CONGRATULATIONS, GET RICH!

About the show

Penned and performed by Merlynn Tong (Golden Blood), this larger-than-life musical comedy celebrates the richness of Singaporean culture, while asking universal questions about the complexity of mother-daughter relationships and the healing power of vulnerability. It’s a big night for Mandy (Tong), the opening of her beloved karaoke bar. To celebrate, she’s hosting an ‘Opening Night: Seventh Night of Chinese New Year aka Human Day Extravaganza”. That is until the ghosts of her mother and grandmother show up and Mandy’s best laid plans are foiled. For better or worse, Mandy will need to forge her own future. Under the direction of former STC Resident Artist and La Boite Artistic Director, Courtney Stewart (The Poison of Polygamy), and featuring a glorious cast including Zac Boulton, Kimie Tsukakoshi, and Seong Hui Xuan, Congratulations, Get Rich! will witness three powerful women of very different eras compete, commiserate and confront each other through stories, showmanship, and song (this is karaoke after all). In an international co-production with La Boite Theatre and Singapore Repertory Theatre, this semi-autobiographical spectacular combines touching family dynamics with show-stopping, supernatural elements (think Everything Everywhere All at Once but with singing!). The audience is pulled into a world where the border between here and the afterlife dissolves, and where past ideals are pitted against contemporary concerns. Congratulations, Get Rich! is a hilarious and unbridled celebration of being alive.