The Adventures of the Little Indian Girl

Wal-Mart is a place for savings. It conjures up crowds walking about the stores with kids running all over the place, the staff looking forever dazed; you just want to get out of there as soon as possible. But the last few weeks, it has brought back some very pleasant memories of yesteryears. Their new ad for cosmetics. I wish I could find a clip online but we all have enough of ads on TV to put it here on LJ. oh wait, there also ads here on LJ nowadays. hmmm...

Anyway, I digress.

They use the jingle from Bye Bye Birdie's song, How Lovely to be a woman in the backdrop and a bunch of happy women in different phases of life being all happy and dandy putting on various cosmetics singing the song.



Of course, where do you get the best deals for cosmetics? I still don't know but the song has sent me back to days of Middle School, when we performed Bye Bye Birdie during the annual December recital. Of course, our scriptwriters changed the plot line to be something completely different. In our story, the US Space station was coming to completion and soon people were moving in. Hugo's parents were also moving and so everyone was sad. Hugo's girlfriend Kim was devastated. Conrad the high school trouble maker gives them the idea to run away. And so the story went. I think at the end the US space station had some trouble and so they didn't leave or the parents changed their minds and stayed back together. I forget now.

But we took the songs, The Telephone Hour,How Lovely To Be a Woman, Put On A Happy Face, One Boy, Kids and made it our own. Our teachers also reworded the songs here and there, shortened it, modernized it, and had us singing it. I had kept the scripts for the longest of times. But when I went to college and our parents were moving from Singapore to Malaysia it was time to say goodbye to that.

We also had costumes to boot. We had mothers sew up poodle skirts with the poodle design on it for the girls! I forget now what the boys had. I had kept the skirt as well for a long time - not that I actually ever wore it off stage.

So I find myself humming:
How Lovely To Be A Woman,
The Wait Was Well Worth While;
How Lovely To Wear Mascara
And Smile A Woman's Smile.
How Lovely To Have A Figure,
That's Round Instead Of Flat;
Whenever You Hear Boys Whistle,
You're What They're Whistling At.

It's Wonderful To Feel
The Way A Woman Feels;
It Gives You Such A Glow, Just To Know
You're Wearing Lipstick And Heels!

They were fun times! I didn't play any of the main roles, but I always got the roles that cracked a joke or two. It was fun!

The funny thing is, I have never actually seen the original movie! Should rent it out one of these days.