Distant Worlds, Distant Hope

It started of with us mentioning about Final Fantasy to the Chief. This then reminded the Chief of something, and soon we were looking at the Esplanade Diary April-June 2009, on a page that shows that Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy will be playing in May.

We didn't get all excited because we weren't sure if it was the official orchestra at first, we thought that the official one was called Friends Of Final Fantasy or The Black Mages or something like that.

Only today we manage to check up on the website, and turns out that it's official, and Nobuo Uematsu himself is also attending the Singapore performance!

We started discussing logistics, as unlike the Cinderella musical that we attended, the Final Fantasy performance would be in the evening and not in the afternoon, so we wouldn't be able to pull off taking overnight trains to and fro. Began discussing travel plans and accomodations with the Chief, and just midway looking at air fares while the Chief checks ticket availability for the performance, the Chief tells us that it's all been sold out.

Well then again it was because we didn't know tickets started selling since February (they even added an extra show on Saturday afternoon after overwhelming response). And the Chief didn't know that Final Fantasy would be so popular.

So, um, yeah. Disappointed.

Oh well, there's always that hope that they will one day come to perform in KL, just like how we had the Lord Of The Rings Symphony. And hopefully, we get to sing for Final Fantasy as we want to! We mean, just look at the program set out for Distant Worlds: One-Winged Angel, Liberi Fatali, Memoro de la Stono...if they were performing The Promised Land from Advent Children as well, this would definitely be something to join.

Yeah, shall hope.