India Nite Comes to Civic Center with Technical Difficulties
Sabrina Seamon
Issue date: 3/19/07 Section: Entertainment
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The third annual India Nite program including dinner and a show was held Saturday night in the Rosa Heart Theatre. After a delay with the catering service, the dinner and following show ran an hour behind.
After sitting for an hour, the audience was welcomed by over 20 minutes of speeches made the mayor Randy Roach, the president Ram Nileshar and vice president Pankaj Chandra of the India Association of Lake Charles. Nileshar and Pankaj dressed Roach in a light traditional Indian robe and proceeded to engage in a lighting of a lamp to officially begin the evening's entertainment. Evidentially, the lighter used did not play well with others and the lamp was only partially lit after a few tries to illuminate it. The failed lamp lighting could have been seen as a foreshadowing of the rest of the night's events. After the lamp was partially let and the long winded speeches were completed, there was then shown an introductory Indian movie. This movie was not really educational or enlightening so much as it seemed like one big travel advertisement.
Following the high tech travel add, the "show" itself got underway- sort of. The first performer to take to the stage was world renowned classical Indian dancer Anuradha Naimpally whose performance was delayed because of technical difficulties with the audio to her performance. But Naimpally proved to be worth the wait in both dance sequences preformed during the show.
Cynthia Doyle's Les Danseurs attempted to put together an interpretation of a traditional Indian dance, but did not prove to be so successful. In all total fairness, young girls who don't know their routine might look even worse following the act of Naimpally.
Speaking of lack of practice, the MCs for the evening stumbled over their lines more than once in what must have been their first time actually reading them.
Disha Chadderwala gave riveting performance of a classical number from the movie Devdas, that is once it actually got underway. Chadderwala stood on stage for what seemed to be like ten minutes with a light in her outstretched hand waiting and waiting on the technical difficulties with the audio.
After sitting for an hour, the audience was welcomed by over 20 minutes of speeches made the mayor Randy Roach, the president Ram Nileshar and vice president Pankaj Chandra of the India Association of Lake Charles. Nileshar and Pankaj dressed Roach in a light traditional Indian robe and proceeded to engage in a lighting of a lamp to officially begin the evening's entertainment. Evidentially, the lighter used did not play well with others and the lamp was only partially lit after a few tries to illuminate it. The failed lamp lighting could have been seen as a foreshadowing of the rest of the night's events. After the lamp was partially let and the long winded speeches were completed, there was then shown an introductory Indian movie. This movie was not really educational or enlightening so much as it seemed like one big travel advertisement.
Following the high tech travel add, the "show" itself got underway- sort of. The first performer to take to the stage was world renowned classical Indian dancer Anuradha Naimpally whose performance was delayed because of technical difficulties with the audio to her performance. But Naimpally proved to be worth the wait in both dance sequences preformed during the show.
Cynthia Doyle's Les Danseurs attempted to put together an interpretation of a traditional Indian dance, but did not prove to be so successful. In all total fairness, young girls who don't know their routine might look even worse following the act of Naimpally.
Speaking of lack of practice, the MCs for the evening stumbled over their lines more than once in what must have been their first time actually reading them.
Disha Chadderwala gave riveting performance of a classical number from the movie Devdas, that is once it actually got underway. Chadderwala stood on stage for what seemed to be like ten minutes with a light in her outstretched hand waiting and waiting on the technical difficulties with the audio.
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Megan
posted 3/31/07 @ 12:46 AM CST
all shows have those nights that just seem like everything goes wrong.
give 'em a break.
i have friends in the show. and they all work hard to get it all together. (Continued…)
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