LD RICE pantomime?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: We watched Hansel & Gretel<\/em>, and we had so much fun. Our parents are friends with Uncle Ivan and they asked him how we could take part in future pantomimes. And so we auditioned for Jack & The Bean-Sprout!<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: It was fun! Very fun! Awesome<\/em> fun! And the best part is, when I grow up, I\u2019m going to be an actor too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: We both want to be actresses when we grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your favourite thing about being in a pantomime?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: I like that the actors get to interact with the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: Me too! Meeting the actors was exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Last year, they were very nice. But this year, they are really, really really<\/em> nice! They\u2019re extra nice. They interact with us, they joke with us. We both really love the actors this year. They\u2019re really nice to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s it like working backstage with all these other kids?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bee: Cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Because we\u2019re kids, we do make noise and we do get scolded a lot. But, pretty much everybody who\u2019s here auditioned because they love performing: acting, singing and dancing. When all of us are onstage, we have so much fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it nice for you to come back and see some familiar faces again?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bee: Yes! I\u2019m so glad I get to see Chloe again; she\u2019s one of my best friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like about Monkey Goes West<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: One of the songs is called Master Of Disguise<\/em>, and it\u2019s a rock-and-roll song sung by the Monkey King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: That\u2019s my favourite song, because it\u2019s so cool! I\u2019m in the scene and I get to nod my head and clap along! I also love Boy On Fire<\/em>. Kimberly is my favourite actress in the show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: I love the whole show, but I especially love the plot. It’s like when I watched Hansel & Gretel<\/em>, which is a very classic story. But they shaped it into such a local tale. They changed it to make it just right for Singaporeans and the people watching the show. I thought that was so cool because I\u2019d never seen anything like it! It’s amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you guys learn your choreography and steps?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bee: The man who teaches us dance moves is very strict!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: But we\u2019re kids, like I said, and if he\u2019s not strict, we\u2019ll be monkeys and jump around!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: Not me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: At home, we\u2019ll practise our steps. Or we\u2019ll be at dinner and one of us will just start humming a song from the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: And then that starts it all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Sometimes, when I\u2019m at school with my friends, I just break out singing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s it like working with Uncle Sebastian?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Last year, it was Uncle Ivan and this year it\u2019s Uncle Sebastian. It\u2019s just as fun this year! They\u2019re both very, very good directors. They both put so much effort into the show and they really have fun while doing the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You remember seeing Uncle Sebastian in Hansel & Gretel<\/em>, right? He was the witch in Hansel & Gretel<\/em>, the one with the big oven he shoved kids into!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: We didn\u2019t know that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: I thought that was a girl!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy: I knew it was a man, but I didn\u2019t know it was him. Oh my goodness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do your friends come and see you perform in the show?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Last year, one of my friends did come and she really liked it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: Last year, my friend came and she thought it was amazing<\/em>! And she\u2019s coming again this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What have you learnt from being in the pantomime?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: This opportunity given to us by W!LD RICE is, as my mother says, \u201ca stepping stone to Broadway\u201d! We both want to be actresses so this is really a very good experience for us to start our careers. It\u2019s very professional \u2013 everyone treats us like professionals; they don\u2019t treat us like children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: I\u2019ve learned that I love being onstage \u2013 and stealing the spotlight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was it like performing for a live audience for the first time?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: I was very nervous because I had to do a Chinese poem onstage last year. Before my scene, I was so nervous. I had stage fright and I was backstage practising again and again and again. But, as soon as I got on and started the poem, I thought, \u2018This is so fun and I just love it so much!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, is there anything you\u2019d like to say about being in the W!LD RICE pantomime?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Happy: Thank you, W!LD RICE, for giving us this chance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee: W!LD RICE is the best inspiration for me to become an actor\u2026 and stay in the spotlight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Happy and Bee Rogers \u2013 a pair of sisters who were inspired by a W!LD RICE pantomime to become actors themselves. Happy, 11, and Bee, 6, joined our FIRST STAGE programme last year with Jack & The Bean-Sprout!, and are thrilled to be returning for Monkey Goes West. We chat with Happy and Bee about auditioning, …<\/p>\n

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