On Wednesday this week I went to watch Lat Kampung Boy, a Musical about the life of Lat. It was quite a rush for us. Right after work I had to pick Shorty up and rushed back home to change. We decided that since I did the world shame by wearing t-shirt and shorts to the Michael Buble concert the week before, I will go home and wear a suit to Lat. I’m glad I did though because everyone was dressed up really formal that night.
Jenhan was nice enough to get Shorty and I tickets… really good seats too.
Our PM Najib Razak happened to be watching the musical that night too and our seats were some 3-4 rows in front of them. I was so annoying, I was trying to get a picture of PM and Rosmah so I was waving my camera in front of them trying to take a picture of them while they both sat facing forward.
I was afraid they would get fed up and suddenly have their bodyguards throw me out… but fortunately that didn’t happen. Probably used to people taking pictures of them.
So anyway back to Lat. I didn’t have very high expectations of Lat to be honest. I mean it was a local musical and while I’ve seen decently produced local musicals and they were mostly just okay. I was pleasantly surprised though.
Lat turned out to be one of the best musicals I have ever seen in my life! Better than Phantom, Avenue Q, Les Miserables, Fame and all the other musicals I’ve seen. It comes only second to Wicked… but I really think it came really close to Wicked though. It was so good. The cast was brilliant, the music was beautiful, the songs were nice, the script was good and the set was world class! About 80% or so of the musical was in Malay language and 20% of it was in English but if you don’t understand Malay its ok because there’s a screen on top of the stage that displays subtitles.
I am so extremely proud that we Malaysians manage to produce such a high quality musical. I only wish it was a performance they kept running for years so that I could bring my overseas friends who visit to watch it. It had a really 1Malaysia feel to it too. I hope they sell the soundtrack for Lat. I would totally buy it!
Lat runs only until the 4th of April so if you haven’t seen it yet I strongly recommend you go watch it. IT IS THAT GOOD! I am a fan and this is my unbiased opinion! I mean I’m not paid or anything to write this. You can get tickets here.
So catch it soon 🙂
To the people who made Lat… well done! So proud of you guys!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space