Office workers make up the cast of Miss Rose
With a smartphone and a portable speaker set up in the corner, the leads and chorus of broke out in song and dance before rehearsals had even begun. From their dedication and drive, you could be forgiven for thinking the cast members were seasoned actors.
MISS ROSE
Theatre Noir
With a smartphone and a portable speaker set up in the corner, the leads and chorus of broke out in song and dance before rehearsals had even begun. From their dedication and drive, you could be forgiven for thinking the cast members were seasoned actors.
But they're not. In an unusual collaboration between Theatre Noir and property agency Swire, the cast of the musical mostly comprises senior business executives.
"Most of the cast members are office professionals," says Babby Fung, marketing director of Swire. "We have four professional actors in the main cast, and the rest of the players are from industries such as banking, advertising and even medicine."
This is not the first time Theatre Noir has worked with amateur actors; its annual summer musicals are almost exclusively performed by students. But the company's artistic director William Yip says is the first of its kind in Hong Kong to be performed by office workers.
